Course Title: Access the Internet
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2007
Course Code: COSC5243C
Course Title: Access the Internet
School: 345T Creative Media
Campus: City Campus
Program: C4171 - Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing
Course Contact : Brendan Lee
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4368
Course Contact Email:Brendan.lee@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
a.clover@rmit.edu.au
Tel 9925 4269
don.porter@rmit.edu.au
Mobile 0418504004
Nominal Hours: 10
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Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
Co-requisite:
COSC5244C Design and Develop Text Documents
Course Description
The competency COSC5243C Access the Internet is taught alongside the competency COSC5244C Design and Develop Text Documents.
Together, these competencies form the course Computer Skills for Writers. In this course you are introduced to the Macintosh computer; the Microsoft Word word processing program, online editing techniques and the website design program Dreamweaver.
This course will increase your ability to create and format professional-looking documents. It will also give you the skills to set up your own blog and create your own website.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
ICPMM63BA Access the Internet |
Element: |
Identify and use local resources |
Element: |
Identify and use remote resources |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, you will be able to access the internet to create websites and a blog. You will also be able to create and edit a variety of text documents designed for online and printing.
Details of Learning Activities
• Demonstrate the ability to find and use information relevant to the task or assessment from a variety of information sources.
Teaching Schedule
This single semester subject introduces the student to the Macintosh computer; the Microsoft Word X word processing program and the HTML editing program Dreamweaver MX.
This will enable students to increase their knowledge for their own printed communication. It aims to equip the students with the skills and confidence in typography whilst using the Microsoft Word program and Dreamweaver MX.
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
none
Overview of Assessment
Assessment for this course is ongoing throughout the semester. Your knowledge and understanding of course content is assessed through participation in series of practical exercises and projects designed to show competency in creating and editing text documents, and using the Internet to create web pages.
Assessment Tasks
WEEKLY BREAKDOWN
OF MICROSOFT WORD & DREAMWEAVER
WEEK 1 INTRODUCING MICROSOFT WORD X
Outline of course structure and elements
Introduce Microsoft Word as word processing tool and Dreamweaver MX as a web design tool
Health and safety in the lab
First class activity
Student commitment to attend form
Saving & printing procedures in computer lab.
WEEK 2 MICROSOFT WORD X
General set up, windows, tool boxes, palettes, type and illustration insertion, publication requirements
Basic formatting, type selection/changing, introduction of sectional column placement
Page layout, saving, printing
Assessment 1
Personal curriculum vitae
Application for position letter
WEEK 3 MICROSOFT WORD X – INTRODUCTION TO EDITING
Using Word as an editing tool
Cutting and pasting type, changing type face, changing type formats and characters.
Style sheets and macro’s, spell check, headers and footers, footnotes,
using comments and the highlighting function.
Finding and changing
• Use of the Outlining function
• Creating and editing styles
• Use of the Track Changes function
• Use and implementation of the macro function
Assessment 2
Edit copy supplied (2000 words) as an OCR file with alterations supplied
Student’s own 2000 words of formatted text.
WEEK 4 MICROSOFT WORD X
IIntroduction to tables and manipulating them
Assessment 3
Reproduce table supplied (RMIT sample)
WEEK 5 MICROSOFT WORD X
IIntroduction to tabs and tab leaders
Formatting a page for tabs
Changing tab requirements within a document
Assessment 4
Reproduce two examples of the use of tabs and tab leaders supplied
(Stringfellow and Midnight Express)
WEEK 6 MICROSOFT WORD X
Mail merging
Assessment 5
Preparation of a mail list and letter. Use Word’s mail merge function to send at least 10 merged letters
Week 7 WEEK 7 DREAMWEAVER MX
Introduction to Dreamweaver
General setup, windows, tool boxes, Palettes, Properties Bar
Format tool
How to design for the web
Creating links – within page
Creating links – on another page
Assessment 1 – Linking in Dreamweaver
Students will create a personalised website for themselves and their written work.
The student’s site will consist of at least two pages:
a home page, consisting of a photograph of the student, and personal details;
a history page, consisting of a synopsis of a written production with appropriate graphics/illustrations.
There is the option of having a third page containing extracts from the work.
All pages will have links to and from each other.
WEEK 8 DREAMWEAVER MX
Creating images for the web
Sizing images, image tools
Anchor points
WEEK 9 DREAMWEAVER MX
Assessment item 2
Anchors
Tables
Anchoring procedures in Dreamweaver.
Previous text can be used in this assessment.
Using tables to design
WEEKS 10 – 12 DREAMWEAVER
Dreamweaver Assessment 3
Students will join web pages previoulsy designed using frame sets.
Framesets
Students will be given an assessment task to create their own FRAMESET using the example of a CONCERT REVIEW or BOOK REVIEW illustrating their skills in the creation and mangement of FRAMESETS.
Aspects of the Frameset to be assessed are
Navigation within a frameset
Anchoring procedures within a frameset
Targeted links within a frameset
Ease of movement within the frameset.
Assessment item 3
Framesets
Concert Review
Navigation within a frameset
Anchoring procedures in a frameset
Targeted links within a frameset
WEEKS 13 – 18 DREAMWEAVER
Major Assessment item 4
Framesets
Produce a personalised web page using a minimum of 4 pages,
Original copy, graphics, page links, anchor links,
Frameset with navigation
Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint as a component of a DreamWeaver nd as a presentation tool.
Assessment Matrix
none
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