This is the place where any important course-related announcements will be posted. Please be sure to check here frequently, so you do not miss any announcements. Announcements will be posted in LIFO (most recent on top) order.

15-Dec-2000 Final Exam Results

The results are posted here

8-Dec-2000 Final Exam Study Guide Posted

Here is a link to the final exam study guide

21-Nov-2000 Final Exam Questions Wanted

I would like every student to send me two multiple-choice or true/false questions (and answers). Please send them to the class listserv by no later than December 3. The questions should cover material from the latter half of the semester - readings and lectures (not labs).

16-Nov-2000 Social Aspects Lab

Here is a link to the stuff I used when I held the Social Aspects lab a few weeks ago social-aspects-lab. Included is the outline of the example I did.

7-Nov-2000 Reminder -- Debate Posting 2 Due Tonight

A reminder that your followup debate posting is due tonight by midnight. Be sure to post it (text only) to the class listserv conference.

2-Nov-2000 Server Problems - Class Mirror Site Established

The IST server partition ran out of quota sometime yesterday, preventing me from uploading class materials. So - I have established a class mirror site at http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/g/m/gms/cya/110fa00/. I will be maintaining this mirror until the quota problems are resolved on the other server.

23-Oct-2000 Final Exam Scheduled

The final exam is scheduled. It will be in our regular classroom - 111 Boucke - at 6:50 PM on Wednesday of Finals Week.

Don't shoot me - I didn't pick the time!

6-Oct-2000 Midterm Exam Results

The results are posted here

28-Sep-2000 Business Contest Open to All.

The College of Liberal Arts kicks off its first ever university wide business plan contest at 7 tonight in the auditorium of the HUB-Robeson Center

For more information see the U2B site.

A mid-term study guide has been placed online.

Please note that the material will only cover the textbook up to and including chapter 6, and the lectures up to and including September 28.

Please join the Center for Academic Computing for Computer Graphics Night at 102 Thomas Building on Thursday, September 28 at 7:30 pm.

The feature will be ACM/SIGGRAPH Theatre 2000's Best of the Best in computer animation. This show highlights the best leading-edge work from a variety of sources and application areas.

The CAC Training Group is looking to hire students with good technical skills (e-mail, word processing, HTML, FTP, etc.) who are also good at helping inexperienced users learn to use computer applications.

The successful candidate will be rewarded with good pay, flexible hours, great resume material and paid training.

If you are intreested, send your resume listing relevant computing skills to seminars@psu.edu -- be sure to tell them that you are in Dr. Santoro's IST 110 class. (it may help) Or call 863-9522.

If you get an interview, you will be asked to present a 5-minute class on sending and receiving electronic mail.

5-Sep-2000 -- Do not send attachments to the Listserv Conference.

Please do not send binary attachments to the Listserv conference. The archiving mechanism does not handle attachments correctly, with the result that the information becomes inaccessable.

If you use a word processor to create the notes - convert them to ASCII text first, then copy and paste that text into the body of your note to the Listserv conference. NOTE - The ability to create an ASCII file from a WP document is a very important real-world skill!

For various technical reasons, I will not be in the class chat room during office hours. I will, however, have my AIM client running (uesrid=gmsantoro). So, if you need help during my office hours - but do not want to walk to my office - check for me using AIM.

22-Aug-2000 -- Book Mystery Solved.

The book mystery is solved. The two books are virtually identical. We will go with the Computer Concepts book -- the one from the bookstore. ISBN-0-7600-6499-7 (This is the one that folks already have.)

The good news is that the readings are all the same -- so you can follow the syllabus.

The bad news is -- that is all the good news for now...

22-Aug-2000 -- Yet another student survey.

We like to begin the semester by learning something about our students. So, sometime during the first week please take a moment to complete this online survey. Completion of this survey will be counted in your overall participation -- so be sure to complete it correctly.

22-Aug-2000 -- Student Groups.

Here are the student groups. Get to know your group members. Group work will begin soon.

22-Aug-2000 -- Current Affairs and Note-taking Schedule.

Here is the schedule for current affairs projects and note-taking.

Please remember that the note-taking will be counted as part of uyour class participation grade.