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CIS 1-AIntroduction and
Welcome
Stefan Bund, MS
http://websites.rcc.edu/bund/
you’ll use this site for all your assignments, syllabus and lesson plans
you’ll email me at:
[email protected] telephone me at 949.433.7487 (Text ok
too!)
our syllabus is ready for download
at:
please visit this address now:
my RCC website, where we’ll go to the first week
acquaint yourself with the structure of the site, and how it works
CIS 1-A is aboutusing word processing, spreadsheets,
presentation media and the internet to,generate original research, prepare for
undergraduate coursework in all majors, andgenerally have a good time (geeking out)
kidding -- CIS 1-A with me works like a virutal research laboratory, where you will hone
your technology skills while working on an authentic research project
get ready to learn!
general statistics for Riverside
•population, 2,189,641 (for the county)
•median age 33.7
•163,248 companies
•79.3% high school graduates
•800,707 housing units
•median income, $58,365
more stats on us
•foreign born, 477,852 (~22%)
•% below poverty level, 14.2%
•veterans, 140, 659 (6%)
how did we get here?
where are we going?
energy health
education transportation
culture work
shopping justice
government safety
can we be reassured that the future will resemble the present?
how can we predict where we are
going?•take a look at simple numeric
indicators like:
•price of alternatives
•what people can afford vs what they already spend
•what do people wish for?
•what works, what does not work
in CIS 1-A, we will do all of that
•to arrive at a clearer picture of where we are going, and what the future will likely hold
but for now...
•we will study how to get knowledge, so on with our final exercise:
•on a piece of paper, write down 5 questions
•ask these 5 questions of 3 people nearby you in this lecture hall
•collect their responses
how did it go?•was it efficient to collect data this
way?
•do you know what the average answer was?
•can you summarize or make a conclusion from your data?
•what’s missing? Can you collect data this way for, say, a thousand people?