Lecture One

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ACOM1066Introduction to IT for Humanities
Students

• Lecture One

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Teaching Staff

• Sarah Kattau
• Research Officer and Teaching Fellow
• Email s.j.kattau_at_leeds.ac.uk
• I am a member of staff for the Electronic Text
  centre, which is part of the Centre for Joint
  Honours (Arts Social Sciences). So the teaching
  of the Electronic Text Centre is done under the
  JCOM (Joint Honours Computing) banner, distinct
  from the ACOM electives.

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Teaching

• This module is specially designed for students in
  the Arts and Social Science division of Joint
  Honours.
• Unlike most other ACOM modules, this module is
  fully integrated consisting of 11 lectures and
  related coursework.
• Lecture attendance is compulsory, so please be
  sure to attend one of
• Tuesday, 1000-1100 (Lecture Theatre F, School
  of Environment)
• Thursday, 1100-1200 (LT21, Roger Stevens
  Building)
• The coursework will be published by week 5, and
  due in by the end of the semester.

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JCOM Website

• Information relating to the module ismade
  available through the website
• http//www.leeds.ac.uk/jcom/
• Please be sure to consult this website regularly.
  If you have to miss a lecture for any reason,
  you can catch up by looking at the lecture
  handouts and overheads on the website (though of
  course this is no substitute for actually seeing
  things done).
• For problems and advice, see Sarah Kattau after a
  lecture, or email s.j.kattau_at_leeds.ac.uk

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ACOM and JCOM

• Although ACOM1066 (the JCOM module) runs
  independently of the ACOM Electives, you are free
  to attend the daily ACOM demonstration sessions
  to ask for general IT assistance. But please
  dont expect ACOM demonstrators to give specific
  advice on JCOM coursework.
• Please avoid ACOM demonstration sessions in weeks
  8 and 12, since these are ACOM Elective deadline
  weeks, and are very busy indeed!
• You are also welcome to make use of ACOM online
  resources, and to purchase ACOM booklets. See the
  JCOM website for useful resources.

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Demonstration Sessions

• Information about ACOM demonstration sessions
  (days, times, and locations) are available from
• http//www.leeds.ac.uk/acom/demos.html
• For specialist help with the ACOM1066 lecture
  material and coursework, go to the dedicated
  ACOM1066 help sessions (held in the Social
  Studies cluster, room 9.02 in the Economics and
  Social Studies building, which is located between
  the Michael Sadler building and the Edward Boyle
  library).
• These are held every Monday, Wednesday and Friday
  at 10am 12pm from Week 2 (i.e. October 3 2005).

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Getting Started

• To get your password, you need to find a free
  computer with CtrlAltDelete to log in on the
  screen.
• Hold down the Ctrl, Alt and Delete keys at the
  same time, then a box will appear asking you for
  your username and password. Type mypasswd
  (lower-case, not capitals) in both the username
  and password boxes, click on OK then follow the
  on-screen instructions.
• You will be given your password. You should
  change this AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
• To change your password after youve logged in,
  press Ctrl, Alt and Delete (at the same time) and
  then select the Change Password option.

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The ISS Network

• Having logged in to the ISS (Information Systems
  Services) network - usually called just The
  University Network - its important to be able
  to find your way around.
• The network is divided into disk drives, some
  of which are local (i.e. belonging to the machine
  youre using), and some of which are network
  drives (i.e. on server computers, which makes
  them accessible from anywhere on the campus).
• Your home drive on the network is M this area
  is also named My Documents within Windows.

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Using Windows Explorer

• Click on the Windows Explorer icon (at the
  right of the desktop) to start looking at the
  contents of the computer youre using and your
  personal area of the ISS network.
• Then click on My Computer to expand the list of
  drives thatare displayed

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Local Drives, Devices, and Network Drives
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Your M drive

• The M drive is labelled with your own username
  thisis your personal areaof the network.
• Note that exactly the same folders are visible
  under My Documents this also refers to that
  very same personal area of the network.

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Files and File Types

• Computer data is stored in files - bundles of
  data, the last part of whose name (the file
  extension) usually tells you what kind of data it
  is, e.g
• .txt A plain text file
• .htm .html A Web page (tagged in HTML)
• .rtf A rich text format text file
• .doc A Word document file
• .xls An Excel spreadsheet file
• .ppt A Powerpoint presentation file
• .bmp .jpg .gif Various types of graphics file

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Folders

• Files are stored within folders (or directories),
  which can be thought of as analogous to cardboard
  folders that hold documents, pictures etc.
• Folders can themselves be stored within other
  folders, so they are arranged within a hierarchy.
  The top level folders are stored directly
  within disk drives (which are analogous to filing
  cabinets).
• Windows Explorer enables you to inspect this
  hierarchy of drives and folders - its a good
  idea to do this to get familiar with the local
  setup.