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Course Software Requirements
Software
and skills that you will need to succeed in this course
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All students in my classes
must become familiar with the software requirements for the
course at the start of the semester.
Below you will find
descriptions of the software requirements, as well as links
to other web sites with access to software and appropriate
tutorials.
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Course
Software Requirements -
Important!
Word
Processing
All written
assignments must be submitted as either
Microsoft Word documents
(.doc or .docx) or in the
Rich Text
Format (.rtf) of word processing programs
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- Class
submissions through the course Blackboard site
will not be accepted in the
following formats:
- Microsoft
Works (.wps)
- Word
Perfect (.wpd)
- OpenOffice
(.odt)
- Any other
format besides Word or RTF
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- All word
processing programs allow you to save your files
as Word documents (.doc or .docx), using the
"Save as type" option in the Save As
menu.
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- Microsoft Word
is available on all computers in Palomar College
Computer Labs, including the
Academic
Technology Lab in the College
Library.
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PowerPoint
Each class includes several assignments that
should be completed as Microsoft PowerPoint
projects. Students
without the program have the option to submit
typed summaries of the assignments instead of
PowerPoint files. |
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- All Power
Point files must be submitted as Power Point
presentations (.ppt or .pptx), not
as a Power Point show (.pps).
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- Other
presentation programs such as OpenOffice and
Google Docs allow you to save files as Power
Point presentations (.ppt), using the "Save as
type" option in the Save As menu.
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Office Suites
- Low cost and Free
Students without
Microsoft Office
should consider the special student pricing
($85) for Office 2007 Professional suite of programs -
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook,
Publisher, Access -
available
here. This pricing is available to
all California Community College students. |
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- There are two
free
alternative suites available to
students. Both of these suites include
word processing and presentation programs:
- The
OpenOffice suite of programs available for
free download
here.
- Google
Docs available free online
here.
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Other Required
Software - Available on the Internet and
Free |
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- Adobe
Acrobat Reader -
Click here to download the appropriate
version for your operating system.
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- Windows
Media Player -
Click here to download the latest
version for Windows.
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- Windows
Media Player for Mac -
Click here to download the appropriate
version or plug-in for QuickTime.
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Tutorials and Help
All word
processing and presentation programs, either from
Microsoft Office or the other suites mentioned here,
include Help features that explain how to use the
programs. These Help features are located in
the top toolbar for the program. For example:
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Word 2007 |
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Word 2003 |
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OpenOffice |
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The Microsoft Help
features and Tutorials are quite extensive, and are
linked to internet-based tutorials with narrated
instructions on how to use the programs and their
respective features |
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Microsoft Office Online Help |
Go to
this site for a large number of tutorials on
how to use all of the programs in the Office Suite,
for both the 2003 and 2007 versions. If you
have never used Power Point before, either of the
following tutorials will have you up-to-speed
quickly.
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Remember that
Microsoft Office 2007 is
available on all computers in Palomar College Computer Labs,
including the
Academic
Technology Lab in the College
Library.
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Recommended Software |
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Web Browsers |
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- Firefox by Mozilla
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Click here to download the latest free version
of this web browser.
Important Note: Version 3 of Firefox
has conflict issues with Blackboard, so for the present
you should only use version 2 of Firefox with
Blackboard.
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Browser Plug-in |
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- Zotero -
Click here for more information on this free
plug-in for the Firefox browser; for online research and
citations.
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