Bsys1000 fall2010-lecture1

BSYS 1000 Fall 2010Week 1 Lecture

Getting up to speed with BCIT IT Resources

Course textbook◦ Don’t need to buy a print textbook from the bookstore◦ If you mistakenly bought one, you can return

Net Generation & Multitasking My Background Course costs and benefits Tips Key websites Share-in / Share-out

◦ Overview◦ Accessing from home via FTP

Tips and warnings

Agenda

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/tims_editor

“The Internet is a passing fad”

“Twitter is a passing fad”

Cost

• Tuition• $5 e-textbook• Your time and opportunity cost– 2 hrs. in lab, 1 hr. lecture per week– working on your two team projects... approx. 10

hrs.– e-portfolio... approx. 5 hrs.

Benefits

• Equipped with the office tools you will need to be successful in your other courses at BCIT– More productive

• Better job during your time at BCIT or after you graduate– Some grads hired specifically because of good MS

Office skills (especially Excel)

Benefits

• Better equipped for modern, rapidly changing life• Communicate better with the IT Dept.• IT very much embedded in International Trade &

Transportation sector• You will likely need to be a generalist in your

entry level job• E-Portfolio and social media skills

98.5% of the businesses in B.C. are smallbusinesses (less than 50 employees)

Anti-virus -- free.avg.com

BSYS 1000 Fall 2010 Course Website Access

http://zencoursesites.com/bcit-bsys-1000-fall-2010/

timetables.bcitbusiness.ca

Share-in / Share-out

Tips and warning...

• Back up all your important work in at least 2-3 different places

• Secure your home computer and/or laptop– Anti-virus– Firewall

• Solve most lab computer problems by just rebooting• Don’t save important files on the Desktop• You may have either Windows XP or Windows 7 in

the labs (depends on which lab you are in)

Tips and warnings cont...

• Don’t send the wrong files to share-in• Don’t submit files to the wrong folder (e.g.

Wrong set)• Don’t save private material to the Work folder– Other students can see and copy

• Use “strong passwords”(e.g. maBwbA12 vs. pizza)

• Ask your instructors how they prefer to communicate (e.g. Mybcit.ca email, other?)