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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
“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)
http://zencoursesites.com/bcit-bsys-1000-fall-2010/
timetables.bcitbusiness.ca
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?)
