Discovering Computers 2001

Discovering Computers 2001
Author: Gary B. Shelly
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 716
Release: 2000
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780789559371

With the latest edition of this classroom success, Shelly and Cashman have successfully blended coverage of cutting-edge technology with core computer concepts to make learning about computers interesting and easy. Discovering Computers 2001: Concepts for a Connected World fosters online course development with its integration of the World Wide Web and enhanced end-of-chapter material supported by WebCT and CyberClass.

Oversold and Underused

Oversold and Underused
Author: Larry CUBAN
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0674030109

Impelled by a demand for increasing American strength in the new global economy, many educators, public officials, business leaders, and parents argue that school computers and Internet access will improve academic learning and prepare students for an information-based workplace. But just how valid is this argument? In Oversold and Underused, one of the most respected voices in American education argues that when teachers are not given a say in how the technology might reshape schools, computers are merely souped-up typewriters and classrooms continue to run much as they did a generation ago. In his studies of early childhood, high school, and university classrooms in Silicon Valley, Larry Cuban found that students and teachers use the new technologies far less in the classroom than they do at home, and that teachers who use computers for instruction do so infrequently and unimaginatively. Cuban points out that historical and organizational economic contexts influence how teachers use technical innovations. Computers can be useful when teachers sufficiently understand the technology themselves, believe it will enhance learning, and have the power to shape their own curricula. But these conditions can't be met without a broader and deeper commitment to public education beyond preparing workers. More attention, Cuban says, needs to be paid to the civic and social goals of schooling, goals that make the question of how many computers are in classrooms trivial.

A Gap in Nature

A Gap in Nature
Author: Tim Fridtjof Flannery
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2001
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780871137975

A short description of the extinct animal along with a color drawing.

Introduction to Computers

Introduction to Computers
Author: Gary B. Shelly
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2010-06-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781439081310

Get ready to learn about today's digital world with Essential Introduction to Computers. This concise text provides a visually-engaging introduction to the most current information on computers and technology. Students will gain an understanding of the essential computer concepts they need to know to help them be successful in today's computing world. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Discovering Requirements

Discovering Requirements
Author: Ian F. Alexander
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2009-02-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0470714255

"This book is not only of practical value. It's also a lot of fun to read." Michael Jackson, The Open University. Do you need to know how to create good requirements? Discovering Requirements offers a set of simple, robust, and effective cognitive tools for building requirements. Using worked examples throughout the text, it shows you how to develop an understanding of any problem, leading to questions such as: What are you trying to achieve? Who is involved, and how? What do those people want? Do they agree? How do you envisage this working? What could go wrong? Why are you making these decisions? What are you assuming? The established author team of Ian Alexander and Ljerka Beus-Dukic answer these and related questions, using a set of complementary techniques, including stakeholder analysis, goal modelling, context modelling, storytelling and scenario modelling, identifying risks and threats, describing rationales, defining terms in a project dictionary, and prioritizing. This easy to read guide is full of carefully-checked tips and tricks. Illustrated with worked examples, checklists, summaries, keywords and exercises, this book will encourage you to move closer to the real problems you're trying to solve. Guest boxes from other experts give you additional hints for your projects. Invaluable for anyone specifying requirements including IT practitioners, engineers, developers, business analysts, test engineers, configuration managers, quality engineers and project managers. A practical sourcebook for lecturers as well as students studying software engineering who want to learn about requirements work in industry. Once you've read this book you will be ready to create good requirements!

Discovering Bluetooth

Discovering Bluetooth
Author: Michael Miller
Publisher: Sybex
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2001
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Bluetooth is a wireless technology that lets users make wireless and instant connections between various communication devices, such as mobile phones and desktop and notebook computers. Since it uses radio transmission, transfer of voice and data is in real time. This sophisticated mode of transmission also ensures protection from interference and provides for the security of the data transmitted. The Bluetooth radio is built into a small microchip and operates in a globally available frequency band ensuring communication compatibility.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318737

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Discovering Computers

Discovering Computers
Author: Gary B. Shelly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2007-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781423912033

Discovering Computers 2008 provides a current and thorough introduction to computers by integrating usage of the World Wide Web with the printed text. This Shelly Cashman Series text offers a complete and engaging solution to successfully teach students basic computer concepts with new exercises, case studies, and online tools on the Online Companion. Updated for currency, students will learn the latest trends in technology and computer concepts.

Discovering Walt

Discovering Walt
Author: Jean-Pierre Isbouts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Animators
ISBN: 9780786853540

As one of the people who significantly impacted American culture, Walt Disney is a frequent subject in classrooms around the world. Now kids can get closer to this remarkable man's life with this first illustrated biography, told through the emotionally engaging words of those who knew, worked with and studied Walt Disney. Historical photographs help readers travel through time, while never-before-published details about Walt's childhood bring us closer to the man behind the mouse. Timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Walt's birth. Illustrated.