| Objectives | Development of the abilities for structuring a spoken / written discourse, in different communication contexts and situations.
Acquiring the principles and rules of the computing lay-out.
Usage of the MS Office package (Word, Excel, Power Point).
Understanding of the Internet functioning mode, and usage of its main services.
Web sites design, by using HTML, CSS, HTML+TIME. |
| General thematics | The art of spoken and written communication. The general principles of documents formatting.
MS Office: Word, Excel, Power Point.
Internet and Web. Internet services: e-mail, ftp, Web, telnet, newsgroups, forums. Virtual communities. Web information locating.
HTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language) Language. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).
Hypermedia protocols and standards. Introduction in XHTML+TIME.
Web sites design techniques. Case studies. |
| Seminary / Laboratory thematics | Organizing, conceiving, and presentation of different types of discourses, papers, writings, documents: CV, tutorial, degree thesis, book/product/company presentation
MS Office: using and defining of various documents types templates. Document formatting, text processing.
Usage of various tools: pine, Outlook Express, Total Commander, WinScp.
Thematic Web sites design, and case studies for different Web sites types: presentation Web sites, e-commerce, e-learning, web portals. |
| Teaching methods | Tutorial exposition, case studies, dialogue. |
| Bibliography |
- Prutianu, Ştefan, „Communication Abilities Practice” (in Romanian), Ed. Polirom, Iaşi, 2004;
- Funeriu, I., „Principles and Rules of the Computing Lay-out” (in Romanian), Ed. Amarcord,Timişoara, 1998;
- Buraga, Sabin, „Web Sites Design” (in Romanian), second edition, Ed. Polirom, 2005;
- Brut, Mihaela, Buraga, Sabin, „Web Multimedia Presentations. HTML+TIME and SMIL Languages” (in Romanian), Ed Polirom, 2004;
- Wroblewski, Luke, „Site-seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability”, Hungry Minds, 2002;
- * *, Web Consortium Tutorials: http://www.w3schools.com/
- * *, Microsoft Office On-line: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx, http://www.microsoft.com/education/tutorials.mspx
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| Evaluation | conditions | Minimum 5 mark at every evaluation form |
| criterias | Spoken / written discourse structuring, complying with the design principles, originality |
| modes | Project, Seminar Paper, Portfolio, Written Exam, systematic involving observation |
| formula | ( (PR+SP+PO)2 + WE3 + 10)/10,
where PR= Project Mark, SP=Seminar Paper mark, PO= Portfolio Mark, WE= Written Exam Mark
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