Description

Features

• Sound Bytes: These multimedia lessons demystify computer concepts with audio and video presentations. Sound Bytes are available as podcasts.

• A virtual supervisor provides support to the student throughout calls.
• Assessment questions after each call provide instructors with a tool to gauge and track students’ progress. A performance report can be printed, saved, or emailed.
• Features a Spanish transcript your students can access while using the Active Helpdesk.

• Dig Deeper: These sections cover technical topics in depth to challenge more advanced students.
• Technology in Focus: Special sections teach students key uses of technology today, including a new section on Information Technology Ethics.
• Bits and Bytes: Offer information on computer maintenance.
• Trends in IT: Explore new and emerging technologies, computers in society, careers in computing, and ethical considerations.
• Behind the Scenes: Students are engaged by challenging research assignments.

• Multiple Choice, True/False: Provide additional reinforcement and review for students.
• Multimedia Page: Outlines how the media components, Active Helpdesk, Sound Bytes, and Companion Website, work in the chapter.
• Critical Thinking Questions: Designed to demand the full attention of the student.
• Team Activities: Designed for instructors who want to use team projects but need some structure.

SUPPLEMENTS

Student Supplements

Student CD containing Companion Media: This CD contains all of the Sound Bytes and the Active Helpdesk Calls.

myitlab: Online training and assessment for Office 2007 and computer concepts. Students can also access all of the multimedia resources, including Sound Bytes and Active Helpdesk Calls, as well as PowerPoint presentations and Audio PowerPoints. Students can complete end-of-chapter assessments and take exams. A built-in Discussion Board enables students to interact with one another and their instructor.

Companion Website: www.pearsonhighered.com/techinaction Features an interactive study guide, downloadable supplements, additional Web Research Projects, Web resource links such as Careers in IT and crossword puzzles, plus bonus chapters on the latest trends and hottest topics in information technology.

Instructor’s Supplements

Instructor’s Edition: Working hand-in-hand, a new Technology in Action Instructor’s Edition provides chapter-by-chapter recommendations from the authors on how to successfully use the companion media and resources in a course, while the new Instructor Resource CD allows you to reorganize and customize assets to fit your own teaching style.

Instructor Resource CD: This CD contains all of the Companion Media, including Sound Bytes and Active Helpdesk Calls, as well as all of the instructor resources for the text, including PowerPoint presentations, Audio PowerPoint presentations, Test Banks, Sound Byte labs, end of chapter solutions, Web links, Web research projects, team projects, and image library.

New To This Edition

• Sound Bytes: These multimedia lessons demystify computer concepts with audio and video presentations. Sound Bytes are now also available as podcasts.

Chapter-by-Chapter changes to this edition:

Several text (especially software and hardware statistics) and image updates have been made throughout, but minor changes are not listed here. Several Multiple Choice (Self Test) and True-False questions in end-of-chapter content have been updated.

Chapter 1:

Coverage of Personal Shopper Systems removed

Digital Entertainment Center content updated

Technology in the automotive industry

Chapter 2:

Computer statistics (current RAM needs, processors, etc.)

Petabytes

Notebook keyboards

LCD monitors

Printers of the future, Memjet printing technology

USB 3.0

Specialty computers (mainframes, supercomputers, embedded computers)

Ergonomics for mobile devices

Chapter 3:

Chapter content reorganized to put focus on the Internet at beginning

Windows Live

Problems associated with blogs

Google Docs

E-commerce and Web statistics updated

Domain names

Tagging

Wireless Internet access

Fiber-optic Internet connections

Chapter 4:

Web-based Personal Information Management (PIM) programs

Microsoft Works

iWorks

Web-based programs

Digital audio software

Image editing software on the Web

Reference software

Customer relationship management (CRM) software

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software

Software for business travelers

E-commerce software

Virtual environments, Second Life

Chapter 5:

Examples of OS software

New Bits and Bytes piece on upgrading an OS

Removed section on putting pictures on the desktop

Chapter 6:

Computer purchase considerations

Processor statistics

Easy Transfer Companion (Windows Vista)

RAM statistics

Media storage capacity statistics

Online storage

Optical storage content, including CDs/DVDs, Blu-Ray

USB 3.0

Chapter 7:

Network adapters

Network attached storage devices

802.11g and 802.11n standards

Directional antennas for routers

Cybercrime statistics

DDoS attacks

Logical ports

Computer security checklist

Chapter 8:

Mobile devices statistics

Cell phone services/features

Text messaging services

Mobile device storage statistics

Portable media player devices

DRM-free music

Finding WiFi

Google 411, Cha-Cha

Ultramobiles and subnotebooks

Tablet notebooks

Notebook accessories

Chapter 9:

GPUs

Nano RAM

RAM modules

Chapter 10:

JAD (joint application development)

SilverLight

Blender and video game creation

Chapter 11:

Relational databases

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

Chapter 12:

Extranets

NAS devices

Using Linux for security on mobile/public computers

Chapter 13:

XML and Web page developments

Dynamic HTML

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

DOM (Document Object Model)

Table of Contents

Why Computers Matter to You: Becoming Computer Literate

Technology in Focus

The History of the PC

Chapter 2

Looking at Computers: Understanding the Parts

Chapter 3

Using the Internet: Making the Most of the Web’s Resources

Technology in Focus

Information Technology Ethics

Chapter 4

Application Software: Programs That Let You Work and Play

Chapter 5

Using System Software: The Operating System, Utility Programs, and File Management.. 206

Technology in Focus

Computing Alternatives

Chapter 6

Understanding and Assessing Hardware: Evaluating Your System

Chapter 7

Networking and Security: Connecting Computers and Keeping Them Safe from Hackers and Viruses

Technology in Focus

Protecting Your Computer and Backing Up Your Data

Chapter 8

Mobile Computing: Keeping Your Data on Hand

Technology in Focus

Digital Entertainment

Chapter 9

Behind the Scenes: A Closer Look at System Hardware

Technology in Focus

Careers in IT

Chapter 10

Behind the Scenes: Software Programming

Chapter 11

Behind the Scenes: Databases and Information Systems

Chapter 12

Behind the Scenes: Networking and Security

Chapter 13

Behind the Scenes: The Internet: How It Works

Glossary

Index

Credits

Courses

Computing Concepts  [TECHNOLOGY IN ACTION]   (CIS: Computing Concepts)

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• Technology in Action, Complete, 5/E
  Evans, Poatsy & Martin
  ©2009  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 736 pp  |  Instock
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• Technology In Action, Complete, 4/E
  Evans, Martin & Poatsy
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• Technology In Action Complete, 9/E
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  ©2013  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper Bound w/CD-ROM; 736 pp  |  Instock
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• Technology In Action, Complete, 8/E
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• Technology In Action, Complete Version, 7/E
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Alan Evans is currently a faculty member at Manor College and Montgomery County Community College teaching a variety of computer science and business courses.  He holds a B.S. in Accounting from Rider University and an M.S. in Information Systems from Drexel University, and he is a certified public accountant.  After a successful career in business, Alan finally realized his true calling was education.  He has been teaching at the college level since 2000.  Alan enjoys giving presentations at technical conferences and meets regularly with computer science faculty and administrators from other colleges to discuss curriculum development and new methods of engaging students. 

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