Fluency In Information Technology

1. Fluency In Information Technology Cynthia Ren CSE 3 Fall 2009 Image Analysis and Manipulation with Photoshop Overview Information Technology (IT) fluency including proficiency with certain computer applications (traditional computer literacy), principles on which you can build new understanding as IT evolves, high-level reasoning and IT problem solving, and basic web programming (HTML). Computational thinking and data analysis and data presentation. Photoshop is a useful program for both personal and professional use. Students can use it to edit personal pictures or create works used in the business world. In CSE 3, I learned some of the basic functions of photoshop in order to edit out flaws in a photograph and create an animation. Visual Programming with Scratch Presentation of Information with Word and Powerpoint Computational Thinking • Scratch is a program used to learn basic programming skills. With Scratch, beginners are able to program different sprites to execute certain actions, such as typing out CSE 3 2009. Through scratch, I was able to create a ball catch game, a ping pong game, and tic-tac-toe. Basic Word and Powerpoint mastery is necessary for survival throughout life in today’s society. With these programs, information can be presented easily and clearly. Use of these programs comes up in high school, college, and in the professional world. Computational Thinking is thinking at multiple levels of abstraction for solving problems, designing systems, and understanding the power and limits of human and machine intelligence.Computational thinking also means being able to go above the original whole and constructing a whole of wholes. Or going above the whole and thinking about the whole in a different way. Data Analysis and Visualization with Excel Making Information Available to the World with HTML and Web Pages Excel is a useful tool used to create spreadsheets and present and analyze data. Spreadsheets can be used to make budgets, handle large amounts of data, or create lists. With this data, different graphics such as pie charts, can be created to be put into presentations. In today’s society, the internet is available to most people of the world. It is a network of information, and using HTML, people can create web pages that are viewable to people around the world. These web pages are useful because they can range from personal blogs to important information sources to purchasing products online.