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EDU 2460 Communication Systems is an introduction to the study of communication systems for preservice technology and engineering teachers. The course will lead students to have a deeper understanding of recent communication technologies including CAD, optics, graphic, audio, video, and photography communications.

Table of Contents

• Week 01 – Introduction to Communication Systems
  • Content 1 – What is Communication?
  • NYS Communication System Curriculum
  • Closing: Discussion about communication systems.
• Week 02 – History of Communication Systems
  • Activity 1 – The history of communication technology
  • Activity 2 – Still Imaging
• Week 03 – ITEEA Learning Standards and Graphic Communication
• Activity 1 – Graphic Communication.
  • Content 1- Types of Communication Systems
  • Content 2 – Input of Communication Systems
  • Activity 2 – Understanding Raspberry Pi 3.
• Week 04 – Types of signals and networks
  • Content 1 – Computer Basic – Types of Signals
  • Content 2 – Types of network
  • Activity 1 – Setting up Raspberry Pi 3.
  • Activity 2 – Connect to your Raspberry Pi
  • Activity 3 – Install Raspberry Pi OS ninth the SC card
  • Activity 4 – Finish up the setting
  • Activity 5 – Update date and time with the command
  • Activity 6 – Turn on & off Raspberry Pi
  • Closing – Exploring Raspberry Pi
• Week 05 – Basic operations of computer
  • Content 1 – What is Computer?
  • Content 2 – Computers live in the bit world
  • Content 3 – Encoding Byte
  • Content 4 – Boolean Algebra
  • Content 5 – Bit and Bytes
  • Activity 1 – Identify file size
  • Activity 2 – ASCII Table
  • Activity 3 – Exploring Raspberry Pi
  • Activity 4 – Use of command line in Raspberry Pi
  • Activity 5 – Manual Command
  • Activity 6 – Apropos Command
  • Activity 7 – Clear Command
  • Activity 8 – LS Command
• Week 06 – Computer hardware & Pi Commands
  • Content 1 – Components of computer hardware
  • Content 2 – The processor: The CPU
  • Content 3 – RAM – Random Access Memory
  • Content 4 – RAM Speeds – CPU and RAM
  • Content 5 – ROM – Read Only Memory
  • Activity 1 – Make & Remove Directory Command
  • Activity 2 – Change the working directory
  • Activity 3 – Run GUI applications using command
  • Activity 4 – Copy files in Raspberry Pi
  • Activity 5 – Make folders and files
  • Activity 6 – Additional commands
  • Activity 7 – Change File & Directory Permissions
  • Activity 8 – Get your IP Address
  • Closing – Explore Bluetooth devices around you
• Week 07 – Midterm (no content)
• Week 08 – Computer software & Python programming
  • Opening – Update the local time on you Raspberry Pi
  • Content 1 – Software vs Hardware
  • Content 2 – Types of software
  • Content 3 – System software
  • Content 4 – Operating System
  • Activity 1 – Find running processes on Windows
  • Content 5 – Why is Booting Required?
  • Content 6 – Boot procedure
  • Activity 2 – List running process on Raspberry Pi
  • Activity 3 – Make your Pi into an Office Machine
  • Closing – Revert your Pi to a regular computer
• Week 09 – Internet, WWW, URL, and DNS
  • Opening – The Father of the internet
  • Content 1 – The origin of internet
  • Content 2 – Network in the 1960s – Centralized communication network
  • Content 3 – World Wide Web
  • Content 4 – Universal Resource Locator
  • Content 5 – Domain Name System
  • Content 6 – Some facts about WWW
  • Activity 1 – How to make a web page
  • Content 7 -What is HTML?
  • Activity 2 -HTML Practice of Tags
  • Closing –Essential HTML Tags
• Week 10 – Introduction to Python Programming
  • Opening – Rethinking: what is the computer?
  • Content 1 – Evaluation of computer languages
  • Content 2 – A brief history of programming language
  • Activity 1 – Setting up programming environment in Raspberry Pi
  • Content 3 – What is Python?
  • Content 4 – Programming basics
  • Content 5 – Compiling and interpreting
  • Activity 2 – Running Python on Raspberry Pi
  • Activity 3 – Python Expressions
  • Activity 4 – Real numbers in Python
  • Activity 5 – Variables
  • Activity 6 – Print out a message in Python
  • Activity 7 – Data types
  • Activity 8 – input
• Week 11 – Python programming logic
  • Activity 1 – For loop
  • Activity 2 – Cumulative loops
  • Activity 3 – if Statement
  • Activity 4 – if/else statement
  • Activity 5 – Your task
  • Activity 6 -While statement
  • Activity 7 -Logic operations in Python
  • Activity 8 -Graphics with turtle
  • Activity 9 -Turtle Example 1: Draw a line
  • Activity 10 –Example 2: Drawing a square.
  • Activity 11 –Example 3: Drawing a star
  • Activity 12 –Example 4: Changing line color
  • Activity 13 -Turtle Design task
• Week 12 – Understanding of HTML
  • Opening – What is World Wide Web?
  • Content 1 – What is HTTP?
  • Activity 1 – Install HTTP Client Program – HTTPie
  • Activity 1 – Make your Pi into a web server
  • Activity 2 – Change your default web page
  • Content 2 – HTML: HyperText Markup Language
  • Activity 3 – Our First Example
  • Activity 4 – Markup tags and content
  • Activity 5 – HTML Tags
  • Activity 6 – Tag Attributes
  • Activity 7 – HTML List
  • Activity 8 – Comment Statements
  • Activity 9 – HTML Design Task
• Week 13 – HTML advanced
  • Opening – HTML Document Structure
  • Activity 1 – Nested Tags
  • Activity 2 – The <TITLE> Tag
  • Activity 3 – Text Formatting Tags
  • Activity 4 – Changing the Font
  • Activity 5 – Headings
  • Activity 6 – Paragraphs, <P> </P>
  • Activity 7 – Bold, Italic and other Character Formatting Elements
  • Activity 8 – HTML colors
  • Activity 9 – Aligning Text
  • Activity 10 – Inserting Images 
  • Activity 11 – Inserting a Youtube video
  • Activity 12 – Links
  • Activity 13 – Frames
  • Activity 14 – Frames with links
• Week 14 – HTML advanced 2 & Final project
  • Opening – How to insert multiple pages on a page?
  • Activity 1 – Frames with vertical pages
  • Activity 2 –Frames without borders and names
  • Activity 3 -Targets
  • Activity 4 –Frames with links
  • Activity 5 -Tables
  • Activity 6 -Table with colspan
  • Appendix A. The HTML version updates
  • Appendix B. HTML5 New Tags
  • Appendix C. Bluefish – HTML Editor on Raspberry Pi
  • Final Project: Create your website

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