Q. I'm clueless about jobs in the MIS field. What can you do with an MIS degree? Please share any examples, knowledge, or personal experience. Thanks!
A. Computer programming (did it for 10 years), computer software engineering (create the programs that run programs people use at a company), database administrator (wrote database programming programs as well), network administrator (as well as the networking support staff), computer hardware engineering, systems analysis and design (figure out how to develop solutions to company problems and design the programs to do it), web programming and design (done this for a few years), security administrator, IT project leader (did this for a bit), IT trainer (did this for a few years), help desk adminstrator/project leader or agent (did this for a bit, often a job you can get right out of college), pc troubleshooter/support, e-commerce developer.
The most popular careers in IT right now are database administrative support, since it's hard to outsource. The demand for computer software engineering (not programming) is suppose to stay high as well as web design and programming and networking support, but both can depend on the area of the country. Some areas of the country are oversaturated with IT people. You can get a job at a help desk, but you can get stuck there too, along with pc support.
You need a few years of experience before people trust you to do security, training, project leading or systems design.
IT jobs are suppose to be 5 of the top 10 jobs most in demand in the next 10 years, but you have to be careful where you live, since areas get overrun with IT folks and that's where the layoffs occur first, since the supply outstrips the demand after a while. It's a very cyclical field, one where you always have to stay on top of the latest skills, and make sure you get them one way or another.
The most popular careers in IT right now are database administrative support, since it's hard to outsource. The demand for computer software engineering (not programming) is suppose to stay high as well as web design and programming and networking support, but both can depend on the area of the country. Some areas of the country are oversaturated with IT people. You can get a job at a help desk, but you can get stuck there too, along with pc support.
You need a few years of experience before people trust you to do security, training, project leading or systems design.
IT jobs are suppose to be 5 of the top 10 jobs most in demand in the next 10 years, but you have to be careful where you live, since areas get overrun with IT folks and that's where the layoffs occur first, since the supply outstrips the demand after a while. It's a very cyclical field, one where you always have to stay on top of the latest skills, and make sure you get them one way or another.
How are interactive clicker devices changing education in the United States?
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A. Interactive clickers becoming more popular in K-12 schools Apr 2, 2009
The blue plastic clickers with oval buttons that sit on the edge of students' desks at Gililland Middle School are handheld devices to click in their answers for quizzes and tests. Within minutes, images projected onto a Smart Board let students compare their anonymous results to their classmates. A bar graph shows how the class did overall and how it did on specific questions.
"Was Number 9 a hard one?" seventh-grade language-arts teacher Jane Nesdill asked after a 10-question vocabulary quiz on Wednesday. The question dealt with the word, "pseudonym."
Afterward, Nesdill played an iTunes file that further explained the meaning of the word and used contemporary examples of celebrities, like Reginald Kenneth Dwight and Norma Jeane Baker, who are better known by their show-business names, Elton John and Marilyn Monroe.
"It gave me a new way to present information in a fun and more-engaging way," said Nesdill, a teacher since 1973.
The clicker is part of the Smart Interactive Response System, a new addition to Gililland this year. The system offers immediate feedback for students and teachers, who are able to see what lessons are working and which students need extra help. Nesdill uses it to tweak tests and lesson plans.
"I can focus on learning and where the kids need it," she said. "The kids like it. They are very proud when they can see they got 100 percent."
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/02/05/20100205tr-clicker0206.html
An honors student at Ohio State, a kid in a fifth-grade science class in Kentucky and a deaf student in England all begin their learning experience the same way: with their hand wrapped around a remote control that connects a student with everyone else in the class, with the instructor and with the subject at hand.
Hundreds of colleges, high schools and even middle schools are using "clickers" -- as even manufacturers call them. A moderator can pose a question and within seconds the respondents' answers are anonymously logged on a laptop at the front of the room.
"This is the MTV era," said Neal H. Hooker, an Ohio State professor who uses the technology in his agricultural economics course. "It's the instant-gratification generation. They don't like doing a quiz and hearing the responses in three days. They want to see if they've got it right or wrong right then." InterWrite, a clicker manufacturer in Columbia, Maryland, has over a half million remotes in use, most in classrooms. Software logs the students' answers, enabling the teacher to determine if students understand the topic as the topic is being discussed. Teachers can post a true-false or multiple-choice quiz at the front of the room and, within seconds, the students' responses are logged, their scores tabulated and a grade is assigned to each.
Teachers can readily determine which students need immediate help -- and in what areas -- as the class progresses. The system actually encourages more class discussion, prodding even shy students to get involved as responses are debated. Hooker said the new technology saves reams of paper that he used to use on quizzes. About the only paperwork now is individual grade sheets.
College bookstores sell the clickers for between $10 and $40 apiece to students, depending on a range of functions. Most schools provide a basic system, including a receiver and software, which runs around $1,500. Bigger systems with higher-end equipment can cost $25,000, according to Rick Baker, CEO of clicker maker Meridia Audience http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2005/07/68086
The blue plastic clickers with oval buttons that sit on the edge of students' desks at Gililland Middle School are handheld devices to click in their answers for quizzes and tests. Within minutes, images projected onto a Smart Board let students compare their anonymous results to their classmates. A bar graph shows how the class did overall and how it did on specific questions.
"Was Number 9 a hard one?" seventh-grade language-arts teacher Jane Nesdill asked after a 10-question vocabulary quiz on Wednesday. The question dealt with the word, "pseudonym."
Afterward, Nesdill played an iTunes file that further explained the meaning of the word and used contemporary examples of celebrities, like Reginald Kenneth Dwight and Norma Jeane Baker, who are better known by their show-business names, Elton John and Marilyn Monroe.
"It gave me a new way to present information in a fun and more-engaging way," said Nesdill, a teacher since 1973.
The clicker is part of the Smart Interactive Response System, a new addition to Gililland this year. The system offers immediate feedback for students and teachers, who are able to see what lessons are working and which students need extra help. Nesdill uses it to tweak tests and lesson plans.
"I can focus on learning and where the kids need it," she said. "The kids like it. They are very proud when they can see they got 100 percent."
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/02/05/20100205tr-clicker0206.html
An honors student at Ohio State, a kid in a fifth-grade science class in Kentucky and a deaf student in England all begin their learning experience the same way: with their hand wrapped around a remote control that connects a student with everyone else in the class, with the instructor and with the subject at hand.
Hundreds of colleges, high schools and even middle schools are using "clickers" -- as even manufacturers call them. A moderator can pose a question and within seconds the respondents' answers are anonymously logged on a laptop at the front of the room.
"This is the MTV era," said Neal H. Hooker, an Ohio State professor who uses the technology in his agricultural economics course. "It's the instant-gratification generation. They don't like doing a quiz and hearing the responses in three days. They want to see if they've got it right or wrong right then." InterWrite, a clicker manufacturer in Columbia, Maryland, has over a half million remotes in use, most in classrooms. Software logs the students' answers, enabling the teacher to determine if students understand the topic as the topic is being discussed. Teachers can post a true-false or multiple-choice quiz at the front of the room and, within seconds, the students' responses are logged, their scores tabulated and a grade is assigned to each.
Teachers can readily determine which students need immediate help -- and in what areas -- as the class progresses. The system actually encourages more class discussion, prodding even shy students to get involved as responses are debated. Hooker said the new technology saves reams of paper that he used to use on quizzes. About the only paperwork now is individual grade sheets.
College bookstores sell the clickers for between $10 and $40 apiece to students, depending on a range of functions. Most schools provide a basic system, including a receiver and software, which runs around $1,500. Bigger systems with higher-end equipment can cost $25,000, according to Rick Baker, CEO of clicker maker Meridia Audience http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2005/07/68086
What's the difference between a netbook, a notebook, and a normal laptop?
Q. My boyfriend tried to explain it, but I still don't get it. My computer is an HP G60, 16", and it says it's a notebook. Is an average laptop even bigger than that? What about a Netbook? Those look pretty small, but other than size, is there a difference?
A. Actually, 'laptop' refers to portable computers from approx 10-12 years ago. They were much larger than current portable computers and, when placed on your lap, they overhung on both sides. It was a marketing pitch because they were genuinely portable and didn't need to set on a desk or table. When what we call 'notebooks' came out they were much more comfortable in size and they are the popular size today and many people refer to them as 'laptops' because the true notebook fits comfortably on a lap. Netbooks are fully functional computers but much smaller. Current ones are not as powerful as notebooks, but that will change over time. I know people who take netbooks to college because they're small, yet can run all Windows software.
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