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Student Edition
Instructor Edition
Using Information Technology: Complete Version, 6/e

Brian K Williams
Stacey C Sawyer

ISBN: 007288293x
Copyright year: 2005

Supplements



The instructor supplements for the last edition UNDERWENT A MAJOR REVISION, with a focus on enhancing instructors' ability to understand and utilize all the resources provided for the text. We and the publisher have tried to maintain the same respect and care with these supplements in this edition as well.
  • Instructor's Manual: The electronic Instructor's Manual, available as part of the Instructor's Resource Kit, now incorporates all of the resources available to the instructor for each chapter. Instructors now have the ability to harness different visual assets to create effective lectures. The Instructor's Manual works like a Web page that is easy to navigate and simple to understand because it provides links to appropriate assets elsewhere on the Web or CD-ROM. Each chapter contains an overview of the changes to this edition, a chapter overview, teaching tips, PowerPoint slides with speaker's notes, group projects, outside projects, Web exercises, text figures, and links to appropriate information and games on the book's website.
  • Testbank: The Testbank format allows instructors to effectively pinpoint areas of content within each chapter on which to test students. Each chapter starts off with a "Test Table" that provides a convenient guide for finding questions that pertain to chapter objectives and difficulty level. The Test Table also indicates the type of question so that instructors can create exams using the question types of their choice. The test questions are first organized by chapter objectives and then learning level; they include answers, Key Question numbers, learning levels, page references from the text, and rationales. Following each chapter's test bank questions is a Quick Quiz, designed for use when instructors don't have time to tailor an exam.
    Computerized Test Bank with ExamView® Pro Test Generating Software - ExamView is a testing tool that lets you create paper and online tests. This test generator is ideal for building tests, worksheets, and study guides (practice tests) in any subject. Using the online testing features, you can access numerous reports that will help you focus on your students' learning needs
  • PowerPoint presentation: The PowerPoint presentation includes additional material that expands upon important topics from the text, allowing instructors to create interesting and engaging classroom presentations. Each chapter of the presentation includes important illustrations, and animations to enable instructors to emphasize important concepts in memorable ways. Each slide of the presentation is integrated into the Instructor's Manual so that instructors can quickly and effectively determine which slides they would like to use in their presentations.
  • Figures from the book: All of the photos, illustrations, screenshots, and tables are available electronically for use in presentations, transparencies, or handouts.
  • Online Learning Center: (www.mhhe.com/cit/uit6e). Designed to provide a wide variety of learning opportunities for students, the website for the fifth edition now includes a Web Summary for each chapter, with all of the key terms linked to relevant exercises, games, web links, and self-quizzes. Additional end-of-chapter exercises, web exercises, group projects, outside projects, Instructor's Manual, and PowerPoint presentations are also available online for instructors to download.
  • Interactive Companion: Twenty interactive tutorial labs on some of the most popular topics are available on the Online Learning Center. These tutorials expand the reach and scope of the text by combining video, interactive exercises, animation, additional content, and actual "lab" tutorials. The labs include the following topics:

Digital Solutions to Help You Manage Your Course

PageOut: PageOut is our Course Web Site Development Center and offers a syllabus page, URL, McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center content, online exercises and quizzes, gradebook, discussion board, and an area for student Web pages.

PageOut requires no prior knowledge of HTML, no long hours of coding, and a way for course coordinators and professors to provide a full-course website. PageOut offers a series of templates-simply fill them with your course information and click on one of 16 designs. The process takes under an hour and leaves you with a professionally designed website. We'll even get you started with sample websites, or enter your syllabus for you! PageOut is so straightforward and intuitive, it's little wonder why over 12,000 college professors are using it. For more information, visit the PageOut website at www.pageout.net

The Online Learning Center can be delivered through any of these platforms:

  • McGraw-Hill Learning Architecture (TopClass)
  • Blackboard.com
  • Ecollege.com (formerly Real Education)
  • WebCT (a product of Universal Learning Technology)

SimNet Concepts: This is the TOTAL solution for training and assessment in computer concepts. SimNet Concepts offers a unique graphic-intensive environment for assessing student understand of computer concepts. It includes interactive labs for 77 different computer concepts and 160 corresponding assessment questions. The content menus parallel the contents of the McGraw-Hill text being used for the class, so students can cover topics for each chapter of the text you are using

SimNet Concepts also offers the only truly integrated learning and assessment program available today. After a student has completed any SimNet Concepts Exam, he or she can simply click on one button to have SimNet assemble a custom menu that covers just those concepts that the student answered incorrectly or did not attempt. These custom lessons can be saved to disk and loaded at any time for review. Assessment Remediation, a new feature, records and reports what the student did incorrectly for each question on an exam that was answered incorrectly.


To obtain an instructor login for this Online Learning Center, ask your local sales representative. If you're an instructor thinking about adopting this textbook, request a free copy for review.