Class Informatics and Multimedia

Curricular Unit about information technology (introduction, from the generalist user's point of view), which provides basic knowledge on the use of Office, including the spreadsheet, on specific data analysis software, and on digital document management and bibliographic referencing.

Use of a browser with a personal account and synchronized bookmarks.

Google search with commands.

Use of reference pages for writing and translation. 

Professional use of Adobe Acrobat Reader (annotating, attaching documents, etc.)

Use of Mendeley for reference management.

Word and structured documents with paragraph and character styles.

PowerPoint and structured presentations. Use of PowerPoint for creating scientific posters

Excel: tables and basic descriptive statistics concepts. Calculation of index numbers. Scatter and line graphs. Pivot tables and databases.

Google Docs, including Forms and questionnaire development.

Classes are always held in a laboratory with computers. Students are also encouraged to use their laptops.

In class, in addition to presentations / structured explanations by the teacher, illustrating ideas, concepts and procedures, simultaneously with individual and class-wide clarifications, students are required to make presentations and illustrations of procedures.

In the scope of the UC, each student writes a "chronicle about his school history", which is used to compile a collective book, in a structured way, in Word.

Lambert, J., & Fyre, C (2015). Microsoft Office 2016 Step by Step. Microsoft Press.