Distributed Information Systems Dr. Morris M. Liaw CSCI 5533 Distributed Information Systems Dr. Morris M. Liaw

Teaching Philosophy Student Centered v.s. Instructor Centered Role of Instructor Advisor v.s. Tape Player

Visit Web Sites Dr. Morris Liaw’s home page http://sce.uhcl.edu/liaw/ Distributed Information Systems home page

To Do List for the First Class Choose a presentation ID. Enter your name, email address, your personal homepage url, and change your initial password to your own password on the online Address Book. Find your presentation topic from the presentation page on the web.

Presentation Use Microsoft PowerPoint to prepare your presentation. Give me a 2 sided, 6 slide per page and 3-hole punched hard copy (don’t staple them) before your presentation in class. Use Microsoft FrontPage to prepare two true/false, two blank filling and two multiple choice [without All of Above, Both a & b, None of Above] review questions with answers to be shown using JavaScript. Give me a 2-sided and 3-hole punched hard copy (don’t staple them) with answers before your presentation in class as well. Use your presentation ID, last name and which presentation to name your files, for example, the presentation and review question files of 1st presentation of Smith, John, whose presentation ID is 1, should be named as 1Smith1.pptx and 1Smith1.htm respectively. FTP both files to sceweb.uhcl.edu one day before your presentation.

To Do List For Every Class Print your classmates’ presentations from the web before class. Preview them and their references before class During your classmate’s presentation, you are supposed to ask questions. Review the subjects covered after class.