Course Topics
Introduction to modern information technologies
- Digital computing: hardware, software, and peopleware
- Networking and communication systems: wired, wireless, and optical
- Data storage technologies: personal, institutional, and ubiquitous
- Internet and the web: technologies, services, and applications
- Such as cloud computing and social networking
- How IT change our lifestyle and the society
Basic skills and applications of information technologies
- Efficient, effective and green operation of a computer
- Using selected application software: spreadsheet; covering skills such as using functions and formula, charting, data analysis, data retrieval, etc.
- Using mobile digital services, web-based services, and online collaborative tools
- E.g., personal information management (PIM) software, online questionnaire, online spreadsheet, etc.
- Techniques in using productivity and automation tools, e.g. commands and scripts, simple programming for repeated and automatic tasks
Information literacy
- Information sources: identification, characteristics, and their evaluation
- Effective search strategies and skills
- Information usage: evaluation and proper citation
- Advanced search skills for different information sources
Information security
- Information system security issues and measures by case studies
- Using IT services in a secure manner
- E.g., Using virtual private network (VPN), secure browsing, securing Wi-Fi connections, using security suite software, configuring personal firewall, junk mail filtering and sorting
- Protection of personal sensitive data
- E.g., How to use encryption and password-protection while transferring data and using mobile data storage devices
- Information security policies and practices
Ethics in IT and relevant Hong Kong legislations
- Ethical and cultural issues in using and handling digital information
- Intellectual properties
- Freedom of expression and netiquette
- Relevant Hong Kong legislations