Charles W. Kellermann
Professor, Information Technology
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Information Technology Department
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HOME PAGE FOR ALL COURSES
Current Courses (Spring 2012)
Information
Technology Essentials (ITE)
ITE 115 - Introduction
to Computer (Software) Applications & Concepts
[ Course
Information ] [ Course
Content Summary] Last taught (On Campus): Fall 2011
- Section 03 - MW
0930-1045, Room 405
- Section 05 - MW
1100-1215, Room 405
- Section 08 - TR
0930-1045, Room 405
- Section 11 - TR
1100-1215, Room 405
DB1 Download
DB2 Download
Free Access
ITE 126 - Operating System Fundamentals
[ Course
Information ] [ Course
Content Summary] Last taught (On Campus): Fall 2011
- Woodbridge
Campus: 4 Saturday intensive (1 credit-hour course)
- Saturdays 3/17, 3/31, 4/7, and 4/14 -- 0900-1250,
Room 405 [Buy your textbooks NOW!]
Information
Technology Networking (ITN) -- ELI
ITN 101 - Introduction to Network Concepts (ELI)
[ Course
Information ] [ Course
Content Summary] Last taught (On Campus): Fall 2007
- Extended Learning Institute (Web Course -
5th edition) - continuous enrollment [on Blackboard 9]
Student Development
(SDV)
SDV 101 - Orientation to Information Technology
[ Course
Information ] [ Course Content Summary]
- Woodbridge
Campus: 8 Week courses (Jan - Mar)
- Section 42 - W
1400-1550, Room 418
All Courses:
Previously Taught at NOVA
!! How To Get Good
Grades In College !!
Concerns of the Ole Perfesser about Laptops and Computerized Classrooms/Laboratories.
Thoughts about the problem and encouraging better student behavior - from the University
of Wisconsin at Madison
- NVCC IT Program
- NVCC Courses in Computer
Forensics, Homeland Security , Cyber-Terrorism, Cyber-fraud
- Looking for Follow-on 4-year
Degree Programs in Information Technology
- Community College Transfer
Grant Legislation - a Motivator
- Internships and Job
Opportunities
- Academic
and Life Skills Workshop Schedule (Spring 2011)
- Cyber WATCH (Cybersecurity Washington Area Technician
and Consortium Headquarters)
- Great
Software Buys for NOVA Students
- PC Problems, Solutions and
General Good Information
- IT
News & Views Blogs - Interesting Information and News Clippings, for
IT Students
- IT Career
Field News Clippings: Topics about Your Career in IT
- IT Field
& Technology New Clippings: Topics about Technology and the Field of
IT
- IT Social,
Legal, Ethical, & Privacy News Clippings: Topics about the Field of
IT
- Help and Inspiration for Dealing
with Life and Education
(by a college student, for college students) - Helpful, Free Advice on
Health, People, Money, and Other Aspects of the Fabric of Llfe
- Thoughts on Degrees, Careers,
and How to Use Your Education in Your Life
- Some Thoughtful Perspectives on the
Uses for and the Values of Your Education
- New A.A.S. degree program with
multiple certificates
- Course
Changes (under the new ITx course
numbering system), Networking Administration students were required to
take:
- ITN 111/ITN 115 – Windows
Server and ITN
112/ITN 116/ITN 117 – Windows Network Infrastructure
- ITN 245 – Network
Troubleshooting (previously ITN 112/116/117).
Opportunities to Learn about Computer
Forensics, Homeland Security, Cyber-terrorism, Cyber -fraud
If you are looking for some interesting and challenging 1 credit -hour courses
that take only two Saturdays to complete on several really HOT and current
subjects, like Computer
Forensics, Homeland
Security, Cyber-terrorism,
Cyber-fraud,
there are still open seats at both the Woodbridge Campus and on Quantico Marine
Corps Base.
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For students looking for follow-on 4 year degree
programs in Information Technology!!
- Bachelor
or Profesional Studies (BPS) Program at UMW
- Transferable
Courses from Virginia Community Colleges (VCCS)
- BPS
program in Network Security (18 Credits from the intensive NVCC
Woodbridge Network Security Program - halfway down this page)
- http://www.umw.edu
More Transfer
Information (other four-year institutions who have made with transfer
agreements with NOVA)
Check on other four-year
institutions (colleges and universities) who have articulation or transfer
agreements with NVCC.
Also especially, Transfer
Guides/Information for Virginia four-year Colleges and Universities
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The Community College Transfer Grant Legislation
The General Assembly
passed legislation that would allow qualified students to earn a four-year
degree but at a community college price! Academically-proven students who earn
their associate degree and meet certain financial need requirements could
benefit from the proposed Community College Transfer Grant program (CCTG). In
the 21st century global economy, a bachelor's degree has never been more
critical to a person's career and financial success. This grant will help
ensure students are able to transfer from their community colleges to four-year
universities and earn a bachelor's degree - which will increase their lifetime
earnings, contribute more to the state’s tax base, and help fuel the economy of
the Commonwealth. This has been a great piece of legislation!
Info
on Other Scholarship Opportunities
Internships and Job Opportunities
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CyberWATCH
(Cybersecurity:
Washington Area Technician and Consortium Headquarters)
One of the fastest growing areas of Information Technology is Information
Security. Government Jobs in that field require security clearances. Other
desirable jobs require them too. Yet, many students and faculty don’t know as
much as they should about this important topic. Students today often use
social networks like MySpace and Facebook to post private issues, events, and
activities about themselves and other people with little understanding of the
fact that this information is available to everybody, forever. Students are cautioned to consider
security clearances and the personal impact of your online profile (in
Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites)
For more information
about CyberWATCH and the CyberWATCH
center in our area, see this information page from the University of Maryland.
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PC Problems, Solutions
and General Good Information
- Blogging
- Data
Recovery from your Hard-Drive
- Buying a Computer
- Before you buy
direct from any of these vendors, follow the links below to obtain
the NVCC/VCCS discount.
- Buying
Software
- Before you buy
direct from any vendor, follow this link to obtain the NVCC/VCCS
educational software discount. Note the link on that page for
Journey Educational Software (www.journeyed.com). An illustration
of the size of the NVCC educational discount is the price for the full
professional version of MS-Office 2010 (with Access) - $79.98, regularly
$499.00 !!
- USB/Ethernet
Cable Modems
- Technical Resources
- Tech TV
- How Stuff Works (really neat for
almost anything)
Help and inspiration for dealing with life
and education
(by a college student, for college
students)
Need help
and inspiration for dealing with life and education - check out this great website!!
Helpful, Free Advice on Many Aspects of the
Fabric of Life
Need some very helpful, free advice on health, people,
money, and many other aspects of the fabric of life - check out this great website!!
Their column, "This
Week's Secrets," has at least one or two columns that may help you a lot;
they also have a daily email service called "Daily Health News" that
has some excellent findings based on valid research, and another called
"Bottom Line Secrets"; you may also find some of their
reasonably-priced books very helpful as well.
Thoughts on Degrees, Careers, and How to
Use Your Education in Your Life
- Some Good Insights on Education - For Your Career, For
Your Life, For Your Future
- Guide
to College Majors - See especially the good insights on Technology
(Left Panel)
Some Thoughtful Perspectives on the Uses
and Value of Your Learning
- What
is the Economic Worth of Your Future Diploma?
- What
is the Use and Value of Your Learning?
- Learning
and Self-Improvement
- Some Thoughts on
Life's Journey and Other Profundities of T.S. Eliot
- Can
Money Make You Happier? Yes, but not the way you think.
- Is
Having "Stuff" Good for Us? Yes and No - It depends on
whether we own it or it owns us!
- "I
Love My Work" - Some very interesting thoughts about work,
leisure, meaning, satisfaction, and drudgery by Arthur C. Brooks (from the
September /October 2007 edition of The American)
- "The
Decline and Fall of Declinism" - Some reassuring insights
about why "Some people don’t want to admit it, but America is in
great shape" by Alan W. Dowd (from the August 27, 2007 online
publication of The American) Every now and then, even though it is
very helpful to be self-critical and search for ways to improve, it is
important to note on balance, how good we are and where we are
making progress - it sure makes a difference in continuing improvement and
avoiding malaise and even despair.
- Take Time
Time makes up the fabric of our lives, yet we so often rush through our
lives and miss much of its richness. This short reflection gives us
some reasons to "take time" to really live.
- Twelve Rules
of Success. You must define for yourself what constitutes
"Success" - it is not material wealth, fleeting fame, or
many other things extolled by our consumerist society (not that
consumption is all bad, not that wealth will always prevent us from being
happy if we know how to use it, and not that fame which is deserved can
nullify attaining good use of power and proper self-esteem). These
twelve rules supplement the Decalogue and other codes for behavior with
reflections on how to succeed in the modern world.
- Desiderata.
This is a poem written in obscurity in 1927 by Max Ehrmann, a Terre Haute,
Indiana lawyer and poet, who in a moment of inspration wrote a collection
of thoughts that he expressed as his desire to "leave something
behind." This beautiful collection of phrases was circulated
from the time he wrote it, sometimes with the inscription "Old St.
Paul's Church, Baltimore A.D. 1692," which lends it an air of
history. Actually,
the inscription was added around 1959, when the Rev. Frederick Kates, the
rector of St. Paul's Church in Baltimore, Maryland, used the poem in a
collection of devotional materials he compiled for his congregation.
Although it seems that his note at the top of the page was tied to the
church itself, it has often mistakenly been intepreted as where it was
found and when it was written.
- My Mother's
Prayer. This old prayer, perhaps already familiar to you, is
hanging proudly in my bedroom hand-stitched by my Mom in
needlepoint. The origins of the prayer and even its language (German
or English) are clouded. Often called the Serenity Prayer, it has
been ascribed to theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the 1930-1940 timeframe,
although "Dr. John Sasser has produced photographs of a Gasthaus, built
in 1849 in Bergen-Enkheim, Germany, which contain the words of the
serenity prayer above the windows of the first floor." It has been used by
Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and other improvement
groups as well as quoted or referenced in many songs, record albums,
movies, televison, novels, and other books. No matter its
origin or the exact version in which it apprears, the worthy thoughts will
no doubt be preserved for time and the ages.
- The
Daffodil Principle. You have GOT to read this article - it
will really get to you . Enjoy it and pass it (or the URL) on to your
family, friends, or just anyone you want to help and motivate.
[Thanks, Tom
and Gloria - and lfdfp168 too]
- It's Still a Beautiful
World. You might remember that I quoted the line from
"Desiderata" that reads "For all of its sham, drudgery, and
broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world." Just look at and
listen to this
and tell me if it doesn't reassure you that indeed it IS
a beautiful world!
[Again, Thanks, Tom and Gloria - and lfdfp168 too]
- One of the Greatest
Pieces of Wisdom {Understanding The System -- I-P-O, the Helix
(the Spiral) of Purpose, the Hierarchy of Human Enablement} If you
want a insight into the meaning of change, purpose, the background of my
Mother's Prayer, read these thoughtful words from Helen Steiner Rice and
from Wikipedia
(as I told you, even Wikipedia does have much marvelous information - you
just have to use critical thinking, discernment to cull out the wheat from
the chaff, the shining metal - the gold, the silver - from the dross).
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