• This wiki is for Hort. 120, Computer Applications for Landscape Contracting. The subject for the class is information technologies related to the landscape industry.
• Feel free to look around. If you're a current student in Hort 120 then you can log in and edit the content. Please note that this login is different than your univesity login.

• Class Structure
• Class Technologies
• The Seven Things You Should Know
• Deliverables

This is the part of the wiki for students to edit and place their contributions. Add your technology groups here and use the format of the “seven things you should know” to organize the content.

CAD Group

Computer Rendering Group

ePortfolio Group

Photo Imaging

• This is a note for everyone:

If anyone is having trouble sending or saving their projects here is how to access your pass space.

• 1. http://eportfolio.psu.edu/build/publish/ssh.html

this website should show you how

• 2. If you are not in a lab you should download the program from here

https://downloads.its.psu.edu/

• 3. This will allow you to access your project from any computer as long as you have the program SSH

As computer technology changes and evolves at a rapid pace, it is important for students to be able to effectively search for applicable information. Information literacy skills are currently being utilized in academic settings to teach students how to search for, identify, evaluate, and effectively use applicable information to complete tasks. These skills are currently being utilized in the Hort 120 course, Computer Applications in Landscape Contracting, to help students recognize the need for information, how to process it, and put into practice.

Student groups were assigned a written tutorial from our course wiki. Students were required to use Adobe Presenter (recorded at Penn State’s Digital Commons) ) and Adobe Captivate (recorded in the Landscape Contracting department) to create the video tutorial. The tutorials used a combination of Presenter and Captivate to illustrate a specific task relating to software tool function.

Before recording, student groups created PowerPoint slides, a written script to accompany the PowerPoint, and a storyboard for the Captivate demonstration. The tutorials used a combination of text, images or screen shots, and animations to explain the processes. Screen capture software was used to illustrate the software task.

Video Tutorials can be found by clicking here or within the “How Does it Work” section of each technology group.