Your Office: Microsoft Access 2010 Comprehensive - Softcover

Kinser, Amy; Hammerle, Patti; Kinser, Eric; Lending, Diane; Moriarity, Brant; Nightingale, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132560887 ISBN 13: 9780132560887

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2011

Synopsis

For introductory computer courses on Microsoft Office 2010 or courses in computer concepts with a lab component for Microsoft Office 2010 applications.

 

Your Office is the Office Applications textbook written for instructors who want more than a ‘skill & drill’ book that enables students to learn discreet tasks but fails to illustrate the big picture of how these skills work together.  Your Office bridges the gap between skill and application, and empowers students to master Office 2010 as a tool to solve problems and make decisions.

The cases progress students from learning the skills in each Office Application to using the applications as tools to make business decisions.

The unique modular structure provides a strong foundation for students through practice in each workshop and then synthesizes the objectives covered over two workshops, challenging students to really retain what they learned as opposed to learning and then forgetting soon after.

 

The series scenario introduces a large global business (the resort and spa) made up of smaller businesses (golf pro shop, spa, restaurants, event planning, etc) featured in the cases that run throughout all four applications.  This approach gives students a solid understanding of how an organization works by exposing them to how individuals in all facets of a business interact with tools like Microsoft Office and use information to make decisions.

About this title

About the Author:

Amy S. Kinser, Esq., Series Editor
Amy holds a B.A. degree in Chemistry with a Business minor and a J.D. from the Maurer School of Law both at Indiana University. After working as an environmental chemist, starting her own technology consulting company, and practicing intellectual property law, she has spent the past eleven years teaching technology at the Kelley School of Business in Bloomington, Indiana.   Currently, she serves as the Director of Computer Skills and Senior Lecturer at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.  She also loves spending time with her two sons, Aidan and J. Matthew, and her husband J. Eric.
 
Patti Hammerle
Patti holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance and a master’s degree in Business from Indiana University Kelley School of Business. She is an adjunct professor at the Kelley School of Business in Indianapolis where she teaches The Computer in Business. In addition to teaching, she owns U-Can Computer Manuals, a company that writes and publishes computer manuals primarily for libraries to teach from.  She has also written and edited other computer application textbooks.
 
When not teaching or writing, she enjoys spending time with family, reading, and running.
Dr. Diane Lending
Diane Lending is a Professor at James Madison University where she has taught Computer Information Systems for eleven years. She received a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. degree in mathematics from the University of Virginia. Her research interests are in adoption of information technology and information systems education.
 
She enjoys traveling, playing card and board games, and living in the country with her husband, daughter, and numerous pets.

Review:

Instructor Reviews of the Your Office Series

“...( Your Office is what) we have been waiting for. One that takes the students to the level of business, the way it is in the real world. Now the students can make a smooth transition from the classroom to that career.” - Carla Jones, Middle Tennessee State University

“teaches students the skills they need in the workplace by having students create realistic documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases for "real world" scenarios. Students learn by practicing skills over multiple chapters and are given an opportunity to do critical thinking while working on assignments.” - Rich Cacace, Pensacola State College

“Has students thinking, problem solving and invites them to look past the book ... adds value by leading them to understand where they could apply these skills in their "day to day" life.” - Karen Allen, Community College of RI

“takes students through the entire process from learning the necessary features to actually being able to create documents without much direction--just like they will need to do at work!” - Susan Holland, Southeast Community College

“It is a case-based Office application text that does a great job of covering just what we need. The organization of the text is fantastic and the end-of-chapter assessments are the best I have seen in a long time.” - Gina Jerry, Santa Monica College

“Is a system that allows the student a heap of hands on work, with easy to follow instructions and simply explained figures. The hands-on experience is then translated to real world situations.” - Linda Fried, University of CO-Denver

“Allows the students to learn application concepts (the Why!) and not just the pointing and clicking.” - Susan Fry, Boise State Univ.

“...pulls it all together. It starts with basic examples, provides practice, integrates their acquired knowledge and permits the student to perform well.” -  David Largent, Ball State Univ.

“touches on all levels of Bloom's taxonomy. As an educator, this is the greatest development of the 21st century!” - Jennifer Nightingale, Duquesne Univ.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0132560887
• ISBN 13: 9780132560887
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 702