October.18.06

Today we learned about PowerPoint and got a mini project. We learned the basic stuff of PowerPoint like, making circles; coloring them in, bringing objects to the front and back and basic features.

We then got a mini project where we are to make a 4 slide presentation with the timeline of 3min. It is supposed to be about any brand like for example MacDonald’s. We have to be presenting the project not letting it present us. What this means is that we should not have to look back at all to read the information that's on the slide. The information that’s on the slide would support what we are saying not draw attention away from us therefore making the main focus on the PowerPoint.

When we are presenting if we look back we instantly loose marks and should we repeat this lots of times we will fail. This project is due on Friday and we start presenting on Monday.

October.18.06

Stop Death By Powerpoint

http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=45&hid=6&sid=c003b9f1-d499-40da-9687-b81c0d4eca0c%40SRCSM2

This article talk about how to have a healthier Halloween. Meaning that instead of going trick-or-treating and then coming home and eating everything you got you should have candy but in a more healthy way. This site recommends 4 ways for eating healthier, when you get so much Halloween candy. These 4 ways are:

1) Instead of going around everywhere and getting candy from all over the place, decide which houses you will stop at and only get a few pieces of candy. Then come home and watch a movie with your friends.

2) Have a schedule. For example on the first night you might choose to eat 5 pieces of candy on Halloween and then one piece a day after it's all gone.

3) Separate you candy into three piles, the ones you really like, sort of like and don’t really care. Then give away the piles except for the one you really like.

4) You can make your own healthy recipes with your friend.

5) trick-or-treat for charity this year. When you collect candy, instead of eating it yourself donate it to an organization like The United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF.

This site recommends healthy recipes and gives you the ways to make them. They recommend recipes like Bloody Finger Pizza.

October.18.06

Summary of Stop Death By Powerpoint Article

This article talks about how when you present something using PowerPoint usually the audience doesn’t pay attention because they already recognize the format of PowerPoint. So therefore the key is to make the PowerPoint more appealing to the audience. An example would be, on one slide you would write facts and then on the other one, illustrate a picture of your information. Also if there are presenters switch between the presenters.

This site gives 5 solutions to prevent the audience from wondering off and not paying attention to the presenter. The ways are:

1: Don’t use the method of presenting ordinary data like concluding data because the audience already expects that from you. Instead have different layouts and something unexpected for the audience to look at therefore making them pay attention.

2: If your using a textbook or any kind of resource take the main ideas and summarize them. Then explain it as you go along instead of copying out of the textbook word by word and placing it in your presentation, making your audience bored to death.

3: Keep the presentation short (short and sweet like they say.) Don’t explain every single thing you know about the topic.

4: You should have a cue card or something in you hands that has notes about your presentation to help you out. DONT read the presentation because your audience have eyes and they can do that for themselves so there’s no point in rereading everything to them.

5: Before you start your presentation, make sure to listen to what your audience is talking about. That way you will have an idea of what they want to understand from your presentation. Therefore in question-and-answer sessions you will not get any unexpected questions and put you on the spot.

That was all the site explained and it did have some good points.

october.13.06

*shivers* Today the projects are due!!!! well i have a little tiny problem. I sent the project wrong so today after I come back I have to send the project to Mrs.Griffiths so she knows its not late and then I will giver her a printed copy on monday. Well thats all for today except THANK GOD THIS PROJECT IS FINALLY OVER WITH!!!!

October.10.06

We are still working on our computer consultant project that is due on friday. I STILL HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO!!!! well I have been working a lot on it but I still need to do a lot of work, in order to get a perfect mark or at least a good one. Well i have to get back to work now so when I remember something important well I add to this or another blog.

October.2.06

Today we just got our seconed assignment. Bascally we have to pretned that we are computer consultants and we have to help out three clients. The clients will tell us what they want a computer for and based on that we have to find the most appropirate computer to fit there needs. We should give them three choices which are, low, medium and high end computers. We have to explaine WHY these computers would fit their needs and why which one is the most recommended.

We work on this individualy and it is due in 2 weeks. If you want extra credit u construct your won computer based on the features that tge cliuent wants it to do.

We have only 2 sites which are available for our use. The 2 sites are www.futureshop.ca and www.tigerdirect.ca

On friday september.29.06,
Mr. Case gave us a the website : www.kids-online.net/learn/c_n_l.html.
It is a very usefull tool since it tells you about tall parts of the computer and there are even pictures.

October.1.06

On Wednesday.september.27, we learned about the CD-ROM, Hard Drive, Thermal Compund and other intresting facts.

A Hard Drive is a magnetical media. It's a metallic platter that has millions of magnets in it. You should be very careful beacuse another magnet can actually damage your hard drive. A magnet has North or South, and using that, it could be read as on or off. So, 8 magnets in a hard drive is 1 bit.

The CD-ROM is a device that stores information. The pits is what allows it to store information. The laser inside the CD player bounces off the shiny surface of the CD and in doing so, if there was no pit it would be read as 0. If there was a pit it would be read as 1.

The 3 layers that are in a CD:
- Shiny layer
-Plastic layer
- Metal layer (inside)

In a CD there is about 700mb and 4.7 to 8gb in a DVD. Both the CD's and DVD's are called optical media/optical storage. Scratching a CD is not a very bright idea since it would defuse the light. However, you can fix this by the way Mr.Case suggested. That way is to fill in the scratch, rub wax or toothpaste across it.

Other Information:

- If you pull out the battery in the motherboard and then put it back in, all the setings of the BIOS would reset. The reason for that is the battery that's in the motherboard is what makes the BIOS work.

- If the CPU becomes too hot, it would cause your computer to just shut down. Thermal xompund helps to fix that beacuse it is like glue and it can prevent the CPU from turning too hot. Also a fan would really help.