Welcome to Period 6
of IT 9 /10

It is expected that students will :

• Practice proper ergonomic and desktop fitness skills.

• Become familliar with computer terminolgy

  • Motherboard, CPU, RAM
  • Hard Drive
  • Video Card, sound card
  • data bus
  • modem, floppy drive, mouse
  • CD ROM Drive, DVD Drive
  • speakers, joy stick, microphone

1. Dilbert "Strip of the Day"

2. Keyboarding Stretch of the Day - and you can't do it without this one

3. Watch Out ! Today I will be doing "Spot Tests" on your keyboarding and desktop fitness skills!! This means that you should be sitting with the proper poster, and should do some "Desktop Fitness" during the period (make sure that I witness your exercises - or you won't get marks for it).

4. Keyboarding - 15 minutes in All The Right Type - Then we will do ONE timed lesson, record your progress.

5. Discussion and 'Hands on' Introduction to computer components. Of course there will be a quiz on these components!

6. Continue your work on the "Parts is Parts" assignment.

   • The marking criteria is HERE

   • You have TWO periods left (yes including this one) to do this assignment, that means that you will have to do some for homework, get your research done in class, and draw your diagrams at home.

   • Don't waste time - you will have to work hard to finish on the day it is due, if you have questions please ask!