Welcome to Period 8
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. Continue your work on the "Parts is Parts" assignment.

• The marking criteria is HERE

• You have ONE period left (yes just 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.

• After today there is no more class time to work on Parts is Parts, it is due at the BEGINNING of Period 11!