Welcome to Period 9
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. Watch the slide show on Buying a PC and take notes. Make sure you use the information in this slide show for your PC Buying Assignment!

6. Now you can buy a PC, Software, and Peripherals!

   • See a sample invoice (you should create it using or Publisher Template, or using Excel).

   • The marking criteria for this project.