Saturday, September 30, 2006
Friday, September 29, 2006
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Fifth Period Answer these questions on your blog
Leave a comment when you are finished.
1. What is a packet?
2. What is a configuration table?
3. What are the two jobs of a router?
4. Under “Transmitting Packets” what different routes (e.g. copper wiring) may information take?
5. The largest routers used to handle data at the major traffic points on the Internet are most like _________ rather than office routers.
6. Routing Packets: What is a subnet mask?
7. What is a logical address?
8. What is a MAC Address?
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/router.htm
1. What is a packet?
2. What is a configuration table?
3. What are the two jobs of a router?
4. Under “Transmitting Packets” what different routes (e.g. copper wiring) may information take?
5. The largest routers used to handle data at the major traffic points on the Internet are most like _________ rather than office routers.
6. Routing Packets: What is a subnet mask?
7. What is a logical address?
8. What is a MAC Address?
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/router.htm
Write the answers on your blog...
Who was Leibniz?
What is the advantage of the binary system?
Describe how boolean algebra works.
Why don't we have analog computers?
What is the advantage of the binary system?
Describe how boolean algebra works.
Why don't we have analog computers?
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Comment here - Second Period
Leave your comment here after you finish the post about why computers use binary numbers.
Second Period
Here's a good place to start:
http://chortle.ccsu.edu/CS151/Notes/chap02/..%5Cchap02%5Cch02_3.html
Second Period
Here's a good place to start:
http://chortle.ccsu.edu/CS151/Notes/chap02/..%5Cchap02%5Cch02_3.html
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Monday, September 25, 2006
What is a router?
1. What is a packet?
2. What is a configuration table?
3. What are the two jobs of a router?
4. Under “Transmitting Packets” what different routes (e.g. copper wiring) may information take?
5. The largest routers used to handle data at the major traffic points on the Internet are most like _________ rather than office routers.
6. Routing Packets: What is a subnet mask?
7. What is a logical address?
8. What is a MAC Address?
2. What is a configuration table?
3. What are the two jobs of a router?
4. Under “Transmitting Packets” what different routes (e.g. copper wiring) may information take?
5. The largest routers used to handle data at the major traffic points on the Internet are most like _________ rather than office routers.
6. Routing Packets: What is a subnet mask?
7. What is a logical address?
8. What is a MAC Address?
Three questions about technology and school
Survey Questions (Leave your comment for a grade):
How do you most use computers in Killian outside this class?
How would you use computers here at Killian if you were in charge?
Do you honestly think computers and technology is a good investment for schools?
How do you most use computers in Killian outside this class?
How would you use computers here at Killian if you were in charge?
Do you honestly think computers and technology is a good investment for schools?
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Current Events
Read the following articles. Answer the following questions on your blog. Label each answer 1, 2, 3, etc. Copy and paste these questions.
1. Article 1. What is the flaw with IE? How can this flaw be fixed?
2. Article 2. Think of three slogans you could use to sell as many units as possible!
3. Article 3. Name three possible customers.
4. Article 4. Will China have a "better" Internet than America? What can we do?
5. Article 5. What is net neutrality? Who is in favor of it, according to this article? Who is against it?
Find two other articles and label them 6. and 7. Give the URL of the article and summarize the article.
When finished put your comment here (second period).
1. Article 1. What is the flaw with IE? How can this flaw be fixed?
2. Article 2. Think of three slogans you could use to sell as many units as possible!
3. Article 3. Name three possible customers.
4. Article 4. Will China have a "better" Internet than America? What can we do?
5. Article 5. What is net neutrality? Who is in favor of it, according to this article? Who is against it?
Find two other articles and label them 6. and 7. Give the URL of the article and summarize the article.
When finished put your comment here (second period).
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Friday, September 15, 2006
Computer images on your blog to remove an F in the gradebook
A. bar-code scanner
B. digitizer scanner
C. graphics tablet
D. joystick
E. keyboard
F. magnetic ink character recognition
G. magnetic scanner
H. mouse/trackball
I. optical character reader
J. optical mark reader
K. speech recognition device
L. touch display screen
M. band/chain printer
N. cache memory
O. dot-matrix printer
P. ink-jet printer
Q. laser printer
R. liquid crystal display
S. monitor
T. sound synthesizer
U. plotter
V. thermal printer
W. CD-ROM
X. magnetic disk
Y. magnetic tape
Z. WORM
B. digitizer scanner
C. graphics tablet
D. joystick
E. keyboard
F. magnetic ink character recognition
G. magnetic scanner
H. mouse/trackball
I. optical character reader
J. optical mark reader
K. speech recognition device
L. touch display screen
M. band/chain printer
N. cache memory
O. dot-matrix printer
P. ink-jet printer
Q. laser printer
R. liquid crystal display
S. monitor
T. sound synthesizer
U. plotter
V. thermal printer
W. CD-ROM
X. magnetic disk
Y. magnetic tape
Z. WORM
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Only five people emailed me the powerpoint presentations?!
Some of you need to get on GMAIL immediately!
Computer news
Answer these questions on your blog:
Why are Stocks going up?
What is flash RAM being replaced by?
Second period leave a comment here.
Why are Stocks going up?
What is flash RAM being replaced by?
Second period leave a comment here.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Monday, September 11, 2006
Check out this cool game.
This game is helping searche engines like Google identify pictures!
Try to guess as many words as you can about an image...if the partner guesses the same as you- you win!
Try to guess as many words as you can about an image...if the partner guesses the same as you- you win!
Friday, September 08, 2006
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
The Google Centered World?
It seems this is a good time to explicitly lay out my theory for this course and tie it in with what we've done so far.
This week we have been practicing with Microsoft's famous (or infamous) Office suite. We've designed simple spreadsheets to manipulate stock market data with Excel. We've designed databases with Access to keep track of students and their records. We used Publisher and Word to write pamphlets to explain the stock market to the uninformed (what a task!).
But there was a problem. We had to think of ways to publish the information. The information wasn't easily shared with others, without email! Historically Microsoft was surprised by the speed at which the Internet changed the PC and society. Today it seems Google is at the forefront in allowing people to quickly share their ideas quickly. For instance, Google bought Blogger, the site I'm now using, and runs it ad-free. So why did they purchase it? How does it benefit them if it costs nothing to sign up and no ads run on the blogs at first?
This course will not be an advertisement for Google's services (except for this one time: they are awesome). But it won't be an advertisement for Micrsoft either. I taught for a couple of years at a local college and I was dismayed at the way the courses were structured and especially displeased with the boring, Microsoft-centered textbooks. Professors were pretty much limited to Microsoft software. There was never any discussion of open source software. The courses seemed outdated and professors and students were not encouraged to venture far from the safety of Microsoft's shadow.
This course isn't about a software company in California or a software company in Washington. This course is about solving problems. Let's say you own a business, how can you use a spreadsheet to analyze decisions? How can you ensure that the data in a database isn't corrupted? How can a wiki benefit an organization?
This course isn't just about using computers for commerce either. There are social implications as well. Are people overwhelmed by a certain level of data? How will instant communication change relationships?
With all this said, I'm happy with the way the year started out. Keep in mind the pseudocode from the beginning of the year. Computers use algorithms to solve problems. Remember the way computers must be told every step. Loops and if statements are just ways of solving problems.
I'm happy with the interest in the stock market game. I'm planning on using the data in a few months for a project. I'm wondering if students who traded more do better than people who just leave the stocks (perhaps they just forgot their password?). Maybe we can draw a connection with the data. Maybe not. We'll see.
I sent out gmail invitations today but I got a lot of emails bounced back. Everyone will need a gmail account by next Monday. It's for a grade: A, you have an account- F if you don't. The if statement is simple. So is getting the account.
With all that said, today we'll be learning the basics of HTML in order to make "About Me" web pages...
This week we have been practicing with Microsoft's famous (or infamous) Office suite. We've designed simple spreadsheets to manipulate stock market data with Excel. We've designed databases with Access to keep track of students and their records. We used Publisher and Word to write pamphlets to explain the stock market to the uninformed (what a task!).
But there was a problem. We had to think of ways to publish the information. The information wasn't easily shared with others, without email! Historically Microsoft was surprised by the speed at which the Internet changed the PC and society. Today it seems Google is at the forefront in allowing people to quickly share their ideas quickly. For instance, Google bought Blogger, the site I'm now using, and runs it ad-free. So why did they purchase it? How does it benefit them if it costs nothing to sign up and no ads run on the blogs at first?
This course will not be an advertisement for Google's services (except for this one time: they are awesome). But it won't be an advertisement for Micrsoft either. I taught for a couple of years at a local college and I was dismayed at the way the courses were structured and especially displeased with the boring, Microsoft-centered textbooks. Professors were pretty much limited to Microsoft software. There was never any discussion of open source software. The courses seemed outdated and professors and students were not encouraged to venture far from the safety of Microsoft's shadow.
This course isn't about a software company in California or a software company in Washington. This course is about solving problems. Let's say you own a business, how can you use a spreadsheet to analyze decisions? How can you ensure that the data in a database isn't corrupted? How can a wiki benefit an organization?
This course isn't just about using computers for commerce either. There are social implications as well. Are people overwhelmed by a certain level of data? How will instant communication change relationships?
With all this said, I'm happy with the way the year started out. Keep in mind the pseudocode from the beginning of the year. Computers use algorithms to solve problems. Remember the way computers must be told every step. Loops and if statements are just ways of solving problems.
I'm happy with the interest in the stock market game. I'm planning on using the data in a few months for a project. I'm wondering if students who traded more do better than people who just leave the stocks (perhaps they just forgot their password?). Maybe we can draw a connection with the data. Maybe not. We'll see.
I sent out gmail invitations today but I got a lot of emails bounced back. Everyone will need a gmail account by next Monday. It's for a grade: A, you have an account- F if you don't. The if statement is simple. So is getting the account.
With all that said, today we'll be learning the basics of HTML in order to make "About Me" web pages...
What is your stock market game name?
2nd period: Leave a comment here with your name in the stock market game.
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