Month: September 2009

  • There is on ongoing discussion at my high school about what we should and should not be teaching in our Business Applications classes.  The same curriculum has been in place for several years (at least six) and consists of typing, Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and very basic computer history, Internet search, hardware and Operating Systems…

  • One might look at my last two posts and ask, “What’s that stuff doing there?”  Well, I have decided to start posting my class objectives for the week on my blog as a way to capture them in time.  You see I post my objectives in Moodle at the top of my courses every day:…

  • Computer Systems Objective: Students will be introduced to microprocessors. What is a microprocessor Basic history of the microprocessor Intel vs. AMD Clock speed and bus speed Sockets and Pins Pairing a processor with a motherboard Computer Programming Objective: Students will learn about story-boarding and program design. Scenarios and story-boarding Visual story-boarding Textual story-boarding Story-board to…

  • Computer Systems Objective: Students will be introduction to motherboards. What is a motherboard How does it work The components of the motherboard Computer Programming Objective: Students will learn about Alice controls for objects and cameras. Setting the stage Posing Objects Camera Controls Modifying Object Properties

  • The heroes in the matrix all have cool names; the names they have chosen for themselves.  Tom Anderson is Neo, and you have  Morphius and Trinity too whose given names we never know.  Online I am anotherschwab, the name I chose for my first web based email account because I got tired of searching for…