Troubleshooting

Students have finished up with their network plans.  The plans included a list of materials with specs and pricing that the class put together collaboratively with google sheets.  The plan also had a diagram of their idea, and a floor plan of the plan for a 3 story business to fit their network into.  Finally, students submitted written documentation explaining their network plan.  The next topic we are learning is troubleshooting techniques.  We are using our resources to create a nonlinear PowerPoint that would take users through problems with their computer that they could use to solve their technical issues that may come up.  This project takes a lot of planning, and time, and students really need to pay attention to detail to make sure they cover all of the troubleshooting issues that we outlined in class.

Week 5: Operating systems continued

Students are continuing to get experience using Linux with the Raspbian Operating System.  We are working with the terminal and using command line commands for a variety of administrative tasks with the operating system.  Once students demonstrate the command line skills to me, we will move on and do our operating systems assessment.  Students will write a full review that fully compares 2 operating systems of their choice.  They have had the most experience in this class with Windows 10 and Raspbian Linux, but they are free to use others (Android, iOS, PiTop OS, etc.).  Mid-term grades get posted this week, so if any students are missing work, they should be taking advantage of time before or after school to get caught up.  Just as in the work-place if you don't get everything done, sometimes you need to put in the extra hours!

Week 4: Operating Systems (Linux)

Students have finished up demonstrating skills of using Windows 10 operating system.  We have talked about pros and cons of proprietary software as well.  We finished up class last week by putting together small Raspberry Pi computers that we will be using to practice installing and experimenting with the Linux operating system.  We will learn about open source software, the history of Linux, and will be evaluating several builds on our machines.