IT Fundamentals 2020 2021 Term 1: Hardware & Operating Systems

Our third week of school is already here!  IT Fundamental students are finishing their assessment over current and emerging technologies by designing a PC build that fits a specific purpose of their choosing.  Some students are designing budget builds for the first-year college student.  Some students are designing a build for basic productivity and web surfing.  Other students are designing machines suited for high-end video/graphic editing and gaming.  Once they are finished, we will put our findings into a presentation.

Next week, we will begin learning about Operating Systems.  Students should leave with an understanding of what operating systems are, how they are installed, what applications come with different OS's, and should be able to evaluate pros and cons for various systems.

Our class bulletin board is updated each day and contains information for what we are working on.  It can be found at https://tinyurl.com/itfund.

If a student is in a quarantine situation, or if we should find ourselves in remote learning as a school, I will email a link to all students to our Google classroom.  The Google classroom work covers the same content, but in a manner which allows us to have similar experiences, but can be done with limited technology access.  Again, we will only use the Google classroom activities if we are not able to do work in the classroom.  Email me at any time if you have any questions.

I have really enjoyed working with this class, and am proud of how they have been coming to class with positive attitudes and are willing to work hard and learn new things.