February 5 - Meet Dr. Pritchard - The Master Plan...

• Read a catalog... What?
• Learning on the fly - Learning by doing - Learning by reading! A Catalogue that is, Dream on and buy one...
  • Reading magazines
  • Reading catalogues - You would be surprised
  • Dell.com, Gateway, Apple, learn by buying...
• The innards of an old PC
  • Start talking the talk, get ready for Tom's
• Night at the movies, bring the popcorn...
• Buy it at Essential Computer
• Build it at PCMech

February 23 Saturday - Let's Pick Some Blueberries, An iMac that is...Welcome to the Blueberry Lab

(6 Hours) -Wireless networks? Fiberoptic? Switches, Servers and Speed- Check out the White Board - Lab Management Models... Curriculum Integration...

Directions to Magnolia

March 5 -The Nuts, Bolts and Volts of a Computer -The Home Stretch - Tom Cecil's Lab

March 12 - No Class - Replaced with Saturday, February 23

March 19 No Class - Replaced with Saturday, February 23

March 26- CSUS Spring Break

April 2 - Getting Connected - Meet Mike Menchaka (Guest Lecturer) - It's all a numbers game...

April 9 -The Best of the Web... and Awesome Apps Online... Let the web do the work...Bring your favorite webpages...

April 16 -Flash Gordon Look Out!

Learn the basics of Flash! Turn web pages into exciting places, lure the masses... Take advantage of this opportunity to see the future of motion online...

April 30 -Why Bother With Webpages...The Basics of Dreamweaver

OR

If I Knew Where I Lost It, I Would Find It... Problem Solving

Filesharing is Fun, Fantastic and Free!

Student Examples that work... Student server access and templates...

May 7- Open Your Eyes With Dave Blair and Jeff Peach - Wireless Walking Labs...

Firewire, why you want to ignite your computer...

January 29 - Introduction... What is EDTE 285? Who is Jeff Peach?

• Welcome
• The Schedule and why attendance is important
• The Fun and Useful Assignments-Design your own?
• What would you like to learn? Brainstorm, send an email...
• Subscribe to a magazine? Read a catalogue...
• The Vocabulary - Those wonderful acronyms...
  • The AMO once shut down our whole LAN - Problem with ASIP and aliases

Objective: Introduce the class, assignments, introduce problem solving, vocabulary.

February 5 -Meet Dr. Pritchard - The Master Plan...

• Read a catalog... What?
• Learning on the fly - Learning by doing - Learning by reading! A Catalogue that is, Dream on and buy one...
  • Reading magazines
  • Reading catalogues - You would be surprised
  • Dell.com, Gateway, Apple, learn by buying...
• The innards of an old PC
  • Start talking the talk, get ready for Tom's
• Night at the movies, bring the popcorn...
• Buy it at Essential Computer
• Build it at PCMech

Objective: Get the semester organized, learn from reading catalogs, introduction to building a pc.

February 12- Controlling the Board of Education

• Tom Cecil's Lab
• Processors and Programming - The BOE BOT - Programming made simple. Hands on programming free of operating systems. A simple activity that sets the stage for a better understanding of the processor. It is really quite simple and gives a good look at how computers work at the most basic level.
• Visit by the Parallax .
• Vocabulary
• Check out Dancing Toasters

Objective: Learn how computers work at the most basic level. Investigate possible student use of the BOE BOT. Have fun with your hands.

February 19- Nuts, Bolts and Volts of the Computer (Directions)

• Take a PC apart - Identify the components
• Learn some more 3 letter acronyms

Objective: Be able to identify the basic components of a computer

Welcome to the Blueberry Lab

• Class will be held at Magnolia School in Grass Valley
• Directions (Just the other side of Auburn)
• (6 Hour Class)
• Tour the Magnolia Network, look at switches, wireless connections, hubs, servers, switch boxes, CAT 5...
• Lab Management that works...
• Take a Bite Out of a Macintosh

  Objective: Learn about Lab Management - Scheduling that works, powerful management software, connect PCs on a Mac network...

February 26 Nuts, Bolts and Volts of the Computer - The Sequel- Tom Cecil's Lab (Directions)

• Take a PC apart - Identify the components (Drill and Practice)
• Put it back together
• Learn some more 3 letter acronyms

Objective: Review the basic components of a computer - Install some operating software. Network.

March 5- Nuts, Bolts and Volts of the Computer - The Finale- Tom Cecil's Lab (Directions)

• Windows
• Nics- Category 5 - Hubs - Switches - IceCubes- Crossover
  • What is this stuff?
• Nine year old network parties, yes we are the immigrants!

Objective: Review the basic components of a computer - Install some operating software. Network.

March 12- No Class - replaced with Saturday, February 23

March 26- CSUS Spring Break

April 2 - Getting Connected - TCP/IP is Free! Guest Lecturer Mike Menchaka

• All about networks and their relationship with the Internet
• What is TCP/IP, DNS, Gateways, Domain Names...
• What are all these numbers?
• More on ethernet, nics, hubs, switches, routers?

Objective: Entry level understanding off how the Internet works, how computers connect together in that environment. Learn a few more 3 letter acronyms.

April 9 - -Awesome Apps online - The Best of the Web

• Adobe, CoolText, webGFX, FunBrain, Quia, just to name a few- Free Software?
• Online Applications
• The Best of the Web or Why you need Quicktime, Flash and Shockwave...
• Bring your best websites, extra credit for interactive sites...

Objective: The student will learn how to use online applications and experience some of the best of the web.

April 16-Flash Gordon Look Out!

Learn the basics of Flash! Turn web pages into exciting places, lure the masses... Take advantage of this opportunity to see the future of motion online...

Objective: Expose the student to a very cool piece of software that will turn your head...

April 23-5 Features of Photoshop you can use everyday...Media on the Web

• The Basics of Photoshop...
• Images, sound files, movies... Where is this stuff?
• Quicktime Pro and Sound Companion
• Get Smart with Smartsound...
• How do I locate those great images, sounds and movies?
• How do I fix them?
• Where do I put them?

Objective: The student will be exposed to some of the latest technologies

April 30-Why Bother With Webpages...The Basics of Dreamweaver

Objective: Learn the basics of Dreamweaver, Webpages and FTP

Or...

If I Knew Where I Lost It, I Would Find It - Problem Solving

and

Filesharing Can Be Fun! It's free too...

• Problem Solving Tips, tricks and troubles
• Bulletin Boards and Support Lists
• Is it hardware or software related?
• Filesharing Can Be Fun
  • Filesharing on a PC - set up a small network
  • The power of server access
  • Experience why your students need to have access to a server
• Student examples of work created from templates... Now you know why you need a server...

Objective: Expose the student to the many sides of problem solving both software and hardware. Experience File Sharing and the results of a well managed network...

May 7- Open Your Eyes With Dave Blair and Jeff Peach -

• Wireless Walking Labs...
• Tour the innards of Dave's site...
• Firewire, why you want to ignite your computer...
• Studio Software- Turn your PC into an iMac...

Objective: The student will be exposed to some of the latest technologies

May 14 Finals Week- Work on your Master's...