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http://dawnstech.wetpaint.com/

Computer Diagnostics and Maintenance

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The following are also topics we will be covering. These are especially important if you have a computer at home or plan on ever having one of your own. Let me know if there is anything I missed that you would like to cover...

  • Computer Components - Know your computer inside and out (drives, ports, external devices, memory, motherboard, hard drive, video card, sound card...)
  • Computer Maintenance - Clean up your hard drive, running defrag, and keeping all of your programs up to date
  • Computer Upgrades - How to increase memory and storage
  • Computer Viruses - Avoiding, protecting, and ridding your system of them
  • Windows Tools - Behind the scenes tools that can help you fix and customize Windows

Advanced Computer and Web Applications

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The following topics are possibilities for our Lindsay technology class. Please review them and post a comment indicating which are most interesting to you.
  • Google Docs, Sites (Communication, Collaboration)
  • Blogging (Communication, Collaboration, Creativity)
  • Podcasting (Communication, Collaboration, Creativity)
  • Wikis (Communication, Collaboration)
  • Publishing - Publisher, Word (Communication, Creativity)
  • Photo uploading & sharing ((Visual) Communication, Collaboration, Creativity)
  • Video uploading & sharing ((Visual) Communication, Collaboration)
  • Audio Editing- Audacity, itunes (Communication, Creativity)
  • Image Editing - Photoshop, Picasa, Fireworks (Communication, Creativity)
  • Movie making/Digital Story Telling - Movie Maker, PhotoStory, iMovie (Communication, Creativity, Critical Thinking)
  • Concept-Mapping - Inspiration, CMap, FreeMind (Critical Thinking)
  • Presentation tools - Powerpoint, Google Presentations, Slide Share (Communication, Collaboration)
  • Web Design, including HTML (Collaboration, Creativity)
  • 3-D Modeling - Google SketchUp (along with Google Earth) (Creativity, Critical Thinking)
  • Game Creation - Game Maker, Scratch, Squeak (Creativity, Critical Thinking)
  • Animation - Flash and various on-line applications (Creativity)
  • Spreadsheets - Google Spreadsheets, Excel (Critical Thinking)
  • Databases & Information Organization - FileMaker, Access (Critical Thinking)
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