What kind of Computer should I buy?

What Kind of Computer should I Buy?

The most common question I get is what kind of computer should I buy? What most people don’t realize is that this is a very loaded question. There are so many variables that come into play. And your assignment is to become competent in answering this question with facts and information. It is an ever changing world, and I want you to become a person who will at least know where to go get the information to make logical and wise decisions in the computer world.

Your assigment is to create a Powerpoint presentation on how to decide on what kind of computer to buy. You will need to know what questions to ask to help the people get the computer they need and want. This is going to be a fairly indepth assignment, so it will take a lot of effort on your part. You might check the internet for Computer Buying guides there are even some videos on the subject. The objective will be for you to produce a simple yet detailed powerpoint on how to choose the right computer.

Some resources are:

http://www.viewz.com/shoppingguide/compbuy.shtml

http://www.css.msu.edu/PC-Guide/

https://helpdesk.its.uiowa.edu/demo/buyingguide/

http://www.laptopadvisor.com/

There are thousands out there. So please use many different resources to create your PowerPoint. Make sure you keep track of where you got your resources you will be adding a bibliograpy slide at the end of your presentation.

MR. G

Hola Peoples!

What a great Wednesday! Today we are going to be begin our adventure into helping our parents/guardians in the computer world. First you must create a word document called Parents Guide to Computers. Next you will begin researching on the internet how to do what ever it is they requested help with. You should try many different search engines. Not just google. There are www.yahoo.com, altavista.com, ask.com, just to name a few. Once you have found out how to do what ever it is they requested how to do. Then you can begin writing your tutorial for them. Keep in mind this will be a video tutorial, so you will need to write out a script for it, please write excactly what you are going to be saying while you show them how. When your script is written out and I have approved it. You will then be ready to record your tutorial. We will be recording it one person at a time during the next few class periods.

When you are done please go to www.slashdot.org and pick any three articles and write a 200 word+ response to each of them. Print them and turn them in this will be due at the end of our next class period. Label it Slashdot response #1

-Mr. G

We will hold off for a few days on Helping your Parents.

Greetings Class,
We are going to learn specifically what does what inside a computer. You are going to copy the document from the link below to your My Documents folder. Please do not open it from the server, instead copy and paste it before opening it.
Copy and paste this link in "Run" and go to the document in that folder.

\\jr-wxp-svr\Public\Help-For-Students\9th Grade Computer Class\Learning What a Computer Does

I would advise to open a new document and copy the questions, and write your own answers. This is instead of writing it in the Oringal document itself.
Please save the new document as: Yourname-learning what a computer does.doc

This will should take you the whole class period, if you finish early please begin researching how to help your parents with what they want to learn regarding computers. Now that you are better googler's I trust you should be able to find at least relevent info regarding whatever topic your parents quesitoned you on.

We will be working on that after we finish this worksheet.
Have a great day!
-Mr. G

Students Helping their Parents...

Dear Class,
Your homework this weekend is going to be fairly simple. You are going to ask your parents what they would like to learn, "how to do better with" or "on their computer." You will then bring that info back to class and begin to research and create a short video on how to do, what ever it is they would like to learn about... better.

-Mr. G