Sept 27/13

Today in class I felt completely lost. We worked on Microsoft Access which in my mind was like a super hard advanced version of Excel. I looked up guides for myself but none of them really seamed to help me understand it much better. Hopefully with time i can get better at it.

September 19th/13

Today in Class we took a break from our A+ and IC3 Studies to perfect our Cover Letters, Resumes and Initial Contact techniques with future employers and practicum employers. I found this relatively easy considering I already have a job and I have been working with resumes sense I was 10, when I was acting. Still it was a nice experience to say the least. I learned a lot about how to approach a conversation to a future employer.

November 21/13 Practicum #1 day #1

          Today was my first day at my practicum at Bargain Bytes. My inital thoughts when i went in there were me mostly being nervous about first impressions which i think i made a good first impression. For the first part of the day I mostly was doing fresh installation of Windows 7, and I was also being shown how to install certain drivers for the computer with discs, which in class we installed drivers online or from USB so it was a nice change.

          Another thing i did today was i learned about how to maneuver around a very small case with a mini-atx power supply on a very small case. Afterwards i got to work on a very similar case, (except this one was very dirty from cigarette smoke) and recover RAM from a garbage computer. Everything was so tight together that I had to remove the front part of the case of the computer and move the disk drive just to get to the RAM. After that I did a bunch of virus scanning along with CCleaner.

         All in all It was very fun just looking around a seeing all the computers and parts all around. Today was a great learning experience for me. I am excited for tomorrow to experience more.

20 Nov /13

Today was our last regular class until practicum which is scary thought for me. I am excited and nervous at the same time cause i want to give a good impression. I am hoping that my practice with the class will help.

In class we did a bunch of review and made flash cards and quizzed each other for a little bit. Afterwards people set up to play Halo combat evolved on the computers while others caught up on their assignments and blogs. I caught up on my blogs that i was missing.

October 11th/13

Today in class we focused on IC3 Material. We finished our 1st part of the IC3 course with a practice exam which i tied with Tyler in getting a mark of 711/1000 which was a pass. I learned that i was very weak at the troubleshooting process but for the most part strong with the rest of it. 

For the rest of the day we spent our time working on Resumes, coverletters and phone interview skills, which i feel comfortable with all of the skills i have attained there. I think i can handle talking to an employer to get an interview.

HERE are some tips to talk to an employer on the phone

Oct 16/13

Today in class we focused a lot on IC3 and specific Microsoft Word. Most of the lessons that we did with word today i knew a lot about. We did a lot of assignments which involved making changes to the format of the document. for example we did an assignment with columns.

Also we finished partitioning and Multi-Booting which Mike and I did focused a lot of our time on Alfred.

For help with Multibooting check out this link --->HERE

Oct 17/13

Today in class we continued our IC3 studies which we focused on excel more than anything. We were tasked with several assignments to test our skills with the program, just like with what we did yesterday with Microsoft word.

For some commonly used excel commands and how to use them click HERE to see it. I found this helpful when I am unsure or cant remember how to use certain forumlas.

November 1/13

Today in class we did our FINAL IC3 LESSON!!! I got 100% on the practice quiz which made me feel very comfortable about the upcoming exams.

This lesson was all about finding info on the internet. We did many different advanced options for browsing the internet (eg Site:) afterwards we did a debate on Laptops which personally i believe that larger the laptop is better vs being docked on certain location. but my group lost the debate.

if you want to find some cool laptops you can follow this link HERE

November 8/13

Today in class we did planning for our panel exam for our IDS project. We started making a powerpoint presentation for the exam. i put all the information that i could with all the info i have at them time. Personally i feel really comfortable with the planning of the project interview. 

Afterwards we stood in font of the class and asked and answered questions that might be on the panel exam. I feel very comfortable in front of people so doing this was very easy for me and I answered the questions very well. 

I personally do not need this but if anyone needs help with performance issues, i found THIS for you

November 15/13

Today in class we did our 1st part of the 3 exams on IC3, i got a pass with over 10%. Afterwards we worked on our study notes and which i made my template for all my notes to go into. We also did practice exams on A+ on the Compact computers.

November 19/13

Today in class i was very sick so i left soon after I did the final part of the exam. On the Living online exam i got a score of 733/1000 which was a pass by over 100 marks which i am happy about. After the exam me and corey got a motherboard and a CPU cooling unit thing that holds it in place (dont know what its called) and mounted them together. Afterwards i went home

November 18/13

Today in class we did our exam on the second part of IC3 which was the software programs like Microsoft office and Access. In this exam i tied with Bryce and Quinn getting the second best mark in the class with over 80%. Afterwards we did more networking which i finaly found the right driver at the end of the class.

Registry

November 14th 2013

Today in class we reviewed for our exam tomorrow, We did all the IC3 quizzes for computer fundamentals which for the most part i got very good in, afterwards  we did a A+ practice exam which had a lot of grammatical errors, enough to think whoever wrote this had English as a second language.

TV Tuner Laptop/PC

Nov 13/13

Today was a review day where we planned out our study book for the future exams, We also did miscolanious things to computers like for me i disabled removed and installed a driver, I changed the setting to the D-LINK router in the class, and i also made a group with a new user on my laptop.

We also watched the presentations of the rest of the people in the classroom

Nov 12/13

Today in class we did our Presentations on our projects about a certain type of hardware, i choose Mobo's and i got a B. i wish i new more information during the questions because I got stumped a lot.

Video Card Gift Card Sept 30

Meme Projector

Nic Speed

Understanding the web

http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html

life's medicine oct 16/13

Nov 6/13

A company has three discrete servers: a file server running Linux, a contact and email server runnin windows server, and DNS and DHCP server running an earlier version of Windows Server. Make a case for or against going virtual with this setup. Make a case for or against going virtual with this setup

November 7/13

Yesterday in class we made a video for the IT course explaining one part of the course for each of us. I did Sound editing and recording and video editing software. We were working as a group for filming then we did induvidual work for editing

Local Security Policy

5 changes I might consider making to my computer

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