June 3rd: End Game part two

Greetings, everyone!

Today we are in A323, for several good reasons, all of them having to do with the fact that we need an Internet connection today:

A) You will have your last quiz sometime before the end of this week. It will be on hard drives, and the practice quiz for it will be found here:
http://www.geocities.com/unclepaulie2009/CET.html

B) At some point next week, you will be taking the "e pluribus unum" part of your final. Remember, it is a combination of all the quizzes put together, so those practice quizzes should come in handy. Please make use of them!

C) On the first day of this process, you were asked to begin creating some "demonstration files" using any four of the many different applications we have explored this year. What you need to do now is to make a group discussion posting stating your progress, how many files you have created, how they were created, which programs you used, what you were trying to accomplish with them, what you want them to be able to do. Also, all ideas for the remaining items you are going to create should be listed here.

D) Another part of this process involves uploading at least three of the files you will have created to a "file sharing" website where you have an account. You should have already set up such an account, using the instructions found here All you need to do now is to upload some "practice files" to this account, and then send me by email a link to where you have stored these practice files

E) Finally, you need to pick a topic for some basic research, something that has to do with the development of computers. It could be a person who had a profound impact on computer development, it could be a "killer app", a program which totally changed how we use computers, it could be about the invention of some component or piece of hardware, or it could be some important event or milestone that has taken place during the (ongoing) history of computers. Please email me the following (remember to put your name and "my topic" in the subject line :

• a topic
• why you chose this one
• five things you'd like to be able to discuss or discover about it
• at least three websites that have something to say about it

OK, that should be enough to get you started!

Cheers,

Mr. L