Computer Literacy – Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
Students should become familiar with Web 2.0 technologies; furthermore, and perhaps most importantly, students should understand the technical vocabulary associated with the reading in this content area; hence, though students enjoyed browsing the videos and then adding them to their blogs, they also had to complete a vocabulary self-collection strategy assignment for which the students had to select a significant YouTube vocabulary word, define it without a dictionary and then state why they chose the word for the class to learn; indeed, the students appreciated this lexical empowerment.
Computer Literacy: A Window into the Hard Drive
This video shows the inside of a hard drive during various operations, such as copying and deleting files, defragmentation, and formatting the drive. This video is licensed under the creative commons BY-NC-SA license. Please feel free to use this video in your classroom. Sintel (c) copyright Blender Foundation | www.sintel.org Cygwin Bash, www.cygwin.com Auslogics Disk Defrag, www.auslogics.com DJDates.com 2011
Computer Skills & Shortcuts : How to Define a Default Value for a Microsoft Access Field
Defining default values for a Microsoft Access field involves opening a database and selecting the My Data field when in the Design view. Set default values in Microsoft Access with an IT specialist in this free video on computer software. Expert: Dave Andrews Contact: www.daveandrews.org Bio: Dave Andrews is a software developer that holds a degree in computer science. Currently, he is employed by a government IT department. Filmmaker: Tim Brown