MS Office – 2/28/2006

MS Office was devoted to Excel Chapter 4, in which we covered a variety of Excel topics that dealt with worksheet enhancement, such as margins, borders, creating filters, etc.  This is the end of the Excel unit, and next week we will be having an exam over Excel Chapters 1-4.  I passed out a study sheet for the test, please let me know (bbedo@draughons.edu) if you need one.

Homework:

• Completion Questions 1-16
• Skill Assessments 1, 3, 4, 5

CompTIA Network+ Training – 2/28/2006

Net+ was divided into two sections today… the first section involved us taking exam #2 (chapters 7-14).  The second section involved us talking about chapter 15 – which was more stuff about TCP/IP.  

Homework:

• Questions 1-10.

CompTIA A+ OS/Hardware – 2/27/2006

Tonight we crammed crammed crammed!  Test on Tuesday!

Homework:

• Study!

MS Word – 2/27/2006

Welcome back!  After a brief reintroduction, we recovered Chapter 1 – which dealt with mail merge and sorting mechanisms inside Word.  Hopefully, after today, you will have figured out some ways to really save yourself some time next in Word.  Next week, we’ll talk about some custom formatting features.  At the risk of sounding like a total dork, I think you’ll really like them.

Homework:

• Completion 1-16 (pg 43)
• Skill Assessments 1, 4, 8.

Small Business Management – 2/23/2006

Today we had a free day as I let you continue work on your business plans.  I will do my absolute best to have a sample for you next week.

MS Access – 2/22/2006

Today we covered the Forms chapter of our book – Chapter 5!  Remember that a form is simply a user-friendly interface to a table or to a query, both of which we already know how to make.

Homework:

• Chapter 5 – Completion
• Chapter 5 – Skill Assessment #4

CompTIA A+ OS/Hardware – 2/21/2006

Your instructor is a wuss.

Remember the blood-drive-extra-credit thing?  Yeah, well, I gave my pint today.

Now, I can’t stand up without seeing stars.  That being said, I’m going to go against my better judgment and cancel class.  I know some of you are probably quite happy about that, but I am extremely sorry! Anyway, in order for us to remain on task, I need you guys to read and answer the questions at the end of chapters 21 and 22, which are on portable computers and printers.  Pay extra attention to the care instructions of a laptop, and the various parts of a laser printer and how to diagnose problems with them.  

Again, sorry for not being able to make it in tonight – I still plan on going over the material that will be on the test before giving it.  We will review Monday night, and then have the test on Tuesday.  How’s that work?

Thanks guys, and see you next week!

Homework:

• Chapter 21 – Questions 1-10
• Chapter 22 – Questions 1-10

MS Office – 2/21/2006

Today we (sorta) covered Chapter 3 in the Excel section.  The sorta comes from the fact that I was out on the bloodmobile donating some of my precious blood to the cause.  Anyway, thanks for being patient with me and thanks to everyone that donated today – it really does make a difference (up to 3 lives saved from one donation!  And a free t-shirt!).

Homework:

• Completion
• Skill Assessments 4 and 6.

CompTIA Network+ Training – 2/21/2006

Today’s class covered Chapter 14, which dealt with implementing TCP/IP in large networking situations.  The two main topics we dealt with were DNS and DHCP.  DNS is what gives us “English” names to go along with IP addresses (Draughons Junior College vs. 2421 Fitzgerald-Industrial Drive).  DHCP is what allows a client computer to auto-configure and get its own IP address, DNS Server Information, Gateway information, etc.  Remember, we’re having a test next week on chapters 7-14 (! ACK !) so make sure you study that.

Homework:

• Questions 1-10
• Lab 15.01
• Study for your test!

CompTIA A+ OS/Hardware – 2/20/2006

Once again, we missed our Monday night class because of the amount of snow we received last night and this morning.  See you guys Tuesday!