Summercore – Mon., July 21, 2008
The first day of Summercore focused on computer knowledge, blogs and wikis, and using the tab feature. By Wednesday, everyone in the course is expected to know the answers to the 33 knowledge questions on page 192 of the The Summercore Primer. Knowledge includes terms such as bytes, kilobytes, megabytes and includes acronyms such as RAM and ROM. In regards to blogs and wikis, we learned the difference between them and actually built our own blog,… a first for me. Tomorrow we will build a wiki and further discuss classroom usage of both the blogs and the wikis. We ended the day with some hands-on practice with tabs. Rule number one is only hit tab once. If you feel the need to hit it more than once, then you probably should be giving a different command. I was very happy to learn how to line up information on both the right and the left sides simultaneously. Overall, I walked (actually rode) away from the class with more knowledge and more experience.
I am so happy I was able to bring and use the laptop that I will be using in my job this year. It’s good to get familiar with it with so much support around. Although it is challenging to miss this time with my family, I believe the skills I earn in this course will help reduce stress during the school year and improve the quality of my work.
