Switching rooms for hardware

Mon, Aug 9, 2010

The class had hands on experience with dismantling and assembling the hardware components of a computer in room B109. Now, we're in room B207 with AJ revealing the function of each hardware starting with the power, how other hardware communicate and the versatility of a computer through the use of the motherboard. The analogy AJ is using to describe the function of a computer is the central nervous system of humans. Such as, the spinal cord connects to the brain. The revelation from AJ, he stated that rats can laugh if a person tickles it!! That one came from left field :O

After the rat thingy, AJ informed the students about the different regions of the motherboard. Such as, the low level control (BIOS), north bridge, processor socket, RAM, South bridge, Serial ATA for hard drives and PCI controller Interface, and IDE for disk drives. Oooohh! Bus is another word for a connection.

How would you describe the main purpose of the motherboard? versatility - hard drive can run different programs at the same time. Like a house, say a person wants to view the tv but everyone in the house is watching it in the living room. So, that lone person can take the equipment to the basement and plug in the components to an outlet and watch a tube, there we have it.....versatility.

Why do computer have to prioritize processes? Take keyboard for instance, it is highly prioritize because if people are able to type on the keyboard of a computer while the computer process other programs, it makes people happy since they don't have to wait to keep working.

The north bridge has direct access to the CPU. What else is connected to the motherboard on a computers. Everything! :)

Cristina continues the lecture with the SATA drives, optical drive, CPU, PCI slots, Graphics card. Then it was right to the mighty compatibility exercise! And she was not playing cause she wanted all of to the student to pass the test for tomorrow, also, she reminded the class to open the attachment to her emails. Because students have not been opening their attachments to the emails.

Now, we're back in room B109 and Ann has the students go over a quick review game of jeopardy on the power point program before their Permit Road Test. All the students have their thinking caps on while taking the test.