Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Which is the best Portable Media Player of them all?

Ok Folks,
So many options not enough info! In today’s media world people want to make their media portable. People not only want their music with them everywhere they go! But they also want their favorite movies and TV shows. People can even take their pictures with them without carrying around a huge photo album in their purse. (Sorry Mom that’s just not cool anymore)
There are tons of options as far as portable media players but how do I decide which one to buy?
This assignment is all about helping people decide on which is the best media player for people to buy.

Thank you for those of you who always do your best and who are working hard to finish your projects! This next project hit close to home. This holiday season there has been a craze for which portable media player is the best! What is a Media Player you ask? Well that is the assignment. We will be making a Table in Word. With 9 columns across and at least 6 rows down.
It would best to create this document in with your gmail service. I would like you to fill out the table and then give a final result on which portable media player is the best. At least which one you feel is best after researching diligently based on the criteria given. Have fun and please ask any questions.

  • Media player Name
  • Storage Size
  • Formats it plays(MP3, MPEG, Divx, Quicktime, Wav, ACC, etc. ?)
  • Display size
  • Communication with Computers
  • Ease of Use
  • Battery Life
  • Cool Factor
  • Price

Here are a few sites to help with your research.

http://www.cnet.com/
http://www.yahoo.com/
http://www.pricegrabbers.com/
http://www.tigerdirect.com/
http://www.frys.com/
http://www.bestbuys.com/
http://www.mp3player.com/
http://www.newegg.com/
http://www.pcworld.com/

Will it be a Music only? Will it be Music and Photos? Or will it be an all purpose multi-media player all together? Vocabulary (Ram, Hard drive, Battery life, Display Screen, Software compatibility, etc. ) Name brand? How many songs it can hold? How many photos? Does it play just videos Total Cost?

-Mr. G

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

What a computer Does?

Greetings Class,
We are going to learn specifically what does what inside a computer. You are going to copy the document from the link below to your My Documents folder. Please do not open it from the server, instead copy and paste it before opening it.
Copy and paste this link in "Run" and go to the document in that folder.

\\jr-wxp-svr\Public\Help-For-Students\9th Grade Computer Class\Learning What a Computer Does

I would advise to open a new document and copy the questions, and write your own answers. This is instead of writing it in the Oringal document itself.
Please save the new document as: Yourname-learning what a computer does.doc

This will should take you the whole class period, if you finish early please begin researching how to help your parents with what they want to learn regarding computers. Now that you are better googler's I trust you should be able to find at least relevent info regarding whatever topic your parents quesitoned you on.

We will be working on that after we finish this worksheet.
Have a great day!
-Mr. G