week four

Eme 2040 so far has been a major help to me; Every week, i seem to find something new that i've never learned or heard of before. As i read through chapter four this week, there were so many terms and phrases that i read and i did not have a clue on what they might have meant or could possibly be used for. I'd never heard of a motherboard or an optical disc, but the reading clearly helped me to understand how basic and user-friendly these two items were. I learned that the motherboard is basically a ciruit board that the components of the computer reside in. As for the optical disc, its just a fancy, general term to call cd's, dvd's and so on; you know, the flat, silver, round things that have lately been being abandoned due to the new mp3 invention!
There were also a few terms that i heard of but never knew what they really meant, or forgot which tasks they really performed. There were also some terms that i'd heard of that were abbreviated but i didnt know the full name and function of. The CPU is an excellent example of what i am talking about. I hear teachers and students that are technologically up to par saying things like CPU and RAM but i had no idea that they were key components of computer functioning.
My favorite part of this weeks lesson was learning how to use inspiration. This program is the most unique program ( as far as programs that are useful to teachers ) that i have seen thus far! It allows you to come up with themes and so many aspects of the themes as you branch off into your lesson, or what ever else you may have chosen to create a page on! It is great. The only thing that i found difficult was actually coming up with the information to put into the page because i really didnt have a lesson at hand to branch off from, so it was totally up to me to come up with a topic; in my case, that just makes things ten times harder because i work better when i have guidelines to follow.