Permit Test?! Hardware?!

After shortly discussing DR3 -- a type of ram and Dance Dance Revolution, AJ ask the students if they had a question (one of the three that they were supposed to have written down over the weekend) and Krystal wondered whether a virus would effect both operating systems once it's caught. Jamarra answered with.. "not really" and AJ confirmed that even if you have two operating systems, you won't spread the virus because "they don't share needles." A perfect leeway to the Weird Al video about being White and Nerdy.

After the video, the students were to write a joke that Weird Al had in his video (must be about computers) and the majority of the students wrote about Weird Al making a web page for his dog... but couldn't exactly explain why the joke was funny!

"You better do better on this next test," said AJ as he played "All About the Pentium" by Weird Al.

After break the students were sent off to researching an answer to one of the questions that they compiled before the break. As AJ left for the day, he had the students answer the question via blogs!

As he left, Chou came into the spotlight with Antivirus and Spyware. After debating whether or not worm, trojan, rootkit, and phishing were either Anti or Spy, Chou told them the answers and explained to them the reasons.

The next activity was reviewing for the hardware permit test. Cristina lead the group on a competitive 2 team Jeopardy game focused on hardware. At the end of the game, Chou asked Gates: Windows, Jobs: Mac, [blank]: Linux. The first team's score, for getting the wrong answer, depleted to 0. The second team's score, for cheating (Googling the answer), was also depleted to 0. They're ALL winners!

As the students were getting done with their permit test, they finished their blogs. As each one of them finished up and published their blogs, they rebooted their computers and got to working on their projects!

Hope you 8 did well on the permit test!!

--- Eliza ended the day with the introduction to the student's BTW.