Job Shadowing Experience

For the job shadowing project i went to SAS Institute, a company that makes statistical and analytic software for businesses and is the largest privately owned business software making company in the world. At SAS they have a project called JMP which is the best statistical software on the market (http://www.jmp.com/en_us/home.html). JMP is used to create graphs and charts and other ways to represent data and is also used to generate a  matrix of experiments to solve or improve a problem. I met 6 people who worked on the JMP project all who did a separate but important thing for the software. The first person i met was Thomas Pederson Ph. D who wrote the instruction manual for JMP and would create the help sections in the JMP software. In the instructions he added many links which would redirect the user to another part of the help section and would also redirect you to a picture and he tried to keep the help as general but also as specific as possible. The second person i met was John Jones, the online marketing manager, who was the person who sold the product online and would advertise the product/software. John Jones said that many online marketers would a Content Managing System which allows authors to publish their content to the web in which he used a content managing system called Adobe Experience Manager.

L13 Operating Systems

1. An operating is a type of software. True
2. Operating systems control the loading of software applications onto a computer. True
3. All OS offer user preferences allowing you to customize your computer. True
4. An operating system prioritizes the tasks that a CPU does. True
5. The following devices have a operating system: Apple Ipod, Dell Laptop, Nintendo Wii. True

Lesson 8 Making Presentations

Presentations should

•  inform 
• educate
•  persuade

Audiences learn from

•  seeing, pictures, font, etc
•  hearing, your context that is said
•  and doing, notes

PowerPoint can include

• Text
• Charts and Graphs
• Photos and graphics
• Audio, video, and other sound

Rules for a good presentation

• Keep slides simple and easy to read
• state your purpose
• Add images that support your point
• Relax and use friendly style speaking
• Don't just read the slides to your audience

Appropriate Coloring

• Use light colored backgrounds with dark text
• Use dark backgrounds with light text 

Appropriate Font Size

• 7&7 rule
• Limit your text

Peripherals

• Keyboards
• Game Controller
• Mice

Organize your presentation

• State your purpose: make it clear what you ant people to know
• Present information in multiple ways
• End with a summary

Supporting Images

• Keep people interested
• Reinforce key messages
• Help visual learners understand

Avoid Cluttering

• Don't use too many colors
• Avoid slide clutter

Relax and be Friendly

• Avoid reading your slides word for word
• Don't talk too fast
• Add information and examples in your own words
• Allow time for note taking
• Answer audience questions
• Practice your presentation

Best Presentations Have

• Easy-to-Read slides that support what is being said
• A clearly stated purpose
• Graphics, photos, and other visual objects used judiciously
• A speaker who is relaxed and confident

POIT Lesson 6 Peripherals

• Peripherals are devices used for computer input and output Ex. Mouse, printer, keyboard, USB, etc.
• keyboard reports each key
• LCD and CRT monitors, touchscreen is input
• a pixel is the smallest colored dot that can be displayed on the screen, more pixels = more detail
• standard 1280 x 720  HD 1920 x 1080
• three printers, multi function, scanner, ink jet
• 3 1/2 in floppy disc to CD-ROM to DVD to Blu ray
• external drives give users more storage options
• tower cases have expansion bays, usually have at least one bay for an optical drive
• different sizes and types of 
• your dream computer need peripherals

First 9 Weeks

What is your impression of the first 9-weeks of high school?

The first nine weeks of school were decent but could have been better.

  What has been difficult about the transition from middle school?

 Nothing has been difficult in the transition and it has been easier being at middle school to highschool.

What has been easy about the transition?

Getting more freedom in high school and the teachers being pretty chill.

What have you learned about yourself?

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. 

ID Theft Faceoff

• The Fair Credit reporting act allows you to only get one free credit report every 12 months.
• Dont use your mothers maiden name or your social security number for passwords because people could get this information from you
• Identity theft refers to a wide variety of items that include your identity on them
• The three nationwide consumer reporting companies are Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax
• If your driver's license or other government issued ID is stolen immediately contact the agency that issued that document
• If youre no reciving bills from creditors then it could mean that someone is still hijacking your identity and changing the address that the bills are being sent to

What 3 trends do you see in computer evolution? AND Why?

3 trends i see in computer evolution are increase in speed, increase in storage and an increase in amount because the speed of computers are becoming much faster every year and the amount of information they can store is also increasing at an exponential rate as well as the amount of computers being used in our everyday lives.

Name 3 factors that drive technological innovation?

• Money
• knowledge
• curiosity

True or False

1. The first computer programmer was a woman. TRUE
2. The first was built in 1975. FALSE
3. Apple made the first user friendly personal computer. TRUE
4. Binary numbers are counted by twos. FALSE
5. A notebook computer is the same as a laptop computer. TRUE
6. Computers come in only three sizes; desktop, notebook, tablet. FALSE
7. All pc's use the Microsoft windows operating system. FALSE
8. People witha lot of data often own their own mainframe computer. FALSE
9. Most modern supercomputers are made up of a cluster of computers. TRUE

Anticipation Guide

1. As long as i can check my email and surf the web I am computer literate. DISAGREE
2. All computer systems are basically alike on the inside. DISGREE
3. Peer to peer networks are a great way to share all kinds of files. DISAGREE
4. Open source software is the wave of the future. Soon it wont matter what kind of machine a person has because everything will be open source and easily translatable from one operating system to another. DISAGREE
5. Although computer programmers should focus on learning the very latest programming languages older program written in languages like C are still important to learn. AGREEUnrestricted access to technology is a fundamental human right. DISAGREE 
6. If i get a job in the computer industry, I will never have to worry about being unemployed. AGREE