2. • Present yourself
• Name
• Career
• Previous experience with computers
(Here you inform about the specifications of your laptop
or desktop and the terms you didn’t understand)
1 minute each
30 min
3. • We will attend every workshop
• We will be nice to each other
• We will be helpful with our classmates
• We will keep time on the activities
• We will use our smart phones for class
• We will excuse ourselves if we cannot follow
• We will get the grades we deserve
4. Content Objectives
By the end of this workshop the student will be able to:
• Identify and explain the internal and external components of a computer
• Describe a computer system and properly use vocabulary related to it.
• Describe the history of the digital computer and its contributions in different areas.
• Identify and briefly describe the main classes of computer systems
• Identify and use properly the main components of the Windows operating system
from a user’s perspective.
• Use electronic mail, applying the standards for electronic communication
(“netiquette”)
5. Language Objectives
• Read and interpret technical texts related to the contents of this
Workshop.
• Write short essays in English to answer specific questions
related to the contents of this Workshop.
• Participate in oral class discussions held in English.
• Enhance your vocabulary with not less than ten technical terms
related to the subject of this workshop.
6. 1. Let´s take a look at Blackboard
2. At your SUAGM Office Account
3. And at your cell phone
7. 1. Go to your App Store
2. Search for Blackboard
3. Select SUAGM
4. Download to your phone
5. Log in and go to Computer and Software
6. Make sure you can access Current Week or Week 1
10 minutes
8. 1. Go to Week 1 in Blackboard
2. Look for the link “Groups/Grupos”
3. Enroll in a group. Each group has a name.
4. Remember the name of your group.
5. You are going to work in groups and the
assignments will be graded
10 minutes
9. 1. If you have a doubt or question on how are we
going to manage the class or if you need to say
something positive about to the group, please
speak now.
5 minutes
10. 1. Mother Board
2. Processor
3. GUI Graphical User Interface
4. Peripherals
5. Input
6. Output
7. Binary System
8. Operating System
9. Software
10. Hardware
In groups. Look up the
words and fill in the next
table. You will use this in
your portfolio. 15 minutes
11. Word in English Meaning Word in Spanish
1. Mother Board
2. Processor
3. GUI Graphical User
Interface
4. Peripherals
5. Input
6. Output
7. Binary System
8. Operating System
9. Software
10. Hardware
14. Chinese- Abacus
• 2600 BC
Leibniz – Binary
System
• 1703
Bardeen, Brattain,
and Shockley
• 1947
• Transistor
Soviet Union Turing
1957
Sputnik 1
Rudy Krolopp
1937
Digital
computer
1983
Movil
Phone
5 Milestones
in digital
computer’s
history
24. Please tell me your experience with the digital portfolio
1. Got to
http://www.bilingualonline.net/webdocuments.Modulos/portfolio/Performance%20Portfolio%20Assess
ment%20Handbook.pdf
2. Read the Handbook
3. Choose the week’s work that you are going to use for the portfolio
4. Make a word document with the citations used in today’s class. You can find them in the PPT
presentation
5. Make sure you make short videos with your phones in next classes so you have that artifact to add to the
portfolio
25. • Described the history of the digital computer and its contributions in
different areas.
• Defined a computer system, its components and classes
• Identified and use properly the main components of the Windows
operating system from a user’s perspective.
• Listed and described the most frequently used applications of the
Microsoft Office suite.
• Used electronic mail, applying the standards for electronic
communication (“net-etiquette”)
• … and all of that in English!
26. Enter SUAGM App in your phone
and go to the bottom of Current Week or Workshop 1