My Thoughts

What I expected to do in this program was learn new things about computers that you don't learn in school and learn how to work programs that I usually don't work with on a daily basis or very often. My favorite activity that we did was taking apart the computers. This was my favorite activity because it gave us an opportunity to learn about the different parts of the computer and learn about each part individual. We learned how each part functions and how it is all hooked up to get it to work. I think we should drop some of the reading and do more visuals and hands on activities. I think the readings should be dropped because they a long and tend to make you lose focus and fall asleep and don't give you a good picture of what they may be talking about. We should include more hands on activities and visuals to provide us with a better understanding and to keep us focused.
I have been able to use some of the skills that I have acquired in this program with my new laptop. I had to download programs on my laptop to be able to run other programs and it also helped me with learning how to use 2007 Microsoft programs. Being in this program did not help me in school because we don't work with computers that often. I do think this program will help me in the future if we switch to 2007 Microsoft programs in the next years.
Overall the thing i enjoyed the most out of this program was meeting new people and learning how to work with others. I also enjoyed learning how to function new programs on the computer. The thing that i didn't really enjoy about the program was the long readings because they weren't very interesting and i didn't get much out of what I was reading. This program was very helpful and prepared me for things that I might need to know when I might get a new computer or need to know how to run certain programs.