NVHS CYBERCORPS

Ch. 5 RAM Crossword

2011-12-02T16:17:00.001-08:00

Here's the link to the PDF file: HEEEERRREEEEE

CHAPTER 4 - UNDERSTANDING WINDOWS - EXAM REVIEW

2011-10-02T16:47:00.000-07:00

Upcoming exam, demonstrating your knowledge of all current Windows operating systems, except Windows 7 (later in the semester we'll cover). Every exam review counts as 10 homework points and must be turned in before the exam can be taken. EVERYTHING you need to know on every Cybercorps exam can be found on it's exam review.

Mr. West

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Chapter 3 - Visible PC - Quiz on Tuesday

2011-09-18T11:31:00.000-07:00

We'll finish the Chapter 3 notes on Monday, Sept. 19. The quiz will again be open notes. If you have any questions please let me know.

Mr. West

Mike Meyers' Ten Commandments

2011-09-14T19:09:00.001-07:00

Mike Meyers explains the 10 Commandments of a PC Tech, a must-see for any newbie tech (or veteran).

LINK HERE

Safety Quiz - Friday, Sept 9

2011-09-07T22:44:00.000-07:00

18 pt quiz - first one of the semester
Notes allowed

Thanks for following our cybercorp blog

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PRO

2011-12 CyberCorps Syllabus here

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Requires your parents/guardians signatures. Click here to find out all the details about this class.

WELCOME 2011 - 12 CYBERCORPS STUDENTS!

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How's everyone doing? Another exciting year of Cybercorps at North Valleys. On behalf of our Computer and Technology Department, I welcome all students, parents, and community members.

My name is Lance West. I have been teaching CyberCorps since 2003 here at NVHS. I've built the program from humble beginnings into the best CyberCorps lab in Washoe County. If there is one place a high school student can go to learn practically everything to SUCCESSFULLY pass both A+ exams, North Valleys is the place.

A little bit about myself: I was born in Reno, raised in Schurz on the Walker River Paiute Reservation. Schurz is a small town between Fallon and Hawthorne. I attended Yerington High School and graduated with my BA in Secondary Education, emphasis in Business Education from the University of Nevada in 2001. I'm currently working on my Masters degree in Educational Leadership at UNR.

The CyberCorps program has special meaning to me as I have seen the changes to the A+ exams evolve over the years. From being required to understand Windows 98 SE and floppy disk booting to Windows 7 and Solid State Drive (SSD) technologies. Technology moves at such a quick pace, that I cannot sit idly by, continually teaching the same content from year to year. Through constant research and acquiring the latest PC tech; I am able to offer high quality content to students.

I anticipate many students to enter this class with little to no computer experience, this is not a problem. We begin this course with a very basic structure and easy to understand terms.

If you ask any of my former students who've taken any of my classes, you'll find out that my classes are more than learning and demonstrating computer-related objectives. I engage students with a vast array of topics and issues that extend beyond the technology scope.

As a class, we will exceed any previous year's successes. I am excited and committed to working with all students in preparing them for success beyond high school with A+ certification. More details of this very important IT certification will be provided to students in the next two weeks.

That's all I have to say for now. Again, I am ready, ARE YOU?

Sa'a nu u poonedua,
"see you later"
(Traditional Paiute saying)

Mr. West

Download the 2011 FBLA State Conference Info

2011-02-20T22:00:00.000-08:00

Click here to download the PDF

Nevada Future Business Leaders of America and the Nevada Department of Education
are excited to invite your FBLA chapter to the 40th Annual Nevada FBLA State
Business Leadership Conference, April 25-27, 2011. The Grand Sierra Resort
will be the site of Nevada FBLA-PBL’s 40th State Business Leadership Conference!

Here's the cost for each FBLA member to attend:
2 Night Package: $205 Quad Occupancy

Important deadlines:
March 11 (RECEIPT DEADLINE):
• SBLC Registration forms due
• State Officer Application Deadline
• Home Site Testing RETURN RECEIPT Deadline for Accounting II,
Computer Applications, Database Design and Applications, Desktop
Publishing, Spreadsheet Applications, Word Processing I, and Word
Processing II

• Pre-Judged Materials Deadline for Future Business Leader, Job
Interview, Web Site Design, Digital Video Production, E-Business,
Desktop Application Programming, Computer Game & Simulation
Programming, Digital Design & Promotion, and Electronic Career
Portfolio
• Chapter Reports Deadline for American Enterprise Project, Business
Financial Plan, Business Plan, Community Service Project, Local
Chapter Annual Business Report, and Partnership with Business
Project
• National Business Honor Roll forms due
• Who’s Who deadline
• Chassey Ako Community Service forms due
• Erin Hackman NLC Scholarship Applications due
• Business Person of the Year nominations due
• Administrator of the Year nominations due
• Adviser of the Year nominations due

March 21 – April 8:
• Online Testing Period

April 25-27:
• State Business Leadership Conference!

grades UPDATED

2011-02-13T20:55:00.000-08:00

all grades have been graded. Overall grades have dropped due to what? Thats right, textbook work. I rarely assign textbook work when I am in class, ONLY when I am gone and there's a substitute teacher is there ALWAYS textbook work assigned. is textbook work that difficult? I'm speaking to our SECOND year Cybercorps students, especially. Right now, our second-years are not doing so well.

Another drop in your grade is the low quiz scores, thankfully quiz scores don't really impact your overall grade, but regardless, if our exams are going to be based on ALL quiz questions, then you should probably review more. We'll work out the details in the next couple weeks.

I'll provide a grade printout when I see you all on Tuesday.

Mr. West

I'm working on updating grades

2011-02-11T23:53:00.000-08:00

Three weeks into second semester and I'm already behind! No worries. I've been updating the gradebook all evening, along with some wow breaks. Quiz scores are a bit low, hoping to get all the word searches added to the gradebook tomorrow sometime. Everyone should know the routine regarding the class at this point.

I've come up with a great idea for the exams. I'm thinking we have at most three exams over this semester. Our first exam would includes chapters 13-17. The questions would be m/c along with a couple essays, AND, it would all be completed on Synchroneyes using previous quiz questions. I'd provide a review sheet of course. The expectation would be to assign the review sheet as homework and complete it using your notes. Pretty much I would copy/paste the questions to a word document, around 50 questions, two essays and give that to you in the form of an exam.

Second exam would probably be: chapters 18-21
Third exam would be: chapters 22-last chapter (26 i think).

Let me know what you think.

Enjoy your weekend

Mr. West

It's been a while

2010-12-08T14:34:00.003-08:00

Wow, it's been too long since I last posted something here. Busy Busy.

Chapter 5 - Microprocessors POWERPOINTS

2010-10-20T11:47:00.000-07:00

Broken down into three parts:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

CHAPTER 5 NOTES HERE

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HERE!

CH. 4 - WINDOWS, Exam THURSDAY, OCT. 14

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Complete the review sheet between now and day of the test. Download and print the review sheet here.

Homework

PART 2 POWERPOINT - CHAPTER 4 - NOTES

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SECOND HALF OF THE SLIDES (30 OF 60). CLICK HERE

POWERPOINT - CHAPTER 4 - NOTES

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Here's the link to the first 30 slides of the PowerPoint slide show.

Chapter 3 ID exam still not graded

2010-10-04T10:26:00.000-07:00

Will finish grading this week. Don't worry, retakes can be done during break, afterschool, or PASS time. Please schedule with Mr. West.

10-4-10 CLASS AGENDA

2010-10-04T10:24:00.000-07:00

1. Chapter 4 - notes, PP presentation
2. Homework: Session 8 Word Search. Print PDF file off google docs. Here's the link. Due Wednesday, Oct. 6
3. Quiz, from notes taken today, on Wednesday.

9-16-10 agenda

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1. grade/progress report - take home signed/return to me for extra credit
2. finish ch. 3 PP notes
3. Lab 3.01, 3.02, 3.03 - using our lab 122 HP systems. - textbook directions, read carefully.

Chapter 3 ID and written exam WEdnesday, Sept. 22!

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STUDY!!

QUIZ RETAKE - MOVED TO MONDAY, SEPT. 20.

2010-09-14T15:20:00.000-07:00

Retake! I removed the "bad questions". REVIEW YOUR NOTES OUTSIDE CLASS PLZ!

9-14-10 agenda

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1. Grade printout - didn't happen, sorry guys/girls, but I'm still figuring out how to print using our new Infinite Campus program. I have your safety tests graded and entered into the gradebook.

2. Visible PC Quiz - using synchroneyes. Tough quiz, I used alot of question/answers that I'll leave out for future quizzes.

3. Finish PC notes.

4. Chapter 2 bookwork due -Thursday, September 16.

9-10-10 agenda

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1. turn in safety review sheet
2. Safety exam - 46 pts
3. Chapter 3 - visible pc - NOTES

CHAPTER 3 QUIZ NEXT CLASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9-8-10 Agenda

2010-09-08T08:37:00.000-07:00

1. Quiz Review
2. Take Safety quiz and ch.2 quiz
3. go over results
4. Bookwork: Chapter 2, pgs. 33-36
5. Safety Exam Review - print and complete (10 homework pts)
6. safety test on Friday, September 10.

safety notes

2010-09-03T12:06:00.000-07:00

three printouts:
PC safety notes - page 1
PC safety notes - page 2
PC safety notes - page 3
There will be a quiz on these notes along with chapter 2 operational procedures on WEdnesday, Sept. 8.

Chapter 2 - Operational Procedures

2010-09-03T08:18:00.000-07:00

Here's a "bad example" of computer customer service. It's from the Saturday Night Live skit called "Nick Burns - Your Company's Computer Guy" Nick Burns is a rude, arrogant, condescending, and obnoxious computer support person who can show you how NOT to act.

Video

Disabling Synchroneyes on your PC

2010-09-01T10:38:00.001-07:00

counts as tampering and an automatic referral to SSO, do not disable! Thanks.

9-1-10 Agenda

2010-09-01T07:51:00.000-07:00

1. A+ Certification - Overview
2. How much do you already know? - Attempt Fall Final using computer
3. Set up google account
4. Chapter 2 - Operational Procedures - PowerPoint
5. Homework - Word Search, session 1 - due September 3.

Guess Who!

2010-08-30T15:36:00.001-07:00

8/30/10 - Cybercorps Day 1

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Wow, what a morning. I can tell this is going to be a great year. This has got to be one of the best classes I've seen. Here was the day's agenda:

1. Welcome
2. Introductions
3. Syllabus
4. lab contract
5. Bear Toss
6. Novell Log in

Lab contract - get signed

2010-08-29T15:35:00.000-07:00

Here's the link: http://bit.ly/dv0ExQ
Lab contract covers basic dos and dont's in our computer lab. We have plenty of expensive software and hardware throughout the room that I'm responsible for. Take this home and have your parent's guardian's sign and return by Wednesday, September 1.

Class syllabus here

2010-08-29T15:30:00.000-07:00

Here's the link: http://bit.ly/bEbRRt This syllabus counts as our first homework assignment. Get this signed by you and your parent/guardian. Return to me by Wednesday, Sept. 1. email lpwest@washoe.k12.nv.us if you have any questions. Call me 971-6446 anytime.

Welcome!

2010-08-27T14:05:00.000-07:00

Welcome to CyberCorps for the 2010 -11 school year!