How BHCC youths are developing their PC skills

The youths have been provided a PC, pentium 4, with
dual Operating System (OS), Mandriva Linux and Windows XP. It has
Microsoft Office applications and the following for educational
purposes:-
+Audio/Video Playing and editing software
+GIS software (MapInfo, Mapserver, Autocad)
+Reading materials

The Thrill?. Everyday around 5pm the youths setup up the PC and play
keyboard and mouse games, test and feel the dual OS and play with
other softwares.

I believe this will help them develop their skills.

BHCC Members

I decided to give credit to these fellow youths for their participation and effort they put towards club activities.

Jerry Mala, Elvis, Edmond Sese, Jeannot, Kennery, Brownson, Guyome, Chester Takau, Bernard, Kerry, Robert, Charley, Ronny, Brooks Rakau, Ben, Mala.

And ofcourse I am Matt, and I am maintaining and blogging the events here.

lukim yu

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When the going gets tough, upgrade.

BHCC First Basic Hardware Training

Date: Saturday
Time: afternoon. The times were not recorded
Language: English/Bislama
Instructor: Mathew Temar

1st training started with some hardware basics. Six boys gathered around a faulty PC unit outside a clearing and were shown parts and what the hardware devices are and how they are connected. The demobase and part were all faulty.

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List of faulty devices
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+Pentium 2 motherboard
+2XCD-Rom
+128 SDRAM
+Floppy Drive
+Seagate Hard Drive
+Case and SCSI cables
+Mouse and Keyboard
+Floppy Disk
+screws

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Exercises
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Then they take turns connecting and naming the devices.

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Conclusion
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Basically, they can identify and label parts. How and where they are connected and general knowledge of the device's function. The most priority devices to have for a PC to work. How to handle naked or open PCs and what tools to use.

Note: This exercise was conducted 3 times with 3 different groups of boys. At a later excercise, paper diagrams were distributed aboutmotherboards and some general PC device terms in paper.

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