CDD Class Report Uhuru 7-20-10

WEEKLY CLASS REPORT
House of Uhuru, 7-20-2010

INTRODUCTIONS OR OVERVIEW:
Nine of ten students were present at the start of the class. Michael Alcantera has dropped the course. The workstations do not have Mavis Beacon or MS Office installed, so capabilities are somewhat limited. Peter started off the class by giving an overview of today’s lesson.

1ST TOPIC COVERED:
Juliane reviewed the outline process, and discovered that 8 of 9 students had completed their outlines. Wayne did not complete his outline, as he expects to leave the center next week. Five students presented their outlines to the class, and the outlines were critiqued by the instructors and students. The outlines were all within the scope of the paper. Some outlines were structured more like the actual paper (in complete sentences, etc) and this was pointed out to the students.

2ND TOPIC COVERED:
Peter reminded the students that there will be a quiz on the computer discovery terms next week. He then went over the last five discovery terms, using examples for each term. The class seemed to comprehend the terms. Peter briefly reviewed all 17 terms, in preparation for the quiz.

BREAK
Break went as planned, for 10 minutes. All students arrived back from break on time.

LAB TIME:
The students continued to work on their papers, using Wordpad or by writing them on paper. Juliane took the time to review some of the basic components of Windows with Wayne, since he is the least experienced user in the class. Peter assisted the students with various issues in Wordpad (formatting, etc) and showed them how to adjust the settings in the Control Panel.

FINAL NOTES:
Two of the students, Deanna and Prince, were talking during the lab and were being somewhat of a distraction. They were told to begin working on their papers. It was a successful class, but the issues with the lab still need to be sorted out.