We took apart a PC in this session and shared names and locations of common ports, parts and pieces of a computer. Here are some links we also shared with the group.
Facing your fear of the technological unknown?
Curious about all those TLA’s* the techies use?
Want to know more about what is going on inside and in the backside of your computer?
*TLA= three letter acronyms
Try some of these sites for more information
PC Anatomy 101 from Home Computer Help (hey, I thought up the name on my own·)
This is a nice starting place to start if you want to get the very basics about owning, purchasing or using a PC.
http://www.homecomputerhelp.com/partsofpc.asp
PC Safari from Tech Talk
A little heavy on text and light on images but this site does give you a good basic set of definitions of the ãinnardsä of a computer
http://pages.friendlycity.net/~sdove/techtalk/pcparts.html
Jargon Buster from the Computer Help section at ThinkQuest
They also have a PC Anatomy section (I thought I was being original) but this quick glossary can be handy to decode the ãtech talkä that is sometimes overwhelming.
http://library.thinkquest.org/27406/low/jar.html
The entire section can be accessed from here:
http://library.thinkquest.org/27406/index.html
Webopedia from Internet.com
An online computer dictionary of internet terms and technical support. It also has a search engine for locating technical information.