Educational Computing Skills Assignment 2 Name: Lenah Ntele MolotoStudent number: 920416168 The over view of the hardware

components, specifications ,and purpose of each component ,for a computer that is suitable for use in education. 2.1 No 1. Component CPU Purpose Specifications

Performs most of the calculations which 2.6Ghz Intel enable a computer to function

2.

RAM

Stores resident part of the current OS and all 1GB running processes.

3. 4.

Hard Drive Monitor

Stores computer information

160GB

Displays information in visual form, using text Plug and Play Monitor and graphics True Color (32Bit)

5.

DVD-RAM Drive

Used for both reading and writing data to and 16X/-RW from a DVD

6. 7.

Video Card Sound Card

To interpret video signals on the computer To output sound to audio devices

NVIDIA GeForce 6200 C-Media device AC97 Audio

8.

Mouse

Pointing device that detects two dimensional Microsoft compact optical motion relative to its supporting surface mouse 500 With numeric navigation key. functions keys, keypad,

9.

Keyboard

For typing text into your computer

10. Headphones 11. Microphone

For converting electrical signals into audio To convert sound into electrical signal

Two One piece

2.2

Allow me to take this opportunity to talk about how we use headphones in the computer lab in our school. Headphones are used by language teachers to allow learners to listen to stories from the story software installed on the computers. After listening to a story learners are given an exercise whereby they answer questions based on the story that they been listening on the computer. In addition to that headphones are also used to listen to PowerPoint presentations where teachers have recorded themselves presenting a particular lesson. The second hardware component which is highly used is the hard drive which learners use to store their saved work for teachers to access and mark.