COMPUTER NETWORK

A computer network is often simply referred to as a network. It is a collection of computers and devices
interconnected by communications channels that facilitate communications and allow sharing of
resources and information among interconnected devices. Put more simply, a computer network is a
collection of two or more computers linked together for the purposes of sharing information, resources,
among other things.

The minimum hardware requirements for connecting through internet are:

 Personal Computer with a 1.5 GHz or faster processor

 256 megabytes (MB) of memory
 The minimum amount of hard disk space required to install windows XP is 2 Giga Bytes.
The actual requirement varies depending on the features you choose to install.
 LAN Card or On-board LAN is enough with driver installed.
 To the Teacher of Personal Development: Welcome to this course, PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT, or PERDEV for short. This is a very interesting course, and can become
the most personally rewarding for students, because the subject matter for this course
is THEMSELVES! The new senior high school students have now entered a new
educational level, as well as a new psychological and social level, called the middle and
late adolescence. They may feel that they are no longer the rapidly growing and
awkward teen-ager, but may also feel that they are not quite ready to call themselves
mature adults either. This course shall make the students take a deeper look at
themselves and analyze their developmental changes, their skills and traits which can
help them meet the various tasks that they must undertake at this point in their lives. It
shall provide them with some techniques to meet stress and other mental health issues
with their own strengths and coping powers. The course shall also give them the chance
to analyze their relationships with their family, friends and significant others. Finally,
the PERDEV course shall help them take stock of where they are in their career
development and how to get to where they want to be.
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 COURSE CONTENT There are 4 units in PERDEV, as follows: Unit 1 – Self-Development;
Unit 2 – Aspects of Personal Development; Unit 3 – Building and Maintaining
Relationships; and Unit 4 - Career Development. There are several modules under each
unit, each of which addresses a key concern in personal development.
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 SCHEDULE OF SESSIONS PERDEV is a one-semester course, consisting of 80 hours
divided into 20 weeks, or 4 hours per week. Depending on the school, there may be 1,
2, 3 or 4 sessions of PERDEV for each week. For purposes of this Teacher’s Guide and
corresponding Reader, each week is divided into 2 sessions, for a total of 40 sessions.
The teacher has the flexibility to further subdivide each session into 2 sub-sessions or
combine several sessions dependingThis Teacher’s Guide contains all the materials
found in the Reader for Students, as well as additional activities which you will use but
which were not included in the Reader as an element of surprise. It has detailed
instructions for the teacher; however, the teacher should improvise and make
adjustments according to the nature and characteristics of the students, the classroom
setting, and the time limits available.
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 REQUIREMENTS FOR PERDEV The students should have a journal or notebook for
PERDEV, in which they will write their reflections, insights, comments and opinions.
They should also have a portfolio for PERDEV, which may be a large brown or plastic
envelope, a clear book, or an envelope bag. This is where they will store all the
reflections, research outputs, journal entries, survey questionnaires, and other written
materials and artwork which they do as class work, seatwork, or homework for PERDEV.
At the end of each unit, please collect the student portfolios and give each student a
grade based on the completeness and quality of their work, class attendance and
participation, and other special requirements that you agree on in the beginning of the
semester.
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 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT AND GRADING SYSTEM Assessment of
Personal Development shall be through the use of rubrics. A rubric refers to a scoring
guide used to evaluate the quality of students' outputs, whether done individually or in
a group. Rubrics articulate the expectations for class work or an assignment by listing
the criteria, or what counts, and describing levels of quality from excellent to poor.
Rubrics are often used to grade student’s work, but when used as part of a formative,
student-centered approach to assessment, rubrics have the potential to help students
develop understanding