Wikispaces & Vocabulary

Today we are going to work on getting everything set up for our vocabulary lists and quizzes.  This is important because next week is our first vocabulary quiz.

All of the vocabulary lists are included on the blog so if you need to know which words are going to be used for which week you can refer to the information on the Vocabulary page on the blog (gmscomputerapps.blogspot.com/p/vocabulary.html).  The list of vocab words is at the very bottom of the page.

The way vocabulary works in here is probably much different than what you are used to.  Each of you will be responsible for defining words on 3 different occasions (or weeks).  How many words you are required to define depends on how many others are responsible for the same week.  For example, some weeks in some classes there are 12 words and 6 people defining words - that means that each person would have 2 words to define.  But there are also weeks where there are 12 words and 7 people; in this scenario 5 people would have to define 2 words and 2 people would define 1 word.

Also, on the vocabulary page on the blog is a list of each student in each class.  The classes are listed in order, and next to your name you will find 3 X's that represent the weeks you are responsible for defining words (as was described in the last paragraph).  If you have an X that is highlighted in yellow, that means that you are responsible for dividing up the words amongst your group members for that week.  YOU MUST TELL YOUR GROUP MEMBERS WHICH WORDS THEY ARE TO DEFINE AT LEAST ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE!!

Vocab word definitions should be posted on the Wiki no later than Tuesday night.  Group leaders - this means that you should tell your group members their word(s) by Tuesday of the week before you're definitions are due.  

The definitions you post should have something to do with computers.  Additionally, the definitions should be easy to understand.  If you read it and it doesn't make any sense, then other people probably will not understand it either.  There are plenty of websites that you can use to get a good, quality definition from.  Here are several (these are also posted on the vocabulary page so you can go there to use these when it is your turn to define a word):

http://www.techterms.com/
http://pc.net/glossary/
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon.htm
http://www.mhhe.com/business/buscom/gregg/docs/appd.pdf
http://www.math.utah.edu/~wisnia/glossary.html#m

If you need help...that's why I'm here.  Ask me if you're not sure what the definition means or are not sure what part of the definition you found is most important for everyone else to understand.