Skills Review & Badge/Quiz Prep

 Below are the types of tasks you'll need to complete in order to earn your next two badges.  Watch the screencast guides first, then attempt the tasks. If you complete the tasks by the end of class tonight, you earn the badge. If not, you can try again next week with similar tasks. 


Desktop & File  Management (3 points)
  • Create a folder called 'badgetest' in your Root Directory. 
  • Save the this file  into that directory
  • Rename that file, add meta data (title, keywords, comments, etc.)
  • Take screenshot#1 of that file in the that directory.
  • Create a quicklaunch icon for Wordpad (Start/Pograms/Accessories/Wordpad)  on your toolbar. 
  • Take Screenshot#2 of your quicklaunch bar and save it as a .gif.
  • Email both screenshots and the file as an attchment to jefflebow@gmail.com

Screencast Guide Part 1 

Screencast Guide Part 2
Audio Production (required) (3 points)
  • Import this piece of audio into Audacity.
  • Record a short introduction. 
  • Export it as a 64kbs mp3 file including appropriate ID3tag information and post it as a piece of audio on EFL537.com. 
  • Send the URL to me at jefflebow@gmail.com
Screencast Guide

 

Quiz Prep

- All questions and tasks will come from these pages

Sample Question: 
   Which file type is NOT an image file?

  •  jpg
  • mp3
  • gif
  • bmp

    This will be an 'open internet' quiz.

Sample Tasks
  You might be asked to

  • embed something into a blog post
  • add and tag a bookmark into your delicious account
  • record and post a piece of audio
  • subscribe to a feed using Google Reader
  • determine one of your system specifications
    and/or
  • take a screenshot of something and email it to me as an attachment.