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*PhoenixRising* · 07-04-2014, 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Meizzner

You know those times when you are trying to pay attention and then you are suddenly in the future and you have no idea what happened. Except you had an awesome daydream. Yeah that just happened. It might have had sea stars and gorgeous hair in it.

But Nigel could not remember.

Well that question was an excellent segue to the point she was making. Muggle were really fascinating once you started to care about their lived and stuff.

"The power strip supplies the computer with electricity,the thing we learned about last year, so it can work."

But effort.

"Precisely, yes, the power strip is what allows the computer to work. Good." And nice application of previously learned topics.

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Originally Posted by Harry174

Angel looked at the Professor and smiled, she wondered if her sister would tell the Professor all about computers because at home her sister loved them more than she did, she would rather do girly stuff instead of playing on a computer but her sister wasn't into girly stuff.

Angel raised her hand. "Professor the CD-Rom has data on it that can be used on a computer, it's like with football manager and other top games, they use the disks so that the computer doesn't have to use all it's memory and if you want to swap games you can uninstall one of the others to make room and you can re-install it using the disk later, it free's a lot of space." Angel beamed before continuing. "Though now something called stream is starting to get rid of disks, this is basically so that they can tighten up the security." Angel could tell the Professor more but she decided to leave it as that because she didn't want to get into trouble for talking to much.

"Yes that's all true, albeit the diagram depicts a CD-Rom drive, which is the place that holds the CD-Rom ... a storage device."

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Originally Posted by JustAlice

Derry owned a computer, so this wasn't exactly difficult. She mentally listed off what every thing did, but figured she wouldn't say what they all were, since that was kind of hogging the limelight. "The speakers play sound from your computer." she said, after raising her hand. "Anything that happens on the computer that plays sound comes out of them. Music, sound effects, video soundtracks. That kind of thing..."

...

Any of the purebloods got something to say? That could be funny.

"Yes, speakers play sounds ... good." Hadley nodded. And they could maybe get the chance to explore that? "OR if you're in a public setting and don't want to disturb people with speakers, most computers have a small circular jack ... a headphone opening ... where you could plug a pair of headphones in to listen to music or video soundtracks without disturbing others."

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Originally Posted by Team ronmione

Tag took the paper that was passed to him and looked at each spot that was marked on it. Finding a piece that he felt comfortable answering with. He glanced at it for a bit before speaking up, "Icons are like programs. You click on the 'icon' and a particular program should pop up, or a window should appear that relates to that program. Like, if you click on a music note icon then, you should get a new 'window' that has a program all about music." Tag said.

He'd realized earlier that he had answered the question wrong. So, this time, he hoped it had been more on the right track. The boy didn't want to say something completely wrong from what Hadley had asked.

"Yes, icons are little symbols on the display which are shortcuts to programs. Good." Some of them were more obvious than others, even if you knew nothing about computers.

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Originally Posted by AlwaysSnapesGirl

Ooo, a diagram. Nice. Now Penelope had to decide which one would be the easiest and take the least effort to explain out of the ones that hadn't been mentioned yet. Hmm.

Finally deciding on one, she raised her hand. "The keyboard is the thing you type on to make words and numbers and other things appear on the screen." Pretty simple and straightforward really.

"Yes, exactly right." Nothing more to add about the keyboard; it was one of those straightforward items.

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Originally Posted by PhoenixStar

AJ had messed something up in Muggle Studies? How was that possible when she was nothing more than a muggle less than a year ago? Moving on. The lion paid attention and made adjustments to her notes. All better now.

Once the diagram was passed to her, she wasted no time putting her two cents in. With a said hand she said, "Professor, the mouse is used to access what you need to on the computer. You move it around, and then click on the program." Although, it was funny that that mouse had a wire still attached. Everybody was wireless nowadays.

"No, no, a mouse is the thing cats chase... " Hadley winked, before shaking her head. "Just kidding. Yes, a computer mouse is whats used to access items on the computer."

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Originally Posted by Emms

His list was good. Phew. He thought it had been terrible but he figured that he ought to stop doubting himself so much. Now Professor Hadley had a diagram of a computer up. Alright... Cool! Simon knew kind of how they worked but how could he explain it. He paused, tried to form some ideas about the monitor and then raised his hand. "The monitor gives us some feedback of what the computer is doing when you work or play on it. It does it through the use of images and text?" he offered, really unsure. He then simplified his previous statement. "Basically it allows to see what we're doing on the computer." Man. Explaining a monitor was difficult and he was just extremely grateful that there was one attached to a computer.

"Yes, the monitor. Displays the information from the computer tower."

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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11

Well at least Jasmine had gotten part of her answer right. She equated the portkey with an airplane because they had taken a portkey to Peru this summer and traveling from London to Peru seemed like an airplane situation to her. Anyway.....

Listening to the next question, Jasmine raised her hand to give her answer. "There are many keys that make up the keyboard. Each key represents a letter, a symbol or a task to be performed." Anything else to add? Probably, but that was all she had at the moment.

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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11

Thinking about what she had said, Jasmine realized that she hadn't really answered the question. She had explained what keys were, but hadn't said what they were used for. She really was out of it today.

Raising her hand again, Jasmine tried to correct her mistake. "The keys are pressed to type out words, numbers, symbols and also to perform actions like delete and return." She hoped that she had cleared up her answer.

"Yes. Good." That was in essence how the keyboard worked. Via the keys.

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Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom

Caleb blinked at the diagram that was held in front of them. WHAT did half of these things even mean? What was a CD-ROM? That was NOT a mouse that they had labeled on there either, it was some sort of egg looking thing. How did muggles understand all this stuff?

Caleb picked an easy one and raised his hand. "I know the power strip is where you plug the computer in. Like most muggle electronics, it can't work without being plugs into a power source," he explained.

Hadley just nodded at Caleb's answer; which basically was what was already said, but correct nonetheless.

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Originally Posted by Squishy

Yaaay, computers!

Lux liked using them to access Twitter, and she used the Technology Center a lot of the time for that very reason. That, and the telephone - though she didn't use that as often. Raising her hand, she said, "The toolbar is a row of boxes that you see at the top of the window when using an application. It's purpose is to carry out different functions within the application, and there are icons that tell you what the specific function is." Did that make any sense? She was trying to explain, but it was a little hard. "For instance, if a muggle wanted to print something, they would push the button in the toolbar that has a picture of a printer on it."

"Yes, the toolbar. Each application on the computer has its own unique toolbar."

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Originally Posted by OwlEcho63

Hazel raised her hand eagerly. "The CD-ROM drive reads the data off of the CD and allows the user of the computer to view the contents of the disk." That sounded a lot more professional than she would have expected. It kind of goes in the name, "CD-ROM drive" that it has something to do with a CD. Still, she was proud of her answer. Maybe it could even be right! That would be exciting.

"Yes correct, the CD-Rom Drive reads the data from the disc and interprets it."

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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Adi studied Professor Hadley's diagram. Not that he really had to. He was familiar with a computer and most of its components. He waited for a few of his classmates to give their answers before he raised his hand.

"The cursor, Professor. It's used to select the item such as an icon, the tool bar or an item on it- basically anything on the monitor.'' The keys on the keyboard can be used for that purpose too but he thought a mouse was much easier to use.

"The cursor, which may or may not be whats represented by the mouse on screen... but yes."

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Originally Posted by littledhampir

Hayden studied the diagram Hadley showed them. She thought she knew what most of the things were. Even though her mother's family was pureblood, her dad was a muggleborn so she wasn't completely oblivious to muggle things. She knew what a computer was. She listened to what other people were saying so she wouldn't give the same answers as them. Hayden raised her hand.

"The sceen shows you a picture of whatever is on your computer." There, that one was pretty easy.

"Yes. The screen displays the picture. Good."

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Originally Posted by ScarletCharm104

Well, whoops. Marigold hadn't finished her notes by the time Hadley walked past her desk, so she just scribbled her remaining three muggle to wizard analogies down. They were the simple ones.

SPOILER!!: Notes

Once that was done, she raised her hand to answer the question. "The speaker is where sound comes out." Good for music. Yus.

Hadley nodded at Marigold's answer, which had basically already been given.

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Originally Posted by Shanners

Good? Aweeesome. Elodie crossed out the question marks on her list, and put ticks in their place so if she looked back at her notes, she'd know and understand perfectly well that she'd gotten them all right like an awesome person.

Awesomer than some of the people in here anyway.

Her hand went up in the air for the next question, and once it was her turn to answer she let it fall back into her lap. "The mouse mat is like..a stable surface for the mouse to be placed and moved on. You can also get them with your own pictures on. So you get to mouse roll on your face. Cool, huh?" Not really. The sarcasm was evident in her tone, and she was already looking back at the computers in the classroom for a hint at the year they were made.

1750, maybe?

1400?

"Ah the mouse mat. A smooth place for the mouse to move so you can actually use it. Good."

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Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Wait, what, what, WHAT?!

Sophie had just missed what was pretty much the entire class. A list?! She hadn't even made her list yet. What was she supposed to--oh, yeah! Comparisons. She might be able to do that. She dipped her quill in ink and began scribbling away.

Light bulb - Lumos
Telephones - Owls
E-mail - Patronus

Err..., that was all the Muggle terms she knew as far as technology was concerned. Anyway...there had been a question, right? Sophie turned toward the diagram.

"Well, I know what power means," she said, raising her hand. Duh. "So the power strip would be what made the whole thing turn on."

"Yes, good." Hadley said when someone else commented on the power strip. They BETTER all know about the power and power strip, given last year. Unless they were new to muggle studies, in which case okay.

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Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin

Kace was hearing everyone's answers and he thought they were pretty good. He was dazing and missed out writing his answer. But anyways onto the task at hand. He squinted to the board and saw the computer there. She asked what tasks they each have. He saw the toolbar and raised his hand and said, "Professor the task-bar is at the bottom of the computer screen, it shows the user what application you have opened or you can switch between active windows." Yup that pretty much sums up what he thought the task bar does. It reminded him on the computer he had in his basement.

"Yes, good," Hadley nodded. "Task-bar for the computer. Not to be confused with toolbar for each application."

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Originally Posted by feeheeheeny

It was nice that Hadley didn't tell her she was completely wrong and make her look silly in front of everyone. Soph appreciated that about her, even though she still wasn't certain that her answers were all correct. She'd just hope, though.

A computerrrr. Culloden had showed her how to work one of these in the technology center last term - at least, he'd given her a brief overview, so she wasn't completely unfamiliar, but... she also wasn't really sure what all of those terms meant. People were good at listing them all off, though, and Soph jotted quick notes as they did so until there were only a few unanswered terms left. She wasn't sure exactly what a taskbar was - but then Kace filled them in, so she raised a hand and guessed at another term, "Well, going by the diagram, I'd say the tower is that part of the computer sticking straight up and down, like a building kind of tower. I think... it's like, the main part of it, yeah? The thing that does all the... computing? Like the powerhouse of it?" Or something?

Ah finally someone mentioned the MAIN part of the computer. The part which controlled everything. The brain. "Yes, the tower. The main part. Very logical assumptions there too about it being the thing that did all the computing and the powerhouse. It is the brain of the whole device."

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Originally Posted by hermionesclone

Lux had done well in explaining how these type of computers worked but even so, Grayson still found the diagram to be useful. It was funny, wasn't it, to think that in recent times, all of the data that was probably stored in the tower and moniter back then could now be stored in a thin tablet. Heh. Funny. He missed his tablet, by the way. Homework would be much easier. Just saying.

As for the question, the Slytherin took some time to look over at the diagram in front of him. What could he focus on? The tower? Nah, that brought back memories of him not realising what it was. AND the time when he tried to turn the computer on and didn't realise that the tower had to be turned on as well. Something he could laugh about now? 'Course!

HA!

Ha!

Ha.

Moving on, he was going to concentrate onnnnn......... "Professor? The window is what you open up when you click on an application. It's only on the window that you can carry out the task that you need to. For example, in the diagram, it shows a window of a Word document," Which, like everything else, looked freaking old. "It's only when you open up the window that you can type what you need to, be it a letter or an essay and whatnot. You can have multiple windows open at the same time." Uh huh.

"Yes, the window is what opens when you click on an application. Good."

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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack

OH OH OH he got a nod! He got an approving nod! HA! He wasn't hopeless after all SEE?! Ha, he was finally getting his muggle studies mojo back. Ha. Who needs to toss pizzas anyways. Hmph. That was a fail.

Ahem, right okay. Next question. When Hadley showed them the diagram, Zander's face lit up like a christmas tree. Okay, not quite as dramatic as a christmas tree, BUT STILL he was excited okay? Because he used computers ALL the time back home and he definitely knew all about that stuff. Raising his hand confidently the Gryffindor began explaining. "The toolbar, that's a bar with all these tools..." Uh. Maybe he was too confident because he hadn't really properly thought out his answer quite yet.

"Uh, what I mean is that... It has a bunch of buttons that you can use to manipulate things like text, for example" Did that even make sense.... "Basically a tool bar will just have shortcuts for doing simple tasks and there are tons of different kinds of them..." Okay, next time he's going to think it through before he raises his hand. Because that was a mouthful.

Hadley nodded when Zander explained about the toolbar as someone else had before him except he elaborated slightly more.

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Originally Posted by Talikins

MERLIN GEEEEEEZ! LIKE HOW RUDE!

Trying to make her fall off her chair now, was he?

ARGHH.

After regaining her balance from almost falling off her chair Abbi made sure she gave him quite the STRONG nudge. "Oops. My bad, was just trying to reposition myself." All whispered of course, because class. HEHEHE. See, she could totally play little miss innocent. HAH. NOT like he could.

Anyways DISTRACTING from Grayson was not cool when the Professor asked another question.

OHHH. This diagram, she could ace this.

"Professor, The tower has like a board inside it and that's where all the components of the computer connect together and work together, I think." All said after a hand raise, of course. She'd seen the inside once when their computer at home got fixed, so she knew some about that.

Hadley nodded at Abigail when she also discussed the tower as Sophie had. Yup, it connected the various components together and made them work together. Good.

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Originally Posted by Mordred

Ethan looked up at Hadley when she got to his station and checked his work. Aeroplanes is to brooms. Head scratch. Hmmkay, then. The third year did not erase his answer though, but added Hadley’s comment as a note. He wasn’t going to throw his own answer away just because the professor corrected it.

…

The Slytherin eyed the diagram and his eyes were drawn straight to the tower. Why? Because he had seen Thomas do things to it. Hand up. “Professor? The ‘tower’ is where you place the CD-ROM drive, memory banks, and different electronic chips to make the whole system run. It basically houses the brain of the computer.” Well, that’s how Thomas had explained it to him when he literally took out every piece of chips apart from his own muggle PC. As a pureblood, it was a fascinating thing to see.

But Thomas.

Ethan leaned back on his seat and wore a placid look on his face and continued to stare at the diagram.

And nodded again when Ethan elaborated more on the tower. The powerhouse.

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Originally Posted by nanyjj

Leah took the piece of paper that was passed down to her. Whaa, nice diagram. Very detailed. Not to mention complicated. She looked for an item that would be easy to explain. Yep, this one! Mouse mat. Raising her hand, the Hufflepuff said, "This thing, mouse mat or mousepad, is like.. a MAT for the mouse. Lets the mouse run around easily, making it comfortable for both the mouse and the person using it."

Well, her explanation was not quite the same as her favorite prefect Elodie's, but did Leah's make sense too?

And then she nodded again at Leah when she explained ... re-explained? the mouse mat as Elodie had discussed too.

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Originally Posted by HOPEendures

Hope had remained silent so far. After all....she felt like everyone else was doing a good job at covering everything and it gave her a chance to see the perspective of other people, after all she was raised by muggles. She took the diagram and stared at the picture of a computer and shrugged. If she really wanted to be a wise mouth about it she'd break each and every bit of this diagram down and explain it in perfect detail, but no, not today.

With her hand in the air she said softly, "The CD-ROM drive is where you would input a CD. It could be any kind of compact disk really, even a blank one. It would then allow the computer to read the disk and it would put whats on the disk on your computer if you wished or you could put stuff from the computer onto a blank disk. Things like pictures and music." Yes...she felt like that summed it up properly.

And then nodded again at the re-explanation of the cd-rom drive? Did they cover all the parts on the diagram or were the remaining ones unknown to everyone?

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Originally Posted by SlytherinSistah

Cutty still wasn't entirely sure how he felt about his answer to muggle two-way mirrors and cellular phones, but he'd moved on from that in a split-second. In almost the same moment, Cutty was looking down a diagram and passing the rest up. His eye immediately drawn up toward the little symbols the diagram called icons.

Cutty heard everything that Tag had said and although it definitely formed a series of actions each related to the one before it, the things from which the boy could draw reference made the icons sound as if they did something quite impossible. "Professor?" Or anyone, really. "Aren't icons joost symbols. Symbols that when used cause a specific thing related to the symbol to occur?" Like Runes?

That was fascinating. Did that mean they could perform memory modification charms on it. And what was a computer memorizing anyway? Didn't Professor Hadley just state that the devices before them basically just worked out logical operations? He wasn't entirely unfamiliar with computers, he'd seen one before but he didn't own one and hadn't ever before used one.

"Yes, icons are symbols which represent a specific thing. Good." Another thing someone else had already mentioned sort of? So they covered everything? A glance at the diagram told her that she was pretty sure that was everything.

"Right then, time to turn on the computer. There's a power button for the monitor - usually - as well as one for the tower. The power button is the one that is like an incomplete circle with a vertical line through the circle. Almost like a variation of the Deathly Hallow symbol but without the triangle." Good analogy, right? Demonstrating the computer at the front of the class, the 'windows loading' screen was projected on the whiteboard.

"Computers are vital for many functions muggles take for granted. They help perform inventory functions at the local retailer. They control traffic lights so that you don't end up with a huge mess when driving places. They even are used to calculate how much you owe when shopping and ring up your merchandise." Hmm, computer was almost loaded. "The computers all should be unlocked, so once your computer is loaded, click on the windows menu and go to the games folder. Select a game and play it. OR you may open up the word processor and type up one paragraph about prospective career options."

ooc: so here's how this going to work. we all have computers (ooc). Yes we do? Regardless of whether or not its a mac or pc, you can do something - game, word processor, graphics, music, etc. Once you've done what you think your character would do/play, screencap its start and finish, upload it to your image account (such as Photobucket) and post it here under a spoiler cut. You can/should make RP posts regarding your character working on whatever it is they're working on =) you have 24 hours. GO!

ooc2: if you have questions about screencapping something, don't hesitate to ask me!

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PhoenixRising DMAC & DERP Quintaped Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: in my head [GMT-6] Posts: 58,611 Hogwarts RPG Name: Amelia Adara Graduated Hogwarts RPG Name: Emma Montmorency (#301199) Hufflepuff Second Year Ministry RPG Name: Chloe Michelle Adara Accidents & Catastrophes Ministry RPG Name: TiaMarie Mancini Ecological Protection x12 x8	resists the urge to break the 4th wall with this class ;) YesJess! \| Captain Goggles \| Mama Badger \| Eva's Soul Sister \| An OG™ \| It's all in the Numbers Quote: Originally Posted by Meizzner You know those times when you are trying to pay attention and then you are suddenly in the future and you have no idea what happened. Except you had an awesome daydream. Yeah that just happened. It might have had sea stars and gorgeous hair in it. But Nigel could not remember. Well that question was an excellent segue to the point she was making. Muggle were really fascinating once you started to care about their lived and stuff. "The power strip supplies the computer with electricity,the thing we learned about last year, so it can work." But effort. "Precisely, yes, the power strip is what allows the computer to work. Good." And nice application of previously learned topics. Quote: Originally Posted by Harry174 Angel looked at the Professor and smiled, she wondered if her sister would tell the Professor all about computers because at home her sister loved them more than she did, she would rather do girly stuff instead of playing on a computer but her sister wasn't into girly stuff. Angel raised her hand. "Professor the CD-Rom has data on it that can be used on a computer, it's like with football manager and other top games, they use the disks so that the computer doesn't have to use all it's memory and if you want to swap games you can uninstall one of the others to make room and you can re-install it using the disk later, it free's a lot of space." Angel beamed before continuing. "Though now something called stream is starting to get rid of disks, this is basically so that they can tighten up the security." Angel could tell the Professor more but she decided to leave it as that because she didn't want to get into trouble for talking to much. *"Yes that's all true, albeit the diagram depicts a CD-Rom drive, which is the place that holds the CD-Rom ... a storage device."* Quote: Originally Posted by JustAlice Derry owned a computer, so this wasn't exactly difficult. She mentally listed off what every thing did, but figured she wouldn't say what they all were, since that was kind of hogging the limelight. "The speakers play sound from your computer." she said, after raising her hand. "Anything that happens on the computer that plays sound comes out of them. Music, sound effects, video soundtracks. That kind of thing..." ... Any of the purebloods got something to say? That could be funny. "Yes, speakers play sounds ... good." Hadley nodded. And they could maybe get the chance to explore that? "OR if you're in a public setting and don't want to disturb people with speakers, most computers have a small circular jack ... a headphone opening ... where you could plug a pair of headphones in to listen to music or video soundtracks without disturbing others." Quote: Originally Posted by Team ronmione Tag took the paper that was passed to him and looked at each spot that was marked on it. Finding a piece that he felt comfortable answering with. He glanced at it for a bit before speaking up, "Icons are like programs. You click on the 'icon' and a particular program should pop up, or a window should appear that relates to that program. Like, if you click on a music note icon then, you should get a new 'window' that has a program all about music." Tag said. He'd realized earlier that he had answered the question wrong. So, this time, he hoped it had been more on the right track. The boy didn't want to say something completely wrong from what Hadley had asked. "Yes, icons are little symbols on the display which are shortcuts to programs. Good." Some of them were more obvious than others, even if you knew nothing about computers. Quote: Originally Posted by AlwaysSnapesGirl Ooo, a diagram. Nice. Now Penelope had to decide which one would be the easiest and take the least effort to explain out of the ones that hadn't been mentioned yet. Hmm. Finally deciding on one, she raised her hand. "The keyboard is the thing you type on to make words and numbers and other things appear on the screen." Pretty simple and straightforward really. "Yes, exactly right." Nothing more to add about the keyboard; it was one of those straightforward items. Quote: Originally Posted by PhoenixStar AJ had messed something up in Muggle Studies? How was that possible when she was nothing more than a muggle less than a year ago? Moving on. The lion paid attention and made adjustments to her notes. All better now. Once the diagram was passed to her, she wasted no time putting her two cents in. With a said hand she said, "Professor, the mouse is used to access what you need to on the computer. You move it around, and then click on the program." Although, it was funny that that mouse had a wire still attached. Everybody was wireless nowadays. "No, no, a mouse is the thing cats chase... " Hadley winked, before shaking her head. "Just kidding. Yes, a computer mouse is whats used to access items on the computer." Quote: Originally Posted by Emms His list was good. Phew. He thought it had been terrible but he figured that he ought to stop doubting himself so much. Now Professor Hadley had a diagram of a computer up. Alright... Cool! Simon knew kind of how they worked but how could he explain it. He paused, tried to form some ideas about the monitor and then raised his hand. "The monitor gives us some feedback of what the computer is doing when you work or play on it. It does it through the use of images and text?" he offered, really unsure. He then simplified his previous statement. "Basically it allows to see what we're doing on the computer." Man. Explaining a monitor was difficult and he was just extremely grateful that there was one attached to a computer. "Yes, the monitor. Displays the information from the computer tower." Quote: Originally Posted by Daydreamer11 Well at least Jasmine had gotten part of her answer right. She equated the portkey with an airplane because they had taken a portkey to Peru this summer and traveling from London to Peru seemed like an airplane situation to her. Anyway..... Listening to the next question, Jasmine raised her hand to give her answer. "There are many keys that make up the keyboard. Each key represents a letter, a symbol or a task to be performed." Anything else to add? Probably, but that was all she had at the moment. Quote: Originally Posted by Daydreamer11 Thinking about what she had said, Jasmine realized that she hadn't really answered the question. She had explained what keys were, but hadn't said what they were used for. She really was out of it today. Raising her hand again, Jasmine tried to correct her mistake. "The keys are pressed to type out words, numbers, symbols and also to perform actions like delete and return." She hoped that she had cleared up her answer. "Yes. Good." That was in essence how the keyboard worked. Via the keys. Quote: Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom Caleb blinked at the diagram that was held in front of them. WHAT did half of these things even mean? What was a CD-ROM? That was NOT a mouse that they had labeled on there either, it was some sort of egg looking thing. How did muggles understand all this stuff? Caleb picked an easy one and raised his hand. "I know the power strip is where you plug the computer in. Like most muggle electronics, it can't work without being plugs into a power source," he explained. Hadley just nodded at Caleb's answer; which basically was what was already said, but correct nonetheless. Quote: Originally Posted by Squishy Yaaay, computers! Lux liked using them to access Twitter, and she used the Technology Center a lot of the time for that very reason. That, and the telephone - though she didn't use that as often. Raising her hand, she said, "The toolbar is a row of boxes that you see at the top of the window when using an application. It's purpose is to carry out different functions within the application, and there are icons that tell you what the specific function is." Did that make any sense? She was trying to explain, but it was a little hard. "For instance, if a muggle wanted to print something, they would push the button in the toolbar that has a picture of a printer on it." "Yes, the toolbar. Each application on the computer has its own unique toolbar." Quote: Originally Posted by OwlEcho63 Hazel raised her hand eagerly. "The CD-ROM drive reads the data off of the CD and allows the user of the computer to view the contents of the disk." That sounded a lot more professional than she would have expected. It kind of goes in the name, "CD-ROM drive" that it has something to do with a CD. Still, she was proud of her answer. Maybe it could even be right! That would be exciting. "Yes correct, the CD-Rom Drive reads the data from the disc and interprets it." Quote: Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Adi studied Professor Hadley's diagram. Not that he really had to. He was familiar with a computer and most of its components. He waited for a few of his classmates to give their answers before he raised his hand. "The cursor, Professor. It's used to select the item such as an icon, the tool bar or an item on it- basically anything on the monitor.'' The keys on the keyboard can be used for that purpose too but he thought a mouse was much easier to use. "The cursor, which may or may not be whats represented by the mouse on screen... but yes." Quote: Originally Posted by littledhampir Hayden studied the diagram Hadley showed them. She thought she knew what most of the things were. Even though her mother's family was pureblood, her dad was a muggleborn so she wasn't completely oblivious to muggle things. She knew what a computer was. She listened to what other people were saying so she wouldn't give the same answers as them. Hayden raised her hand. "The sceen shows you a picture of whatever is on your computer." There, that one was pretty easy. "Yes. The screen displays the picture. Good." Quote: Originally Posted by ScarletCharm104 Well, whoops. Marigold hadn't finished her notes by the time Hadley walked past her desk, so she just scribbled her remaining three muggle to wizard analogies down. They were the simple ones. SPOILER!!: Notes 1. Electric fireplace=flame conjuring spell 2. Treadmill=walking 3. Car=broom/floo/apparation(transport) 4. Cellphone's texting capability=really fast owls? 5. Air conditioning=cooling charm Once that was done, she raised her hand to answer the question. "The speaker is where sound comes out." Good for music. Yus. Hadley nodded at Marigold's answer, which had basically already been given. Quote: Originally Posted by Shanners Good? Aweeesome. Elodie crossed out the question marks on her list, and put ticks in their place so if she looked back at her notes, she'd know and understand perfectly well that she'd gotten them all right like an awesome person. Awesomer than some of the people in here anyway. Her hand went up in the air for the next question, and once it was her turn to answer she let it fall back into her lap. "The mouse mat is like..a stable surface for the mouse to be placed and moved on. You can also get them with your own pictures on. So you get to mouse roll on your face. Cool, huh?" Not really. The sarcasm was evident in her tone, and she was already looking back at the computers in the classroom for a hint at the year they were made. 1750, maybe? 1400? "Ah the mouse mat. A smooth place for the mouse to move so you can actually use it. Good." Quote: Originally Posted by Anna Banana Wait, what, what, WHAT?! Sophie had just missed what was pretty much the entire class. A list?! She hadn't even made her list yet. What was she supposed to--oh, yeah! Comparisons. She might be able to do that. She dipped her quill in ink and began scribbling away. Light bulb - Lumos Telephones - Owls E-mail - Patronus Err..., that was all the Muggle terms she knew as far as technology was concerned. Anyway...there had been a question, right? Sophie turned toward the diagram. "Well, I know what power means," she said, raising her hand. Duh. "So the power strip would be what made the whole thing turn on." "Yes, good." Hadley said when someone else commented on the power strip. They BETTER all know about the power and power strip, given last year. Unless they were new to muggle studies, in which case okay. Quote: Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin Kace was hearing everyone's answers and he thought they were pretty good. He was dazing and missed out writing his answer. But anyways onto the task at hand. He squinted to the board and saw the computer there. She asked what tasks they each have. He saw the toolbar and raised his hand and said, "Professor the task-bar is at the bottom of the computer screen, it shows the user what application you have opened or you can switch between active windows." Yup that pretty much sums up what he thought the task bar does. It reminded him on the computer he had in his basement. "Yes, good," Hadley nodded. "Task-bar for the computer. Not to be confused with toolbar for each application." Quote: Originally Posted by feeheeheeny It was nice that Hadley didn't tell her she was completely wrong and make her look silly in front of everyone. Soph appreciated that about her, even though she still wasn't certain that her answers were all correct. She'd just hope, though. A computerrrr. Culloden had showed her how to work one of these in the technology center last term - at least, he'd given her a brief overview, so she wasn't completely unfamiliar, but... she also wasn't really sure what all of those terms meant. People were good at listing them all off, though, and Soph jotted quick notes as they did so until there were only a few unanswered terms left. She wasn't sure exactly what a taskbar was - but then Kace filled them in, so she raised a hand and guessed at another term, "Well, going by the diagram, I'd say the tower is that part of the computer sticking straight up and down, like a building kind of tower. I think... it's like, the main part of it, yeah? The thing that does all the... computing? Like the powerhouse of it?" Or something? Ah finally someone mentioned the MAIN part of the computer. The part which controlled everything. The brain. "Yes, the tower. The main part. Very logical assumptions there too about it being the thing that did all the computing and the powerhouse. It is the brain of the whole device." Quote: Originally Posted by hermionesclone Lux had done well in explaining how these type of computers worked but even so, Grayson still found the diagram to be useful. It was funny, wasn't it, to think that in recent times, all of the data that was probably stored in the tower and moniter back then could now be stored in a thin tablet. Heh. Funny. He missed his tablet, by the way. Homework would be much easier. Just saying. As for the question, the Slytherin took some time to look over at the diagram in front of him. What could he focus on? The tower? Nah, that brought back memories of him not realising what it was. AND the time when he tried to turn the computer on and didn't realise that the tower had to be turned on as well. Something he could laugh about now? 'Course! HA! Ha! Ha. Moving on, he was going to concentrate onnnnn......... "Professor? The window is what you open up when you click on an application. It's only on the window that you can carry out the task that you need to. For example, in the diagram, it shows a window of a Word document," Which, like everything else, looked freaking old. "It's only when you open up the window that you can type what you need to, be it a letter or an essay and whatnot. You can have multiple windows open at the same time." Uh huh. "Yes, the window is what opens when you click on an application. Good." Quote: Originally Posted by ArianaBlack OH OH OH he got a nod! He got an approving nod! HA! He wasn't hopeless after all SEE?! Ha, he was finally getting his muggle studies mojo back. Ha. Who needs to toss pizzas anyways. Hmph. That was a fail. Ahem, right okay. Next question. When Hadley showed them the diagram, Zander's face lit up like a christmas tree. Okay, not quite as dramatic as a christmas tree, BUT STILL he was excited okay? Because he used computers ALL the time back home and he definitely knew all about that stuff. Raising his hand confidently the Gryffindor began explaining. "The toolbar, that's a bar with all these tools..." Uh. Maybe he was too confident because he hadn't really properly thought out his answer quite yet. "Uh, what I mean is that... It has a bunch of buttons that you can use to manipulate things like text, for example" Did that even make sense.... "Basically a tool bar will just have shortcuts for doing simple tasks and there are tons of different kinds of them..." Okay, next time he's going to think it through before he raises his hand. Because that was a mouthful. Hadley nodded when Zander explained about the toolbar as someone else had before him except he elaborated slightly more. Quote: Originally Posted by Talikins MERLIN GEEEEEEZ! LIKE HOW RUDE! Trying to make her fall off her chair now, was he? ARGHH. After regaining her balance from almost falling off her chair Abbi made sure she gave him quite the STRONG nudge. "Oops. My bad, was just trying to reposition myself." All whispered of course, because class. HEHEHE. See, she could totally play little miss innocent. HAH. NOT like he could. Anyways DISTRACTING from Grayson was not cool when the Professor asked another question. OHHH. This diagram, she could ace this. "Professor, The tower has like a board inside it and that's where all the components of the computer connect together and work together, I think." All said after a hand raise, of course. She'd seen the inside once when their computer at home got fixed, so she knew some about that. Hadley nodded at Abigail when she also discussed the tower as Sophie had. Yup, it connected the various components together and made them work together. Good. Quote: Originally Posted by Mordred Ethan looked up at Hadley when she got to his station and checked his work. Aeroplanes is to brooms. Head scratch. Hmmkay, then. The third year did not erase his answer though, but added Hadley’s comment as a note. He wasn’t going to throw his own answer away just because the professor corrected it. … The Slytherin eyed the diagram and his eyes were drawn straight to the tower. Why? Because he had seen Thomas do things to it. Hand up. “Professor? The ‘tower’ is where you place the CD-ROM drive, memory banks, and different electronic chips to make the whole system run. It basically houses the brain of the computer.” Well, that’s how Thomas had explained it to him when he literally took out every piece of chips apart from his own muggle PC. As a pureblood, it was a fascinating thing to see. But Thomas. Ethan leaned back on his seat and wore a placid look on his face and continued to stare at the diagram. And nodded again when Ethan elaborated more on the tower. The powerhouse. Quote: Originally Posted by nanyjj Leah took the piece of paper that was passed down to her. Whaa, nice diagram. Very detailed. Not to mention complicated. She looked for an item that would be easy to explain. Yep, this one! Mouse mat. Raising her hand, the Hufflepuff said, "This thing, mouse mat or mousepad, is like.. a MAT for the mouse. Lets the mouse run around easily, making it comfortable for both the mouse and the person using it." Well, her explanation was not quite the same as her favorite prefect Elodie's, but did Leah's make sense too? And then she nodded again at Leah when she explained ... re-explained? the mouse mat as Elodie had discussed too. Quote: Originally Posted by HOPEendures Hope had remained silent so far. After all....she felt like everyone else was doing a good job at covering everything and it gave her a chance to see the perspective of other people, after all she was raised by muggles. She took the diagram and stared at the picture of a computer and shrugged. If she really wanted to be a wise mouth about it she'd break each and every bit of this diagram down and explain it in perfect detail, but no, not today. With her hand in the air she said softly, "The CD-ROM drive is where you would input a CD. It could be any kind of compact disk really, even a blank one. It would then allow the computer to read the disk and it would put whats on the disk on your computer if you wished or you could put stuff from the computer onto a blank disk. Things like pictures and music." Yes...she felt like that summed it up properly. And then nodded again at the re-explanation of the cd-rom drive? Did they cover all the parts on the diagram or were the remaining ones unknown to everyone? Quote: Originally Posted by SlytherinSistah Cutty still wasn't entirely sure how he felt about his answer to muggle two-way mirrors and cellular phones, but he'd moved on from that in a split-second. In almost the same moment, Cutty was looking down a diagram and passing the rest up. His eye immediately drawn up toward the little symbols the diagram called icons. Cutty heard everything that Tag had said and although it definitely formed a series of actions each related to the one before it, the things from which the boy could draw reference made the icons sound as if they did something quite impossible. "Professor?" Or anyone, really. "Aren't icons joost symbols. Symbols that when used cause a specific thing related to the symbol to occur?" Like Runes? That was fascinating. Did that mean they could perform memory modification charms on it. And what was a computer memorizing anyway? Didn't Professor Hadley just state that the devices before them basically just worked out logical operations? He wasn't entirely unfamiliar with computers, he'd seen one before but he didn't own one and hadn't ever before used one. "Yes, icons are symbols which represent a specific thing. Good." Another thing someone else had already mentioned sort of? So they covered everything? A glance at the diagram told her that she was pretty sure that was everything. "Right then, time to turn on the computer. There's a power button for the monitor - usually - as well as one for the tower. The power button is the one that is like an incomplete circle with a vertical line through the circle. Almost like a variation of the Deathly Hallow symbol but without the triangle." Good analogy, right? Demonstrating the computer at the front of the class, the 'windows loading' screen was projected on the whiteboard. "Computers are vital for many functions muggles take for granted. They help perform inventory functions at the local retailer. They control traffic lights so that you don't end up with a huge mess when driving places. They even are used to calculate how much you owe when shopping and ring up your merchandise." Hmm, computer was almost loaded. "The computers all should be unlocked, so once your computer is loaded, click on the windows menu and go to the games folder. Select a game and play it. OR you may open up the word processor and type up one paragraph about prospective career options." ooc: so here's how this going to work. we all have computers (ooc). Yes we do? Regardless of whether or not its a mac or pc, you can do something - game, word processor, graphics, music, etc. Once you've done what you think your character would do/play, screencap its start and finish, upload it to your image account (such as Photobucket) and post it here under a spoiler cut. You can/should make RP posts regarding your character working on whatever it is they're working on =) you have 24 hours. GO! ooc2: if you have questions about screencapping something, don't hesitate to ask me! __________________ ______________So much is happening to me. So much that I can't even see. So many words of wisdom that I am trying to be. It'll be in my own time.