comptia makerspace
Bottom line: Building Network Attached Storage (NAS) and making a web server can be explained with the more relevant CompTIA topics. If the students are doing the projects intentional to learn CompTIA terms it can enhance the learning experience by the learners hands-on.
I just had a Discord interaction regarding riser cards being on the CompTIA exam. I’m Eric, and my vision is to revamp historical study guides and labs with pureplay now study material. The talk about riser cards and whether they are relevant got me. You can have a usable study guide to take notes from to learn topics for upper-tier CompTIA and learn computer repair for what you will find on the shelf at Comdex and other consumer electronic shows.
In answer to creating a story or analog to the TCP/IP model I used the real example of an HTTP web request as best I can. Protocol Data Units (PDU) frames, packets, segments are topics from Cisco and networking tier 2 CompTIA content. If I use them in tier 1 content that could be students meaningful transition from tier 1 to tier 2. I believe that many students carry the scope in their mind not knowing that they are separate exams, yet wanting to learn more because in an eradic study pattern the content gets mixed and are distractors.
Maybe identifying the distractors that do appear in the CompTIA tier 1 can help to turn their study back to tier 1, while making a bread crump preparing for tier 2 learning.
In this 2 example of the blog. The apache web server would be the practical analogy to make the OSI and TCP/IP models anchored in hands on learning.
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So this blog presents two maker space ideas. One from computer repair. Use the “hot” new components like NVME network attached storage to build one. Then understand distractor “riser card” as a HAT to get the NVME and controller attached to a pi that fits in the pi form factor case.
The other maker project is the conceptual flow of information between web server and a client browser. Using the OSI and TCP/IP model as an analogy to understand what is happening during viewing a web page.
Learning connections.
Here is the link I used to fact check my TCP/IP model analogy.
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