CTP Skill Center

In PRO today, we started with typing and went over another new Canva project, the new CTP flyer. I don’t have a lot of experience with Canva, so I went with a template that contained a text area superimposed over an image, which I made the image of Ed Roberts Campus. It was pretty simple to get the CTP logo in an image file and add that to the flyer, as well. Certain things about Canva I didn’t like, such as editing or moving the text boxes without causing confusion about how to resize or realign the text. Most of the buttons are the same as in Google Slides, but the interface is a little more tricky.

For the remainder of class time, I worked on Canva again for the presentation assignment due Thursday. Yesterday, I wasn’t sure what subject I would do my presentation on. Today, I decided to do it on “How to Sell Ice Cream.” I got the idea from a retail storefront in a nearby, distressed building for rent, thinking to myself what business would go great in there. I didn’t put anything about the property in my presentation, however. I just did the presentation on how to sell ice cream, in general.

Class today was fun. We were able to work on creating CTP flyers as well as getting our Canva strategies moving and grooving. I had a good day in class and accepted that formatting does take me a good amount of time, so I know to continuously work on my Thursday projects to ensure they arrive on time. Otherwise, it was a pretty awesome chill day of working through new items and learning more formatting tips and tricks for myself. Excited to record my portfolio speech tomorrow as I took so much time handling it myself. I went over it three million times, lol… fun lesson though!

9 15 2026

Today in class, we continued working on the pre-lab for the networking lab. Then we started working on the required lab for the networking lab. Thanks to Jose’s help, I was able to move a bit further in the lab when I was stuck on how to get pfSense to run at first. I had to shut down the virtual machine to get VirtualBox to work correctly. Tomorrow is tech article presentations, and continue working on network lab assignments.

Today I learned more about networking and I started the Network Building Block lab. I got stuck at the configuration of pfSense, I asked for help and sorted it out. Now I have all three VMs in my LAN set up, and tomorrow I will test the network.

Most of the day was working on the networking lab. I finished up the prelab and was finally able to move onto the actual lab. For today, that mostly involved setting up the pfSense Virtual Machine (VM). Which unfortunately is extremely temperamental so I had to go in and modify a bunch of settings to make sure it was just right. Like my original VM was giving me error messages because on the directions it said to set the VM to Linux and Other Linux when in actuality pfSense is BSD and FreeBSD. Oh well….that’s part of learning. Hopefully I’m past the hard part of the lab and its at least smoother sailing from here on out.

September 15, 2026: The majority of today’s class was working on the Networking pre-lab and project. It was interesting to see how VMs can connect together on the same network. The challenging part was getting everything set up.

Posted 3 jobs. It is amazing what some jobs are asking for in an entry-level position. Please be careful when looking at jobs. Do not be pulled into a job that wants the world but is only paying minimum wage or slightly higher. Than worked in videos for CTP, and that was fun. I am hoping that these videos are becoming useful and able to promote CTP because more people need to gain from this teaching.