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Work Covered in First Two Classes at the Palm Harbor Senior Center, January 14 & 16, 2003

Instructor: Richard Gordon richard@gordonrichard.com
www.gordonrichard.com

Last updated: 03/23/2009
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Tuesday, January 14

  1. Reviewing the first ten pages of the course manual prepared by Mr. Morrison (We just did a quick glance through these pages to recognize how they can be used to support what is covered in class.)
  2. Discussing the different jobs a computer can do (Wordprocessing, spreadsheet, database, accessing information on the internet, creating art work)
  3. How to clean the mouse
  4. Turning on your computer and monitor
  5. Recognizing the function of a screen saver
  6. Discussed difference between an operating system (Windows) and a program (Word)
  7. How to use the mouse
  8. How to get to the top and bottom of a window using the Ctrl key (Ctrl+home Ctrl+end)
  9. Starting a program by clicking on a desktop icon
  10. How to start the program Internet Explorer to get to a Website that will support much of which is covered in the first two classes of this course
    http://www.gordonrichard.com/complit/comparts.htm
  11. Using the first link in the above site to access the Tutorial for computer basics which was assigned for homework.
    http://www.multcolib.org/seniors/tutorials/basics/index.html
  12. How to make a Website your home page so that you can quickly and easily return to it -- our home page for the class.
    Tools/Internet Options/Use Current/OK
  13. How to move windows by clicking and dragging on the blue title bar
  14. Using the Control buttons to minimize, maximize, restore, and minimize a window
  15. How to access a minimized window by clicking on an icon for the program on the Windows' taskbar at the bottom of your screen
  16. Using the scroll bar
  17. How to size a window with the mouse pointer, dragging along the window border
  18. Using the mouse to open a menu and select menu choices
  19. Closing an open menu by clicking on an empty space in the window

Thursday, January 16, 2003

  1. How to use the online Help available in Windows programs
    We practiced using Help with the My Computer program
  2. Recognizing that your computer's file storage-center is its harddrive, usually identified by the letter C
  3. Recognizing that a portable storage-center is your computer's diskette (floppy) diskette drive usually identified by the letter A
  4. How disks are write-protected and how they are made ready to write on
    The tiny tab is up so that you can see through whole=write protected
    The tiny tab down so that you cannot see through whole=can be written on (your work on be saved on this diskette or you can format to delete all flies
  5. How to format a diskette
  6. How to copy a diskette
  7. How to create a folder for your work on your harddrive
    We used My Computer program to view the C drive. We tried locating the My Documents folder on the C drive. If we did locate the My Documents folder, then under it, we made a subfolder with our name on it. We then made a short cut to it and placed the shortcut on the desktop.
    Some students did not have a My Documents folder on their C drive. These students had to create first a My Documents folder and then a subfolder having their names.
  8. How to show a context menu by right clicking
  9. How to open a program using the Start Menu
    We opened the Paint program: Start/Program/Accessories/Paint
  10. How to create a simple drawing using Paint
    We only spent a few minutes on this, but we did get introduced to some of the Paint tools (pen, bucket, rectangle)
  11. How to save a Paint document to our harddrive in the My Documents folder and within a subfolder having our name
  12. How to make a desktop shortcut to their paint document
    Some students had problems trying to save the Paint document to their subfolder. And when they clicked on their desktop shortcut, their Paint document did not appear

Regarding this last item, I will tell Mr. Morrison of the problems some of the students ran into trying to save to a My Documents folder. Perhaps the problem can be traced to the fact that on some of your computers, the My Documents folder had been moved to a location on the harddrive different from its usual position. No doubt Mr. Morrison will do some follow up work on saving to My Documents folder.