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TriSail Enterprises self-guided basic computer skills course (about 3 hours) modified(2005/2/8)
- Learn about your computer:
sit down at a computer and turn it on, turn it off, turn it back on
- what is communicated at "boot" time
(what operating system, how many users)
- What kind of processor does the computer have? How much processor memory?
- How big is the hard disk, how much memory does it have?
- How many megabytes or giga-bytes of the hard-drive are in use?
- What other drives (disk, floppy, CD, DVD) does the computer have?
- Learn about creating and saving files and selecting (left-button) with the mouse
find a paint program and use it to create a "stained glass picture"
- save your picture
- close the program
- reactivate the program 2 different ways and load your picture
- modify and save your picture under a new name
- create a place for you on the hard drive and move your files to this place
- learn the functions of the "window" control boxes and mouse actions: click, double-click, right click, drag and drop, menu behavior (whatever menus are applicable)
- resize a window
- use "iconize" or "iconify" and restore
- move the entire window
- how's double click different from single click ...
- what does right click do?
- find a word processing program
- open it and create a short document, 3 sentences
- with 2 different fonts and at least one centered sentence
- save this document in your folder / directory
- select text in different ways, click, double click, shift/command click, ctrl click
- cut and paste from one section of your document to another
- open or create a longer document and use the scroll bars
- in one click, scroll: one line, one window(page), to the top or bottom of the document
- find a game or program and explore / play with it.
- use it's help system to get answers
- develop printer expertise
- change it's ribbon / cartridge
- load paper (single sheet, continuous form, envelopes, special paper like letterhead)
- print something
- switch between 2 different programs (multi-process)
- copy / move files between logical and physical drives
- create another (besides your own) directory on the hard drive
- insert a "floppy" disk
- move and copy files between the 2 directories and the floppy
- extra credit
- clean up your desktop;
- create new folder(s) and move stuff to this folder
- create a folder for you and move your stuff there
- add a short cut on the desk top that to access your new folder or a program you access frequently
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