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Class location: Learn Productive Technology Skills
Front Street Emporium 601-Front St. #107, Nelson, BC
Mondays, 6:00 to 9:00 PM – Course Total Cost $795 Course runs for 10 consecutive weeks (not including holidays)
Lesson 1 Assessment, creating a document in Word Pad, editing, saving Exercise: Fonts and Paint Games: Solitaire saving and opening Documents; My Documents: Recent documents Discussion: Homework; buy basic computer magazine to learn; computer terminology Setting desktop preferences Quick Launch; System Tray;
Lesson 2 Questions, review (first every lesson); saving: creating files and folders Exercise: Format Exercise Article: World Wide Web Internet: browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Explorer, Safari Surfing: search for numerous websites; common usage: YouTube; Face Book; MySpace Specific: cbc.ca; dell.ca; msn.com Article: Getting Clear Article: Office Suite Options Viewing files and folders; saving
Lesson 3 Review saving: create folders and save into them (use colors, animal’s names, etc.); delete files Components of computer Setting desktop preferences Exercise: Saving Letter Practise Email: webmail only: Gmail account (lesson filling out online forms) Article: Office Suite Options Download: Open Office; show Learnthenet.com and the section on how to download Internet: copy & paste into WordPad from website Print selection on website; print preview; drop down menu choice of whole or selection to print
Lesson 4 Review saving: create a folder within a folder Internet: Using bookmarks/favourites Using Task Manager Mavis Beacon introduction Introduction to MS Word
Burn CD/DVD Camera downloads (take photo); Photo program (Picasa); Windows Gallery Article: Files and Media Exercise: Clip Art
Lesson 5 Saving: renaming, saving more than one copy to different folders (Save As & copy & paste) Using Help. Word help & Help and Support Using the Ribbon: Use MS Office to find tips on ribbon use Using a USB data drive; saving practise on USB to work with: show how to do headers/footers Intro to POP mail: Windows Mail; Outlook Express Article: Internet email; Article: BCC
Lesson 6 Article: Getting the Essential Security You Need; Article: Protecting Your Personal Information Article: Avoiding the Phishers; Article: Safe Download Sites; Article: Internet Security Antivirus protection: Kaspersky; Norton; Bitdefender, Clam (free), AVG (free); search reviews Downloading: Malware-Bytes; Super Anti-Spyware (do a search for top spyware protection) Microsoft Office Online: Excel and other tutorials, tips
Lesson 7 Review: MS Online Control Panel: show how to add and remove programs Windows Explorer: show files and folders Exercise: Saving, Help and Drawing Exercises: first do lesson on using USB; headers/footers Disk Cleanup, Defragment Use Help to create shortcuts or pin to the Start Menu
Lesson 8 Exercise: Finding Help and Other Important Tasks Exercise: Table Feature Exercise: Discover Scuba (has footnote and borders)
Lesson 9 Exercise: Tabs Exercise: Paper Avalanche Show column feature in Word Publisher: create a business card Creating Envelopes. Labels and printing
Lesson 10 Take a picture (self timer) and handle on computer Media: Windows Media Player; ITunes Exercise: Can You Do This? Clean up personal files and folders Other: Exercise: Long Report; Article: What Can You Do With Adobe Reader