Computer Basics – week 4

PeripheralsNetworks

(Check printer installed on all learner PCs)

How’s Your Seat This Week…?

Any trip hazards about?

Recap: What Windows Does

Recap: Files and Folders

Recap: Mouse

The RIGHT mouse button

Often brings up a menu

The LEFT mouse button

ClickorDouble-click

Recap: Inside a computer

The Processor or CPU:The brain of the computer

Random Access Memory (RAM):Short term memory usedby the CPU (volatile!)

Hard Drive:Long term storage

Recap: Wordpad

Recap: Wordpad In Wordpad, open the HotelLetter.rtf

document:

HotelLetter.rtf

You need to make some corrections to this letter…

HotelLetter.rtf ‘e’ in england needs making a capital letter

Alter date to today's date

The second paragraph needs its font changing

Six words are misspelt:◦ Thnak◦ kinnd◦ hostel◦ Mancheater◦ and◦ nect

Special Keys So far on the course you have used:

Enter / Return Shift Tab Delete Backspace Delete

Command Keys So far on the course you have used:

Ctrl + Alt + Delete

Navigation Keys So far on the course you have used:

Arrow Keys

Function Keys Across the top of your keyboard are keys

labelled F1, F2, F3, etc…

…These are the Function Keys

Function Keys These are set up to quickly do a common

task in a program

In WordPad Press F1

…the help guide should appear

Function Keys Close down the help guide

Now press F12

The Save As… window will appear

Save your work as HotelLetter2.rtf

Any Questions?

Copy/Cut and Paste Windows Operating System uses a

temporary clipboard to let you copy stuff around:

Copy/Cut and Paste Windows Operating System uses a

temporary clipboard to let you copy stuff around:

Copy

Copy/Cut and Paste Windows Operating System uses a

temporary clipboard to let you copy stuff around:

Paste

Copy and Paste In HotelLetter:

Click on the Palace Hotel artwork Click on Edit >>> Copy Click at the very end of the letter (just after

it reads ‘Charles’) Click on Edit >>> Paste

Click on Edit >>> Paste again… what happens?

Cut and Paste Now select the second paragraph (‘I have

passed on your comments…’) Click on Edit >>> Cut What happens? Click at the top of the letter (just after ‘Dear

Joe’) Click on Edit >>> Paste What happens?

Save your Letter File >>> Save

Quiz

BREAK

Peripherals Peripheral refers to any computer

hardware that plugs into the main computer base unit:

Networks

Networks

Networks

Networks

Networks

Networks

Networks

Networks

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Networks – final points… They won’t be in a row…

You need a Network InterfaceCard on your PC(usually comes as standard)

Wireless Networks – very briefly!

The Internet International Network

Pretty much every computer, mobile phone and iPad is connected to everything else on the planet

Uses of the Internet

Things to Come…

More on the Internet in the second half of the course…

Any Questions?

Recap Using Edit >>> Copy will copy the

selected text or picture to the clipboard

Using Edit >>> Cut will remove the selected object and put it on the clipboard

Once something is on the clipboard it can be Pasted into other programs

Recap Peripherals are any computer

hardware that plugs into the main computer base unit

Networks are simply lots of computers connected together – usually so that they can share files or printers

Next Week - The Big Test Next week is your test on what you have

learned so far on the course

We will spend the first 30 minutes next week doing a quick refresher

Homework: read through the handouts you have been given each week – if you’ve lost / missed one speak up now!