P200

Friday, January 13, 2012

Technology Onion - Hardware

What you need to bring/know:

• Textbooks, notebook and pen or pencil
• Open P200 Web site
• Log into Oncourse

What we will do:

• Check Weekly Projects
• View PowerPoint presentation Hardware.
  • Further Study:
    • Introduction to computers
    • Parts of a computer
• Finalize P200 Buddies
• Download Chapter 1 files

Needed Skills:

By working through the materials in Introduction to Computer Concepts, you will have gathered the Needed Skills for P200. You MUST have these skills or you will be lost in class. These skills are:

• Work on the Desktop
• PrintScreen
• Back-up work to USB stick and My Workspace
• Windows manipulation:
  • Alt-Tab
  • Minimize, Maximize, Restore Down, & Close buttons
  • Moving windows
  • Organizing windows from Toolbar
• Searching for programs, folders, and files from Start Menu
• Print in PowerPoint for paper saving
• Submitting your work for grading
• Downloading files
• Zipping and Unzipping files

We will be going over these needed skills throughout the first section of P200.

Lab Work

• Continue work with manual Windows 7 @ IU.
• Begin work on Chapter 1: Common Features of Office 2010 from class textbook.