P200

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Technology Onion - Software: Operating System & Applications

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 Windows 7
  • Further Study - Note: The desktop pictures in this presentation will not look like the desktop in the STC labs.
    • The desktop (overview)
    • The taskbar (overview)
    • Working with windows
    • Working with files and folders
• View Software.
  • Further Study:
    • Using programs
• Find P200 Buddies
• Demonstration of submitting work to Assignments 2
• Exam 1 Study Guide on Class Resources

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
• Submiting 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

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