This document is notes for an introduction to computers class. You might also be interested in the notes for some of the other classes

Begin at the begining. Stop whereever you are at the end of class.

Begin with how to logon as student, and show how to logoff each day at the end.

Mouse movement

mouse left buttons in general and to click on 'student' to login

Start->All Programs->Accessories->Paint

Menus will close causing confusion

When they can launch Paint, teach the X in the upper right to close

For now, do not save

practice launching and closing paint

Teach the pen to draw

teach How to resize the window in the lower right

how to resize the canvas in the lower right of the canvas

window maximize

Teach the eraser, paintbrush, paint bucket, filled shapes

Teach edit->undo

show the Ctrl-Z listed next to Undo

teach Ctrl-Z as a faster way to undo

file->save to save their work into My Documents

show ram

show a hard disk

explain ram goes away without electricity and holds only a little, but is very fast

a hard disk holds much more, but is slower. It remembers even without electricity

1 letter = 1 byte

show a text report = 10,000 bytes

show a photo = 500,000 bytes

show the ram = 128,000,000 bytes

show a CD = 650,000,000 bytes

show the hard disk = 60,000,000,000 bytes

1000 = 1K

1000*1000 = 1M

1000*1000*1000 = 1G

show FOLDing a piece of paper in half

show a FOLDer

put the photo and the report into the folder

put many folders into a bigger folder

explain the hard disk as the biggest folder

many smaller folders to group related information

Most folders are for windows, to remember its programs

My Documents is your folder

teach select, cut, copy, and paste

have them draw 1 fish, and make many overlapping copies with no background overlap.

file->open your original photo