Computer  Training             a series of 18 Lectures               by Ken Smith

 

01  What’s in your Computer and What You Need to Know

How to Use Windows and save and find Files.  How to BackUp your System and BackUp your Data and Speed Up your Computer, and use Help and the Control Panel.  Hints and Tips demonstrated.  

02  Add Broadband + Internet Applications

What is Wireless, Email, Web-Surfing, and Searching the Internet.   Electronic Shopping, Skype, Security Issues and Social Networks are discussed.

03  Handling Photos

3(a) Saving, filing and viewing holiday Photographs in jpg format.  3(b) How to modify pictures by Photo Editing.

04  Handling Music files

Saving, filing and Downloading Music mp3 files, and creating mp3 files from an audio CD.

05  Making your own DVD of your holiday photos the easy way

How to put photos and music files together to make your own DVD movie so your family can sit round your own television screen to watch your own holiday DVD on a big screen.

06  Make Address Labels + Directories

Create Labels for your Christmas Cards, and to create a Membership Directory for a sports or social club.

07  Make Newsletters + Handbooks

Create a Newsletter, and create a Handbook for a sports or social club.

08  How Computers work

Illustrated with models and examples of how the hardware works will help you understand how a computer works and how to get the most out of it.

09  How Software works

Illustrated with simple examples of how software works will enable you to understand what is going on and enable you to use your computer more efficiently.

10  How the Internet works

What is the Internet and simple examples show how it works.

11  How to make a Spreadsheet

What is a spreadsheet and how to make your own spreadsheet applications.  How to add your own calculations, and edit and format, and create macros the easy way.  Illustrated with examples.

12  How to make a Database

What is a database and how it is different from a spreadsheet.  How to make your own database, and make queries, and present the results in a good looking format.  Illustrated with examples.

13  How to make a PowerPoint Presentation

What is a presentation and how to add text and pictures and a bit of colour and special effects

14  How to make your own simple Website

What is a website and how to create web pages and hyperlink together the easy way.  How to test your own website on your own computer, and how to upload it and publish it on the internet.

15  Computer Applications over the last 50 years

A history of computer applications as experienced by the speaker, from punched cards to iphones.  

16  Tablets

Ipads & Androids etc

17  Hints & Tips