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Beginning Macintosh Course Outline

Lesson 1
Basics Terms and concepts
Hardware and software
Using the Mouse (click to select)(double click to open)(click and drag to move)
The Finder/Desktop icons and menus
Apple Menu Applications
Using Menus within Applications
Using the Application Menu to change the "Active Application"

Lesson 2
Icons, Folders, Windows
Creating, naming, moving, and trashing folders
Opening, closing, moving and resizing windows
Creating a Filing System of nested folders for saving your files

Lesson 3
Getting Help and Shortcuts
Balloon Help
The Apple Macintosh Guide

Lesson 4
Discussion of Memory and System Software
8 bits=1 byte, 1000 bytes=1 kilobyte, 1000 kilobytes=1 megabyte. 1000megabytes=1 gigabyte
RAM (Random Access Memory) a.k.a. electronic or working memory
look at-about this Macintosh (apple menu when the "Finder" is active)
Hard Disk Space a.k.a. storage or magnetic memory
look at-Information bar of open window

Lesson 5
Creating and Saving Documents
Finding and Launching MS Word
Word Processing Basics
Naming and Saving Documents into Folders
Save and "Save As" dialogue boxes
Opening and Closing Documents and navigating through your Folders
Quitting MS Word

Lesson 6
Control Panels
Customizing the desktop
Setting the date and time
Mouse, View, and Sound control Panels

Lesson 7
Using Floppy Disks
types of floppy disks
locking inserting and ejecting floppies
(if you can see through the hole it's locked),
Copying files between disks

Lesson 8
Trouble Shooting and Maintenance
Rebuilding the desktop (Command and Option keys down while starting up)
Forcing Applications to Quit (Command-Option-Esc all at once)
forcing restart (Command-Control-Bootkey all at once)
Avoiding loss of data

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