Discover your Computer

Discover the Computer engages the student with the use of a personal computer. Students are encouraged and motivated to learn and use a computer as a common tool in a household or professional environment. After moving beyond the initial fears of using a computer, students begin to familiarize themselves with hardware, software, the desktop environment, and common practices and abilities of a desktop or laptop machine.

- What is a computer?
- Physical Machine Recognition
- Input devices and peripherals
- Hardware and Software relationship
- Hard Drives, RAM, and Removable Media
- Volatile and Physical Information
- Processing
- Computer Measurement Standards with Bytes and Hertz
- Recognizable Universal and Common Icons and Symbols
- Desktop Layout
- Desktop Environment
- Folder Navigation
- Windows and Menus
- Toolbars
- Understanding the Operating System
- Representation of Information
- File and Folder Relationship
- Information Manipulation and Preservation
- File Management and Organization
- Best Practices
- Folder Structures
- Basic Applications
- Introduction to word processing with Windows Notepad
- Introduction to calculation with Windows Calculator
- System Recovery with Task Manager and Run Command
- Basic Keyboard Shortcuts

We are currently taking an interest list for Discover your Computer. Please sign our contact form or call (765) 659-6380 to be contacted for our next class.