Thursday, January 29, 2009

January 28, 2009 - PC TRAINING

Last night (Wednesday) we held the first in a series of PC training classes. The purpose of these classes is to make the Craft more proficient in the use of computers thereby improving their administrative and communications skills. It is hoped that by doing these classes, which are open to the public, this will help the attendees personally, professionally, as well as Masonically.

Our first class was on the basic use of the computer. Here was my outline:

Components of the computer:
- Motherboard, Processor, Memory, Disk, Screen, Keyboard, Mouse
- Peripherals: printers, scanners, cameras, microphones, external drives
- Plugs - USB, Wireless, telephone, cable, serial ports

Operating System
- History - text/command driven
- Concepts: virtual memory, multitasking, multithreading, clipboard, Java

File System
- Hierarchy
- file name structure (8.3)
- types of files .EXE .CMD .BAT
- graphics: BMP, JPG, GIF, TIFF
- text: .TXT
- multimedia: .MPG .WMV .AVI .MP3 .RM .
- File sizes - KB/MB/GB/TB
- ASCII versus Binary files

Keyboard/Mouse relationship
- Use of Mouse - left/right click

Navigating the Desktop
- Tailoring the desktop

Basic Housekeeping
- backup/UPS/surge protection/antivirus

This introductory session mostly relied on lecture and blackboard. I didn't make extensive use of the computer during the session. The next few sessions will.

The session last approximately 90 minutes, including questions and answers. We had a dozen people in attendance, but I hope to have more next time. We are holding these sessions on the fourth Wednesday of the month at the Lodge (7:00pm). Our next one is scheduled for Wednesday, February 25th, where we will be covering WORD PROCESSING.

Until next time.

All the Best,
Tim Bryce, PM, MPS, MMBBFMN
timb001@phmainstreet.com
Dunedin Lodge No. 192 F.& A.M.
http:/www.dunedin192.org/
Dunedin, FL, USA
"For the Good of the Order"

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