Broadband for Seniors Course

The material is based on the NEC Seniors program.

Lesson Plans

Week One - Meet the computer, learn to talk to it

Handout pages 5-7 - Black and White printout.

• Turning the computer on and off
• Using the mouse - Solitaire
• Using the keyboard - Notepad for playing, Tux Typing for practice
  • Optional how a keyboard works http://computer.howstuffworks.com/keyboard1.htm Could dissasemble a keyboard from the tank room if interested
• Extension material
  • Use gestures on a kinect
  • Use voice recognition using Siri
  • http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Computers covers theory
  • http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Basic_Computing_Using_Windows about doing stuff

Week Two - Meet the Internet

Print out pages 9-11 (black and white)

• Revise Week one
• Browsing the internet
• Searching the internet
• Extension material
  • http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Internet Internet

Week Three - Email and Pictures

Print out pages 19 and 12-15 (black and white) and bring along a USB webcam and an SD/MMC/Compact Flash to USB adaptor

• Revise previous weeks
• If no email address sign up for a free account
• Webmail
• Emails with attachments including resizing
• Email etiquette
• Extension material
  • Webcam
  • http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs178-11/ Standford CS 178 - Digital Photography (Spring 2011)

Week Four - Word Processing

Print out pages 8, 16-18 (black and white) and bring along Protecting Yourself Online brochures. Also print up certificates.

• Revise previous weeks
• Internet Safety
• Simple word processing
• Next steps
• Completion certificates
  • Extension material
    • http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/#wg - Libreoffice documentation
    • Markup and Wikitext Word processing
    • http://www.anastigmatix.net/postscript/direct.html - Postscript Word processing for figures