Student Introduction to laptops

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Student Introduction to laptops

• Jim Moore

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Laptop Basics

• Care of laptop
• Power switch/battery
• Floppy drive
• Mouse
• Sound Jacks
• USB and Firewire
• CD player CDRW

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Laptop Specs

• 512mb of RAM, 40gb hard drive
• Modem, Ethernet
• Windows XP, Virus protection
• Office 2003, Mozilla

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Memory Key (what is it ?)

• Takes the place of a floppy drive. You can store
  papers, pictures, excel files, files downloaded
  from the internet. Files can move from one
  computer to the next.
• Send a file to the memory key . . . .

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Wireless Access !!
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Homeroom (what is it ?)

• Is your personal network storage. You can store
  papers, pictures, excel files, files downloaded
  from the internet. Files can move from any
  computer to your homeroom space.
• Copy a file to
• homeroom . . . .

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Public_html (what is it ?)

• Is your personal web space. You can share
  papers, pictures, excel files, other files with
  the world. Anyone can see the files in
  public_html.
• Create your own public_html folder. . .

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Application Demo

• Mozilla
• Microsoft Word
• Acrobat - making PDFs
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Other . . .

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iTUNES

• Downloading music
• Making CDs