Computer Workshop

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Computer Workshop

• Everything you need to know ..
• in 11 easy steps.
• By David Coyle

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1. Check Your Printer

• Note the room number i.e NH22.
• Go to Start and choose Printers and Faxes.
• Choose Add Printer.
• Go through the Printer Install Wizard answering
  YES to all the questions.
• Look for the Printer that is in your room,
  (i.e. \\MACBETH\NH22-04)
• Make sure it is the DEFAULT printer by right
  clicking on that printer in the Printer Control
  Window.

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2. Right Click Everything

• Right Click files, highlighted text, Web pages,
  Printers almost anywhere in a WINDOWS
  programme.
• You will see all sorts of great commands you can
  use quickly.
• For example, right click on the image below.

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3. Learn Computer Shortcuts

• Hold down CTRLA Select ALL
• Hold down CTRLC Copy
• Hold down CTRLV Paste
• Hold down CTRLS Save
• Hold down CTRLN opens a new browser window.
• Hold down Windows KeyF Find
• Hold down Windows KeyE Opens Windows Explorer
• F1 HELP
• F5 Brings up the FIND Window go to page window
• F7 Brings up the SPELLING and GRAMMAR Window.
• F11 makes the Browser Window large

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4. Know the Rules of H and W

• Use WindowsKEYE to open Windows Explorer look
  for your H and W drives.
• H\ Your Home Directory is your private file
  storage space not web accessible (20 Megabyte
  or 20 floppy disks worth in a space on a computer
  called JUNO).
• W\ Your Web Directory is your private file
  storage space that is web accessible (20 Megabyte
  on ALONSO)
• Both H and W are yours to use for your whole
  time here at X, but do not save PERSONAL files or
  music on these drives. The System Administrator
  has permission to see them at any time.

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5. Know How to Store

• A - The A or Floppy Drive is NOT a good place to
  store your work.
• ALWAYS use 2 or more floppies to store your work.
  If you store your work on 1 floppy, it will break
  and you will lose your work.
• To store important work use the H and W drives
  because they are BACKED UP and the system keeps
  three copies of your work. If you ever lost a
  file, you could get TSG to restore it for you at
  no cost.
• For more information or to learn to MAP or POINT
  your residence computer to your H and W drives,
  go to http//www.stfx.ca/tsg/

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6. Manage Files in One Folder

• On your H drive you will see a folder called
  Landocuments keep all your files in
  H\Landocuments in subfolders under
  H\Landocuments
• For example
• H\Landocuments\Personal\
• H\Landocuments\Personal\momletters OR
• H\Landocuments\Courses\
• H\Landocuments\Courses\English100\
• H\Landocuments\Courses\English 100\term1paper\

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7. Save All Your Work Often

• If you have a CD burner on your residence
  computer you could burn CDs of your
  H\Landocuments folder every once in awhile as an
  extra file storage precaution.
• WARNING about SAVING FILES IN Computer LABS!
  You may, at times, send yourself, or receive, an
  attachment in email. You may choose just to open
  the attachment instead of taking the time to save
  it first and then opening it. it. Once you log
  out, you will lose your files.
• A BETTER practice is to SAVE the FILE in H or W
  and THEN open it that way you know exactly where
  it is and, as you work on it, you will be saving
  it in a safe place.

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8. Use Your Web Space

• W/ is your Web drive! File storage and
  Web-presence.
• www.stfx.ca/people/x2004/x2004aaa
• This is your Web space to use. You can save
  files here and anyone in the world can see and
  download them.
• You could also use this space to mount a Web
  site.
• To store your information as a Web site, create a
  file called welcome.html or index.html and start
  your own Web space.

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9. Extend Your Use of W\

• YOU are in the lab. You save your file on W You
  go home, download file from W to work on it.
  OR.
• You save a file to W and one of your parents or
  a friend can download it to their computer and
  make editing comments on your paper.
• AGAIN anyone in the world can see your W
  directory so treat the space with respect
  nothing personal should be saved there.

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10. Take Charge of Technology

• 1. Learn to type on-line
• 2. Download freeware here http//www.northcanton.
  sparcc.org/technology/keyboarding/freeware.html
• 3. Make use of the on-line components of many of
  your texts.
• 4. Check department and individual professors
  Web sites/

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11. Use a Wide Range of Search Engines

• One of the BEST resource sites on Internet use is
  this site by Ellen Chamberlain, at the University
  of South Carolina - Beaufort. http//www.sc.edu/be
  aufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml
• Some great search engines are
• www.vivisimo.com
• www.teoma.com
• www.kartoo.com www.beaucoup.com www.profusion.com
  
• Try them!

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Summary of Learning

• DO NOT take file storage for granted.
• KNOW where your files are being stored.
• Back up or copy your files often.
• Be flexible! the better you know how to use
  this technology the more productive youll be
  you dont want to waste time struggling with a
  computer.