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Macintosh Basics
Hardware:
Objective: Identify the basic parts of this Macintosh, understand their function
and be able to turn on and properly turn off the computer.
- Power on button
- Shutting down (turning off) the Mac and importance of this step
- CPU:
- hard drive
- floppy drive
- CD-ROM drive
- Monitor and controls
- Keyboard and mouse
- Cable connections
The Desktop:
Objective: Identify the primary icons on the desktop.
- Primary icons:
- hard drive icon
- floppy drive icon
- trash can icon
- Use of the mouse to control the desktop
Objective: Use the mouse to move the cursor around the screen and perform
the following skills:
open and select
- Find information about your computer from the Apple Menu
- Rename your floppy disk
- Double click on the floppy disk to open it
- Size the window of your floppy disk
- Move an icon on your disk
- double-click to open an icon or launch the application an open a file
- Menu Bar
Objective: Recognize the functions from each menu option.
- Apple
- File
- Edit
- View - Use the floppy disk to view the contents by name, small icon
then size of file
- Label - Make one of your files HOT
- Special
- I need HELP!
Objective: Identify where assistance is available and use these options to
answer a question.
Windows and Icons:
Objective: Understand what windows and icons represent and perform the skills
to manage windows on the desktop.
- Recognizing icon shapes and what they represent
- Moving an icon and a window
- Understanding the parts of a window:
- name
- close
- size box
- scroll bars
- Recognizing active and inactive windows
File Management:
Objective: Understand how to manage folders.
Folder basics:
- Create a folder
- Create a folder called 3-28-96 on the floppy disk
- Name and rename a folder
- Rename the folder to Your Last Name
- Throw away a folder
Floppy disk basics:
Objective: Demonstrate these skills:
- Eject (use PUT AWAY from thethe floppy disk
- Lock the floppy disk and insert it back into the machine.
- Lock the disk. How can you tell it is locked when you open the floppy
disk window?
- Eject and unlock the disk.
- Find two files on your floppy disk that begin with the letters zane
- Copy one of the Zane files from your floppy disk to your hard disk
- Remove the Zane file from the hard disk.
More management techniques:
- Find an application or file
- Make and use an alias
- Print
- Keyboard short cuts
- Initialize or format a floppy disk
- Quitting an application that seems to be locked
- Rebooting the computer
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