Salvation Army English Speaking Corps Computer Course For Beginners

Salvation Army English Speaking Corps Computer Course For Beginners

Period: August - November 2003

LESSON 1

·Œ Œˆ Œ¸Œ˜ Œ€ General Introduction To Personal Computer

·Œ Œˆ Œ¸Œ˜ Œ€ What is a computer and how it works?

·Œ Œˆ Œ¸Œ˜ Œ€ Introduction to computer hardware and software

·Œ Œˆ Œ¸Œ˜ Œ€ Learn about Input / Output devices - Key board, mouse, display, data storage, CD ROM, scanner, printer and bar code reader.

·Œ Œˆ Œ¸Œ˜ Œ€ Basic computer operation system (OS ŒàŒÐŒØŒ Microsoft Window)

·Œ Œˆ Œ¸Œ˜ Œ€ Setting up peripherals ŒàŒÐŒØŒ

- How to operate a computer ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ - Cold Boot

- Hot Boot

- How to run a computer program?

Introduction to MS Words

- Opening a new file ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ - Graphic

- Fonts ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ - Sound

- Styles ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ - Tools

- Spell check ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ - Format

LESSON 2

How to use electronic spread sheet to speed up reparative mathematical calculations.

·Œ Œˆ Œ¸Œ˜ Œ€ Microsoft Excel ŒàŒÐŒØŒ (Electronic Spread Sheet)

·Œ Œˆ Œ¸Œ˜ Œ€ How to create a sample budget.

ŒàŒÐŒØŒLESSON 3

·Œ Œˆ Œ¸Œ˜ Œ€ Introduction to Internet

·Œ Œˆ Œ¸Œ˜ Œ€ Internet Explorer

·Œ Œˆ Œ¸Œ˜ Œ€ Search engine

·Œ Œˆ Œ¸Œ˜ Œ€ e-mails and e-mail accounts

LESSON 4

·Œ Œˆ Œ¸Œ˜ Œ€ Revision of previous lessons

Computer Course For Beginners

The following is a typing exercise:

To help bring more happiness into your own life, here are some strategies to try:

Nurture your relationships. Maintaining healthy love relationships and friendships can be a challenge. But those challenges, and the emotional development that inevitably come with them, can promote happiness.
Join the "movement" movement. Studies show that aerobic exercise is an antidote for mild depression and anxiety. "Happy minds reside in sound bodies," says Myers.
Act happy. A recent study at Wake Forest University showed that when people simply acted extroverted, they felt happier than when they acted introverted. Even introverts, said the researchers, can act extroverted and feel happier.

Nurture your spiritual side. Faith not only provides valuable support, but it's a way to focus on something other than yourself. "Study after study finds that actively religious people are happier, and that they cope better with crises.

Don't Worry, Be Happy

Happy individuals have certain personal traits that set them apart from people with clouds hovering over their heads. Sheldon's research has shown that happiness is associated with characteristics like autonomy, competence, close relationships, and high self-esteem.

Of course, some people are true believers that the quickest path to happiness is to buy it or to mold it by transforming their personal surroundings. They may have convinced themselves that if they buy a new toy or move to a new house, lasting happiness will follow. But research shows that while these kinds of changes might work for a while, new possessions or fresh living arrangements will eventually become part of your status quo and their power to deliver happiness will fade.

"The route to sustained happiness is not to change the static circumstances of your life, but rather to change the activities that you're involved in. This could mean committing to a new vocational plan, pursuing a new set of goals, or joining a new organization."

Happy Days Are Here Again:

One way to steer your life toward happiness is simply to count your blessings, and perhaps even create and make regular entries in your own "gratitude journal." Myers points to research showing that people who pause each day to reflect on the positive respects of their lives (for example, their health, friends, family, education, freedom) are more likely to experience heightened well-being.

Computer Course For Beginners

Electronic Spread Sheet Exercise: (MS Excel)

By: Andrew Ng

Monthly Budget			Yearly Budget
Income:	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$3,980.00	ŒàŒÐŒØŒper Month	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$47,760.00

Monthly Expenses:		Percentage	Yearly Expenses
Rent	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$- ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ	0.0%	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$- ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ
Health Care	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$- ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ	0.0%	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$- ŒàŒÐŒØŒ ŒàŒÐŒØŒ
Transportation	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$200.00	5.0%	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$2,400.00
Dine out	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$250.00	6.3%	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$3,000.00
Grocery	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$175.00	4.4%	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$2,100.00
Philippine Household	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$1,000.00	25.1%	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$12,000.00
Children's tuition fee	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$500.00	12.6%	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$6,000.00
Clothing	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$250.00	6.3%	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$3,000.00
Cosmetics	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$50.00	1.3%	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$600.00
Mobile phone	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$120.00	3.0%	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$1,440.00
Long Distance Tel.	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$100.00	2.5%	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$1,200.00
Miscellaneous	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$160.00	4.0%	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$1,920.00
Donation	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$200.00	5.0%	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$2,400.00
	-----------------------	-----------------	---------------------------
Expense	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$3,005.00	75.5%	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$36,060.00
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Saving	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$975.00	24.5%	ŒàŒÐŒØŒ$11,700.00
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Note:
The information provided in this article is of a general nature and is not intended to
address the specific circumstances. The views and opinions are those of the author.

SALVATION ARMY ENGLISH SPEAKING CORPS

COMPUTER COURCE FOR BEGINNERS

Discover how the Internet works. Find out where you can get great software. Learn the secrets of search engines and e-mails.

This guide will provide you with enough knowledge to have fun on the Internet, yet will not bore you with too many details.

The Internet

Sometime in the mid 1960's, during the Cold War, it became apparent that there was a need for a bombproof communications system. A concept was devised to link computers together throughout the country. With such a system in place even if the United States hits by nuclear bomb and messages could still get through.

In the beginning, only government "think tanks" and a few universities were linked. Basically the Internet was an emergency military communications system operated by the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Project Agency.

World Wide Web

Think of the web as the illustrated version of the Internet. It began in the late 1980's when physicist Dr. Berners-Lee wrote a small computer program for his own personal use. This program allowed pages, within his computer, to be linked together using keywords. It soon became possible to link documents in different computers, as long as they were connected to the Internet. The document formatting language used to link documents is called HTML (Hypertext Markup Language.)

The Web remained primarily text based until 1992. Two events occurred that year that would forever change the way the Web looked. Marc Andreesen developed a new computer program called the NCSA Mosaic (National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois) and gave it away! The NCSA Mosaic was the first Web browser. The browser made it easier to access the different Web sites that had started to appear. Soon Web sites contained more than just text, they also had sound and video files.

These pages, written in the hyper-text markup language, have "links" that allow the user to quickly move from one document to another...even when the documents are stored in different computers.

Web browsers "read" the html text and convert it into a page like the one you are now looking at.

Each web site has an address, or Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The URL contains a set of instructions that are read by the browser.

E-mail

Electronic Mail (email) is the most frequently used application of the Internet. Many people who have access to the Internet at school, home, and work, use the Internet for no other purpose than to send and receive email.

You create the message, log onto the Internet, and send it. The message first goes to your Internet Service Provider's mail server, which in turn sends it to the recipient's mail server. On the way your message may go through several servers, each reading the domain name in order to route it to the appropriate server.

The message then remains in the recipient's mail server until he / she requests it by "checking his mail."

Each email address you send is made up of certain components that help route it to the proper recipient. So have fun and keep in touch with your friends and family overseas. ŒàŒÐŒØŒ

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