Do you feel
confused, befuddled, & lost when it comes to computers?
Do you wish you had the time, and dollars, to take a real, live course on computers?
Then these lessons are for you!
Everyone picks up bits and pieces of information while using and working around computers. This can leave some pretty big gaps in your information landscape.
These lessons are an attempt to fill in the missing pieces and to tie it all together. The "Illustrated" part means there will be lots of pictures. Other sets of lecture notes I have seen online are pretty much bare text. While the writing is often great, such text-only notes do not take advantage of the possibilities of web pages. So you will see some animations and graphics that enhance the text and, hopefully, make it clearer.
This site is free for personal use.
For other uses, please see the box below and the Permissions page.
Most topics are available in both English and Spanish (español).
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I do a lot of revising and updating, but with computers, today's best is tomorrow's dinosaur. So, please accept my apologies in advance for out-dated or incomplete information. Let me know when you spot something that has gotten stale.
Learn a lot, or just polish what you already know. But have fun!
CompLit101 available for download.
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Why buy a download?
- Pages load faster from your own hard disk!
- Saves connection
time.
- Transfer lessons to a computer that does not have an Internet connection.
- No worries about the web server or Internet connection going
down.
- To help cover the costs of the web site!
How to order
Teachers: If you would like to use these materials in your class, please read the Permissions page and complete the Permissions Form. It's easy!
Your incentive: A set of end-of-the-chapter questions/exercises
for Computer Basics for any teacher who receives permission by using the Permissions form!
Final step: After you have used the site with your class, complete the Evaluation form to let me know how things went. (It's part of the deal!) Thanks!
Don't forget to tell me about errors that you and your students find. You may wind up in the Hall of Honor!
How These Lessons Work
Browsers
These lessons are formatted using stylesheets.
Microsoft
Internet Explorer gives full formatting, starting with IE 3.0.
Netscape has some issues.
Resolution and Color Depth
The layout was designed to look best and be the easiest to read at a resolution of 800 x
600.
The graphics were designed for at least
16 bit color, that is Hi Color, which is the next step up
from 256 colors. If some colors look ugly or speckled to you (especially
the page background), you are probably using 256 colors.
Frames
Several lessons in Computer Basics contain pages that use invisible frames. You can click on part of an image on the left and the description will show on the right. There are links to No Frames versions of these pages, too. If your browser does not support frames, you should see a link to the equivalent No Frames page. If you run into problems with this, please let me know at the email address at the bottom of the page. All my browsers support frames, so I can't test this action myself.
Navigation
| You will find a menu of lessons at the top right of each page. | |
| The course logo at the top right of each page is a link back to the home page for the lessons, which is this page that you are reading. |
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| A few framed pages won't have the lesson topics visible unless you click on "Lesson Menu" in the logo. Then the menu will appear in the right hand frame below it. |
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| At the bottom of each page are links back to the homepage of the set of lessons, to the previous page, and to the next page in the sequence. |
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Quizzes
After each lesson section, there is a review quiz. I'm not keeping score though. If your first choice of answer doesn't suit, keep on trying. You'll get a popup message after each choice.
Exercises
The hands-on topics have student exercises at the end which give you practice and add new skills, too. These are your "homework" exercises. Don't skip them!
Where did all of this come from?
The Computer Basics lessons are based on my lecture notes and some old PowerPoint presentations I developed for a college course I taught on computer literacy a while back at Roane State Community College here in Tennessee. They represent the core information from half of the course, the other half being the hands-on assignments with Microsoft Office software. So if you master the materials contained in Computer Basics, you may consider yourself to have done half of a college computer literacy course. And for no fees! Aren't you smart!!
The other topics Working with Windows, Working with Words, Working with Numbers, Working with the Web, Working with Presentations, and Working with Databases are hands-on lessons that guide you as you actually work at the computer. Different courses would use different combinations of these topics.
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