2008-2009 Computer Applications 7 & 8

Review, Move On, it's Friday!

HOMEWORK: 1 page MLA paper on QWERTY and DVORAK—who invented them, when, why, where, what AND the big one "WHY" is  one used over the other???

Review:
Yankees won their 27th WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. (the most championships of any major sports franchise in the WORLD) (CT)

Definitions:

URL. It's official, URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. URL also known as (or a.k.a.) the address bar.

Office Suite: a group of individual applications, bundled together, that will interact with each other and share the same interface, specifically used in an office environment.

Three major applications in most office suites: Word processing (text editing), presentation/slideshow (multimedia presentations), spreadsheets (number crunching, data organization, storage, and retrieval.)

Main players:

• Microsoft ($$$$)(MS)= Microsoft Office—WORD, PowerPoint, Excel
• Apple ($$$$)= iWorks—Pages, Keynote, Numbers
• Open Source (FREE)= OpenOffice—Writer, Calc, Impress
• • (OpenOffice Wikipedia)

Moving along!

What is the story with:
QWERTY
DVORAK

4T's warm up
About me essay

Thursday

Agenda:

• Definitions
• Practice logging in.
• Set up and define our workstation: Desktop, Dock, Finder, Preferences (System, Finder, TextEdit), TextEdit

Interface: A go between. A computing a device or program enabling a user to communicate with a computer.
—a device or program for connecting two items of hardware or software so that they can be operated jointly or communicate with each other. Think of an ATM machine—it allows a user to connect to the bank and make transactions.

Finder—Mr. Smiley Face, the window we find things on our computer in, an application that's always running. The Interface to Mac OSX.

Desktop—the space on your monitor that everything sits on. The working area of a computer screen  containing icons representing items such as files and a wastebasket.

Preferences—the way WE would like things to be, how WE prefer them. 3 Examples: System, Finder, Application.

Path—the course or direction, in line to find something.

Naming Conventions—rules associated with assigning a name to an object

• name |nām| noun 1 a word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or referred to.

Filing Systems

Agenda:

1. Change *TextEdit Preference (what kind of a preference is TextEdit? What are 2 other types of preference?)
2. Create filing cabinet—and a set of rules for adding documents, files and folders to our computers.
3. Talk about *Naming Conventions—rules associated with assigning a name to an object
   • name |nām| noun 1 a word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or referred to.
4. TTTT
5. Expose setup

*Underlined words are Vocabulary Words