Welcome!
Presenter: Suzy Belonga
BTOP/EUPISD
Instructional Technologist
What do you want to know?






Parts of your computer
Ergonomics
Your desktop
Parts of a Window
Hanging Wallpaper
The Control Panel
• Window to the Web
• Browsers vs. Search Engines
• Just Google It!
• Saving from a digital camera
• Creating a Word document, folders, & shortcuts
Is This Thing On? Pages We Used in Class (pt. 2)
• Chapter 13 Spanning the Globe: “Surfing the net” – traveling around the
World Wide Web p.168-186
• p.176 .com, .edu, .gov, etc.
• p.176-7 entering a website address
• p.180-1 Search Engines: Seek and Ye Shall Find
• Chapter 16 Practical Precautions: Secure your identity and your
computer p.215-230
• Chapter 21 Detective Work with Your Computer: Get the most out of your
searches
• p.323 Choose your words carefully (ex. “Sault Ste. Marie, MI” vs.
Sault Ste. Marie, MI)
• p.331-2 The Doctor Is In
• Chapter 18 Picture This: Digital & scanned photos from A to Z p.251-264
• p.255 Say “Cheese”
• p.260 Save Me!
• p.307-8 Create a folder
www.eup.k12.mi.us/btop -> Basic Computer Class Presentations
Address bar
URL/website
Minimize
tabs
Toolbars: be careful not to have a lot!
Maximize
Close box
Scroll
arrow
Scroll
bar
Scroll
arrow
Bonus tip: to show or hide toolbars, RIGHT click a blank spot
on your toolbar.
When this box appears, LEFT click
the names of the toolbars. The
checkmark means it is showing.
Hit the Esc key on your keyboard to
get out of it.
There are 3 main browsers. Everybody should have at least 2. You need
to open a BROWSER to get to the internet.
Internet Explorer: basic web browser
Google Chrome: Good for anything
Google (Gmail, Google search, etc.)
Mozilla Firefox: basic web browser
tabs
Address bar
Minimize
Maximize
Close box
Scroll
arrow
Back and
forward
buttons
URL/website
Refresh
Scroll bar
Scroll
arrow
Address bar
tabs
Minimize
Maximize Close box
Scroll
arrow
URL/website
Back and
forward
buttons
Refresh
Scroll
bar
Scroll
arrow
Search engines:
Google
Yahoo
Ask.com
Dogpile
MetaCrawler
Mapquest
WebMD
AskKids.com
FactMonster
About.com
YouTube
….and MANY more!
Googol:10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
• Choose your words carefully!
• Try different variations.
• “Quote phrases”
www.eup.k12.mi.us/btop
Now
Click
type
once
in the
in the
website
address
address.
bar.
Tap
Then
the click
Enter/Return
the Backspace
key on key
youruntil the
keyboard.
current address is completely gone.
Go to page 416/417 of your book and try out a few websites. Try
searching different things. Practice!
If you want to download or update Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, Google it!
Below I Googled Mozilla Firefox. Looking at the websites, I would ignore the ads, and
click on the www.mozilla.org link.
Click on the Download box.
Click on Save File.
I like to save it to my Desktop.
Click on Desktop then click on
Save.
Go to your Desktop. Double LEFT click the Setup icon.
Click on Run then wait.
When the Extracting is done, it will ask you
to allow the Mozilla Corporation to make
changes to your computer. Click on Yes.
Click Next when the Setup Wizard
appears.
You may see this box if you already
have Firefox downloaded:
Click Next.
Click Upgrade/Download/Next then wait for
the install… (mine says Upgrade because it has
been already downloaded)
When downloading things watch
out for these boxes! Uncheck the
ones you don’t want.
Click Finish and you are done!
When you are done trying out your new program minimize or close your pages
until you can see your desktop.
• Put your mouse arrow over this icon
• Hold down your LEFT click button
• Drag your mouse to the left until the
icon appears over the Recycle Bin. It
will say Move to Recycle Bin.
• Let go
• It is now in the trash
Sometimes I get a notice when I
turn my laptop on that looks like
this:
It’s okay to click Yes.
Or you I may see an icon in the
notification area:
Click on the
icon.
Click on Install.
Click on Install again.
BEFORE clicking on
Next, uncheck the
Ask Toolbar box.
Wait for the download
to complete. Then
click on close.
If this website opens, it is okay to click
on Verify Java version.
Wait for a little bit…
Click on Run.
Then it is done.