Lesson 1.1: The Practical User format.

Image transfer technology

relays radiologic images such as CT
Computer Savvy scans and MRIs to electronic charts
 Knowledgeable in using technologies and physicians' offices immediately.
 Understanding the capabilities and  MONEY (Toward the Cashless
limitations of computers, its Society) – Besides currency, credit
advantages and risks, knowing when and debit cards, and paper checks,
you can fix computer problems and the things that substitute as
when you have to call for help
“money” include automatic transfers
 Knows how to beautify and
(such as direct-deposit paychecks),
customize its own equipment
cash-value cards (such as subway
fare cards), and digital money
Benefits of being a Computer Savvy
1. You will know how to make better (“electronic wallet” accounts such as
buying decisions PayPal).
2. You will know how to fix everyday  LEISURE (Infotech in Entertainment
computer problems & the Arts) – Information
3. You will know how to customize technology is being utilized in all
your computer equipment and kinds of entertainment, ranging from
integrate it with new products videogames to telegambling. The
4. You will know how to use the arts have also applied it, from
internet most effectively painting to photography.
5. You will know how to protect
 GOVERNMENT (Participating in
yourself against online villains
Electronic Democracy) – The
6. You will know what kinds of
computer use can advance our internet and other information
career technology have helped the
government deliver better services
and paved the way for making
governmental operations more
Lesson 1.2: Information Technology & Your transparent.
Life: The Future Now  JOBS & CAREERS – Information
technology is revolutionizing old jobs
and creating new ones. Finding
INFLUENCE OF IT: employers and employers finding
you is possible through the use of
 HEALTH (high tech for wellness) –
computers. On the other hand,
Computer technology is
posting your résumé online for
fundamentally changing the tools of
prospective employers to view is
medicine. All medical data, including
attractive because of its low (or zero)
those generated by a lab test, pulse
cost and broad reach.
monitor, and X rays, can now be
conveyed to a doctor in digital
 Lesson 1.3 The Categories of Machines and drugs, and creating movie special
Other IT Infrastructures or Gadgets effects.
 MICROCOMPUTERS – also called
CATEGORIES OF MACHINE:
personal computers (PCs), can fit
 SUPERCOMPUTERS – are high- next to a desk or on a desktop or be
capacity computers with thousands carried around. Laptop computers,
of processors that can execute more are lightweight, portable computers
than several trillion calculations per with a built-in monitor, keyboard,
second, most costly and quickest hard-disk drive, CD/DVD drive,
computers available. Computing battery, and AC adapter plugged into
professionals use supercomputers an electrical outlet.
for tasks requiring the processing of  MICROCONTROLLER – also called
enormous volumes of data, such as embedded computers, are the
doing census count, forecasting the minute, specialized microprocessors
weather, designing aircraft, installed in “smart” appliances and
modeling molecules, and breaking automobiles. These microcontrollers
encryption codes. enable microwave ovens, for
 MAINFRAME COMPUTERS – example, to store data about how
Mainframes are water- or air-cooled long to cook your potatoes and at
computers that differ in size from what power setting. Developing a
small, to medium, to large, new universe of experimental
depending on their use. Small electronic appliances uses
mainframes, also called midsize microcontrollers.
computers; they used to be called
minicomputers. Mainframes are
used by large organizations—such as
OTHER IT INFRASTRUCTURES OR
banks, airlines, insurance
GADGETS:
companies, and colleges—for
processing millions of transactions.  NETWORK SERVER – is a central
 WORKSTATIONS – are costly, computer that stores the collections
powerful personal computers usually of data (databases) and programs for
used for complex scientific, connecting or supplying services to
mathematical, and engineering PCs, workstations, and other
calculations and computer-aided devices, which are called clients. In
design and computer-aided small organizations, servers can
manufacturing. Providing many store files, provide printing stations,
capabilities comparable to those of and transmit emails. In large
midsize mainframes, are used for organizations, servers may also
such tasks as designing airplane house enormous libraries of
fuselages, developing prescription financial, sales, and product
information.
 COMPUTER PERIPHERAL – any - is a method of trading messages
detachable device that provides between people using electronic
input and output for the computer devices’ mail.
machine. - information stored on a
 HARD DISK DRIVE (HDD) – an computer exchanged between
electronic data memory device that two end-users over
uses magnetic storage to keep and telecommunications.
retrieve digital information using
one or more rigid, rapidly rotating
disks coated with magnetic material. TWO WAYS TO SEND AND RECEIVE EMAIL:
 SOLID STATE DRIVE (SDD) – a solid-  Via email program – also called
state storage device that uses email client software, enables you to
integrated circuit assemblies as send emails by running email
memory to store data persistently, software on your computer, which
typically using flash memory. SSDs interacts with an email server at
lack the physical spinning disks and your internet access provider to
movable read-write heads used by send and receive an email.
HDDs.  Via web-based email – also called
 FLASH DRIVES – are solid-state webmail, you send and receive
devices that connect to the messages by communicating via a
computer via the USB port. It browser with a website. The big four
provides a quick and reliable method email carriers currently are Yahoo!
of storing data externally. Mail, Windows Live Hotmail
 AUTOMATIC VOLTAGE REGULATOR (discontinued), Gmail (Google), and
(AVR) – is a hardware device used to AOL Mail.
maintain a constant voltage and - The advantage of web-based
power line conditioning to the email is that you can easily send
equipment load under a wide variety and receive messages while
of conditions, even when the utility traveling anywhere in the world
input voltage, frequency, or system
load vary widely.
 UNINTERRUBTIBLE POWER SUPPLY HOW TO USE EMAIL:
(UPS) – is a device that supplies
 The username: juandelacruz. The
battery backup when the electrical
username, or user ID, identifies who
power fails to an unacceptable
is at the address. There are many
voltage level.
ways that the username might be
designated, with and without capital
Lesson 2.1: Email Basics letters, numbers, or special
characters
 ELECTRONIC MAIL / EMAILS
  Domain name: vsu. The domain to use for your email address. For this
name, located after the @ symbol, lesson, your username must be of the
tells the location and type of format: firstname_lastname—for example,
address. Periods (called “dots”) juan_delacruz.
separates domain name
5. Enter a password for your Gmail
components. The domain portion of
account – Type your chosen password into
the address provides specific
the "Password" text box and "Confirm
information about the area–where
password." You can only proceed if these
the message should be delivered.
passwords match.
 Top-level domain: edu. The top-level
domain, or domain code, is a three- 6. Click on the Next button – Afterward, the
letter extension that describes the page will require you to provide appropriate
domain information to proceed with the account
type: .net, .com, .gov, .edu, .org, .mil creation.
, .int– network, commercial,
government, educational, nonprofit,
military, or international ESSENTIAL PARTS OF AN EMAIL:
organization.
 To – The email address of the
 Country: ph. Some domain names
primary recipient
also include a two-letter extension
 Cc – Previously means carbon copy,
for the country.
but now it means courtesy copy.
When referring to email “cc,” this
means every recipient email address
CREATING AN EMAIL ACCOUNT:
you enter into the “to” and “cc” field
1. Open the Gmail account registration will be able to see who the
website – Enter recipients of the email message are.
https://www.google.com/gmail/about/ in  Bcc – Blind carbon copy. The email
the web browser. It will open a page with address you add to the “bcc” field
information regarding Gmail. will receive a copy of the email
message, but this will be unknown
2. Click Create an Account – This button will
to the other recipients.
take you to the first page in the account
 Subject – The subject is a very brief
creation section.
topic sentence describing the
3. Input your first and last name – Enter content of the email body and
your first name into the text box with a field displays in most email systems that
"First name" and last name into the text box list email messages individually.
labeled "Last name."  Body – The email body, which
contains text that is the actual
4. Come up with a username for your
content. It may include signatures–
Gmail account – The text box labeled
automatically generated information
"username," type in the username you want
 that is inserted by the sender’s email  Resist emojis in email – Research
system. reveals including emojis in work
emails is terrible for reputation: they
make senders look less competent
Lesson 2.2: Email Etiquette  Proofread every message – Do not
rely on spell-check. Read and reread
the email several times, preferably
 EMAIL ETIQUETTE – refers to the aloud, before sending it off. After
principles of behavior that one writing the email, read it out loud to
should use when writing or ensure that errors do not
answering email messages. It is also overshadow your message.
known as the code of conduct for  Type addresses carefully – That is
email communication. why to double-check the recipient's
info before hitting the "send"
button. Making a habit of verifying
the receiver's info will avoid making
HOW TO USE EMAIL WISELY & PROPERLY: mistakes
 Try to reply to email messages – It
 Specify the subject line – The first includes when accidentally sending
principle in professional email the email, especially if the sender is
etiquette is to provide an expecting a reply. A reply isn't
appropriate subject for the email so necessary but serves as proper email
that the recipient immediately etiquette, mainly if the recipient
knows the point of the message. works in the same company or
 Use professional email greetings – industry.
Using the same professional  Attach small size files if needed –
salutations as you typically would if Before sending out attachments with
writing business correspondence emails, you should ensure that they
with pen and paper is encouraged are the smallest size possible.
 Keep fonts classic – Courier New has Compressing data before distributing
a time and a place, but for business them over the Web costs your
correspondence, keep fonts, colors, company less bandwidth and allows
and sizes simple. The cardinal rule: recipients to download the
emails should be legible for other attachments faster.
people to read. It is advisable to
generally use a 10- or 12-point type
and an easy-to-read font such as
Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman.
Black is the safest choice for the font EMAIL TERMINOLOGIES:
color.  Attachment – An e-mail attachment
is a software file sent along with an
 e-mail message. Any e-mail message Creating Documents – entering text using
sent to the recipient can have one or the keyboard or the dictation function
more files attached. It is a simple associated with speech-recognition
method used to share documents software.
and images.
THREE FEATURES THAT AFFECT WORD
 Threadjacking – Threadjacking refers
PROCESSING:
to an e-mail thread, message board,
or social media conversation that  Cursor – movable symbol on the
veers away from the original topic. It display screen that shows you where
usually occurs deliberately when you may next enter data or
individuals or groups use the commands. The symbol is often a
platform to serve personal interests blinking rectangle or an I-beam. The
or promote an agenda. point where the cursor is located is
Threadjacking is considered lousy called the insertion point.
internet etiquette.  Scrolling – means moving quickly
 Forward – E-mail forwarding upward, downward, or sideways
generically refers to the operation of through the text or other screen
display. A standard computer screen
re-sending an e-mail message
displays only 20-22 lines of standard-
delivered to one e-mail address to a
size text.
possibly different e-mail address.
 Word Wrap – automatically
 Send Read Receipt – A read receipt continues text to the next line when
is an e-mail notification delivered to you reach the right margin. That is,
the sender when a recipient opens the text “wraps around” to the next
(and presumably reads) an e-mail line.
sent. The receipt confirms that the
recipient read the message and The Outline View feature puts tags on
records the time. various headings to show the hierarchy of
 E-mail Signature – A signature block heads–for example, main head, subhead,
is a personalized block of text and sub-subhead. Word processing software
also allows you to insert footnotes that are
automatically appended at the
automatically numbered and renumbered
bottom of an e-mail message.
when changes are made.
Generally, a signature provides the
recipient with your name, e-mail
address, business contact
information, or Web site URL.

Lesson 3.1 Creating, Editing, and Editing Documents – act of making

Formatting Documents alterations in the content of your document.
FEATURES: Figure 2. Special add-on dictionaries
are available for medical,
 Insert & Delete – is the act of adding
engineering, and legal terms
to the document. If you want to
write over (replace) text as you
write, press the Insert key before
typing. When you’re finished typing,
press the Insert key again to exit
Insert mode.
 Deleting – is the act of removing
text, usually using the Delete key or
the Backspace key.
 Undo – allows you to change your
mind and restore text that you have
deleted. Some word processing
programs offer as many as 100 layers
of “undo,”  Grammar Checker – highlights poor
 Find & Replace – The Find, or grammar, wordiness, incomplete
Search, command allows you to find sentences, and awkward phrases. It
any word, phrase, or number that will flag (perhaps with a different-
exists in your document. The color line) possible incorrect word
Replace command allows you to usage and sentence structure.
automatically replace it with - Blue double line - indicates a
something else. possible grammar error.
 Cut/Copy & Paste – You select  Thesaurus – present you with the
(highlight with the mouse) the appropriate word or alternative
portion of text you want to copy or words.
move. Then you use the Copy or Cut
command to move it to the
clipboard, a special holding area in Formatting Documents with the Help of
the computer’s memory. From there, Templates & Wizards
you use Paste to transfer the
- Formatting means determining
material to any point (indicated with
the appearance of a document.
the cursor) in the existing document
A template, called a wizard in
or in a new document.
older Office versions, is a
 Spelling Checker – tests for
preformatted document that
incorrectly spelled words. As you
provides basic tools for shaping a
type, the spelling checker indicates
final document – it is a style
(perhaps with a squiggly line) words
guide for documents.
that aren’t in its dictionary and thus
may be misspelled, as shown in
Among the many aspects of formatting are can import graphics or drawings
these: from files in other software
programs, including clip art–
 Font – you can specify the font style.
collections of ready-made pictures
You can indicate the font text (There
and illustrations available online.
are 72 points in an inch.) You can
 Default settings – are the settings
specify what parts should be
automatically used by a program
underlined, italic, or boldface.
unless the user specifies otherwise,
 Spacing & Columns –whether you
thereby overriding them. Thus, for
want the lines to be single-spaced or
example, a word processing program
double-spaced . You can specify
may automatically prepare a
whether you want to be one column,
document single-spaced, left
two columns, or several columns.
justified, with 1-inch right and left
 Margins & Justification – You can
margins, unless you alter these
indicate the dimensions of the
default settings.
margins–left, right, top, and bottom–
around the text. You can specify the
text justification– how the letters
Lesson 3.2: Output Options and Saving
and words are spaced in each line.
Documents
To justify means to align text evenly
between left and right margins, as in Most word processing software gives you
most newspaper columns. To left- several options for printing. For example,
justify means to align text evenly on you can print several copies of a document.
the left. (Left-justified text has a You can print individual pages or a range of
“ragged-right” margin, as do many pages. You can even preview a document
business letters.) Centering centers before printing it out.
each text line in the available white
Previewing (print previewing) – means
space between the left and right
viewing a document on-screen to see what
margins.
it will look like in printed form before it’s
 Headers, Footers, & Page Numbers
printed.
– A header is common text (such as
a date or document name) printed
at the top of every page. A footer is
Saving Documents – means storing, or
the same thing printed at the
preserving, a document as an electronic file
bottom of every page. If you want
permanently.
page numbers, you can determine
what number to start with, among Tracking Changes & Inserting Comments –
other things allows editing changes to be tracked by
 Other Formatting – You can specify highlighting them, underlining additions,
borders or other decorative lines, and crossing out deletions. Anyone can
shading, tables, and footnotes. You insert hidden questions or comments that
become visible when you pass the mouse
pointer over yellow highlighted words or
punctuation.

Create new Ctrl + N

document
Save document Ctrl + S
Undo last action Ctrl + Z
Redo last action Ctrl + Y
Select all Ctrl + A
Start spell checker F7
Close current Ctrl + F4
document
Open print Ctrl + P
Repeat last action F4
Copy Ctrl + C
Cut Ctrl + X
Paste Ctrl + V
Find Ctrl + F
Replace Ctrl + H
Highlight all Ctrl + A
Highlight a Triple click
paragraph
Highlight a Ctrl + click
sentence
Highlight a specific Double click
word