basic computers

1. ScaredyCat Computer Series
Session 2
Right click, left click, double
clicks, space bar and return
key, what’s it all about?
Learn how to manoeuvre
the keyboard and mouse
doing fun drills and games

2. BASICS on Mouse Skills
• Moving a mouse and
• Clicking
• Dragging
• Radio buttons
• Check boxes
• Drop-down menus
• Scrolling
• Scroll-bar menus
• Pop-up windows
• Forms
• Highlighting, copying and
pasting text

3. Move mouse to
search bar, click
once inside bar
and type in the
following:
basic computer skills mouse

4. Left click
underlined link
once

5. You land on this website which is
designed to get you comfortable with
using the mouse to manoeuvre your
way around your computer and the
internet. Please read and work at your
own pace.

7. Type
Mouse skills game
In either search
boxes
Left click once
on underlined
link

8. Left click once
on underlined
link Rush Hour

9. Holler “I’m done” once you have solved the puzzle!

10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c66pvfilotA

11. click

12. http://www.webmasternow.com/copyandpaste.html

13. Learning the QWERTY keyboard….

14. Google search:
Abcya keyboard &
left click on blue link

15. Click on orange
standard box

16. Left click once, hold and drag each letter to its
proper place holder

17. Keyboarding Exercise #2: Type URL (web address)
directly in address bar
http://keybr.com

18. Keyboard skills drills at http://keybr.com/

20. Session 3: Basic File
Management Skills
• Folder and File
• Duplicating a file by using "Copy"
and "Paste"
• The difference between "Copy"
and "Cut"
• Check a file's attribute, i.e. file's
name, type and size
• Using a USB Thumb Drive
• Copy a file to a Thumb Drive
• Using "Find" to search a file on
hard disk
Please bring a USB Thumb
Drive/Memory Stick