Application Skills
Some common PC tasks to be familiar and efficient with include:
- File Handling - storing and retrieving data, file saving formats
- Word Processing - creating and using word, formatting, document mapping, templates, inserting graphs etc.
- Spreadsheets - creating and using excel spreadsheets, formulas and functions, creating graphs
- Presentations - using power point, keeping presentations appropriate to situation-K.I.S.S rule, using the notes section, electronic mishaps
- Internet Access - using multiple search engines, determining information is valid eg. recent, reliable
- E-mails - Do's and don't including email etiquette, news groups, security
- Viewing PDF's - updating acrobat, viewing and note taking, bookmarks
Skill in using these applications will be useful in all areas of life including education, professionally and socially. Whether it be word processing for reports or spreadsheets for data collection or emails for communication, becoming fluent with computers is a necessary skill.
Workshop Summary
Office Applications: Produce University standard office applications in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
Week 2 Reading
Microsoft Word Tutorial Includes:
- Getting familiar with Microsoft Word
- Basic Features of Microsoft Word
- Working with paragraphs
- Microsoft Word tables
Microsoft Excel Tutorial Includes:
- Entering text and numbers
- Formatting text and mathematical calculations
- Numbers and calculations
- Creating charts
Adobe Photoshop Includes:
- Bitmap: the standard image format for PC's
- GIF: a compressed format to minimise transfer time, which supports moving animations
- JPEG: Common for displaying images on the internet compresses images but does loose some image quality
- Tiff: Used to exchange files between Macintosh and PC's, supports LZW compression eg. no quality is lost when the image is compressed
- PSD, PSP, SPP: Are forms of layered image formats mostly found in Photoshop and PaintshopPro where images can be edited one layer at a time
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