Get to Know Your Computer • Always Remember to Wash Your Hands Before and After Using a Device

Get to know your computer • Always remember to wash your hands before and after using a device. • Please remember the importance of wiping down your PC/Tablet and mouse with an anti-bacterial wipe before using it, especially if sharing devices. • A separate document is attached on how to clean your device.

The hardware (the bits you can touch) ➢ Turn on – You try! Find the POWER button – Should have this imagine near it

– Press the button until the computer comes to life ➢ Charge and % battery – You try! Notice the battery indicator, which shows the battery level and sometimes a percentage of battery remaining

➢ Mouse / touchscreen hardware only – You try! Computers – Move the mouse or trackpad and notice the pointer (“Curser”) move around the screen. Press the left mouse button, see what happens. Press the right mouse button, see what happens. Tablets – Flick your fingers around the touchscreen, press parts of the screen and see what happens. Try a long press, see if anything happens.

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Software / Apps? ➢ What is software /apps? Software, sometimes known as Apps, are the parts of a computer or tablet that you cannot touch – made of 1’s and 0s, software allows the computer or tablet to do various tasks (such as surf the web, write a document, do some sums) ➢ Examples of software / apps Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Google Chrome, WordPad, Skype…

➢ Operating the computer ❖ Find and open software / app – You try! Computer – Using the mouse, double-left-click on any software Icon

Tablet – Using your finger, press the icon for any software

❖ Mouse / touchscreen software / app – You try!

Computer – Try click parts of the screen using the left mouse button. The Left mouse button is the way we usually select where we want to be, or what we want to select. Now try clicking around, using the Right mouse button. The Right mouse button is for advanced features, such as cut and paste, or to change appearance of text Tablet – On a tablet, your finger controls your actions, on the touchscreen. Try pressing different parts of the software on your screen. Now try to long press the screen – Does anything else appear? (Take notes on this page, or any spare piece of paper)

Close software / app – You try! Computer – Find and left click the X in the top right-hand corner of the window

Tablet – Press the Home button for your tablet

Quick task – You try! 1. Make sure your computer is ON 2. Explore the computer to find any of the following software / apps: ❖ Chrome (Google Chrome) ❖ Explorer (Microsoft Explorer) ❖ Edge (Microsoft Edge) ❖ Firefox (Mozilla Firefox) NOTE: If you do not have any of these software / apps available to you, open ANY software / app. You will need one of these to use the internet (In another lesson) 3. Have a play with it, if you want. Up to you. Do some clicking, see what happens… 4. Close the software / app

Turning the computer off? Should I?

You do not always have to turn computers off, leaving them to go to sleep, or closing the lid of a laptop can sometimes be enough. Again, tablet computers do not need to be turned off after every task. The screen should go dark after a minute or so, and will come back to life when you press the power button quickly, or tap the home button.