WASHINGTON BEACON — JANUARY 2017 Technology & Innovations 7 This course shows you how to use the Settings app WINDOWS ® 10 E SSENTIALS to customize your Windows environment to better Prerequisite: Computer experience & Windows 10 PC Asbury Methodist Village suit the way you use your computer and to control 6 sessions Limit: 10 many features of Windows. The options you have # 634 Fri Mar 10 – Apr 14 9:30am-11:30am are easy to use once you understand what they can This course teaches you the essentials you need to know 409 Russell Avenue, do for you . to be able to use your Windows 10 computer effectively. Gaithersburg, MD You cover the Start menu, the Desktop and taskbar, 301-987-6291 ONE DRIVE ® & T HE CLOUD using File Explorer to manage your files, highlights of the Prerequisite: Computer experience & Windows 10 PC Universal Windows Platform apps, and how to use the MASTER THE MICROSOFT EDGE ® BROWSER 1 session Limit: 10 Settings app to customize and control Windows 10. Prerequisite: Computer experience & Windows 10 PC # 629 Tue Jan 31 9:30am-11:30am 2 sessions Limit: 10 # 630 Tue Apr 4 9:30am-11:30am ORGANIZE YOUR FILES WITH WINDOWS ® 10 # 624 Tue Jan 10 – Jan 17 9:30am-11:30am The Cloud is a new place to store files and do com - Prerequisite: Computer experience & Windows 10 PC # 625 Tue Mar 14 – Mar 21 9:30am-11:30am puting. Windows 10 provides you with free storage 3 sessions Limit: 10 Microsoft Edge is the web browser provided with Win - space on the OneDrive service. This course shows # 635 Mon Mar 13 – Mar 27 9:30am-11:30am dows 10. It contains a number of useful features that you what you can do with OneDrive and how you can Do you need to bring a little organization to your com - make your browsing easier and more secure. This use the Cloud to do computing. puter-based life? This course shows you the features course shows you how to take advantage of the new of the new Windows 10 File Explorer application and features and how to setup the browser to best meet MASTER THE WINDOWS ® 10 S TART MENU how to use them to bring organization to your collec - your online needs. Prerequisite: Computer experience & Windows 10 PC tion of documents and photos. File Explorer has a 1 session Limit: 10 new “look” plus serval built-in features to assist you in HOW CORTANA ® CAN ASSIST YOU # 631 Fri Feb 3 9:30am-11:30am crating and viewing folders, as well as moving, copy - Prerequisite: Computer experience & Windows 10 PC The Windows 10 Start menu is a useful tool once ing and renaming files. 1 session Limit: 10 you understand how to use it. The Start menu pro - # 626 Fri Jan 13 9:30am-11:30am vides access to things that have been a part of Win - ASSISTED PRACTICE # 627 Tue Feb 14 9:30am-11:30am dows for a while. Additionally, it provides easy ac - FREE sessions: an integral part of your learning. You Cortana is the digital personal assistant integrated cess to the Uniform Windows Platform apps that are must be registered for at least one class to participate. into Windows 10. Learn how to setup Cortana and new to Windows 10. This course shows you how to No Fee see how you can use Cortana to find information, an - customize and manage the menu to best suit your Wed Jan 11 – Feb 15 9:30am-1:30pm swer questions, and complete tasks, and find/search needs . Wed Mar 15 – Apr 19 9:30am-1:30pm for things on your computer. WINDOWS ® 10 & Y OUR SMARTPHONE CUSTOMIZE & C ONTROL WINDOWS ® 10 Prerequisite: Computer experience & Windows 10 PC Prerequisite: Computer experience & Windows 10 PC 1 sessions Limit: 10 JCA Bronfman Center 2 sessions Limit: 10 # 632 Mon Feb 13 9:30am-11:30am # 628 Mon Jan 23 – Jan30 9:30am-11:30am You have a Windows 10 PC and a smartphone using 12320 Parklawn Drive, the google Android of apple iOS operating system. Would you like to see your Windows 10 email, calen - Rockville, MD dar and contacts on your smartphone? This class 240-395-0916 ATTENTION: shows you how using the Phone Companion Univer - sal app that comes with your Windows 10. Please Instruction, course EXCEL : T HE BASICS materials and all computer bring a fully charged smartphone to class. Prerequisite: Computer Basics or equivalent 2 sessions Limit: 12 language settings are in EXPLORE WINDOWS ® 10 A PPS # 636 Mon Jan 23 – Jan 30 10:00am-12:00pm Prerequisites: Computer experience & Windows 10 PC # 637 Mon Mar 27 – Apr 3 10:00am-12:00pm English . 1 sessions Limit: 10 Develop and learn how to create a basic spreadsheet # 633 Fri Feb 17 9:30am-11:30am and enter data, edit the cells, adjust columns and Windows 10 comes with a number of Universal apps rows, “crossfooting” spreadsheets, using formulas in Unless otherwise noted, that provide useful features. This course explores spreadsheets courses are taught with several of the apps and shows you how to use the Windows Store to obtain additional apps.. You will Windows computers. also learn how to manage apps on the Start menu. continued next page 8 Technology & Innovations JCA S ENIOR TECH JANUARY 2017 — WASHINGTON BEACON GOOGLE APPS AND EXTENSION Learn how to use the iPhone’s capabilities to take the cloud, laptop/desktop Issues, photos/videos, Prerequisite: Computer Basics or equivalent great pictures, organize photos, and share photos PowerPoint ® and more. Your session will last 2 hours. 2 sessions Limit: 12 with friends and family. After you register, you will be contacted to select a # 638 Tue Jan 17 – Jan 24 10:00am-12:00pm date and time for your session and to discuss the questions or issues you will be working on with one of Ever wonder about those nine little boxes forming a SMARTPHONES AND TABLETS USING THE AN- our Tech Gurus. square in the upper right corner of any google page? DROID OPERATING SYSTEM WORKSHOP Well, those boxes are a portal into a whole new Prerequisite: Bring fully charged Smartphone or Google world that includes calendars, maps, photos, Tablet and anything else you can think of to make your time 1 session Limit: 12 NEW NEW NEW online more productive, useful and fun. # 645 Tues Jan 10 10:00am-12:00pm MEET THE MAC ® TECHNOLOGY GURUS ! Learn what the Android operating system is and how BRING US YOUR PROBLEMS ! MOVING UP TO WINDOWS 10 Prerequisite: Have prior Windows 7 or 8/8.1 experience to work with its direct manipulation interface and see Unlimited demonstrations of popular applications (apps) that # 650 Date and time to be determined by Tech Guru 7 sessions Limit: 12 run on Android. # 639 Wed Feb 15 – Mar 29 10:00am-12:00pm Have a 1:1 lesson with our Mac Tech Gurus. Experts are available to help individuals with hardware or software This course is for students who want to move up to ® ® ® FROM MESS TO LESS : O RGANIZING THE FILES issues. Topics: iPhone , iPad , Apple Laptops/comput - Windows 10 and have computer skills using Windows ers. Your session will last 2 hours. After you register, you 7 or 8/8.1. It covers hardware, mouse use, keyboard ON YOUR COMPUTER Prerequisite: Computer Basics or equivalent/ Knowl - will be contacted to select a date and time for your ses - commands, the start menu, the taskbar, File Manag - edge of the keyboard sion and to discuss the questions or issues you will be er, the internet, and some of the built-in applications working on with one of our Tech Gurus. and utilities. Being familiar with PC’s keyboard lay - 2 sessions Limit: 12 out, (including cursor control keys and function keys) # 646 Mon Mar 13 – Mar 20 10:00am-12:00pm will be helpful. This course is not for students who’ve You know how you sometimes put something away in NEW NEW NEW never used a computer. such a safe place and you can never find it again? Well that can happen on a computer, too. Learn how to or - ganize your documents, photos etc. so that you can find JCA SeniorTech is proud to MICROSOFT WORD 2016: F ROM THE BEGINNING what you need when you are looking for it. present our NEW class given on AND BEYOND Prerequisite: Computer Basics or equivalent/ Knowl - the MAC Operating System! edge of the keyboard NEW NEW NEW ® 3 sessions Limit: 12 INTRODUCTION TO THE MAC OPERATING SYSTEM X # 640 Tue Mar 7 – Mar 21 10:00am-12:00pm BROWSING AND SEARCHING THE WEB 2 session Limit: 4 Prerequisite: Computer Basics or equivalent # 651 Thurs Jan 19 – Jan 26 10:00am-12:00pm Learn word-processing skills for using Microsoft Word 2 session Limit: 12 # 652 Tues Mar 28 – Apr 4 10:00am-12:00pm (versions 2010, 2013 and 2016). Learn to create # 647 Thurs Feb 16 – Feb 23 10:00am-12:00pm documents of varying levels of complexity. Simple Class size is limited to 4. If class is full, students with Using Internet Explorer ®, Google Chrome ®, and skills include document layout, simple formatting, Mac laptops are welcome Google ® search to learn how to more effectively use the keyboard commands, and use of the Ribbon. More The Apple Mac Operating System (OS), known as OS X World Wide Web. We will teach the basics but go be - advanced skills include illustrating documents with provides the interface to the Mac hardware and applica - graphics, creating tables, advanced formatting, and yond including setting up favorites and bookmarks, cre - tions.