Computer Workshop: Internet and Selected Software

Sunday July 28

• Why Computers? (historical background and issues)

Monday July 29

• Fundamental Modern Computer Metaphors
  • GUIs -- Graphical User Interfaces
  • The desktop
  • Pointer
  • Icons
  • Menus
  • WYSIWYG -- What You See Is What You Get
  • Applications
• Internet Explorations
  • Home pages
  • URLs -- Uniform Resource Locators
  • Netscape buttons
  • Hypertext (and another version)
  • Finding information
    • Avocations
    • How do I find...?
  • Setting bookmarks
• Word Processing
  • Surpassing the typewriter
  • Using the clipboard to cut, copy, and paste text
  • Formatting the page
  • Producing fancy fonts
  • Checking for errors
    • Jabberwocky
  • Importing graphics for desktop publishing
  • Managing disks: formats and backups

Tuesday July 30

• Connecting to the Outside World
  • Liberty -- the W&L connection to the Internet
  • Logging in to Liberty accounts
    • User ids
    • Passwords
  • Connecting to an individual through e-mail
    • e-mail addresses
    • The pine mail system
    • Reading mail
    • Sending mail
    • Expressing emotions via emoticons
  • Group conversations through bulletin boards
    • The USENET idea
    • The tin news reader system
    • News groups
    • FAQs -- Frequently Asked Questions
    • Threads
    • Flames
• Beginning with HTML
  • Basic ideas
    • Elements of an HTML document
    • Tags as demarkers of elements
    • The essential HTML document
    • Creating text in various formats
    • Linking other items to your page (URLs again)
  • HTML editors
  • HTML style questions

Wednesday July 31

• Images and Audio on Web Pages
  • Images
    • Image formats
    • Format conversion
    • Scanning images from photos
    • Importing images from other locations
    • Digital cameras
    • Displaying images on a Web page
  • Audio
    • Audio formats
    • Audio input
    • Audio players
    • Putting sound files on a Web page

Thursday August 1

• Quicken
  • A Visit to Intuit's Homepage
  • Simple Accounts
    • Creating an account
    • Using an account
    • Reconciling an account
  • Loans
    • Obtaining loan information
    • Creating loan accounts
    • Making a loan payment
  • Investments
    • Stock portfolios
    • Bond portfolios
    • Money market portfolios
  • Automation
  • Viewing Your Financial Status
    • Charts
    • Reports
  • Financial Planning
    • Budget
    • Tax planner
    • Retirement planner
    • Investment planner
  • Electronic Banking
• Exemplary applications on the Web.
• New uses of the Web
• Local service providers: how to find them, what do they offer

Friday August 2

• Simple spreadsheet applications
  • Height chart
    • Entering data
    • Positioning data in cells
    • Formatting data in one or more cells
    • Creating a chart with two axes
    • Adding a title and labels
  • Average monthly rainfall and temperature
    • Enlarging data cells
    • Using formulas to do computations
    • Duplicating information in cells
    • Creating a double bar chart
• Everyday uses for databases
  • Book holdings
    • Setting up fields
    • Modifying the format
    • Organizing the information
    • Finding records
• Image editing with Paint Shop Pro
• Saving files from Liberty to disks: taking stuff home with you