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

• 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

BASICS on Mouse Skills

basic computer skills mouse

Move mouse to search bar, click once inside bar and type in the following:

Left click underlined link once

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.

Type Mouse skills game In either search boxes

Left click once on underlined link

Left click once on underlined link Rush Hour

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

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

click

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

Learning the QWERTY keyboard….

Google search:Abcya keyboard & left click on blue link

Click on orange standard box

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

Keyboarding Exercise #2: Type URL (web address)

directly in address bar

http://keybr.com

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

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