Intro to Computers

Tips and Hints

Home | Teacher | Handouts | Tips and Hints | Success | DLs & More

Need a Little Help?

Keyboard

Internet Researching Tips

1. Be specific with your searches. Don't type in long requests. Short and sweet is your best bet.

2. Try different search engines if you don't get good hits on one of them.

3. Become good at skimming when you search for good/useful websites. Don't waste time too much time figuring out if the website will help you or not...CTRL+F should be your best friend online

Search Engines & More

These are the websites you can use to find anything and everything!

google.com
yahoo.com
bing.com

These sites will help you with some types of information better than a regular search engine.

worldbook.com
cia.gov/factbook

General Keyboarding Tips

Some of you will come in being able to type 10wpm using only 2 fingers. Some of you will know how to type 30+wpm because of prior experience/training. Some of you will struggle the first couple weeks with keyboarding. It doesn't matter how much you already knew, or how little, coming into the class. My focus is that you all commit to improving day by day, week by week.

1. Start slowly. Don't worry about speed when you are first learning which fingers key what letters/numbers.

2. Do your best to use correct keyboarding techniques. Your hands, back, wrists, and fingers will thank you later!

3. Take a break if your eyes are hurting. Use the time between lessons or games to look at anything other than the monitor. Do some wrist exercises to relieve strain.

Make a concerted effort to always improve and you will.