METHODICAL INSTRUCTION FOR STUDENTS OF THE NURSING SCHOOL LESSON 1 (PRACTICAL 6 HOURS) Theme 1. Safety measures. Introduction. Microsoft Windows basics. File management within OS Windows. Theme 2. Main service utils. Using archivator and antivirus software. Theme 3. Customizing Windows user interface. Aim. Learn the general principles of usage computer running under Windows operational system. Also the file managmet techniques must be learned too. Methods of the main service utils usage must be shown too. The principles of the antivirus softvare usage must be learned too. Professional motivation. The ability to use a computer effectively is an essential life skill. Computer skills enable people of all ages to understand and use technology to improve their personal and professional lives. Certified computer skills can help the holder s professional life by making them more attractive to employers, while increasing their ability to communicate and access information and services in their personal life. In this lesson you will learn how to get around the Windows interface, using the mouse, menus, and the keyboard. You will open some applications and managed their windows. Next you need to learn how to save your work and keep track of where all that saved work is. That requires an understanding of the rules Windows uses to manage files and the folders they are stored in. Computers must be able to access needed information on command; however, even the smallest hard disk can store millions and millions of bits. How does the computer know where to look for the information it needs? To solve this problem, hard disks are organized into discrete, identifiable divisions, thus allowing the computer to easily find any particular sequence of bits. The most basic form of disk organization is called formatting. Formatting prepares the hard disk so that files can be written to the platters and then quickly retrieved when needed. Hard disks must be formatted in two ways: physically and logically. Physical Disk Formatting Logical Disk Formatting. All file systems consist of structures necessary for storing and managing data. These structures typically include an operating system boot record, directories, and files. A file system also performs three main functions: 1) tracking allocated and unused space, 2) maintaining directories and filenames, and 3) tracking where each file is physically stored on the disk. A utility program performs tasks related to the maintaining of your computer's health - hardware or data. Some are included with the operating system. Background 1. Types of the computer. 2. Buttons, indicators and drives on the front panel of the Personal Computers. 3. Connectors on the rear panel of the Personal Computers. 4. Components of the System Case of the Personal Computer. 5. Functions of the system software. 6. Functions of the operating software. 7. Common Desktop Objects. The icons. 8. Sections of the Start Menu. Running applications using Start Menu. 9. Purpose of the Taskbar. System Tray icons. 10. Parts of a Window. I. Practical work 9 00 11 15 (3 hours) Illustrative materialss:
Metodical instructions that allocated on the university web-site. Computers that are runned under the MS Windows operational system. Methods of practical work: Practical exercises Exercise 1. Start and shutdown PC under OS Windows To switch on the computer you can press power button on system case. Then the operational system will be loading. To complete this operation it is necessary one or two minutes. After that you can see the user interface of Windows: desktop and taskbar. To shut down your computer: 1. Click on the Start button. The Start menu will appear. 2. Click on Shutdown. The Shut Down Windows dialog box will appear. 3. Click on the Shut Down radio button. 4. Click on OK. Note! You can not shutdown the computer in the another way! After 10 sec you can start a computer again. Exercise 2. Arranging the objects on the desktop Look at the desktop and determine the position of the icons. Point the mouse cursor to the empty place of the desktop. Press right button of the mouse. You will see the context menu. Select the command Arrange icons. In the drop list choose one of the possible modes: by name; by type; by size; by date; automatically Turn off automatically arranging of the icons. Arrange icons manually, by dragging them around the desktop. Exercise 3. Determination of the desktop objects properties Right-click on the any object on the desktop. The Property dialog box will show. Analyse it. Repeat this operation for other icons. Exercise 4. Running application Microsoft Word and manipulation with its window To run any application in Windows you need: 1. Double click on its icon on the desktop (if exist) Or do the following steeps: 1. Click on Start. The Start menu will appear. 2. Go to the submenu Programs. 3. Locate the item to which you want to run Do the following operations using buttons in the title bar: 1. Minimize window of the Microsoft Word. 2. Maximize window. 3. Switch the window to the former size by pressing Restore button. 4. Resize the window by dragging its borders outward to expand it and inward to contract it. 5. Drag the window using control box or title bar. Exercise 5. Arranging some windows on the desktop Run two applications at the same time: Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. To cascade your windows: 1. Right-click on the taskbar. A menu will appear. 2. Click on Cascade Windows. To tile your windows: 1. Right-click on the taskbar. A menu will appear. 2. Click on Tile Windows Horizontally or Tile Windows Vertically, whichever you prefer. Exercise 6. The dialog box window structure Whenever you see an ellipse ( ) after a menu option, selecting that option causes a dialog
box to appear. You use dialog boxes to send commands to the software. Most dialog boxes provide an OK button and a Cancel button. Press the OK button if you are satisfied with your entries and you want to send the commands to the program. Press the Cancel button if you have changed your mind and do not want to send the commands to the computer. Some programs provide dialog boxes with several pages of options. You move to a page by clicking on the tab or by using Ctrl-Tab. Exercise 7. Creation of folders and files for the medication list management in the drugstore. Problem. Need create on-disk data structure for the medication information store. The medication information will contains three groups of drugs: antibiotics, gastroenterologustics and cardiological. Each group contains the subgroups in order to the way of use any preparation. In each subgroup it is specified marks of preparations and its characteristics. Each drugs group and a subgroup must be allocated in the separate folders. Inside it must be stored information about the drug characteristics as the text file: Disk D:\ Folder Folder Folder the texts document Drugstore Antibiotics Gastroenterologi cs medicines Cardiologі medicines Penicilin Cefalosporins Macrolidis Antisectors means Prokinetic means Laxative means Antigene means Diuretics Intimate glicozidics Benzilpenecilin Oksalicin Аmokcicilin Cefalosics Cefuroksis-sodium Ceftriаnеомis Eritromicin Azitromicin Claritomicin Gastrocepin Ranitidinic Omeprasolic Metoclopromidic Domperidons Cisapridic Loperamidic Calcium a carbonate Senadeksin Laktulosic Vazelinus oil Nitroglycerine Molsidomin Isosorbitus Dinitrat Furosemid Gipotiasid Spironolакtоnic Strofantin Digoxin Digitoksin Solutions. Run the Windows Explorer application. On a disk D: create a folder with a name Drugstore (under the Users folder). Inside the Drugstore folder athree folders with names: Antibiotics, Gastroenterologustics preparations and Cardiological preparations must been created. In each of them create on three folders, depending to the subgroups of medicines which are described.
In folders with names of subgroups of medicines create text documents, giving them the name as the name of a drug. Show results to the teacher. Exercise 8. Creating of archive "Drugstore.rar". Extracting files from arhive Commpress the folders tree that was created in the previous exercise. Use default archive peremeters and name. Archive file must been located in the D:\Users folder. Show for the teacher hot to extract files from this archive to the different location tann origin. Exercise 9. Check the disk "D:" for errors You can use the Error-checking tool to check for file system errors and bad sectors on your hard or floppy disk. 1. Open My Computer, and select the local disk you want to check. 2. On the File menu, click Properties. 3. Click the Tools tab. 4. Under Error-checking, click Check Now. 5. Under Check disk options, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box. Exercise 10. Defragmentation the disk "D:" The following steps detail how to use Disk Defragmenter: 1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools and click Disk Defragmenter. 2. Select the volume(s) that you want to check for fragmentation. 3. Click Analyze and wait for the message box to find out whether or not you need to defragment. 4. If you need to defragment, click Defragment. Exercise 11. Change the date and time in Windows You can use Date/Time applet in Control Panel to change your computer's date and time. 1. To open a Control Panel item, click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel. 2. Open Date/Time in Control Panel. 3. On the Date & Time tab, select the item you want to change. To change the month, click the month list, and then click the correct month. To change the year, click the arrows in the year list. To change the day, click the correct day on the calendar. Exercise 12. Customize the keyboard settings You can choose from a large number of input locales. When you switch to another input locale, some programs offer special features, such as font characters or spell checkers designed for different languages. To add an input locale and keyboard layout 1. To open a Control Panel item, click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel. 2. Open Regional Options in Control Panel. 3. On the Input Locales tab, click Add. 4. In the Add Input Locale dialog box, click the input locale and keyboard layout or Input Method Editor (IME) you want to add. To switch to another input locale 1. On the taskbar, click the indicator representing the current input locale, and then click the input locale you want to use. Exercise 13. Customize the display settings Use Display in Control Panel to customize your desktop and display settings. These settings control how your desktop looks and how your monitor displays information. You can completely customize the colors and fonts that are used in Windows on your screen. You can also specify color
settings, change your screen resolution, and set the refresh rate for your monitor. If you are using multiple monitors, you can specify individual settings for each display. To set or change the look of individual desktop items 2. On the Appearance tab, in the Item list, click the element you want to change, such as Window, Menu, or Scrollbar, and then adjust the appropriate settings, such as color, font, or font size. To change fonts displayed on your desktop 2. On the Appearance tab, under Item, click the element that displays the font you want to adjust. 3. In Font, click a new font. To set or change the background of your desktop 2. On the Background tab, do one or more of the following: Select a background picture from the wallpaper list. In the Picture Display list, click Center, Tile, or Stretch. Click Pattern to open the Pattern dialog box. Under Pattern, click the desired pattern To change your screen resolution 2. On the Settings tab, under Screen area, drag the slider, and then click Apply. Exercise 14. Checking the disk for the viruses Define, which antivirus software is the installed on your computer. Show for the teacher how to check any disk for viruses. Students should be able: Working with Windows Desktop. Run windows applications and manage of its windows. Working with taskbar an system tray. Working with icons of the applications and documents. Launch the My Computer and "Explorer" applications. Customize the My Computer and "Explorer" application windows. Examine folders structure of the partitions on the computers hard drives. Execute the following operations with files and folders: creation, deletion, and restoring, renaming, moving, copying, shortcut creating. Use archivators for compress and uncompress files and folders. Check partitions of the HDD for file system errors. Run process of the partition defragmentation. Change the date and time in Windows. Change the keyboard settings: layouts and shortcut keys. Customize the display settings. Install and remove the device driver software. Install and remove application software. II. Seminar discuss 11 45 13 00 (2 hours) Special attention should be paid to the following questions: 1. What is the Peripheral Cards? What is the Motherboard? 2. Types of Input. What is the Keyboard? How types of the key on the Keyboard you know? 3. What is the Multimedia? How Multimedia data can be Input? 4. What is a Processing? What is a Digital Data? What is a Digital Codes?
5. What is a CPU? How parts include the CPU? What determines the processor's speed? 6. What steep presents in the Machine Cycle? 7. How computer get access to the data in the memory? 8. What is Storage? Primary and Secondary Storage. 9. How Types of the Magnetic Disks you know? 10. What is the Hard Disk? Main features of the Hard Disk. 11. How Optical Disk Storage the Data? 12. What is an Output? Categories of Output. 13. How Printer Features you know? How Printer Types you know? 14. How Types of the Display you know? How Display Features you know? 15. What a classes of the software you know? What is the application? 16. What are the functions of the system software? 17. What are the functions of the operating software? 18. What types of the operating system you know? 19. How tasks perform the utility software? 20. What main types of the applications you know? 21. What is the BIOS? 22. How operating system allocating system resources? 23. How operating system Monitoring System Activities? 24. How operating system File and Disk Management? 25. How Common Operating Systems you know? 26. What is the user interface? How types of the user interface you know? 27. Common Desktop Objects. Icons. 28. Sections of the Start Menu. Running applications using Start Menu. 29. What is the Taskbar? System Tray icons. 30. Parts of a Window. Switching between opened windows. 31. Basic operations with windows: Opening, Closing, Minimizing, Maximizing, Resizing, Moving, Scrolling. 32. What is the menu? Types of the Menu in windows. 33. What is the dialog box? Controls in the dialog box. 34. What are the Logical Disk, the Drive, the File, and the Folder? 35. Navigating between Folders. Selecting Files and Folders. 36. Moving, Copying, Renaming and Deleting Files and Folders. 37. Searching for Files and Folders. 38. What is the Recycle Bin? Using the Recycle Bin 39. What is the Utility Program? 40. How types of the Utility Programs you know? 41. What is archivation? What archivation soft do you know? 42. How to create archive? What is self-extractor archive? 43. What are the computer viruses? How types of viruses you know? III. Knowledge Tests 14 10 15 00 (1 hour) Test task examples: 1. The titlebar button which will enlarge the window to cover the whole desktop is. A. B. * C. D. E. Right answer not exist 2. On the taskbar the time is shown in the. A. Start menu B. Scrollbar
C. Desktop D. System Tray* E. Right answer not exist 3. To make a window wider, you would move the pointer until it changes to the Horizontal Resize shape and then. A. Click B. Right click C. Double-click D. Drag* E. Scroll 4. To search for a word that might be in a Help file, you would use the A. Contents tab B. Index tab and Find or Search menu item* C. Find or Search menu item D. Index tab E. All answers are right 5. When you let your pointer linger over an object, the pointer is. A. Hovering* B. Elapsing C. Dragging D. Expanding E. Right answer not exist References General 1. Jan s Illustrated computer literacy 101. http://www.jegsworks.com 2. Windows7 Inside Out., Ed Bott, Carl Siechert, Craig Stinson, Microsoft Press, 2009, 1000p. 3. Faithe Wempen. Microsoft Windows XP: Simply Visual. SYBEX.,. 2005., 462p. 4. Introduction to Microsoft Office 2007, Lynchburg College Tutorials, http://www.lynchburg.edu 5. Special Edition Using Microsoft Office 2003 Student-Teacher Edition., By Ed Bott, Woody Leonhard, Que, 2006, 936p 6. Microsoft Office 2003 All in One, By Joe Habraken, Que, 2003, 984p. Additional 1. Excel Scientific and Engineering Cookbook, By David M. Bourg, O'Reilly, 2006, 442p. 2. The information and technology Services. The University of Texas. http://www.utexas.edu/its/windows/database 3. Microsoft Office Word 2003 Step by Step / Online Training Solutions, Inc. / Microsoft Press, Redmond, 2003, 322p. 4. How To Install Office 2003. SmartComputing, October 2004, Vol.15 Issue 10, http://www.smartcomputing.com Authors: as. A.V.Semenets Authorized on the department meeting "14" June 2011. Report 12 Reconsidered on the department meeting " " 200. Report