Your Computer – Working With Windows – Computer Courses for Seniors

Written February 12th, 2011
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Computer courses for seniors - using windows dialog boxes

Computer courses for seniors – using windows dialog boxes

Free computer courses for seniors

The next tutorial in our free computer courses for seniors is a tutorial showing how to work with windows. Microsoft Windows comes in various forms, e.g. Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME and others. They all have one thing in common – they all have windows. This tutorial shows opening, closing, minimizing and maximizing those windows. An elementary lesson in developing basic computer skills.

This tutorial will continue the basic computer training for seniors, beginners and novices, those students looking to learn online and qualify in The European Computer Driving License (ECDL) this lesson will cover Equalskills element 3.2.

This is an elementary part of using your computer.

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Basic Computer Training – Document Creation in Wordpad

Written June 14th, 2011
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Basic computer training - Document creation

Basic computer training – Document creation

Basic computer training

Everyone who switches on a computer, will, at some point, want to create documents and our free basic computer training for beginners and seniors shows how to get started. The online tutorial shows how to find wordpad, a word processing software, in your computer. The computer training then explains about font icons, shows how to change font style and size as well as text colour, before showing how to print and save the document. The tutorial is suitable for any beginner or senior and continues through element 4 for those looking to qualify in The European Computer Driving License (ECDL).

Being able to create documents is an important part of developing computer skills and this learning online tutorial is designed to get beginners started. More computer lessons in Microsoft Office Word, a more advanced software are available elsewhere on our website. Read the rest of this entry »

Basic Computer Training – Files and Folders

Written June 23rd, 2011
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Files and folders

Files and folders

Basic computer training

In this basic computer training lesson for seniors and beginners we take a look at files and folders, how we save files and how we organise our files and folders within our computer.

The computer tutorial is suitable for any beginner, senior or novice and for those looking to learn online and qualify in the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) this follows our online computer course and covers element 5, file handling.

The computer training lesson points out files and folders and then demonstrates saving a Wordpad document as a file before moving the file in to a new folder. Read the rest of this entry »

Basic Computer Training – What Is The Internet

Written June 28th, 2011
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Connected to the internet

Connected to the internet

Basic computer training

Our basic computer training course for seniors, beginners and computer novices continues with a short online tutorial asking what is the internet and explaining about the elements of the internet. The computer lesson is suitable for any beginner and for those looking to learn online and qualify in The European Computer Driving License (ECDL), the computer tutorial will cover element 6, the internet.

Understanding the internet is an important part of basic computer training and an essential part of  improving computer skills, during the lesson we try to answer what is the internet and explain how email, file sharing and particularly the world wide web fit within the internet.

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Internet – World Wide Web – What Is a Web Browser Lesson

Written January 15th, 2011
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World Wide Web – What Is a Web Browser

Online computer lesson

For those following our basic computer training course for seniors and beginners this next learning online computer lesson takes a look at the world wide web and asks what is a web browser?

The computer lesson for seniors and beginners will explain what a browser is and what web browsers are used for. It goes on to cover some of the different browsers available to you, including: Internet Explorer, FireFox, Google Chrome, Safari and others.

Anyone looking to qualify in the European Computer Driving License (ECDL), this lesson will cover element 7.1 in the course.

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Basic Computer Training – Web Browsers the Basics

Written July 13th, 2011
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The basics about web browsers

The basics about web browsers

Online computer lesson

Following on in our basic computer training for seniors and beginners we have an online computer lesson pointing out the basic elements of web browsers, using the most common browsers, internet explorer and mozilla firefox. The lesson explains the what the home page is, what is meant by the term URL and goes on to explain about browsing history, bookmarking and favourites. Important for anyone learning new computer skills.

The computer tutorial is suitable for any beginner and those beginners looking to qualify in the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) the lesson covers elements 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 and 7.5 of the computer basics course.

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