Re: Course on Maintaining a Healthy Computer
Rona King (audumont@wave.tcs.tulane.edu)
Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:33:21 EDT
Joy,
This was my first year actually teaching computers although I
have been the computer coordinator for my school for the past 5 years.
My main focus having the students learn how to use the equipment
properly. I assumed that they knew absolutely nothing even if they
thought they did. I started with how to handle a disk. (We have had 3.5
disks stuffed into 5.25 drives.)Which side goes into the computer, etc.
Many teachers do not know this. Turning computers on and off properly is
another big thing. Many people do not know the proper way to shut down.
I would suggest that you record (physically or mentally) all the
steps you do in a day on the computer, break them down into minute parts
and then analyze them. This probably will tell you what to teach.
As you are most probably aware, the students are usually more
venturesome than their teachers on the computers; therefore, you might
want to show teachers how to prevent students from altering system
folders and the like security programs notwithstanding.
Rona King
audumont@wave.tcs.tulane.edu
On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Joy Hogg <jhogg@edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu> wrote:
> My counterpart at Cadillac Public Schools (MI) and I want to offer our
> teachers a course in maintaining a healthy computer. Would you contribute
> your ideas? My first few are not to allow disks to float back and forth
> from home to school, defrag, scandisk, virus check, dust, static
> electricity or magnet problems...We will be teaching a mixture of levels,
> but most of our teachers know little about maintenance. Would you like to
> add or dispute any of the above? Are there certain things that ALWAYS are
> going wrong with computers at school and can they be prevented? I am
> always harping on treating the keyboards properly, myself...