Workshop+Very+Beginning+Introduction+to+Digital+Technology

Purpose: to provide problem-solving digital skills for people who are not familiar at all or not very familiar with digital technology.

What Does the Equipment Look Like?

When you approach a computer, you will notice four things: something that looks like a box, something that looks like a television set, something that looks like a typewriter keyboard, and something that is small and will fit in your hand. You might be approaching a laptop computer which means that the box thing is underneath the typewriter keyboard, the television is the flat screen that covers the keyboard when the laptop is closed and instead of something small, you have a square flat place on the computer that is different from the rest of the computer.

The box holds computer guts that do what you want it to do or what it thinks you want to do. The television set (monitor) tells you what is going on in the computer guts. And you can influence what is going on through the typewriter keyboard and the little thing that fits in your hand (mouse) or the flat square (trackpad).

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Monitor Box Mouse Laptop Keyboard (use the mouse to click on one of these words to identify each part of the computer).

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