my staff members want to learn computer?

Question

I am working as computer teacher i a school. Other teachers in this school want to learn computer. i am confused what to teach them and where to start from. i got 15 days for this help me.

Answer 1

I have the same problem with the staff at my school. One clerical employee takes 19 minutes to open a file, asks questions like, "Should I click or double click?", and sometimes holds the mouse upside down and doesn't understand why it won't move in the direction she wants it to. My boss is impressed by the ability to make Excel charts and PowerPoint presentations, never mind logos in Freehand and webpages in Dreamweaver.

I would suggest writing a detailed list of your lessons and having people join your class at a point where you're teaching something they don't know.

You may have to start with opening an application (I would start with MS Word) and a new document, saving the document. "Undo" is huge. Copy, cut, paste. Formatting: change case, bold, italic, underline, centering, changing the typeface and font. If you can teach them "find & replace", I think they will start to see the potential benefit of computers. Spell check is a good thing to teach, too. Page setup, landscape orientation. Print.

That should be about an hour's worth, depending on your students. At the end of this lesson I would help the ones who don't have e-mail sign up for a Yahoo! account. and show them how to send an attachment. It will save you a lot of trouble in moving files from one computer to another for people. Floppies, thumb drives...fuggedabout it!

I would make Excel my second lesson. They will probably find the lesson more fun if you do an "art" lesson before you start crunching numbers. Teach them how to change row height and column width, merge cells, border them, and color them. Have them make a piece of modern art inspired by Piet Mondrian (see below)! This is a good place to teach print preview--don't want your art to be split between two pages.

Once they've got formatting down in Excel , I would teach them formulas (average is big for teachers) and sort--very helpful! Review the text formatting from MS Word, and the find & replace function. Teach them how to make a chart from their data. Teach them how to copy and paste their data from one sheet to another, or copy the whole worksheet.

For your next Excel lesson, you might teach them how to make a calendar. They need to know the date format. I use formulas like "=c2+7" to fill in the dates. Then I "paste special" to paste as values. That's really helpful. Then teach them how to make text boxes from the drawing menu to put notes like "Labor Day Holiday" or "Science Fair Project Due" on their calendars.

Having done this, you should give them an independent project like "design a gradebook spreadsheet using Excel". "Transpose" is a good "Paste Special" option to teach here.

A text box is the big trick to learning PowerPoint presentations, so I would move on to "How to make a simple PowerPoint presentation" next.

All of that shoudl get you pretty far.

Answer 2

First start from Basics operation and then teach them to write mail, Microsoft Word, Exel, Micro Powerpoint and later on you can teach them about Internet.
1. Basic
2. Saving the Document, Protecting document, creating the folder, renaming the folder and many more. But first start from Basics, this will be easy for you as well as easy for you member staff.

Answer 3

It would depend on what aspect of the computer they are wanting to learn. You were not specific and there's everything from knowing the how to build/repair one to creating web pages/writing html.

Of course, if it's basic windows stuff, then by all means start with telling them how important it is to do a disk cleanup and defrag, lol.

Answer 4

Basic operations.. Turning the computer on, printing, viewing the internet. The basics...

Answer 5

Teach them how to do Email.

Answer 6

beginner-intermediate-advanced... split into 3 courses to save yourself or even buy time with postponing the advanced.