1. What Home Computer Skills do I need
The Future Citizen

2. Online Forms Load this form https://goo.gl/forms/nqpqtVjkBNdo8Ruo1
Do not use real information especially DoB and address.
DO NOT PRESS SUBMIT
What do have have to be careful about in filling in forms.

3. Problems with Online forms
What should the username be?
It should not identify you.
It should not cause you embarrassment now or in the future
Should it be the same across services?

4. Create a password Method 2 Method 1 Think of three unconnected words
“Dog” “car” “swing”
String these together
“Dogcarswing”
You can change some letters for numbers and add punctuation
“D0gcarswing!”
Think of a phrase to remember or draw pictures to remember
“The dog who owned a car was on a swing”
Method 1
Think of your favourite song and a line from it
“We all live in a yellow submarine”
Take the first letter of each word
“Waliays”
Add a number and a character
“Waliays4!”

5. Problems with Online forms
Date of birth: could be american mm/dd/yyyy
or the year gets confusing dd/yy/yy or dd/mm/yyyy
Write your Date of Birth in these forms:
dd/mm/yy
dd/mm/yyyy
mm/dd/yy

6. Is it okay to lie in Online forms?
The Truth
Is it okay to lie in Online forms?
Sometimes you hear that you should not give real information when filling in Online forms.
Which of these would you be tempted to use ‘false’ information:
Job Application
Facebook/Twitter
College Admission form
Cinema Discount card
Credit/Debit card
Tinder

7. Terms and Conditions
Lying in an Online form might go against the terms and conditions of that service
Instagram
Why do many under 13 year olds lie on online forms?
Why will sites collect the DoB?

8. eMail You will all have an email address.
The first thing has it got a proper name?
is not going to look good on a job application.
On the worksheet write and ask Mr Smith for more information about a job in the local supermarket called Samways advertised in the The Local Times on Friday 25th June.

9. Email reply Mr Smith has replied and asked you for a CV. What is a CV?
filename:jezzerjobby.docx
reply
Mr Smith has replied and asked you for a CV. What is a CV?
How could the CV shown on the right be improved?
How do you attach it to the CV?
Mr Smith has asked you to cc in Mr Jones the HR manager.
What is this and how do you do it?

10. Using a mail client You may have several email accounts
You can put all these accounts into one programme called a mail client.
Just be careful which address you send your from!

11. You can redirect an email to another address
This example is Outlook but they all will do the same thing.

12. Deleting old accounts
If you have finished with any account you should delete it.
YouTube is a good resource for finding out how

13. Backing your data up
Normally laptops store data on a device called a hard drive.
This can go wrong and if your computer is infected with malware it is the first place that hackers attack.
You should make sure that you store important data safely in other places as well as on the laptop.

14. Where to store data There are two main alternatives.
You can store data on another hard drive or USB Data stick or in ‘The Cloud’ using OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox or other services. All of these offer some memory for free.
How often should you back up?

15. Mobile Phone Data Where do you store your photos?
What would happen if you lost your phone?

16. Wireless connectivity
To connect to your wireless home network:
Select the Settings icon.
Select Wi-Fi.
Confirm that Wi-Fi is set to On.
Choose your network from the list provided.
Enter your network's encryption key if you're prompted and select Join.
What are the dangers of joining a public network?
Clue: Man in the middle

17. Fixing things
If technology does not work then in most case you should try turning it off and then turning it on again.
There is a good reason for this: programs get stuck in an infinite loop or things return to a start position
If that does not work try the Internet and/or YouTube