1. Hello! Keep watching … I’ll show you how to use a mouse

2. On your desk is a keyboard this is the spacebar Press it now

3. You’re going to use the spacebar to work your way through this program. Press it again now

4. Well done – it worked! Remember – whenever you want to move the program on, press the spacebar Press it when you see the red tick

5. Now, about this mouse …

6. The computer’s mouse looks like this

7. This is how you hold it … Keep it flat on the desk Put your hand on top of it Put your first finger on the left- hand button

8. The pointer shows your position on the screen and the mouse controls the pointer

9. Hold the mouse and move it in little circles, as though you were polishing the desk Try it now Can you see the pointer move?

10. To go up, move the mouse away from you To go left, move the mouse to the left Try moving the pointer to each square To go right, move the mouse to the right To go down, move the mouse towards you

11. Can you point to each of the stars on this screen? (don’t click, just point)

12. Have another go!

13. As well as pointing with the mouse, you can select items on the screen by clicking

14. Point to this star Keep the pointer on the star and press down quickly to click on the left- hand button on the mouse

15. Well done! From now on, click on the to move on to the next screen, instead of pressing the spacebar

16. You can click on Icons (these are shortcuts to commands you use a lot) Save Print Bold Italic Underline

17. You can click on Words on a menu bar After you click on the word, you will get a drop-down menu Then you can click on any words in the drop- down menu

18. You can click on Options in a dialog box then you have to click on OK to confirm your choice

19. You can click on Options in a dialog box then you have to click on OK to confirm your choice Click

20. You can click on Action Buttons This one will take you back one slide – try it This one takes you forward to the next one

21. Mouse pointers sometimes change shape

22. Different pointers do different things arrow pointer for pointing and clicking hand for an automatic link to another document

23. Now you know how to use the mouse let’s have a look at Windows

24. You have already seen some Windows features Menu bar Icons Drop-down menu

25. Now let’s look at some more Windows features The desktop is the screen you see at first

26. Windows features The desktop’s background is called wallpaper It can be a photo, a pattern, a plain colour – anything This one is a photo of a train station

27. Windows features The programs you use are sometimes displayed as icons on the desktop

28. Windows features If the program icons you want are not on the desktop, click on Start then Programs

29. Windows features No matter what the desktop wallpaper or the icons on it look like, when you use any Windows program you will see lots of things that always look the same

30. You will see similar screens on all Windows programs Word (word processing) Excel (spreadsheet) Access (database)

31. Let’s look at some icons that are used in Windows Minimise - if you click on this icon –it shrinks the page to an icon at the bottom of the screen

32. This is what a minimised program looks like Want the program back? Just click on the minimised icon

33. more icons … Maximise - if you click on this icon –it enlarges the view so that it fills the entire screen

34. This is what a maximised screen looks like

35. and finally … Close - if you click on this icon – the program closes down

36. It’s gone! You’re back at the desktop

37. You can have several programs open at the same time The blue Title bar shows the program you are using (any other programs are shown in the background)

38. So, what have you learned so far? How to hold the mouse How to click What Windows looks like Some technical words: –Menu bar –Title bar –Icons –Drop-down menu –Dialog box –Action buttons –Desktop and wallpaper –Programs –Minimise, maximise, close If you’d like to run through it all again, click on the smiley face. If you would like to continue, click on the jigsaw.

39. This is the end of the presentation Choose what you want to do next: go through it again finish