Class Notes--Grade 4
1. Monitor: screen, where you view what you have typed into the computer, visual output.
2. Central Processing Unit (CPU): the brain of the computer, the part of the computer that allows all processing to take place.
3. Input: putting information into the computer, telling it what to do using the keyboard, mouse, joystick, touch screen, or microphone.
4. Output: taking information from the computer, retrieving what you put into the machine by using the monitor (soft copy) or printing it (hard copy); listening to what the computer is telling you with speakers or headphones.
5. Menu: a list of choices you have to choose from.
6. Menu Bar: the bar across the top of your screen that shows your eight menu selections (file, edit, view, insert, format, tools, window, help).
7. Tool Bar: the row of buttons below the menu bar; these buttons are shortcuts for choosing a command from a menu.
8. Icon: pictures that tell what programs you have on your computer; pictures on your tool bar showing the different commands you can do using Microsoft Works.
9. Esc Key: acts as a cancel key, backs you out of a command that you no longer want or need.
10. Alt Key: activates your menu bar; works in combination with the underlined letters to make selections.
11. Cursor: the blinking vertical line that tells you where you are on your screen, tells where your next letter will be typed.
12. Closing: takes you out of a Microsoft Works file.
13. Exiting: takes you all the way out of the Microsoft Works program.
14. Saving to drive A: taking information from the computer and storing it on your floppy disk.
15. Loading an existing file (document): bringing a file that you typed earlier (and stored on a disk) into the memory of the computer so you can work on it again; also called opening a file.
16. Word wrap: when you reach the end of the line you are typing on, words that don’t fit will automatically move (wrap) to the next line.
17. Insert: when you type text, it will show up (inserted) where the cursor is blinking.
18. Typeover: when you type text, it types over the top of letters/spaces that already exist on your screen; it looks like it is chewing the letters up as you are typing; OVR shows in the lower right corner of your screen; this feature is turned on and off by striking the "Insert" key.
19. Flying Windows Key: This key will pull up your start button so you can make selections from this menu.
Period ending a sentence--2 spaces Close the door. I am getting cold. Question mark (?)--2 spaces May I have some candy? It's nice to share. Exclamation mark (!)--2 spaces Help! I'm falling! Note: All of the above punctuation marks end sentences. Put two spaces after them so the reader knows when the next sentence begins. Period after an abbreviation--1 space Dr. Martin was nice. Comma--1 space I ate a banana, orange, apple, and grapes for breakfast. Semi Colon--1 space chew a wafer; award a wish; draw a cow Colon to introduce a list--2 spaces I took the following to camp: food, sleeping bag, lantern, matches, and pillow. Colon to show time--0 spaces before and after The time is now 4:10 p.m. Period in an internal abbreviation--0 spaces Walt wrote a c.o.d. order for Daryl Tate. Note: All punctuation that comes at the very end of a line of typing (that means you will be striking the enter key to begin a new line) has zero spaces after it--all you do is press return.
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08/27/07 Lori Hoffman