Parent Workshop Getting more out of your Mac Laptop
Know your Mac
Parental Controls
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created by Chrissy Hellyer
Parent Workshop
10 November 2010
A Touch of Creativity
with Chrissy Hellyer, ES Technology & Learning Coach
Helping Parents get more familiar with their mac laptops (and desktops)For the purposes of uploading this workshop presentation to SlideShare - the movie clips have been removed and replaced with a screenshot
3:55 (insert iMovie - Anatomy of the Mac)
Desktop (dock - how to open something)
Icons (Finder, Dashboard etc - scrolls through the icons & what they are + introduces stacks)
Menu Bar (status menus)
Finder (Close look - Different View: icon, list, column, coverview: Create, rename & organise folders)
Spotlight (how to use it)
5:48 (insert iMovie: PC to Mac: The Basics)
Basic Differences
Apple Menu/Dock vrs Start Menu Windows
How to: start application, add/remove application to dock
Stacks: applications, documents, downloads
Minimised windows
Trash - drag & drop
How to: Secondary Click vrs R.click
Running Applications
Keyboard Shortcuts (Command vrs Control)
Finder vrs my computer
1:52 (insert iMovie: Finder Basics)
Sidebar - one click access plus introduction to Devices, Shared, Places, Smart Searches
List view - Icon, List, Column, Coverflow
2:46 (insert iMovie: Using the Sidebar)
What it lets you open, searches
Devices (all the drives, external devices connected)
Shared (network, connecting to computers on same network)
Places (instant access to places you use all the time, adding folders to places)
Smart Searches (how to use)
2:08 (insert iMovie: Personalizing Your Mac)
Change desktop image, screensaver
Customise Dock
size, magnification, position, add apps/folders, stacks, delete from dock
1:29 (insert iMovie: Expose Basics)
How to cut through the clutter
How to customize (active screen corners, show all windows open, show all applications, clear desktop etc)
2:51 (insert iMovie: Parental Controls)
How to:
Create an account, Manage Time Limits, Control Web Browsing, Restrict Mail, Limit ichat, View logs & check activity
4:13 (insert iMovie: Enhance your Photos with a single Click)
Enhance photos with one click
Remove Red Eye
Fix light/dark photos
5:18 (insert iMovie: Crop Your Photos)
Crop photos
Rotate/straighten Photos
Retouch/Brush problem areas
Photo Effects
2:23 (insert iMovie: Create and Share a Slideshow)