Caring for your computer

Summary: This workbook supports a 3 hour session introducing adult students to maintaining a computer; also includes a lesson plan which provides an outline for practitioners to teach adult learners these skills. Skills include keeping a computer clean, protecting it from power surges, maintaining files and disk space, running systems maintenance and watching for common risks such as viruses. This is part of a series of field-tested workshops developed by CBAL. Students need basic skills before participating, such as knowing the basic parts of a computer (the screen, keyboard and mouse) and how to use a mouse (double click, right-click). This project was funded by Government of Canada's New Horizons for Seniors Program, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada License.