September 6th, 2011 Brian Herzog
Thanks everyone who contributed their favorite keyboard shortcuts. I picked what I thought were the most helpful for someone fairly new to computers, and put together a little handout:
It's for new users, so I stuck with, basic, simple, and common. I hope it'll be helpful, but depending on the person, it might still be overwhelmingly complicated. But if it is well-received, I'll do a second one with the more advanced helpful shortcuts that people submitted.
Feel free to use or adapt it - I made it so it was easy to change the letters on the keys, so feel free to modify and expand.
And please let me know if you see any mistakes, or thought of a way to make it clearer or more helpful - or if you have an image better that the Microsoft clipart I used.
Mac Users
I added a note at the bottom about how to use these shortcuts for Mac, and I wanted to show what the Command key looked like. While searching for the image online, I also came across the origin of the Infinite Loop symbol, which I had never really wondered about before. Interesting.
Update 10/11/11
Thanks to Adam Van Sickle of the Teton County Library - he worked to have the handout translated to Spanish, and allowed me to post the English/Spanish version here [pptx] for anyone to use. Thanks Adam!
Tags: computer, computers, handout, handouts, keyboard, libraries, Library, public, shortcut, shortcuts, Technology
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May 26th, 2009 Brian Herzog
Here's a new little handout to show patrons (and staff) the basics on how to connect to the library's wireless network. Feel free to modify* and use it if you like.
The handouts are designed to be a third of a page, with Windows instructions on one side and Mac instructions on the other:
Since the beginning of the year, I've been noticing more and more people asking for help connecting to the network. It wasn't that our network was problematic - the patrons just seemed like first-time laptop owners, and had no idea how to connect.
We have a more hardcore troubleshooting handout, instructing people to use ip config to release and renew their ip numbers, but that was definitely overkill for these patrons. They needed something plain and simple, that showed the basic steps to search for and connect to networks.
But of course, plain and simple is tricky, since there are so many brands and operating systems out there. Please let me know if you have any suggestions on making this better, or post a link to your own handout in the comments section.
And thank you to Jessamyn for writing the Mac portion - it would have only been half as useful without your help.
*I usually do little handouts like this in PowerPoint, because I already have templates setup - sorry for the amateur desktop publishing
Tags: connecting, connection, guide, handout, how to, howto, libraries, Library, network, public, Service, Technology, wi-fi, wifi, wireless
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