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Friday, March 16, 2018

Computer Sessions Tuesday March 20th to May1st 2018 at 10AM

May 8th - Tuesday  No session
Voting for Region 12 Budget - All Day




May 1st - Tuesday Session at 10AM
Last week's Session was very stimulating with a lot
of enthusiasm!

After showing various ways to get to the finished video,
I went home and finished my video as shown below.

The music selection was a little hard but it is now done.
I saved it as a Video and uploaded it to my Google Drive.

The .mp4 file below can be seen by you by Clicking on it.

Next week's Agenda will be: 

A Workshop: 
To get all of you to the finished video with my help.

That should be fun too!

Enjoy the Video!

There is NO Session on May 8th due to Voting!




April 24th- Tuesday Session at 10AM


Agenda - Add Animation and Music

  1. Add Animation.
  2. Transitions
  3. Pan and Zoom.
  4. Add Music.



April 17th- Tuesday Session at 10AM

Agenda - Captions and Music

  1. Review where each of now us stands with
      "Captions".
  2. Do the "Credits" for the End of the Movie together.
  3. Continue adding "Captions" for anyone unfinished.
  4. Add Music from anyone having songs to share.
  5. Download Songs from U-tube with SC-PC to Folder.
  6. Copy folder to Everyone's Music Library.
  7. The Song or Song's you want to use should be 
      now be in this Folder.







April 10th- Tuesday Session at 10AM

Agenda - Where we Stand with Captions- Pictures in Movie Maker

  1. Review where each of us stands with "Captions".
  2. Continue adding Captions and Credits.

  3. Play your Movie for the Group for Advise.

  4. Discuss Music selection.

  5. Set up getting the Music from U-Tube.








April 3rd- Tuesday Session at 10AM



Agenda - Copy the Edited Pictures into Movie Maker



  1. Review of Movie Maker Manual.

  2. Select Font you will use for Titles, Captions and Credits.

  3. Select Font sizes to use.

  4. Select Color of Font.

  5. Select Background Color.

  6. Click on Add Videos and Photos.Copy

  7. Select the 1-Movie 3-3018 Folder and open it.

  8. Hold the ctrl key and hit A to highlight all.

  9. Click Open to add all the photos to Movie Maker.

10. Do File Save as (Name your File).

11. Start entering Captions on each Picture.
12. After entering selections 2 to 5 on the first slide Click
      Apply to All  on the to Ribbon.
13. Save after each 5 Captions that you do. 

Movie Maker Manual




March 27th- Tuesday Session at 10AM

Agenda - Workshop to get Edited Pictures in the Folder

1. Continue adding Pictures to Folder.
2. Crop and Edit Pictures with Photo Gallery.
3. Rename Pictures in increments of 5, (1, 5, 10).

1. Review of Movie Maker Manual.
The Goal of this Workshop is to have your 1Movie 3-2018 
Folder complete with Edited and Re-Named pictures.

When you are done, help other get theirs done.




March 20th- Tuesday Session at 10AM
Highlighted is Coach Leader.
Agenda - Selecting Pictures -Groups
May Scanning Prints
Carol Fisher -
Liz Gaffney -
May be copying from Computer Folder
Girl's Group
Noella English - Ice Carnival in Quebec
Carol Enright - Carol's Family 2016-17
Janie Miller
Shirley Siana
Ann Frattalone
Boy's Group
Jim English - Living in Connecticut
Uwe Borgeest
Rudy Simari
Larry Sorriento
New Folder Set Up
Make Folder in Picture Library  1Movie 3-2018 
Click File Explorer on Task Bar
In the left Pane select This PC and Highlight Pictures.
With the hand image on pictures, right click the mouse and select New
Slide over and select New Folder. Type 1Movie 3-2018
1 Scanning Prints
Anyone Scanning will be set up with Tips and Tricks Vol 14 Scan Old Pictures
to a Flash Drive.
2 From Computer Folder
Open the Folder you want to copy pictures from
Rt click on the picture you want and select Copy
Point your arrow on the Picture Folder in the left Pane and rt click Paste.
You can RT Click Holding the Ctrl button to select and copy several pictures to 


Copy and paste at one time.
You can hold the Ctrl button and hit A to select all the pictures in a folder.
Next you want to put them in the order you want.
3 Rename Pictures in increments of 5, (1, 5, 10)
Rt click on the picture you want first select rename and key 1.
Rt click on the picture you want second select rename and key 5.
4 From Camera or Smartphone or Tablet or Flash Drive
Plug your device into the USB Port  with the wire you use to charge.
Click on the first picture and you will be asked to import and you can review
and select what to import the pictures you want
5 Open Photo Gallery at select  Pictures in 1Movie 3-2018
Crop, Straighten and Edit Brightness
6 Mentoring and Coaching
Members helping Members
Groups of 3
7 Review of Movie Maker Manual.
Quick overview

Computer Sessions March 20th to April 26th 2018


































































































































































































March 20th- Tuesday Session at 10AM
Highlighted is Coach Leader.
A Agenda - Selecting Pictures -Groups
May Scanning Prints
Carol Fisher -
Liz Gaffney -
May be copying from Computer Folder
Girl's Group
Noella English - Ice Carnival in Quebec
Carol Enright - Carol's Family 2016-17
Janie Miller
Shirley Siana
Ann Frattalone
Boy's Group
Jim English - Living in Connecticut
Uwe Borgeest
Rudy Simari
Larry Sorriento
New Folder Set Up
Make Folder in Picture Library  1Movie 3-2018 
Click File Explorer on Task Bar
In the left Pane select This PC and Highlight Pictures.
With the hand image on pictures, right click the mouse and select New
Slide over and select New Folder. Type 1Movie 3-2018
1 Scanning Prints
Anyone Scanning will be set up with Tips and Tricks Vol 14 Scan Old Pictures
to a Flash Drive.
2 From Computer Folder
Open the Folder you want to copy pictures from
Rt click on the picture you want and select Copy
Point your arrow on the Picture Folder in the left Pane and rt click Paste.
You can RT Click Holding the Ctrl button to select and copy several pictures to 
Copy and paste at one time.
You can hold the Ctrl button and hit A to select all the pictures in a folder.
Next you want to put them in the order you want.
3 Rename Pictures in increments of 5, (1, 5, 10)
Rt click on the picture you want first select rename and key 1.
Rt click on the picture you want second select rename and key 5.
4 From Camera or Smartphone or Tablet or Flash Drive
Plug your device into the USB Port  with the wire you use to charge.
Click on the first picture and you will be asked to import and you can review
and select what to import the pictures you want
5 Open Photo Gallery at select  Pictures in 1Movie 3-2018
Crop, Straighten and Edit Brightness
6 Mentoring and Coaching
Members helping Members
Groups of 3
7 Review of Movie Maker Manual.
Quick overview

Saturday, December 30, 2017

Computer Sessions January 2nd to March 13th 2018

March 13th
We will Create a Movie using pictures.
Add Live Essentials Software for anyone missing it.
Use Photo Gallery to Edit and Crop Pictures.

Movie Maker Project
Gathering 15-25 Pictures
Renaming Pictures for OrderAdding Pictures to Movie MakerAdding Title, Captions and CreditsAdding Music


February 13th 20th and 27th and March 6th
Files and Folders
Final Review on Files and Folders.
Questions by Attendees.
Answers by Art
Solving your Computer problems
Practice what you learned.

Manual on Blog (45 pages)




February 6th
Continued on Files and Folders and General Questions
and Answers.



January 23rd
Cancelled for "Gas" at Senior Center.



January 16th


Computer Maint
Deleting Files from Downloads.
System Cleanup of C Drive.



Windows 10 - 1709
Microsoft came out with Version 1709 in the Fall of 2017.
Workshop updating to 1709 with ISO DVD Disks for anyone
needing to update.

Updating SC Laptops







January 9th



Computer Maint
Security and Defender
Updates
Backup
System Cleanup



Windows 10 - 1709
Microsoft came out with Version 1709 in the Fall of 2017.
We need to see what version is on your computer.
1607, 1703 or 1709.
Discuss having a Workshop update to 1709 with ISO Disks.


January 2nd

Art will be doing a Workshop on next Tuesday.

1. If you have questions, bring them to the meeting.
2. Computer not working right, show Art.
3. Got Ideas for 2018 Sessions, bring them up.

I won't be able to make the meeting.

Sunday, October 1, 2017

Computer Sessions September 12th to December 31st 2017


Dec 19th- Tuesday Session
Agenda

G-Mail Refesher Review.
PC testing for the BC.






2018


Movie Maker Project
Gathering 15-25 Pictures
Renaming Pictures for Order
Adding Pictures to Movie Maker
Adding Title, Captions and Credits
Adding Music


Video Editing

Horizontal Phone Videos
DVD Videos


Smartphones

Contact Syncing
Casting to TV
E-Mail Set Up
Messaging 
Navigating
Calendar


Other Technology

Smart TV
Roku
Chromecast
Netflix
Amazon Videos

Saturday, September 30, 2017

Computer Sessions Sept to Dec 2017

Sept 26th- Tuesday at 10AM

Agenda - Personalizing Computer

 Apps 
 Store- Weather, Scanning, Snipping,
 Placement- Start, Task Bar or Icon
Icons
 From an App
 Made Manually  (Tip or Trick Vol 2)

Desktop Background
 Rt Click the Mouse on the desktop
Choose Personalize and make changes

Start Menu
Remove and Add Apps you want in the Start listing

Task Bar
Add Apps that are important to you. (Settings Scans and Snips)
Start- Power Circle, Sleep, Shut down and Restart
Battery, Internet Status, Audio,Flash Drive removal and Notifications 




October 3rd- Tuesday 
Agenda - Settings and Things

Start Up Tasks
Hold Ctrl+Alt at hit Del.
Pick Task Manager and Start Up.

Settings for E-Mail for you
Open Gmail and Select Settings.

Passwords with Windows 10
Review and Set up M/S User Account and Password
Switch between Local Account and M/S Account

Searching on File Explorer
Finding files on your computer
By Name

By File Extension


October  10th

M/S Office Software - Jim Evans 
Word
Review Software
Letter Writing


October  17th

M/S Office Software - Carolyn 
Word

Microsoft Lesson Continued

1.  Insert Pictures and clip art to personal letters

2. Single labels
            Make a template
            St. Marks Church
            Set up how to print staying within the label

3. Printing envelopes

4.  Making tables in “Insert”
            Lesson plans
            Management calendar

5. Add pictures and letters to your email

6.  Downloading pictures and letters from your email.

Excel

Excel Lesson

1.  Review ribbon

2.  How Excel can be used

            Record information
                 KAA Membership
           
Monthly budget
           
Mailing addresses
                 Make into labels


October  24th
M/S Office Software - Carolyn 
Word

Microsoft Lesson Continued

1. Add pictures and letters to your email

2.  Downloading pictures and letters from your email.

Excel

Excel Lesson

1.  Review ribbon

2.  How Excel can be used

            Record information
                 KAA Membership



October  31st

M/S Office Software - Blanche
Power Point
Review Software
Making Slides
Inserting Pictures
Adding Music



November 14th
Card Making By Noella
Overview of Hallmark Software.

Agenda:
1. Creating a Special Christmas Card.
    Having someone in mind for the card - friend, 
    grand-child, sister, etc.

2. Selecting the Card.
    What type of Christmas card - funny, serious, 
    religious, etc.
    
3. Editing Card.
    Either use the saying in the card or  write 
    your own??

4. Envelope Printing - Special Word Template.

Everyone should come prepared with:

Who the Card is for and after  a few minutes to pick a card 
(within their chosen category) we will personalize it.

Nov 21st-28th Sessions at 10AM

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Ebay-Pay Pal
Wal-Mart
Others
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