Aim

Aim

• Address concerns and questions that participants may have about file management.
• To suggest a plan for working with files and folders. Participants create a desktop folder with subfolders.

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Rationale

• Participants may need to learn how to make folders.
• Participants may need to be reminded or informed of the necessity of rules, organization, and order when dealing with files and file management.

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Audience Wit Participants who have little experience with files, folders, or file management.

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Subject Matter Plans and procedures for file management.

Learning Objectives Participants will

• create desktop folders that will meet their needs.
• whenever they name files, be able to name files correctly.
• whenever they are making links, be able to make relative links to files.

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Materials

• Computer with Netscape, Internet access

Instructional Plan

Times given for activities are estimates. The "Get Organized" section may take 20 minutes. Others may take 5 to 10 minutes each. For those who need very basic skills, sections 5 & 6 give detailed step by step instructions on folder creation.

Most of the pages describe activities that participants will need to do in order to be successful in WIT.

There is a simple quiz at the end.

Content

1. Index & Information gives navigation information, content, aims, and rational.
2. Get organized promotes planning and organizing folder creation and file storage. (5 pages)
3. Names for Files & Folders identifies common problems with file and folder names and offers remedies.
4. Relative & Absolute Files & Links defines and promotes proper use of absolute and relative links.
5. Make Macintosh Folders step by step instructions on making folders on Macintosh.
6. Make Windows Folders step by step instructions on making folders on Windows computers.
7. Quiz: a short activity

Note: When my co-mentor and I used this module last year, we verbally explained the need for organization and told them to take some time to read the module. Then we demonstrated what we wanted and how to do it, and then went around the lab and made sure everyone had the folders we wanted them to have. The other pages were read and discussed as needed, and then were assigned as homework or as specific reading assignment to participants who continued to have problems with the subjects of the pages.

Assessment/Evaluation Participants will use files and folders to create a usable, orderly worksite.

They should score 100% on the quiz. They will use the reference section as needed. Please e-mail comments about this module to Terry Jones.

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