Tech skill area: Finder exploration
Project - Set desktop image, doc shortcuts and log-out
Set the desktop image
- Click on the apple menu the top left corner.
- Choose system preferences.
- Choose an image from the selections or from the Internet by dragging it to the desktop

- Next drag the image into the window in the desktop pref.
 
- You can choice to tile or stretch the image.
- Your image must be appropriate for school setting. No sex, drugs, violence or gang images. Use Google Image search to find your images.

DOC setup
Click on your hard drive then application folder drag apps to your doc to make it look like this:

Log-out
Each day before you leave be sure to log out.

Done, great job! Now you know how to work with some of the Finder functions. |
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Essential Question How can we best communicate with a computer?
• Learning Goals
_understand finder operations
–set desktop image
_set doc app shortcuts
–logout of the user
• Have a fellow student check your work
•Have doc and desktop checked
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Glossary
desktop - The part of the finder that gives you the visual of files, applications, folders and image.
doc - the area on a Mac where shortcut images to many applications you may use sit. |
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