ASSIGNMENT ON PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES IN COMPUTING

KHADIJA FAROOQ
HND COMPUTING Roots Ivy
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES IN
COMPUTING

CONTENTS
1. Background of Target Audience:.......................................................................................................................2
2. Training Outline:.................................................................................................................................................2
2.1. Training Collateral:....................................................................................................................................3
2.2. Training Timeline........................................................................................................................................3
3. Problems solving Techniques:.............................................................................................................................4
3.1. Problems faced during the Event and their Solutions:............................................................................4
4. Types of Teams according to Purpose:..............................................................................................................5
4.1. Lifecycle of a team:.....................................................................................................................................6
4.2. Role of Every Team Member:....................................................................................................................6
4.3. Importance of Communication:.................................................................................................................6
5. The Ideal Team:...................................................................................................................................................6
5.1. Our Team Roles:.........................................................................................................................................7
5.2. My Role in the Team:..................................................................................................................................7
6. CPD:......................................................................................................................................................................7
6.1. Benefits of CPD:..........................................................................................................................................8
6.2. Motivation and Goal Achievement:...........................................................................................................8
Bibliography...................................................................................................................................................................9
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1. BACKGROUND OF TARGET AUDIENCE:
A target audience is a group of SOS children all aged between 7 to 12, with minimal exposure to
computers. It is a reasonable assumption that there is no prior or established understanding of how
computers work, both at the hardware level and the software level. While some of the members may have
seen computers, there is no evidence of any of them having interacted with one.
As far as their education outside of computers is concerned, very basic literacy may be assumed, well
below their peers. This would mean that some extra attention is required to go over items and information
that may very well be assumed for a cohort of this age group.
2. TRAINING OUTLINE:
The training will cover basic computer literacy skills, starting with the necessary parts that make up a
computer: hardware. After that the discussion will shift to how to operate a computer, starting will
rudimentary information like turning it on and off, the basic elements on the screen, and how does a
mouse work. It will be discussed if the children know alphabets and numbers because that will make it
easier for them to follow the letterings on the keyboard.
After these items, the agenda will involve application details and usage, such as what is a window, folder,
and file. This will introduce the necessary components that make navigation on a computer easy to
follow. Following that, there will be a very high-level discussion about common applications like Word,
Excel, Paint, and Windows Explorer.
Finally, the discussion will move to the Internet and introduce very basic elements of the world wide web
without delving too deeply into the intricacies of how it works and what it entails. What is important is to
impart the knowledge of its existence, how to use it and what kind of information it contains.
A list of topics, broken down complexity, is shown below:
 Hardware Introduction
o Monitor
o Keyboard
o Mouse
o CPU
 Booting Up
o Turn on and turn off the system
o Startup waiting and what it means
o Startup screen elements
 Applications and Software
o What do you see on screen?
o Keyboarding skills: how to type?
o How do you move around with a mouse?
 Point and click
o Windows Explorer
 Resize a window
 Drag and drop objects
 What are folders and files
 How to go to different folders
 How to rename a file or folder
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