Computer

What ideas can you think of for a challenge for your Computer Badge?  You could learn, visit, plan, try, demonstrate, improve, communicate...
Here are some example challenges:

• Create a new email address and learn how to email someone.

• Learn how to use the internet and the safety rules for its use.

• Discover the safety rules around power points.

• Learn how to use a software package new to you.

• Improve your skills at touch typing.

• Learn the names of different parts of the computer (eg. monitor, keyboard, mouse etc)

• Find out about viruses, trojan horses and worms and learn how to protect your computer from these.

• Using a word processing program, find out how to change font style, size and colour.  Also try out tables, graphs, columns, pictures, subscript, superscript, footers, and headers.

• Learn how to change the ink and paper in the printer.

• Learn how to scan an image.

• Find out what 'ppi' means in relation to picture quality.

• Find out how to print double sided and in booklet format on your computer.

• Research the history of computers.

• Find out how many 'bits' there are in a 'byte', and how many 'bytes' in a 'kilobyte'.

• Investigate the memory capacity on your computer.

• Find out the difference between RAM and ROM.

• Learn how to burn a CD or DVD.

• Find out how to download photos from a digital camera to your computer.

• Investigate the file name extensions for different programs (eg. .JPG, .DOC, .PDF, .GIF, .PUB, .TXT, .ZIP, .RTF, .WMV... etc)

Or any other challenge or group of challenges that relate to Computers and mean you are achieving your personal best.

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