Re: [NTLK] Advice to Ease

Susan Sedro wrote:
> Oops. I meant to post that on the EdTEch listserv, not here. Sorry to
> clutter your mailboxes, although if you do have advice for me as I move from
> teaching on Macs to Windows machines, I'm glad to hear it.
> Susan Sedro
>
I presume that you will be teaching applications, not operating systems.
So with that caveat in mind I want to give you a little bit of advise,
each program has just enough of a common menu structure and behavior
that you will almost believe you know how it works. And then someone
(even MS) will move an option to a different menu, or they will call it
a different thing. there was never any standardization from MS as there
was from Apple, on how to do things.

so pay close attention to the applications you will be teaching or
teaching with and familiarize yourself with the menu structure. most of
the MS isms will catch you off guard until you get used to them. double
clicking on a title bar expands the window in MS world whereas it
minimizes the window on a mac, etc, etc, etc.

william

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