• Users (accounts)
• Logging in
• Desktop components:
• Dock
• Menu Bar
• Spotlight
• Wireless status icon
• Battery indicator
• The Finder
  
• System Preferences: To locate Preferences click the blue apple (the Apple Menu) in the upper left corner of the screen.
  
• Setting Up a Printer (IP Printer)
  
• Desktop and Screensaver
  
• Accounts (creating new users)
• Software Update: To manually update your software open the apple menu and click Software Update. Update all of the items even if you don't know what they are.
  
• Universal Access: Allows for you to zoom your screen.
  
• Applications Directory: The location where your programs are installed.
• Directory Basics:
  
• User (Home): Your "home" is where you save all of your digital content: text, audio, video, photos...).
  
• Directory: A folder or place where one locates files and/or applications.
  • Creating folders (directories)
  • Moving folders
  • Copying folders
  • Renaming files and directories
  • Creating Shortcuts (alias)
  • Using Find.

Applications on a Mac:

Standard Mac Applications:

• iLife:
• iPhoto
• iMovie
  
• GarageBand
• iDVD
  
• iWork:
• Keynote
• Pages
• iTunes
• PhotoBooth
• iChat
• Safari Web Browser.

Additional Software Titles:

• Comic Life
  
• World Book
• Encyclopedia
• World Atlas
• Wizards
  • Report Writing
  • Research
  • Charting

• TimeLiner: Software to create time lines.
• Sherlock: Information locator tool
• Inspiration: Graphic organizing software.
• InspireData: Data management software from the Inspiration Co.

Training Opportunitites for Various Software Titles:

• On-site Workshops: For groups of 5 or more a SPPS trainer will deliver on-site training before or after school or on inservice days. Contact joel.swanson@spps.org to make arrangements.
• SPPS Online Resources
  
• AtomicLearning.com: Online training for most educational software titles, delivered in short (1-2 minutes), topic-specific movies. No password is needed inside the SPPS.