Go to any sit down restaurant and they present you with a MENU- you know: appetizers, soups, salads, entrees, desserts.
Well, I thought it might be beneficial to do the same [and organize it similarly] for the benefit of collegiate Switchers who have no idea which Apps are which. So please help me decide the layout and which to include.
SITUATION: Here's the deal, I work at a small college, in Hawaii, that recruits 98% of the students from Japan. They're all very Windoze-centric (much to my surprise) but are very behind in IT skills in general- most have never owned a PC, had access to one, or even had an email account prior to their coming to us.
CONTEXT: Our Library Lab is all Mac Mini's; I interact with the students there.
1- A few weeks ago, someone deleted Safari from one of the units and a student came up to ask me how to get on to the Internet without Safari. Well, much to my chagrin, I could readily see the Camino icon right in the [visible] dock beside the '?' now representative of the lost Safari.
2- I did an informal survey and all knew what PowerPoint was, but none knew of Keynote
3- I loaded the awesome Nisus Thesaurus into the dock on all the machines, but each student must be shown it before they know what it is and how to use it.
SOLUTION: On a laminated sheet of paper (either folded in half or tri-fold layout) I want to organize the Apps we have that they would find useful.
QUESTION: What would be the best headings and Apps to include under those headings to introduce [at a glance] Switchers to OS X in all it's goodness. I'll lay it out such that each App Icon is to the left and beside is a brief description of capabilities.
Heading:
INTERNET BROWSERS
Safari
Camino
Firefox
Heading:
WORD PROCESSING
Microsoft Word
Open Office Writer
Apple Pages [is this the right place?]
Heading:
THESAURUS/DICTIONARY
Nisus Thesaurus
What else to include?
Heading: SPREADSHEETS
Microsoft Excel
Open Office Calc
Heading:
PRESENTATION
Microsoft PowerPoint
Apple Keynote
Open Office Impress
What else would you include? And would you organize it thus, or another way?
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