Empowerment Technologies PDF

**EMPOWERMENT TECHNOLOGIES** **What Is Empowerment Technologies** These technologies allow you to shape your future by breaking down barriers and creating opportunities for personal growth. Imagine a world where you can access life-changing information at your fingertips, enabling you to make wel...

**EMPOWERMENT TECHNOLOGIES** **What Is Empowerment Technologies** These technologies allow you to shape your future by breaking down barriers and creating opportunities for personal growth. Imagine a world where you can access life-changing information at your fingertips, enabling you to make well-informed decisions on education, health, finances, and more. **Importance of Empowerment Technologies** It can help to level the playing field for marginalized groups, and to provide them with the tools and resources they need to succeed. **The Role of Internet and Social Media** **Connecting With Like-Minded Individuals** Social media platforms enable you to find others who share your interests or beliefs, fostering community and support. **Access to Information** The internet has democratized access to knowledge, breaking down barriers that once limited those who could learn about particular topics or gain specific skills. **\ Amplifying Voices** Through social media platforms like Twitter or Facebook, even those without traditional influence can reach a broad audience with their message when it resonates with others. **Collaboration at Scale** Online tools such as Google Docs or Slack facilitate collaboration among people from different locations or time zones in real-time. **Google Doc** Create, edit, and collaborate with others on documents from your Android phone or tablet with the Google Docs app. **Computer** A computer is an **electronic device that manipulates information, or data**. It has the ability to store, retrieve, and process data. The term \"computer\" once meant a person who did computations, but now the term almost universally refers to automated electronic machinery. A computer is a programmable machine that responds to a specific set of instructions in a well-defined manner, and it can execute a pre-recorded list of instructions (a program). Modern computers are electronic and digital. **The Four Major Functions of a Computer Are:** - - - - **Basic Computer Parts**       **History of Computer** Before computers were developed people used sticks, stones, and bones as counting tools. As technology advanced and the human mind improved with time more computing devices were developed like Abacus, Napier's bones, etc. **Abacus** Around 4000 years ago, the Chinese invented the Abacus, and it is believed to be the first computer. The history of computers begins with the birth of the abacus. **Napier's bones** Napier's bones was a manually operated calculating device and as the name indicates, it was invented by John Napier. In this device, he used 9 different ivory strips (bones) marked with numbers to multiply and divide for calculation. It was also the first machine to use the decimal point system for calculation. **Pascaline** It is also called an Arithmetic Machine or Adding Machine. A French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal invented this between 1642 and 1644. It was the first mechanical and automatic calculator. It is invented by Pascal to help his father, a tax accountant in his work or calculation. It could perform addition and subtraction in quick time. **Stepped Reckoner or Leibniz wheel** A German mathematician-philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1673 developed this device by improving Pascal's invention to develop this machine. It was basically a digital mechanical calculator, and it was called the stepped reckoner as it was made of fluted drums instead of gears (used in the previous model of Pascaline). **Difference Engine** Charles Babbage who is also known as the "Father of Modern Computer" designed the Difference Engine in the early 1820s. Difference Engine was a mechanical computer which is capable of performing simple calculations. It works with help of steam as it was a steam-driven calculating machine, and it was designed to solve tables of numbers like logarithm tables. **Analytical Engine** Again in 1830 Charles Babbage developed another calculating machine which was Analytical Engine. Analytical Engine was a mechanical computer that used punch cards as input. It was capable of performing or solving any mathematical problem and storing information as a permanent memory (storage).  **Tabulating Machine** Herman Hollerith, an American statistician invented this machine in the year 1890. Tabulating Machine was a mechanical tabulator that was based on punch cards. It was capable of tabulating statistics and record or sort data or information. This machine was used by U.S. Census in the year 1890. **Differential Analyzer** Differential Analyzer was the first electronic computer introduced in the year 1930 in the United States. It was basically an analog device that was invented by Vannevar Bush. This machine consists of vacuum tubes to switch electrical signals to perform calculations. It was capable of doing 25 calculations in a few minutes.  **Mark I** In the year 1937, major changes began in the history of computers when Howard Aiken planned to develop a machine that could perform large calculations or calculations involving large numbers. In the year 1944, Mark I computer was built as a partnership between IBM and Harvard. It was also the first programmable digital computer marking a new era in the computer world. **Generations of Computers** **First Generation Computers** In the period of the year 1940-1956, it was referred to as the period of the first generation of computers. These machines are slow, huge, and expensive. In this generation of computers, vacuum tubes were used as the basic components of CPU and memory. Also, they were mainly dependent on the batch operating systems and punch cards. **Second Generation Computers** In the period of the year, 1957-1963 was referred to as the period of the second generation of computers. It was the time of the transistor computers. In the second generation of computers, transistors (which were cheap in cost) are used. Transistors are also compact and consume less power. Transistor computers are faster than first-generation computers.  **Third Generation Computers** In the third generation of computers, integrated circuits (ICs) were used instead of transistors (in the second generation). A single IC consists of many transistors which increased the power of a computer and also reduced the cost. The third generation computers are more reliable, efficient, and smaller in size. It used remote processing, time-sharing, and multiprogramming as operating systems. **Fourth Generation Computers** The period of 1971-1980 was mainly the time of fourth generation computers. It used VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated) circuits. VLSI is a chip containing millions of transistors and other circuit elements and because of these chips; the computers of this generation are more compact, powerful, fast, and affordable (low in cost). **Fifth Generation Computers** From 1980 -- to till date these computers are used. The ULSI (Ultra Large Scale Integration) technology is used in fifth-generation computers instead of the VLSI technology of fourth-generation computers. Microprocessor chips with ten million electronic components are used in these computers. Parallel processing hardware and AI (Artificial Intelligence) software are also used in fifth-generation computers. **Microsoft Word** Microsoft Office is a suite of applications designed to **help with productivity and completing common tasks on a computer**. **You can create and edit documents containing text and images, work with data in spreadsheets** and **databases,** and create **presentations and posters.** **Microsoft** is an American multinational computer technology corporation whose history started **4th April 1975**. Formed by Harvard College dropout, **Bill Gates and his childhood friend Paul Allen,** Microsoft has now become the biggest software company. It is also one of the most valuable companies in the world. Microsoft is an American multinational computer technology corporation whose history started 4th April 1975. Formed by Harvard College dropout, Bill Gates and his childhood friend Paul Allen, Microsoft has now become the biggest software company. It is also one of the most valuable companies in the world. **Microsoft word 2016 screen elements** **Control Menu Access** Control Panel is a component of Microsoft Windows that provides the ability to view and change system settings. **Quick Access Toolbar** Is a customizable toolbar found in Microsoft Office applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It allows you to add commands that you use frequently, making them easily accessible. **Ribbon Category Tab** Tab contains multiple commands logically sub-divided into groups. Ribbon group is a set of closely related commands normally performed as part of a larger task. Dialog launcher is a small arrow in the lower-right corner of a group that brings up more related commands. **Title Bar** The title bar is a horizontal bar located at the top of a window in a GUI. It displays the title of the software, name of the current document or file. **Ribbon Display Option** Ribbon display option is a feature that allows you to control the visibility of the ribbon in Office programs. The ribbon is a set of toolbars that contains the commands you need to complete a task. To access the ribbon display option, you need to click the icon at the top-right corner of your document, next to the minimize icon. **Ribbon Context Sensitive** This means that the ribbon displays different sets of tools and options depending on what the user is working on at the moment. **Category Groups** Or the group of commands that can be found in every tab. The commands that belong to a certain groups of command are connected to each other. **Tab Alignment** A tab stop on a typewriter is a location where the carriage movement is halted by an adjustable end stop. **Ruler** Show ruler to your document. **Dialog Box Launcher** Is an iconic arrow that activates various options in the ribbon menu of Microsoft Office products? The dialog box launcher brings up different options depending on the group being used. Clicking on the icon opens a dialog box related to the choices in the menu group. **Document Window (Workspace)** A document window in Microsoft Word is the area where you view and edit your document. **Scroll Bar** A vertical or horizontal bar commonly on the far right or bottom of a window that lets you move the window viewing area up, down, left, or right. **Status Bar** Microsoft Word 2016, 2013 and 2010 displays a status bar at the bottom of a Word document. Word status bar displays information such word count, page number, and zoom slider, **Proofing Error Button** Word 2013 comes with a new proofing errors panel. If you have a document open, and that document has some grammatical or spelling errors in it, you will see the Proofing errors were found icon in the Status Bar. **Read Mode View** The best way to read document including some tools designed for reading instead of writing. **Print Layout View** Show how the document will look like if printed. **Web Layout View** Show your document would look as a webpage. This layout is also great if you have wide tables in your document. **Zoom Slider** In Microsoft Office products, like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, a zoom bar or zoom slider is available for zooming in and out of documents quickly and easily. The zoom slider is usually in the lower right corner of the software window and should resemble the picture on this page. **HOME TAB** The Home Tab is **about the basics of how text looks when it is printed or displayed online**. It gives access to both direct and Style-based formatting. Because of the importance of Styles to using Word effectively, it devotes a great deal of space to Styles. **CLIP BOARD GROUP**   **FONT GROUP**         **PARAGRAPH GROUP**        **STYLES GROUP** **EDITING GROUP**   **INSERT TAB** Insert tab is used **to insert pictures, shapes, tables, 3D models, etc.** **into the Word document and to format them**. Only the Insert tab adds strength to the text and the reader in the Word document. **TABLE GROUP**  **ILLUSTRATION GROUP**    **ADD-INS GROUP**  **MEDIA GROUP**  **COMMENT GROUP**  **HEADER AND FOOTER GROUP**  **TEXT GROUP**    **SYMBOL GROUP**  **DESIGN TAB** The Design tab includes **table formatting, cell and table borders, arranging the table on the page, and the size of the table**. **DOCUMENT FORMATTING GROUP** **PAGE BACKGROUND**  **LAYOUT TAB** The Page Layout Tab **holds all the options that allow you to arrange your document pages just the way you want them**. You can set margins, apply themes, control of page orientation and size, add sections and line breaks, display line numbers, and set paragraph indentation and lines. **PAGE SETUP GROUP**    **PARAGRAPH GROUP**   **ARRANGE GROUP**     **REFERENCES TAB** The References Tab is used **to provide a hub to use citations, footnotes, endnotes, tables of contents.** **bibliographies, and any other type of references in a document**. Often users will use the references tab when writing a research paper or a long document with many chapters. **TABLE OF CONTENTS GROUP**  **FOOTNOTES GROUP**   **CITATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY GROUP**   **CAPTION GROUP**  **INDEX GROUP** **TABLE OF AUTHORITES GROUP**  **MAILINGS TAB** This tab **contains all the mailing options that were in previous versions of Word, in a much easier format**. specifications, and also the font and position/alignment of the addresses. **CREATE GROUP** **START MAIL MERGE GROUP**  **WRRITE AND INSERT FIELDS**    **PREVIEW RESULTS GROUP**     **FINISH AND MERGE GROUP**  **REVIEW TAB** The purpose of the Review Tab is for **proofing your document and providing possibilities for seeking feedback on your final edits**. The Review Tab is separated into multiple groups: Proofing, Speech, Accessibility, Language, Comments, Tracking, Changes, Compare, Ink, & Resume. **PROOFING GROUP**  **INSIGTH GROUP** **LANGUAGE GROUP** **COMMENT GROUP**   **TRACKING GROUP**   **CHANGES GROUP**  **COMPARE GROUP**  **VIEW TAB** The View tab **enables you to switch between Normal or Master Page, and Single Page or Two-Page Spread views**. This tab also gives you control over showing boundaries, guides, rulers, and other layout tools, zooming the size of your view of the publication, and managing Publisher windows you have open. **VIEWS GROUP**   **SHOW GROUP**  **ZOOM GRROUP**   **WINDOW GROUP**    **FORMAT (DRAWING TOOLS) TAB** **INSERT SHAPE GROUP**  **SHAPE STYLES**  **WORDART STYLES GROUP**  **TEXT GROUP**  **ARRANGE GROUP**     **SIZE GROUP**  **FORMAT (PICTURE TOOLS) TAB** **ADJUST GROUP**    **PICTURE STYLES GROUP**  **ARRANGE GROUP**    **SIZE GROUP**  **Microsoft Word shortcut keys** **Shortcut Description** [**[Ctrl+0]**](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/ctrl-0.htm) Toggles **6pts of spacing above the** [**[paragraph]**](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/paragraph.htm). [**[Ctrl+A]**](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/ctrl-a.htm) **Select all contents** of the page. **[[Ctrl+B]](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/ctrl-b.htm)** [**[Bold]**](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/bold.htm) highlighted selection. **[[Ctrl+C]](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/ctrlc.htm)** **[[Copy]](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/copy.htm)** selected text. **[[Ctrl+F]](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/ctrl-f.htm)** Open **find box.** [**[Ctrl+I]**](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/ctrl-i.htm) [**[Italic]**](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/i/italic.htm) highlighted selection. [**[Ctrl+J]**](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/ctrl-j.htm) [[Aligns]](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/alignment.htm) the selected text or line to **justify**. [**[Ctrl+K]**](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/ctrl-k.htm) Insert a **hyperlink.** **Ctrl+L** Aligns the line or selected text to the **left** of the **[[Ctrl+M]](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/ctrl-m.htm)** **Indent** the paragraph. **Ctrl+N** Opens new, blank document window. **New** **Ctrl+P** Open the **print** window. **Ctrl+S** **Save** the open document. Like Shift+F12. **Alt+F, A** **Save the document under a different file name.** **Ctrl+T** Create a **hanging indent.** **Ctrl+U** **Underline** the selected text. **Ctrl+V** **Paste.** **Ctrl+W** **Close the currently open document.** **Ctrl+X** **Cut** selected text. **Ctrl+Y** **Redo** the last action performed. **Ctrl+Z** **Undo** last action. **Ctrl+Shift+L** Quickly create a **bullet point.** **Ctrl+Shift+F** **Change the font.** **Shift+F12** **Save** the open document. Like Ctrl+S. **Shift+Enter** **Create a soft break instead of a new paragraph.\ \ ** **Shift+Alt+D** Insert the **current date.** **Shift+Alt+T** insert the **current time** You can also utilize the mouse to perform some common actions. The following section contains examples of mouse shortcuts. **Mouse shortcuts** **Description** **POWER POINT PRESENTION** **Meant By Powerpoint Presentation** A PowerPoint slideshow (PPT) is **a presentation created on software from Microsoft that allows users to add audio, visual and audio/visual features to a presentation**. It is considered to be a multimedia technology and also acts as a tool for collaboration and content sharing. **The Benefits Of Powerpoint** - It can be used virtually anywhere. - It is a collaborative solution. - You can choose to create your own design or use existing ones. - Multiple uses. - Export in different formats. - It facilitates an effective way of communication with the audience. **Golden Rules Of Powerpoint** **One Message Per Slide** This is the biggie. A key mistake is that slides are overloaded. Our brains can't cope. It's incredibly tiring trying to make sense of complex slides. Eventually, we zone out. **Maintain A Consistent Style** PowerPoint offers us a huge choice of fonts, backgrounds, and colors. Resist the temptation to play with them and to mix and match too many. Otherwise, your presentation will look like a mess.  **Minimise Text** Don't use whole sentences, or else people will simply read them from the screen. As a presenter, you'll be tempted to do the same. The role of the text is to guide your presentation, not to replace you. Some people, such as Seth Godin, adhere to strict guidelines such as never using more than 6 words per page. **Use Large Impactful Images** **Choose your images carefully. Avoid the clichéd stock images or poor-quality Google Images. You also risk infringing copyright. Clipart is a disaster.** **Make Data Easy To Understand** **Focus on the big memorable facts. If there's a key piece of data you want to highlight, simply show this on the slide.** **Follow The 5/5/5 Rule** **To keep your audience from feeling overwhelmed, you should keep the text on each slide short and to the point. Some experts suggest using the 5/5/5 rule: no more than five words per line of text, five lines of text per slide, or five text-heavy slides in a row** **Choose readable colors and fonts** **Your text should be easy to read and pleasant to look at. Large, simple fonts and theme colors are always your best bet.** **Make your text larger than usual so people in the back can read it. Presenting with the lights on? Dark text on a light background is your best bet for visibility.** **Don\'t overload your presentation with animations** **Before including effects like this in your presentation, ask yourself: Would this moment in the presentation be equally strong without an added effect? Does it unnecessarily delay information?** **THE SCREEN ELEMENTS OF MICROSOFT POWER POINT** ** ** **Quick Access Toolbar** Is a customizable toolbar found in Microsoft Office applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It allows you to add commands that you use frequently, making them easily accessible. **Title Bar** The title bar is a horizontal bar located at the top of a window in a GUI. It displays the title of the software, name of the current document or file. **The Ribbon** Tab contains multiple commands logically sub-divided into groups. Ribbon group is a set of closely related commands normally performed as part of a larger task. Dialog launcher is a small arrow in the lower-right corner of a group that brings up more related commands. **File Tab (Back Stage View)** In PowerPoint, the **File Tab** is located at one end of the ribbon. It is used for behind the scenes tasks related to a presentation, such as opening, savings, sharing, exporting, printing and managing files. Clicking the file tab opens a new view called the backstage. **Slides Pane** The slide pane in Microsoft PowerPoint is a **menu that displays thumbnails of files or features available in the program**. It is the most prominent section of the PowerPoint screen, located center right. The slide pane displays your slides one at a time, and you can create and modify content, add media, set transitions, apply animations and design each of your slides individually. The slide pane contains the current slide in your presentation, and you can use the vertical scroll bar to view other slides in the presentation. **PlaceHolder** In PowerPoint, a placeholder is a pre-formatted container on a slide for content (text, graphics, or video). The pre-set formatting makes it easier to format slides consistently. **Status Bar**   Is located at the bottom of the PowerPoint window, it shows messages and information about the view, such as the slide number and the current theme template used. **Slide** A slide is a vertical space on a PowerPoint presentation where the users can add text, images, charts, graphics, animations, and other multimedia elements. These elements can be arranged in various manners depending on the presentation's theme, style, and objectives. **HOME TAB** **CLIPBOARD GROUP**   **SLIDE GROUP**  **FONT GROUP**     **PARAGRAPH GROUP**       **DRAWING GROUP**   **EDITING GROUP**  **INSERT TAB** **SLIDE GROUP** **TABLE GROUP** **IMAGE GROUP**   **ILLUSTRATION GROUP** **ADD INN GROUP** **LINK GROUP** **COMMENT GROUP** **TEXT GROUP**   **MEDIA GROUP**  **DESIGN TAB** **THEME GROUP** **VARIANT GROUP** **CUSTOMIZE GROUP** **TRANSITION TAB** **PREVIEW GROUP** **TRANSITION GROUP** **TIMING GROUP** **ANIMATION TAB** **PREVIEW GROUP** **ANIMATION GROUP**  **ADVANCE ANIMATION**  **TIMING GROUP** **SLIDE SHOW TAB** **START SLIDE SHOW GROUP**  **SET-UP GROUP**  **MONITOR GROUP** **REVIEW TAB** **PROOFING GROUP** **INSIGTH GROUP** **LANGUAGE GROUP** **COMMENT GROUP**   **COMPAREGROUP**    **VIEW TAB** **PRESENTATION GROUP**   **MASTER VIEWS GROUP** **SHOW GROUP**  **ZOOM GROUP** **COLOR/GRAYSCALE GROUP**  **WINDOW GROUP**  **FORMAT (DRAWING TOOLS) TAB** **ADJUST GROUP**    **PICTURE STYLES GROUP**  **ARRANGE GROUP**   **SIZE GROUP** **FORMAT (DRAWING TOOLS) TAB** **INSERT SHAPE GROUP**  **SHAPE STYLES GROUP** **WORDART STYLES GROUP**  **ARRANGE GROUP**   **SIZE GROUP** **Microsoft Power Point Shortcut Keys** **Shortcut Description** [**[Ctrl+A]**](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/ctrl-a.htm) **Select all contents** of the page. **[[Ctrl+B]](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/ctrl-b.htm)** [**[Bold]**](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/bold.htm) highlighted selection. **[[Ctrl+C]](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/ctrlc.htm)** **[[Copy]](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/copy.htm)** selected text. **Ctrl+V Paste the selected text.** **Ctrl+X Cut the selected text** **Ctrl+Z Undo the last action taken** **Ctrl+Y Repeat the last action taken** **Ctrl+M Add a slide** to your presentation **Control + Shift +F** Pick a **new font** to your text **Control + Shift + P** **Change the size** of your text. **Control +\>** Make your text **bigger.** **Control + \