2012/10/27Hitoshi SHIMIZU

PC club activity

Why I belong to a PC clubI’m good at using PC

I am an engineer of an IT companyI began to use PC since elementary school

My wife works at a hospitalThe hospital staffs form a unionThe union support club activities

My wife is a leader of a PC clubShe started a course to study about PCShe needed to find a teacher who is good at PCShe finally found a teacher (me)

I teach how to use PC for once a monthExcel, Word, PowerPoint

What lesson I have to prepare4 members in the club

My wife (she doesn’t attend the lesson)Two staffs who are teaching at nursing schoolOne staffs who is a secretary of the head

directorParticipants are usually 1 ~ 3 members

Each member’s level of skill variesI prepare the following materials

Time scheduleSample of the lesson of the dayReport of the previous lesson (for the leader)

What I think about the PC clubUpsides

I noticed I like teachingPractice to talk in front of peopleI can improve my own skill of PC by teachingReward for lesson (\10,000 per lesson)

DownsidesIt took time to prepare lessons

Almost run out of materialIt’s difficult to fit the member’s levels

(But I want to increase the members)My wife can’t attend because of our baby

(Appendix) History of PC in JapanIn the 1980’s, PC meant PC-9800 (NEC)

series in JapanIBM PC was popular in the West, but it

couldn’t display Japanese charactersPC-9800 was also Intel-based computer,

but its OS was customized MS-DOS to use Japanese characters

In the 1990’s, Windows became standard,and it can use Japanese characterPC-9800 lost the advantage,

so IBM-compatible PC dominated a marketbecause it was cheaper

Pictures of today’s topic

The first IBM PC PC-9800 I used to have PC for my club activity