Using Your Smartphone

Class 1
What is a smartphone?
Smartphone use worldwide
The two flavors of smartphone: Android and iPhone
What the two flavors of smartphone have in common
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Home Screens and icons
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Home screen "pages"
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Side buttons
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Two ways of connecting: the cell phone tower and WiFi
What's a SIM card?
What cell phone tower connections provide
A brief description of how WiFi works
The Status/Notifications Bar
The six smartphone gestures
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Tap, Tap & Hold, Swipe Up, Down, Left, and Right
Getting to the Home Screen: Security Measures (PIN, Fingerprint, Face Recognition)
Answering Incoming Calls on Androids & iPhones
Setting up and using voicemail on Androids & iPhones
Visual Voicemail
Class 2
Making Outgoing Calls on Androids and iPhones
Why setting up your Contacts is so important
Using your Contacts as a central communications hub on an Android
Using your Contacts as a central communications hub on an iPhone
Setting up and using email on an Android: Gmail and non-Gmail
Why having a Google account is an Android is a good idea
Setting up and using email on an iPhone: iCloud and non-iCloud
Clinic Time: Answering students' questions/problems
Class 3
Managing apps on an Android
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Removing an icon from the Home Screen
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Installing apps: the Google Play Store
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Uninstalling an app on an Android
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Adding an app icon to the Home Screen
Managing apps on an iPhone
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Removing an icon from the Home Screen
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Installing apps: the Apple App Store
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Uninstalling an app on an iPhone
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The iPhone App Library
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Adding an app icon to the Home Screen
Text Messaging on Androids and iPhones
Using the smartphone camera
Android Gallery
iPhone Photos
Sharing photos
Clinic Time: Answering students' questions/problems
Class 4
Enabling emergency numbers and SOS calling on an Android
Enabling emergency numbers and SOS calling on an iPhone
Problem-Solving Clinic: Students bring questions/problems to class and collaborate as a group to find answers/solutions.