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Session 3 & 4 of a course for adults with little experience of using the internet
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Introduction to the Internet:Navigation 2
Blackbird Leys IT Zone
22 November 2006
An INTERnational NETwork of networks
Review:Reflections on last week
What is the main lesson you got from last week’s session?
Introduction to the Internet:Navigation basics
Address Search Scroll
Mousing about Links
Mouserobics Using the mouse is a fundamental skill required for using the
Internet
You need to use a mouse to scroll the page
This tutorial is excellent
http://www.ckls.org/~crippel/computerlab/tutorials/mouse/page1.html
Address
Search
Links
Scroll
Address
Search
Links
Address
Search
Links
Address
Search
Links
Scroll
Address
http:// = hyper text transfer protocol So, basic anatomy of a web address:
http://server_name.sub_domain.top_level_domain/folder_name/page_name.html
Top level domains: .com, .org, .net, .edu, .mil Countries, e.g.: .uk, .fr, .es, .nl, .ca
Sub domains: .brookes .google .yahoo
Links
Links “link” the place you are at to other: Places on the same page Places on pages on the same server Places on pages on other servers.
Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page There are hundreds of links on this page
Find: A link to a different place on the same page A link to a different page on the same server A link to a page on a different server
Session tasks
Find a recipe for chocolate cake Find out how much 135 Euros is in Sterling Describe what “pop-ups” are Get train times
Find out stuff
Google http://www.google.co.uk/ Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/ Videojug http://www.videojug.com Other sources?
http://www.theppk.com/
Break!
Session objectives
Ask a good search question Describe what is meant by “safe surfing”
What is “good” stuff?
Can you trust what you read?
How can you cross check?
What is safe surfing? On line banking On line buying Scams, scams, scams
Rule of life Never give details in an e-mail! What? Never give details in an e-mail! You mean… Never!
Other rules. Just say “No!” Pharma on-line: V14gr4, etc, etc? “Naughty stuff” on-line?
And, don’t click on the pop-ups!
Course aims and objectives
At the end of this 5-week course you should be able to: Show how to use the Web to find information
Google, BBC, maps, government, libraries, Wikipedia Set up an e-mail account on Yahoo
Send, get, reply and save messages Show how to use the Web to buy and sell
Train tickets, Amazon, e-Bay Show how to use the Web for sharing interests
Blogs, mySpace, Flickr, youTube,
Wind up
