Combating Digital Exclusion Children educate digitally illiterate

adults in safe and creative web

Adults Training Lessons

e-Commerce/ Online shopping

Create an Amazon account

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EduWeb: Combating Digital Exclusion - Children educate digitally illiterate adults in safe and creative web

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Adults Training Lessons

Created by: Antonis Papastavrou, Antonis Katsonis (2nd Grade)

General Editing: Theodora Kakouri, Computer Science teacher

Aradippou Lyceum-Tasos Mitsopoulos, Cyprus

Version 0.1

January 2018

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The EduWeb project is funded by the European Commission via the Erasmus+ programme, Action Key 2. This publication reflects the views only of the authors and it does not represent the opinion of the European Commission, and the European Commission is not responsible or liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

Category:

e-commerce/ Online shopping

Activity Description:

Create an Amazon account

LESSON 1

Aims (What are you going to learn?):

At the end of this lesson you will be able to:

find and open Amazon webpage,

create and sign in to your own personal account.

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Digital Competences :

Browsing, searching and filtering data, information and digital content.

Evaluating data, information and digital content.

Protecting personal data and privacy.

What are you going to need?

Hardware:

Computer (laptop or desktop)

or a “smart” device

Internet access

Software:

Web navigation program

E-mail address

Audience: Adults

Time needed: 10 minutes

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Level of difficulty:

1 2 3 4 5

Before we start we need to ensure that the user has:

the ability to use basic computer or “smart” device functions,

basic skills of web navigation,

an e-mail account.

e-commerce/online shopping platforms for e-shopping with similar use:

Ebay

AliExpress

ASOS

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Internet safety:

Keep your passwords to web applications at a secure place.

Never give personal data information to strangers.

Choose reliable product sellers, after being informed for their credibility, based on both their costumers’ reviews and the companies through which the purchase is made (e.g. Amazon).

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STEPS TO CREATE AN ACCOUNT

Type the web address (link) www.amazon.com to go to Amazon website, as shown in the image below.

Open a web browser, e.g. Google Chrome,

by double-clicking on the icon of the application.

You will be directed immediately to Amazon webpage.

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To create a new account, go to Sign in.

As soon as the image on the right appears, at the point where existing users sign in, choose:

New customer? Start Here

On the following page, under Create account, enter:

the name you want to appear in your Amazon account

your e-mail

choose and type your secret password

re-enter secret password

Click on Create your Amazon account to create your new

account

For your own protection follow good practices of setting a secret

password, which consist of upper-case and lower-case

letters, numbers and symbols! 6

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As shown in the screen below, the web browser application (e.g. Chrome) will ask you if you want to save your Amazon password!

At this final step, you have already created your own Amazon account and you can now proceed to search, save for later, order, purchase or just proceed to “screen shopping” instead of “window shopping”!

Attention!

Avoid saving your web accounts passwords in the web browser application (e.g. Chrome)!

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To exit your account click on Sign Out from Account & Lists drop-down menu, as shown in the picture below.

AIMS YES NO

Am I able to go to Amazon webpage?

Am I able to create an account and sign in to this account?

Have I taken the necessary measures not to leave traces of my secret password in my browser?

Am I able to sign out from my account?

LESSON ASSESSMENT

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