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Introduction to the Internet:Navigation basics

Blackbird Leys IT Zone

8 November 2006

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Introduction to the Internet:Information seeking

Part 1 Your reflections on last week More on the Internet Review e-Mail

Your account Sending a message Replying to a message

Part 2 Finding information

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Review:Reflections on last week

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E-Mail

Setting up an account

Sending a message

Replying to a message

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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,

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Session objectives

Explain how “data” travels across the Internet Name the main search engine and one other Explain to your colleagues different reasons

you have for finding information Find images on the internet Ask a good search question Describe what is meant by “safe surfing”

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An INTERnational NETwork of networks

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Warriors of the Net

Watch the movie What did you think of it?

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Break!

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What can you do with the Net?

Find out stuff Send and receive e-Mail Share interests Buy things Sell things

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Session tasks

Name the main search engine and one other Find an image of the Crab Nebula on the

internet Find a recipe for chocolate cake Find out how much 135 Euros is in Sterling Describe what “pop-ups” are

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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?

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What is “good” stuff?

Can you trust what you read?

How can you cross check?

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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!

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Wind up