Back to Basics: Internet Explorer Tech Tuesdays 11/7/2018 TechTuesdays
What Will We Learn? What is the Internet & WWW Basic vocab Search Engine How to use the back, home, and other buttons How to add a favorite 11/7/2018 TechTuesdays
What is the Internet? Network – 2 or more computers connected together Internet – an international network of computer networks Began in 1970s as way for military, universities, and business to share info 11/7/2018 TechTuesdays
2. What is the World Wide Web? Lets you see what’s posted on the Internet To get information off of the WWW, you need three things: 1. Internet Service Provider 2. Browser 3. Search Engine 11/7/2018 TechTuesdays
Browser – not from ShaNaNa A software program that displays the text, graphics, sounds, and more on the WWW. Two main ones: Internet Explorer Netscape Navigator 11/7/2018 TechTuesdays
Your Vocab for the week… Home page – the first page open when you go online (connected to the Internet) Easy to change! 11/7/2018 TechTuesdays
Web Site or Web Page? Web site – the collection of web documents for a company, person, etc. Web page – one part of a web site http://www.lausanneschool. com - web page or site? http://www.lausanneschool. com/Technology/techtuesdays.html - web page or site? 11/7/2018 TechTuesdays
URL doesn’t have to die.. URL – Uniform Resource Locator The address of a web site www.flingthecow.com = URL Must type it in exactly!! No punctuation, spaces, or most symbols 11/7/2018 TechTuesdays
This is where you type the address of a site you want to see These are favorites: places I go to a lot! This is called a pop-up menu! Anything you can click on to get to another page is called a link! 11/7/2018 TechTuesdays
Buttons to use Click here to return to your home page. Click here to stop a page from loading. Good when the computer freezes or other problems happen. Click here to “refresh:” A site that changes a lot and you want the latest version (www.cnn.com). Click here to go back to a previous site. Click here if you moved back a site but now want to go forward. 11/7/2018 TechTuesdays
Favorites Go to a site a lot? Make it a favorite. Go to that site (type the address in the URL blank). Click on the Favorites folder. Click on the word Add in the left frame. Hit OK (you can create a folder for similar sites) 11/7/2018 TechTuesdays
Step one: Click on the Favorites folder Step two: click on Add Step three: hit OK or create a folder to put it in. Step four: When you want to go to that site, now just click the site/folder above. Hint: if you don’t see this Favorites frame, just hit the Favorites folder! 11/7/2018 TechTuesdays
And, now, the end is near... That’s it for the Back-to-Basic series! Next week: TrackStar make the Internet easy! For grades 2 and up! If you want info on searching for stuff and evaluating sites on WWW, go to: www.lausanneschool.com/Technology/techtuesdays.html 11/7/2018 TechTuesdays