1. Back to Basics: Internet Explorer
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2. 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
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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. 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
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6. Your Vocab for the week…
Home page – the first page open when you go online (connected to the Internet)
Easy to change!
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7. 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
com - web page or site?
com/Technology/techtuesdays.html - web page or site?
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8. URL doesn’t have to die.. URL – Uniform Resource Locator
The address of a web site
= URL
Must type it in exactly!!
No punctuation, spaces, or most symbols
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9. 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!
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10. 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 (
Click here
to go back
to a previous
site.
Click
here if
you moved
back a site
but now want
to go forward.
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11. 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)
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12. 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!
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13. 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:
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