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1 Internet Fundamentals Learning to Use the World Wide Web The Internet Teacher

2 Internet Fundamentals F Introduction –The World Wide Web –The Internet F Using a Web Browser –Netscape Navigator  Finding Information on the Web (Using Effective Search Strategies) –Directories –Search Engines

3 World Wide Web (WWW) An Introduction –a vast collection of information that’s connected like a web –accessible through the Internet using connections called hyperlinks –view the WWW resources through a program called a Web Browser, such as: u Netscape Navigator u Internet Explorer

4 World Wide Web (WWW) –Navigate through the WWW by pointing to and clicking on hyperlinks (underlined or boldfaced words, phrases, icons, or images) –Also called Cyberspace or the Information Superhighway

5 Often confused…... URL or Email Address? F URL - Uniform Resource Locator or Web Address F Example: http://www.weather.com F Used by Browsers to locate sites F Often confused with Email addresses johndoe@netscape.net

6 MDCC Faculty Training - 10/5/99 6 Location Box Enter URL’s here (or Web Address) http://netscape.com Entering a URL http://netscape.com

7 Sample URL’s (or Internet Addresses) Internet Address or URL Global Domains http://www.angelfire.com commercial site http://www.msstate.edu educational inst. http://www.intop.net network organiz. http://www.navy.mil military http://www.____.org not for profit org. http://www.____.gov gov. agency,dept.

8 Web Pages F Web Pages - documents on the WWW F Written and constructed using HTML F HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language –a special language or code used to design and publish documents on the Web MBJ ONLINE

9 The Internet F An information system F Communication tool F A large network of computersystems world wide u can be explored by using a Web Browser F Services available through the Internet: u Email (Discussion groups,Chat Rooms, etc.) u Information search (including research) u Education (Online courses; virtual colleges) u Entertainment, News, and more…...

10 Internet Fundamentals Using a Web Browser Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer

11 Web Browsers F Software programs used to access the World Wide Web F Two most popular web browsers: u Microsoft Internet Explorer u Netscape Navigator  Similar with slight differences Netscape Navigator

12 Internet Fundamentals Using a Web Browser F Starting and stopping the Browser F The Web Browser’s window F Getting around a “page” and the WWW F Saving, printing, and mailing items from the WWW F Bookmarks - Keeping track of favorite sites F Setting preferences and options

13 Internet Fundamentals Finding Information on the Web using F Directories F Search Engines (Effective Search Strategies)

14 Internet Fundamentals Searching the Web F Guessing Domain Names such as: ibm.com or weather.com maps.com or abcnews.com F Performing Keyword Searches Using Search Engines –Single keyword search (such as tennis) –More exact search results (using 2 or more words, or even a phrase such as women’s tennis) continued...

15 Internet Fundamentals Searching the Web F Complex Search –contains several words, but uses operators such as AND, OR, NOT, and “phrases in quotation marks” F Examples: –stock AND quotes –“stock quotes” –orange NOT county –Web OR Internet F Be Patient and Persistent!

16 Internet Fundamentals Search Engines F What is a Search Engine ? u program that connects you to a data base or Web address u used to perform a thorough search F Some Popular Search Engines u Alta Vista, Excite, Hotbot, Lycos, InforSeek, etc. F Random Browsing (takes too much time) F Mark Favorite Sites (bookmark the sites)  Use several Search Engines for a thorough search

17 Internet Fundamentals Some Favorite Search Engines F Alta Vista (http://www. altavista. digital. com) u Characteristic: returns links to first 10 web sites it finds that match your keyword(s) and up to 19 additional pages of sites F Exite (http://www. excite. com) u will return a page with links to the first 10 sites it found that match you keyword(s)  Hotbot (http://www. hotbot. com)

18 F Advice: Make bookmarks for Search Engine Sites Search Engine Web Address (or URL) Alta Vista http://www.altavista.digital.com Excite http://www.excite.com HotBothttp://www.hotbot.com InfoSeekhttp://www.infoseek.com Lycoshttp://www.lycos.com WebCrawlerhttp://www.webcrawler.com Internet Fundamentals Search Engines, continued

19 Internet Fundamentals Search Engine or Directory? What’s the difference? F Search Engine - allows you to collect and then browse information from more sources (Excite, AltaVista, InfoSeek, etc.) F Directory - generally doesn’t include every single web page or resource. Organizes resources of web pages by categories. (Yahoo!)

20 Internet Fundamentals Some Favorite Directories Directory NameWeb Address (URL) F Yahoo! (favorite)http://www.yahoo.com F Magellanhttp://www.mckinley.com F Pointhttp://www.pointcom.com

21 Internet Fundamentals Built-In Search Pages F Netscape and Internet Explorer have 2 built-in search pages –Netscape or Explorer Icon (upper right) –Search Button (or Icon) on Tool Bar (at top) F Easiest way to perform a search (for beginners especially) N

22 Internet Fundamentals Meta-Search tools F Multi-Search Engines –Searches 5 or 6 engines at once –prefer this type of search engine (personally) F Recommended Multi-Search Engines MetaCrawlerhttp://www.metacrawler.com Ask Jeeveshttp://www.askjeeves.com DogPilehttp://www.dogpile.com

23 Internet Fundamentals Finding People & Businesses F Looking for Email Addresses F Looking for home or business addresses or phone numbers F Sites specializing in Email Addresses: Four11 http://www.four11.com WhoWhere http://www.whowhere.com

24 Internet Fundamentals Using a Web Browser Start your Web Browser Double-click on your Browser icon on your Desktop.

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