1. Evening Computer Lessons Michele Giordano

2. Welcome This course will focus on learning and understanding how to use SoliComm Online Computer Conferencing

3. Youth Employment sites Search on the Web and find: 1. The sites that offer latest statistics on youth employment-related indicators of your country 2. The sites that offer studies/analysis/trends on youth employment situations in your country 3. The sites that offer policies/programmes/measures of the Government on Youth Employment in your country

4. Youth Employment sites You can use any search engine available (Google, Yahoo, Altavista…) Make a list of the sites you found. Use any text editor available (notepad, MS Word…) Save your list in the directory called H:\GP-EDUC\TEMP\A3-00546\”Your Country”

5. SoliComm Visit www.solicomm.net www.solicomm.net

6. SoliComm There are 4 main sections: RegistrationConferencesMailLibrary

7. Registration Choose a Username Fill all the fields with your data Choose a password and confirm it Press the “Sign In” Button

8. Registration Note: the registration is not automatic. Your request must be approved. It may take 10 minutes or a few days.

9. Conferences This is the most important part of the entire SoliComm system. Click on Conferences. A window will appear. Insert your Username and Password. Press OK.

10. Conferences Click on “Conferences”

11. Conferences Select “A3-00546: Practice” Conference

12. Conferences Message List Click on the “Welcome” message (#2) to read it. Note: the Status (S) of the messages is NEW, because you still haven’t read them. It will change to R (Read) the first time you read them.

13. Conferences Headers The message is shown. Click the “show Headers” button. A frame will appear in the upper part of the screen. Scroll down until you see all the headers.

14. Conferences Headers From now, you will always see the headers in the upper part of the screen, unless you don’t Hide them. To hide the headers, scroll up the headers and press the “Hide Headers” button.

15. Conferences Select the “__Practice(*)” option from the “Go To” menu Press the “Go To” button

16. Conferences Sort Messages The “Welcome” message became Read. Click on the Show message and choose the “Unread Messages: (Sorted). Click the “Show” button.

17. Conferences Sort Messages As you can see, now only Unread messages are displayed and sorted by date. You can change the sort order from many option from the Show Menu.

18. Conferences Sort Messages Select “All Messages: (Sorted) by Reverse Date”. Here we have again all the messages, this time sorted from the Newest to the Oldest.

19. Conferences Full Message View Go back to the Message List. Select “Full Message View”. This option shows all the messages in the same page. Useful if you want to print all messages.

20. Exercise 1 Log Into SoliComm Online Select “A3-00546:Practice” Select the “Welcome” Message Show Headers Sort Messages (Group) Switch to Full Message View

21. Exercise 2 Go back to the Message List Sort Messages (Group) Full Message View Save the page with the name “messages” and put it in “Your Country” folder

22. Conferences Reply a message Open the Message #5 (“What is your National Sport?”) Click the “Reply” button.

23. Conferences Reply a message

24. Be sure Plain Text is selected. Click the “Show Original Messages” button. A new frame will appear in the upper part of the screen. Scroll down until you see the original message.

25. Conferences Reply a message Write the reply in the field below. When you have finished, click the “PREVIEW” button.

26. Conferences Reply a message Check carefully the message before adding it. Once you add a message, you’re not able to modify of delete it. Click the “Modify” button to change it or the “Cancel” button to cancel the operation. When you are sure you want to add it, click on the “Add” button.

27. Conferences Reply a message

28. Click on the “Back to the Conference” hyperlink. Your reply is now added to the Message List. Conferences Reply a message

29. Exercise 3 Open the message “What is your national sport?”. Show the Original Message. Reply to the message. Click Preview and check the message. Add the new message.

30. Exercise 4 Open the message “Weather”. Show the Original Message. Reply to the message. Click Preview and check the message. Add the new message.