Introduction to the Internet Blackbird Leys IT Zone 1 November 2006

Introduction to the Internet Part 1 Getting started Introductions and background What is the Internet? Finding information Break Part 2 E-Mail Setting up an account Sending a message Replying to a message

Part 1

Getting started

Introductions and background

What is the Internet?

Finding information

Break

Part 2

E-Mail

Setting up an account

Sending a message

Replying to a message

Introductions Wotcher! Aims and objectives

Wotcher!

Aims and objectives

Who you? Hi Say a little about who you are and why you are here. What do you want to get from this course?

Hi

Say a little about who you are and why you are here.

What do you want to get from this course?

Who? Me? 2 Jags? well, two bikes 4 Careers Chef Community education Oil industry Lecturer Computers Poetry Big Fire Kitchen by Gonzalo Barrientos Land Rig by Roozbeh Feiz Computers from the bad old days Bike by Marin Me by Al

2 Jags?

well, two bikes

4 Careers

Chef

Community education

Oil industry

Lecturer

Computers

Poetry

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,

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,

What’s the Internet? Clips from Atlas of Cyberspace: http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/

An INTERnational NETwork of networks

Browsers What’s a browser? A tool that lets you use the World Wide Web Basic mouse moves

What’s a browser?

A tool that lets you use the World Wide Web

Basic mouse moves

Guided tours Maps of cyberspace http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/ Warriors of the Net http://www.warriorsofthe.net/ The living Internet http://www.livinginternet.com/ Wikipedia on the Internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#Today.27s_Internet

Maps of cyberspace

http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/

Warriors of the Net http://www.warriorsofthe.net/

The living Internet http://www.livinginternet.com/

Wikipedia on the Internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#Today.27s_Internet

Warriors of the Net Watch the movie What did you think of it?

Watch the movie

What did you think of it?

What can you do with the Net? Find out stuff Send and receive e-Mail Share interests Buy things Sell things

Find out stuff

Send and receive e-Mail

Share interests

Buy things

Sell things

Find out stuff Google http://www.google.co.uk/ Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/ Other sources?

Google http://www.google.co.uk/

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Other sources?

Break!

E-Mail Setting up an account Sending a message Replying to a message

Setting up an account

Sending a message

Replying to a message

Yahoo mail Sign up for a mail account here: http://uk.yahoo.com/

Sign up for a mail account here:

http://uk.yahoo.com/

Remember Write down your Yahoo Mail username Write down your e-mail address Write down your e-mail password (but remember to keep this private) You will need this information next week

Write down your Yahoo Mail username

Write down your e-mail address

Write down your e-mail password (but remember to keep this private)

You will need this information next week

Wind up