INTERNET, EMAIL, OPERATING
SYSTEM CONCEPTS
Nisa Peek

File Operations
 Practice opening a folder, renaming, closing, and
saving.
 File navigation – opening files from hard drive and
navigating through folders.
 Locating a folder in a subfolder

AUP
 Stands for Acceptable Usage Policy
 Contract between student, employee and school
 Official Definition
 Ethical uses of Internet

Privacy Issues & Email
 What does BCC mean for email?
 Always construct an email as if everyone was going
to read it.
 Forwarding
 Appropriateness

Copyright
 Permissions
 Posting copyrighted information on the web.

Web 2.0 Tools
 No software to download, run online from Internet,
FREE
 Wikkis – can be edited by others, reliable?
 Blogs – diaries, journals, add comments, can’t
change the entry.

Search Engines
 What are they?
 Most popular?
 Use “bots” to gather information

Special Needs Students
Low Tech Solutions:
•Making the text bigger in
software programs.
•Increasing the size of your cursor
and mouse clicking options.
•Touch Screen
•Keyboard/Zoom Text

Productivity Tools
 What type of program would you use for:
 Concept Mapping
 Creating charts
 Composing a long document
 Creating a presentation

Let’s Review – Get your activotes
ready
1. What program would be best for presentations?
A. Word
B. Excel
C. PowerPoint
D. Database

Review
2. What program would be best for creating graphs?
A. Word
B. Inspiration
C. PowerPoint
D. Excel

Review
3. What program would be used for writing a long
paper?
A. Word
B. Excel
C. Database
D. PowerPoint

Review
4. What program is made of fields and records?
A. Word
B. Database
C. Excel
D. PowerPoint

Review
5. Students are selling products at a school store,
what is the best program to record profits, losses,
etc.?
A. Word
B. Excel
C. PowerPoint
D. Database