Introduction to the Internet Blackbird Leys IT Zone 1 November 2006
Dec 07, 2014
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
Introductions
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?
Who? Me?
2 Jags? well, two bikes
4 Careers Chef Community education Oil industry Lecturer
Computers Poetry
Big Fire Kitchen by Gonzalo BarrientosLand Rig by Roozbeh FeizComputers from the bad old daysBike by MarinMe by Al
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,
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
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
Warriors of the Net
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
Google http://www.google.co.uk/ Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/ Other sources?
Break!
Setting up an account
Sending a message
Replying to a message
Yahoo mail
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
Wind up