LEARNING COMPUTER BASICS AND THE INTERNET Module 2 In the name of Allah, most gracious, most compassionate Iffat Ansari ICtech Teacher.

LEARNING COMPUTER BASICS AND THE INTERNET

Module 2

In the name of Allah, most gracious, most compassionate

Iffat AnsariICtech Teacher

Teaching Through

Technology

Software

There are 2 types of software

System softwareIt helps you run the computer and manages the computer hardware and provides common services for efficient execution of various application software. Example Operating System: Windows

Application softwareIts the computer software designed to help the users to perform specific tasks.Examples: MS Word for creating handout, test paper, certificates, worksheets etcMS Excel for creating tabulation sheets, result analysis etc

Internet Searching

BrowserIts a software that is used to retrieve information from the WWW. Example: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox

WWWIt stands for World Wide Web, commonly known as the Web, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.

Search Engines A search engine is designed to search for the information on WWW.Examples: Google, Yahoo, Google Crome

Internet Searching

WIKIA wiki is a website that al lows the easy creat ion and edit ing of any number of inter l inked web pages v ia a web browser using a s impl ifi ed markup languageexample www.gulshanprepgir ls .pbworks.com

Blog B log (der ived from web log) is a website that al lows users to refl ect , share opinions, and discuss var ious topics in the form of an onl ine journal whi le readers may comment on posts. example 21classes.com

Wiki:

- Multiple Authors, - Edited by a group or team, - Contains links to other Wiki pages, - Continuously changing and growing rapidly, - Many-to-many communication.

Blogs:

- Usually a single author. Sometimes can have multiple contributors, - Author posts, user comments, - Opinion Sharing , - One-to-many content.

Internet Searching

Title Bar

Task Bar

Address Bar

Search Engine

Snap Shots

Advance Search using +

You are telling Google to match that word precisely as you typed it. Do not put any spaces after or before that symbol.

Example Landscapes+Pakistan

Go to Desktop of Teachers AccountRight click new folder your nameInside, create 4 new subfolders naming

them:- "Word Processing“- "Multimedia“- "Spreadsheets"- "Action Plan“

How to create folder?

Pbworks.com

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