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N W T C - M a r i n e t t e: 7 1 5 - 7 3 5 - 9 3 6 1
NWTC-Marinette PC Internet Overview
Detailed Lesson Plan
Session 1: Hardware, Software, Provider Requirements, Demonstration & Practice Using Microsoft Internet Explorer:
Introductions: Me first, then I'll ask each of you to introduce yourselves and tell us a little about your experience with the internet and computers.
1. What is the Internet? (it's a network of networks... all of the hardware that is linked together through internet connections.) It was "invented" by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.
2. What is the World Wide Web? (all of the content, information, data,
& web pages that reside on the internet)
For a more information about Tim Berners-Lee, the Internet and
the World Wide Web, click
here to access Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Hardware & Provider Requirements:
3. How do you hook up to the Internet? Generally, you need a computer or other internet ready device, a modem & and internet connection, provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) The most common types of connections provided by ISPs are:
Dial-up
(Analog phone connection using your existing phone line) -
(the slowest way to connect)
DSL (Digital Subscriber Line using your existing phone line)
- (high-speed internet connection)
Cable (uses your cable TV line which is coaxial cable) -
(high-speed internet connection)
ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network over ordinary phone
lines) - older technology high-speed connection)
T1 (uses copper wire) - (the fastest internet connect,
but rather expensive)
Wireless (transmits data over radio waves) - (the newest way to
connect but not available in all areas of the country)
More information on
"Internet Access Types"
When we connect to the internet in this classroom at NWTC, you'll
notice that we don't have to "make a connection." All we have to do is double-click the Microsoft Internet Explorer
(MSIE) icon on the desktop and... presto... we are viewing pages on
the Internet. That's because all of our computers are
connected to the internet already. We use a T1 line and ISDN
through our vast network of computers located on 3 campuses.
Software:
4. What do I need to view web pages on the Internet? (A pieces of software called a browser.) The most widely used
browser is MSIE (about 90% of the market). Others include Netscape
(at one time, the most widely used browser), Opera, and proprietory browsers such as Web TV and AOL.)
For a more definitive list and description of "browsers", click
here to access Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Demonstration and Practice Using Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE):
5. How do I use a the MSIE browser? (That's what we're going to find out in the next 3 sessions) Ready to start our journey?
6. Open MSIE by pointing to and double left-clicking the small blue "e" on the desktop (or you can right click and left click open.) When the browser opens on your computer, you might not see the same web page as I am showing you on the "big screen"...more on that later...)
7. Now we'll look take a look at the browser in detail, starting with the top most "bar" called the Title Bar (it's the blue band at the top of the browser window.) If you take a close look at the Title Bar, you will see lots of information such as: The MSIE logo (a small blue "e" on a white sheet of paper, the current web page address (inette.com), The title of the current web page "A Multi-Media Web Portal Focusing on Learning", the name of the program (application) that we are using "Microsoft Internet Explorer", and finally, three small "window control buttons" on a gray, square, background. These control buttons are: The "underscore or minus sign" (small black dash), which allows us to "minimize" the current window, the "double box" which allows us to resize our current window, and the "X" which allows to close the current application...MSIE.
8. To minimize the MSIE browser (window) point your mouse to and left clicking the "minus" sign on the top right side of the Title Bar (blue band)
9. While MSIE is minimized, look at the bottom of your screen (monitor) and notice the Start Button (bottom left), Task Bar, (gray area between the Start Button and the Status Bar (far right side of the bottom of your screen.) Note: when we minimize our browser window, we did not close the application, we just compressed it into a small rectangle which sits on the Task Bar.
10. To restore (back to the original size) the MSIE window, just point to and left clicking the MSIE rectangle on the Task Bar on the bottom of your screen.
11. Let's resize, reshape, maximize, minimize and finally...close MSIE, using the control buttons and our mouse.
12. Find the MS Internet Explorer "e" on your desktop, point to in, and double left click (or right click on it and click Open).
13. Now let's look at the Menu bar (just under the title bar) and we'll explore that "bar" in a few minutes.
14. Before we do that, let's look at the "Address" bar. Note: each and every web page on the Internet has a unique web page address... and there are billions of pages...
15. Can you name any web page addresses that you know from memory?
16. Let's point our mouse pointer into the white part of the text box and left click in the address bar once and just stop and look at the address bar. The "address" will be highlighted in blue. (when the text is highlighted in blue the computer is talking to you...saying..."ok, I've selected this text, now if you start typing right away, I'll overwrite what's here with what you are typing." Did you know that the computer is constantly talking to you...not is words, but in symbols, and colors, and pointers etc. If you learn how to "listen" to the computer, you will be able to do what you want to do on the computer much much easier than if you choose not to "listen" to the computer...
17. Do you know what city we are in. Can you spell "Marinette."
18. If you spell Marinette and drop off the 1st three letters you will have "inette"
19. Now, type on the keyboard "www.inette.com"
20. Then, press the Enter key on the keyboard.
21. With any luck, you will be on my homepage... www.inette.com. Would you please read what you see on the title bar of inette.com?
22. Next, we'll show you how you can make www.inette.com your home (start page) and have all of them do that. (Tools, Internet Options, Use Current, Apply, OK, and "presto"...nothing happens.
23. Find the "Home" button on the standard tool bar. (It looks like a little house or home) Left click it once. Presto... your new homepage is now www.inette.com!!!!!!
24. You can make any page, your homepage...and that once it is set, everytime you open MSIE, your hompage will be the 1st page that you view in your browser!
25. Did you know that Computer technology has advanced so far in such a short time that our computers are now capable of taking a picture of us, as we sit in front of our computers? Note: You will have to sit very still while the computer is taking a your picture. On inette.com, find and then left click on the link "Traditional" (it's on the right side in the middle, under the heading $ & Finance/Opening Pages) Next, click on "Frames" Then, left click on (you must see...) "A Magic Camera?" Next, click on "Magic Cyber Camera" Almost ready for the picture... click "TAKE PHOTO" (make sure that you are sitting very still in front of your monitor.) Finally, click the button "Pick Up Photo and your will be "pleasantly" surprised!!!!!!!! :-)
26. Click on the Home Button (image of a house)
27. You should all be back to www.inette.com (with a little luck)
28. If you had fun with that, click on "Frames" again, then click on "Self Portrait - Coach by Coach" and you will see my "self-portrait." If you think that is funny, scroll down the page a bit and click on "The Caricature Zone Sketch The Face Place" Once there, you can choose Man or Woman and the rest is self-explanatory. Once you "sketch" yourself, you can print out your very own self-portrait.
29. It must be time for a break by now?
30. Back for more.. Time to explore the "Menu" bar. Click on "File" on the Menu bar. There is not much in there that you will use except maybe....Print Preview or Print.
31. Click on Edit. Then, click Find.(on this page) and type in "Google" click "Find Next." You will see that the computer found the word "Google" and highlighted it in white. (Google is in the lower right side of inette.com, under the heading "Mixed Bag / Search / Calendar"
32. Next, click on "View" on the menu bar. Once here, you can turn on and turn off the toolbars and the status bar on your computer. Let's turn off all toolbars by clicking on all of the "checked" toolbars, one at a time. Notice that the Menu bar will still be showing, just under the Title Bar. Without the Menu Bar, we would have a difficult time doing anything with our browsers.
33. Let's go back and click "View" again, on the menu bar and left click "Full Screen" and see what happens. Yes, all of the tool bars and title bar "disappear" so we can better see the contents of a web page. Note, you are not "stuck" in Full Screen view. Find and click the "F11" key on your keyboard (top row of keys, right side of the keyboard). Once the browser is back to "normal" not "Full Screen", left click "View" on the menu bar again and look at the "Full Screen" option. Notice the "F11" to the right of "Full Screen" option and note that this is a "keyboard" command.
34. By now, some of you may be saying... "wow...lots of stuff to remember. When I leave here tonight, I'll forget everything that I learned." Well, do I have a deal for you. You can print stuff from the internet. Go to your Home page (www.inette.com), click on NWTC-Marinette on the top right, on the left side links, click on Internet, right click on the PC Internet Overview Syllabus and Detailed Lesson Plans page and click Print. Also, go back to the Home page and click on Internet Beginners Tutorial. Take a minute to look around the pages. Note, the pages are free. for your use. You can read and/or print pages for practice use or reading offline.
Any final questions? Your homework for next week is to open your browser, and change your homepage to one of your choice. Also, go to www.inette.com, click on NWTC-Marinette, click on Internet on the left, and open this page. See you next week!
Session 2: More Demonstration & Practice Using Microsoft Internet Explorer:
1. Welcome back to round 2. I'd like to start by asking each of you to list one thing that you learned about the internet at the last session and one thing that you want to learn at this and the last session. I'll list the things that you want to learn on the board. I suspect most of you will say e-mail or how to send pictures, or how to easily find things on the internet.
2. Now, if you'll just sit back and relax for a minute. I like to turn up the sound and then go to www.inette.com and find and click on "Singing Horses?" under Interests on the middle right side of the page. I open the page in full screen (F11) view and then, one at a time, click on each horse... and, of course, it starts to sing. It's awesome isn't it?
3. Let's go ahead and reset your homepage to www.inette.com (Menu bar, Tools, Internet Options, and type in the Address Bar: "http://www.inette.com") click Apply, click Ok, and click the Home Button.
4. Next, let's work our way through the Menu Bar selections. I think we left off on View Menu. One thing that I'd like you to see is how to change your Text Size for viewing web pages Click View, Text Size, and choose Largest. See what happens? Go back into View, click Text Size, and click on smallest. Quite a difference huh? Now, click on View, click on Text Size, and click on Medium.
5. Next, let's click on Tools (skipping Favorites for now) and we'll look around the Internet Options menu and discuss cookies too.
6. It's time for you to explore a little bit, on your own. On your homepage, find and click on Books under the heading Art / Photography / Poetry / Other / Local. Click on E-books, Carl Sandberg-Chicago Poems. Then, let's use the Find function, in the Edit Menu. Click Edit on the Menu Bar, click Find (on this page), and type in "On The Breakwater "and click Find Next. You will find the poem...then you can read it if you want.
7. Once you are finished reading Carl Sandberg's poems, click the "Back" button on the standard toolbar. this will bring you back to the Books page. You can look at a few of the other Books links and follow a few links that may interest you. One of my all-time favorites is the Internet Public Library.
8. Click the Back button on the top right side of your browser. This will take you back to your homepage (www.inette.com)
9. Click on Incredible Links (on the left middle side of the page under the "Links" heading.
10. Did you ever have a discussion about who starred in a certain movie? Or, try to remember the name of a song that was on a particular movie? Or who sang a song on a particular movie? Well, just click on IMDb (Internet Moview Database) and you will find the answer to all of those questions and more...
11. Wondering who's on today's Best Seller List? Click on USA Today's Bestsellers and read on...
12. Need a dictionary? Click on Webster's On-line Dictionary (which includes a Thesauraus)
13. Don't know what ISP or RAM or PDF means? Just click on Whatis.com and click on the red letter corresponding to the acronym that you are looking for such as ISP, and find the acronym, click it and read on.
14. Or, if you want to search for something in the web, you can always click on Ask Jeeves (a very popular search engine.) I'll show you bigger and better and faster ways to search for things in the web in a bit.
15. Time for a break?
16. Back to the Menu bar, then on to the Standard Toolbar. We'll explore each one and discuss the parts that might be of interest to you.
17. Homework assignment for session #3:
Session 3: Search, E-mail, Homepage:
Search
1. Search. There are lots of ways to search on the internet. My favorite is Google ( www.google.com ). It's my favorite because it works for me. You need to find out what works for you. For example, your browser has a "Search" button on the Standard Toolbar. Click it. Notice the Search Window that opens on the left side of your screen? It's the MSIE built-in search engine. You can use this if you like it. Try it. Search for something specific, something of interest to you...see what happens. Note, to close this search engine, just click the "X" on the top right side of the search window. If you'd like to look at more search engines, look on the bottom right side of inette.com. You'll see Dogpile and Yahoo. Dogpile is a multiple search engine and Yahoo, generally, searches by categories. Go ahead and try both of them...see what results you get in your searches.
Just a few search tips:
A. Be specific in your searches. For example, if
you search for "car", you will get 231,000,000 "hits" in your search
results (at least I did, using Google.). Instead, be very
specific. Try searching for "1962 red corvette convertible"
and see what you get. (I got 12,900 hits using Google.)
B. Don't make your search query too long.
C. Read the search results, before you click on a
"result" link. Some "results" are commercial websites that try
to trick you into clicking on them.
Spy-Ware, Ad-Ware, Worms, Trojans, Viruses, Pop-ups, etc.
3.
This is some nasty stuff that can create a mess on your computer and irritate you... to say the least.Arm yourself with some tools to help get rid of or prevent some of these nasty things from taking over your computer.
a. Spybot helps to clean out Spy-Ware. Cost: FREE
b. Ad-Aware (by Lavasoft) cleans out Data Mining and Spy-Ware junk from your computer. Cost: FREE
c. Norton Anti-Virus protects your computer against viruses. Cost: $49.95 on-line download. Also available at many retail, office,
and computer stores and is frequently available with mail-in rebates..
d. McAfee protects your computer against viruses. Cost: $39.99 on-line download (after $20.00 rebate)
e. Google's Toolbar with Search and a built-in Pop-up Blocker. Cost: FREE
3. Let's switch gears now and focus on E-mail. We're going to register for a Free Hotmail E-mail Account. We'll go through the process step by step until you have successfully set up your hotmail account. One thing that is very important as you go through this process is... write down your username and password on a piece of paper. Keep the paper. One you have your accounts all set up, I'll walk you through some of the basics of e-mail, and we'll e-mail each other.
Homepage & Final Exam?
4. Ready for the "final exam?"
Ok... here's what you have to do.
A. Find your favorite website... any website.
B. Make your favorite website, your homepage.
Resources:
1.
Internet Beginners Tutorial2.
Learn The Net3. Internet on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lloyd Cook
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BS - Managerial Accounting
- UW-Green Bay.
5 year teaching certificate - Accounting/Computer Applications -
WI Technical College System
Certified Accelerated Learning Facilitator - NWTC-Green Bay
Adjunct Instructor (MS Office, Windows XP, Digital Photography, Scanners,
Internet, E-mail & Web Design,
All Accounting Courses, Economics & Credit Procedures) - NWTC-Marinette
Adjunct Instructor (Managerial Accounting) - Silver Lake College,
Manitowoc, WI (NWTC-Marinette Campus)
Adjunct Instructor (MS Office, Windows, Adobe PhotoShop, Internet, Web
Design, & College For Kids) UW-Marinette.
Certified Web Master. Member of:
National Society of
Accountants
International Webmasters Association (IWA)
Internet Society (ISOC)
Html Writers Guild (HWG)
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