introduction to the internet 1
DESCRIPTION
A course for adults with little or no experience with the Internet taught at Blackbird Leys IT Zone (BLITZ) on the eastern edge of Oxford, EnglandTRANSCRIPT
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Introduction to the Internet
Blackbird Leys IT Zone
1 November 2006
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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
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Introductions
Wotcher! Aims and objectives
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Who you?
Hi Say a little about who you are and why you
are here.
What do you want to get from this course?
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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
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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,
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What’s the Internet?
Clips from Atlas of Cyberspace: http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/
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An INTERnational NETwork of networks
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Browsers
What’s a browser? A tool that lets you use the World Wide Web Basic mouse moves
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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
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Warriors of the Net
Watch the movie What did you think of it?
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What can you do with the Net?
Find out stuff Send and receive e-Mail Share interests Buy things Sell things
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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?
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Break!
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Setting up an account
Sending a message
Replying to a message
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Yahoo mail
Sign up for a mail account here: http://uk.yahoo.com/
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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
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Wind up