Back to Basics: Internet Explorer

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Back to Basics Internet Explorer

• Tech Tuesdays

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What Will We Learn?

• What is the Internet WWW
• Basic vocab
• Search Engine
• How to use the back, home, and other buttons
• How to add a favorite

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What is the Internet?

• Network 2 or more computers connected together
• Internet an international network of computer
  networks
• Began in 1970s as way for military, universities,
  and business to share info

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2. What is the World Wide Web?

• Lets you see whats posted on the Internet
• To get information off of the WWW, you need three
  things
• 1. Internet Service Provider
• 2. Browser
• 3. Search Engine

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Browser not from ShaNaNa

• A software program that displays the text,
  graphics, sounds, and more on the WWW.
• Two main onesInternet ExplorerNetscape
  Navigator

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Your Vocab for the week

• Home page the first page open when you
  goonline (connected to the Internet)
• Easy to change!

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Web Site or Web Page?

• Web site the collection of web documents for a
  company, person, etc.
• Web page one part of a web site
• http//www.lausanneschool.com - web page or
  site?
• http//www.lausanneschool.com/Technology/techtues
  days.html - web page or site?

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URL doesnt have to die..

• URL Uniform Resource Locator
• The address of a web site
• www.flingthecow.com URL
• Must type it in exactly!!
• No punctuation, spaces, or most symbols

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This is where you type the address of a site you
want to see
These are favorites places I go to a lot!
This is called a pop-up menu!
Anything you can click on to get to another page
is called a link!
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Buttons to use
Click here to return to your home page.
Click here to stop a page from loading. Good when
the computer freezes or other problems happen.
Click here to refresh A site that changes a
lot and you want the latest version
(www.cnn.com).
Click here to go back to a previous site.
Click here if you moved back a site but now
want to go forward.
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Favorites

• Go to a site a lot? Make it a favorite.
• Go to that site (type the address in the URL
  blank).
• Click on the Favorites folder.
• Click on the word Add in the left frame.
• Hit OK (you can create a folder for similar sites)

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Step one Click on the Favorites folder
Step two click on Add
Step three hit OK or create a folder to put it
in.
Step four When you want to go to that site, now
just click the site/folder above.
Hint if you dont see this Favorites frame, just
hit the Favorites folder!
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And, now, the end is near...

• Thats it for the Back-to-Basic series!
• Next week TrackStarmake the Internet easy!
• For grades 2 and up!
• If you want info on searching for stuff and
  evaluating sites on WWW, go to
  www.lausanneschool.com/Technology/techtuesdays.htm
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