INTERNET LEARNING GUIDE -
08.07.03
OBJECTIVE
Learners may also want to use another available handout titled “Sample Interesting Web Sites” contained on the web site: www.angelfire.com/planet/richnelson
It is easy to download.
THE
MOUSE
HOW TO HOLD A MOUSE
The mouse should be held with the wire pointing away from you and with the heal of your hand used as a pivot. The index finder should be over the left button and the middle finger over the right button. The thumb should be holding the left side, and the ring and pinky holding the right side.
PROPER USE OF THE MOUSE
Note: in the instructions below, when it says click it means to click the left mouse button. If you should right click it will say right click.
It is important to know that a click is made up of three actions as follows:
1.
Pointing the arrow of the mouse at an icon or word
If the computer is not already on, follow these
instructions:
1. Turn on the monitor by firmly but briefly
pressing the button on the front right panel below the screen. (The monitor may
already be on, if so look for an amber light next to the power button on the
right side of the panel below the screen)
2. Now turn on the console (the computer) by firmly
but briefly pressing the power button. It is located about half way down on the
front panel of the console.
Wait while the computer starts up, it may take a minute or two. When it has finished, you will see the Desktop screen with all its icons.
1. On the Windows Desktop, using your mouse, point at one of the Internet Explorer Icons and click once. That will highlight that icon.
2. Now just peck the Enter
key. That will start the Internet Explorer software. You should now see the
Home Page of your a Web Page on your monitor screen. .
WEB SITE ADDRESSES
Notice the Address in the
long box in the upper part of the screen. It says: http://www.xxxxx.com or www.xxxxx.gov or www.xxxxx.org The www stands
for World Wide Web. The xxxxx stands for the domain name which is the web site
identification of this web site and .com tells you it is a commercial site; a
suffix of a .gov for government, org stands for organization, and .edu for
educational institutions. There are other suffixes like .net and .biz.
The web site you see on your screen is the default Web site for this computer lab
USING THE UP AND DOWN ARROWS
Notice the little up arrow
on the upper right side of the screen, and the little down arrow on the lower
right side of the screen.
1. Click four times on the
down arrow on the lower right.
2. Now click four times on
the up arrow on the upper right.
The screen will scroll up and down.
USING THE UP AND DOWN ARROW KEYS ON THE KEYBOARD
BUT BEFORE YOU CAN USE THE
UP AND DOWN ARROW KEYS YOU MUST HAVE CLICKED ONCE ON THE SCREEN
o
Peck the down
arrow key 5 times – what happens?
o
Peck the up arrow
key 5 times – what happens?
Using
the arrow keys gives excellent control of the movement of the screen up and
down
USING THE MOUSE WHEEL
There is wheel in the middle of the mouse between
the two buttons. Gently turning this wheel with your index finder will also
scroll the display on the screen up and down. You might have to click once on a
vacant place in the screen before this will work.
INTERNET LINKING
Internet linking is one of the powerful ways to surf
the internet.
On most all web pages it is not possible to get all
the information on one screen, so the web designers have developed a way of
linking to other pages using the pointing finger method. When you move your
mouse around a web page you will notice that the mouse arrow turns into a
painting finger when passing over some of the text or pictures. When this
happens it is called a link. When your mouse turns into a pointing finger and
you click, it will automatically take you to the link that you clicked on. This
is one of the features that make the web so powerfully useful.
Run the mouse arrow over one
of the lines of text until you get a pointing finger, and then click. See how
it transfers you to another web page. Notice the new address. It is possible to
continue linking and linking and linking. Linking is one of the
activities that provide the tremendous power of the Internet.
Jumping is another activity that
you will learn later that is also very, very powerful.
THE BACK BUTTON
THE FORWARD BUTTON
The Forward button can be used after you have
used the Back button. You can use the Forward button to take you forward to
where you were before you clicked the Back button. The Forward button is
usually just to the right of the Back button.
REVIEW
OF LINKING
Linking
is one of the ways to surf the Internet. Linking is always done using the
pointing finger of the mouse to identify the link, and clicking with the left
mouse button. Linking can be done from either text or a picture on a web page.
Jumping is the other method of surfing the Internet which is covered below
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INTERNET
JUMPING
Internet Jumping is another powerful way of surfing the internet
The Internet would be quit boring if you were limited to just one web site. So now we will learn how to jump to entirely different web sites. To jump to, or to “Open” a different web site, you must know its address. There is a link to this handout on www.angelfire.com/planet/richnelson listing a sample of web site addresses. There are several ways of jumping; but for simplicity we cover only one way in the beginning, which I call the sure-fire way. An alternative way is described towards the end of this instruction.
PRACTICE JUMPING TO SEVERAL
DIFFERENT SITES
In the next few paragraphs
you will practice jumping to the National Gallery of Art, Reference Desk site,
the AARP site were there is a good on-line internet course, the Louvre in
France, and Google which is a fantastic search engine site, but google also has
access to good news sites. Go to it!
For lots of good information
about computers click on the “Computers and Technology” link on the left side
of the first page. Also try jumping directly to www.aarp.org/learninternet
5. When you get to the
google site, click on news
5. Peck the Enter key
When you get to the Chinaview
news, in addition to scrolling the screen up and down, look for the links on
the left side of the screen
1. Click in the open space in the Address
field.
That will highlight any address that is in
that space.
2. Without doing anything, type in the web
site address (URL) for the web site you want to jump to. In this case
www.google.com (Notice you do not have to type in the http://)
3. Peck the Enter Key,
That will transfer you to the new web site, in this case google.com
INCREASING THE TEXT SIZE
In some cases it may be desirable to increase the
size of the text on the computer screen when you are on the internet. This I
done as follows:
o On the Menu bar click on
View, you will get a menu
o Move your mouse arrow down
to Text Size, but don’t click. You will get a menu
o Slide your mouse arrow over
to the new menu and click on Largest
LINKING VS JUMPING REVIEW
Linking can be accomplished by
simply clicking on a desirable link that appears on any web page when the mouse
appearance as a pointing finger. That will take you to the linked page you
clicked on.
Jumping is when you want to
transfer to a different web site entirely.
First you must know the web
address of the site you want to jump to.
Then click on “File” on the
Menu bar, then on “Open”.
In the space provided type in
the web address of the site that you want to transfer to.
Then peck the Enter key.
ADDING A WEB ADDRESS TO
YOUR FAVORITES
Sometimes you are looking at a
web page that you would like to return to. The address is in the address field.
To put this web site into your Favorites, click on Favorites on the Menu bar.
You will get a dialog box called Add Favorites. In the Name field give the web
site a name you will remember by typing it in to the Name field, now just click
on OK. That will put this web site in your Favorites. When you want to go back
to this web site click on Favorites on the Menu bar and then click on this web
name you gave it.
SAMPLE OF INTERESING WEB SITES DOCUMENT
I have a much larger document
with lots of interesting web address at
http://www.angelfire.com/fl5/richnelson/sample.html
PUTTING WEB ADDRESSES ON A WORD PROCESSING DOCUMENT
Sometimes it is desirable to
put a group of web addresses on a word processing document similar to adding
favorites to your computer as above. Then if you save it to a flash drive you
can take this list anyplace.
This is simple just open your
favorite word processing software and type the web address with a space at the
end and that address will be ready to link to the web site by just holding down
the Ctrl key and clicking on the address -
Here are a few examples:
www.angelfire.com/planet/richnelson
Save the above document for
future use in a folder titled INTERNET STUFF
or something similar
Filed in the Internet
folders
