Introduction to the Internet

Blackbird Leys IT Zone

1 November 2006

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

Introductions

Wotcher! Aims and objectives

Who you?

Hi Say a little about who you are and why you

are here.

What do you want to get from this course?

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

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,

What’s the Internet?

Clips from Atlas of Cyberspace: http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/

An INTERnational NETwork of networks

Browsers

What’s a browser? A tool that lets you use the World Wide Web Basic mouse moves

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

Warriors of the Net

Watch the movie What did you think of it?

What can you do with the Net?

Find out stuff Send and receive e-Mail Share interests Buy things Sell things

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?

Break!

E-Mail

Setting up an account

Sending a message

Replying to a message

Yahoo mail

Sign up for a mail account here: http://uk.yahoo.com/

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

Wind up