Internet 1

Table of Contents

Introduction to Web Browsing

• Be the master of your domain

• File types: html, gif, jpg, txt . . .

• File not Found?

Hypertext and Hyperlinks

• Downloading is not a crime

• The no fail way to spot a hyperlink

• The many faces of a hyperlink

• Activity: Using hyperlinks

Web Forms, Give! Give! Give!

• Show me the way to the forms!

• How do I know it's a web form?

• How many types of web forms are there?

• What will be done with my information?

• Activity: Using Web Forms

• Other web form examples

Email around the world

• Why not postal?

• Anatomy Lesson

• Composing

Attachments

• Why send attachments?

• Do I have any concerns?

• How do you send attachments?

• How do you send a URL or web page?

Finding Stuff I: Vague and General with Internet Directories

• Paint a clear picture of what you would like to find

• Webpage vs. Website

• Vague and General with Internet Directories

• Where to find Internet Directories

Finding Stuff II: Pinpoint Specific with Search Engines

• What are search engines

• How do you use a Search Engine?

• Choices, choices, choices . . .

• Search Engine activity

If it's free, it's for me: Free stuff on the Internet

• How can things really be free?

• Look advertisements in the face

• Escape junk e-mail

• Electronic Freebies off the Internet

• Service Freebies off the Internet

• Tangible Freebies off the Internet

Resources

Introduction to the Internet Glossary
A running list of common Internet related words with definitions.

The Internet: Advanced Lessons
The second class in the Internet Trilogy. You may move on and learn independently by following the lessons.

Site and course content by Kevin Berner, edited by Lori Wallace and Donna Wilbur