How to Navigate the Internet

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How to Navigate the Internet
Last Updated 2007
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Todays Topics

• Lesson 1 General Overview
• What is the Internet?
• Internet History
• Browsers
• Lesson 2 Getting Started
• Mouse Parts
• Mouse Skills

• Lesson 3 Navigating
• Toolbars and buttons
• Customizing features
• History
• Favorites/Bookmarks
• Changing text size
• Internet error messages

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Lesson 1 What is the Internet?

• Computers connected to each other around the
  world
• Accessible to billions of people worldwide
• Offers many free services including- Email-
  Chatting- World Wide Web
• The Internet is also called The Net or being
  online

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Lesson 1 Internet HIstory

• 1960s - Internet began with US military
• 1970s - 1980s - Moved to academic world
• 1990 - Beginnings of WWW by research
  organization called CERN
• 1993 - First graphical browser (Mosaic)
  developed
• 1996 - Internet Explorer came on scene

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Lesson 1 Browsers

• Computer software that lets you read information
  on the Internet.
• Most popular browser is Microsofts Internet
  Explorer.
• Great alternatives include Mozilla Firefox and
  Opera.
• Use Website addresses to find information
• Eg. www.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca

Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
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Lesson 2 Mouse Parts and Skills

• Content
• Mouse parts
• Clicking
• Finding a link
• Scrolling

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Lesson 2 Mouse Parts
Scroll wheel
Right button
Left button
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Lesson 2 Clicking

• Left button
• Single Click to choose an image or icon
• On the Internet single click to open a new page
• Double Click to open a file or program
• Exercise Double click the Internet Explorer
  icon on the Desktop.

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Lesson 2 Finding a Link

• To find a link
• Open Internet Explorer
• Move your mouse around and when the arrow pointer
  changes into a
• hand then you have found a link that
  you can click.

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Lesson 2 Scrolling

• Scrolling can be done in 4 ways
• Scroll Wheel
• Lightly roll your finger over the scroll wheel in
  the middle of the mouse
• Keyboard Arrows
• Use the Up and Down arrows to scroll a page

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Lesson 2 Scrolling

• Scroll Bar
• Drag the scroll bar up or down by clicking on the
  left mouse button over the scroll bar and keeping
  it pressed down
• Move the whole mouse forward or backward to
  scroll the page up or down.

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Lesson 2 Scrolling

• Scroll buttons
• Above and below the scroll bar there are 2 little
  square buttons with triangles pointing up and
  down.
• Just click your mouse once over the triangle to
  scroll a page in that direction
• Or keep the mouse clicked over the triangle to
  continuously move the page.

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Lesson 3 Navigating

• Address, Location, or Go To bar
• This is where you enter the address of the site
  you want to visit. The address is commonly known
  as the URL (Uniform Resource Locator).

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Lesson 3 Navigating

• Three steps to go to a website
• Click once in Address bar to highlight the
  current address
• Type the new address. Example www.yahoo.ca
• Press the enter key on the keyboard

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Lesson 3 Exercise

• In the Address/Location bar, type the following
  url
• www.learnthenet.com

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Lesson 3 Toolbars Buttons

• Menu bar
• A permanently displayed list of options spread
  horizontally across the top of a window. When
  the mouse is clicked over an item from the menu,
  a pull-down menu appears.

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Lesson 3 Toolbars Buttons

• Toolbar buttons
• Used for navigating, these buttons give quick
  access to functions needed to surf the net.
  You can access the same functions using the menu
  bar and pull-down menus, but using the buttons
  requires fewer steps. Buttons most commonly used
  are Back, Forward, Stop, Reload/Refresh, Print
  and Home.

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Lesson 3 Toolbars Buttons
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Lesson 3 Customizing Features - History

• History option
• Allows quick access to recently visited web pages
• Can be customized to save links to pages for a
  specified amount of time
• Can be sorted by date and time so if you get lost
  in cyberspace, you can usually find your way back
• Internet Explorer
• From the menu bar, choose Tools ? Internet
  Options ? General Tab ? History
• Mozilla Firefox
• From the menu bar, choose Tools ? Options ?
  Privacy ? History

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Lesson 3 Customizing Features - History
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Lesson 3 Customizing Features - Favorites

• Favorites and Bookmarks
• Just like folding down the corners of your
  favorite cookbook!
• Allows you to save links to your favorite sites
  in an organized, easy to access fashion.

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Lesson 3 Customizing features Text Size

• Changing the browsers text size
• Makes web pages easier to read by changing the
  text size to suit your individual needs
• Internet Explorer
• From the menu bar, choose View ? Text Size
• Mozilla Firefox
• From the menu bar, choose View ? Text Size ?
  Increase Font Size or Decrease Font Size

Chronicle Herald (size 12 font)
Chronicle Herald (size 20 font)
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Lesson 3 Exercises

• Go To
• www.learnthenet.com

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Lesson 3 Customizing Features - Text Size
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Lesson 3 Exercises

• Go To
• www.yahoo.ca

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Lesson 3 Exercises

• Go To
• www.cbc.ca

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Lesson 3 Exercises

• Go To
• www.canada.com

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Lesson 3 Internet Error Messages

• Often occur because of human errors like typing
  mistakes
• Sites may not be kept up-to-date so links dont
  work
• Files may be put in a different location
• Busy signals are common for sites that get lots
  of visits. Just keep trying!
• See your handout for how to work around some of
  these error messages

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Lesson 3 Internet Error Messages

• Unable to locate host ? The server does not have
  a DNS entry.
• There was no response ? The server could be down
  or isnt responding
• 400 - Bad request
• 401 - Not authorized
• 403 - Forbidden
• 404 - Requested URL not found
• 502 - Service temporarily overloaded
• 503 - Service is busy

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Recap

• Overview of Internet
• Internet Browsers
• Mouse Skills
• Navigating the Internet
• Menus and toolbars
• Customizing features
• Troubleshooting error messages

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The End

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