Planting an Internet Learning Tree

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Planting an Internet Learning Tree

• Teaching Internet for Teachers
• Chris Roarty
• Jane Hayes
• November 21, 2002

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What is the Internet?http//www.walthowe.com/inde
x.html

• Network of Networks
• 170 countries
• Expanding as we speak
• Means of communicating
• Software linking different computers

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World Wide Web

• Invented by Tim Berners-Lee
• To track people using hypertext
• In Switzerland
• Originally for text links only
• Links many sites on the Internet
• Html (Hypertext markup language)

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Understanding the URL

• Acronym for Uniform Resource Locator
• Typed or Pasted into the address bar
• Specifies location of Internet site
• Shows item, path, and address
• Resource type//domain.addressport/path/filename

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Anatomy of a URL

• URL tells Web Browser type of document
• http hypertext transport protocol
• ftp file transfer protocol
• Gopher menu system
• wais wide-area info

• Domain Name- Name type of computer site
• Computer name
• Location
• Type of organization
• .com
• .org
• .edu
• .mil
• .net
• .gov

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URL - continued

• Directory or Path
• Users name
• Directory

• File youre accessing
• Home
• Html
• Htm

"URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's."
-Chris Clark
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Internets History Task 1

• MIT, proposed global network of computers in 1962
• Term Internet first used in 1974
• Go to this link Internet History
• What was the Internet first known as?
• Who chose the _at_ symbol?
• What does TCP/IP stand for who first used it?
• Whats Al Gores connection the the Internet?
• What or whos Archie and who hosted it first?

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Whats a Web Browser?

• Program used to visit web pages
• Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet
  Explorer
• Used by majority
• Other browsers available

"Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless
that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life." Andrew Brown
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How can I use the branches?

• Send receive e-mails
• FTP File transfers
• World Wide Web
• Multimedia
• Newsgroups or list serves
• (discussion on topics of interests)

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Why plant in the classroom?

• Expand your curriculum
• Cross-curricular teaching
• Web Quests
• Teacher Web
• Global exchanges
• Web Cams
• Email uses
• Virtual Field Trips

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Why dig?

• Enrichment of lessons
• Engagement of students
• Explorative and fun
• Teacher as facilitator
• Current data research
• Teaching with technology

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Whats needed to dig for sites?

• Modem or cable hook up
• Internet Browsers
• Internet Explorer
• Netscape
• AOL
• Hotmail
• MSN
• Search engines
• Yahoo
• Google
• Dogpile

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Boolean Searching

• Link terms by using AND and OR
• Parentheses and quotes used to group terms in
  various ways
• NOT useful in limiting unwanted hits
• More control over hits in search
• See this link for more info
• http//www.walthowe.com/navnet/search2.html

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Search Engine GuideTask 2

• Go to this site
• http//www.walthowe.com/navnet/searchtips.html

• Preview commonly used search engines
• Look up something obscure like Deepavali
• What language is this?
• What country celebrates this festival?
• What does it mean?
• Whats the significance of Lord Krishna?

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Internet Issues

• Privacy
• Security
• Fraud
• Concerns for children
• Schemes

"Looking at the proliferation of personal web
pages on the net, it looks like very soon
everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of
fame." -MG Siriam
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Internet Hoaxes Task 3

• Marketing Charity Schemes
• Viruses
• Cyber Crimes
• Identity Theft
• Go to Tall Tales _at_ this site
• http//www.walthowe.com/navnet/index.html
• Whats an Infected banana?
• Whats the Deadly Blush Spider Under the Toilet
  Seat?

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Internet Glossary Task 4
Go to the Internet glossary below

• http//www.walthowe.com/glossary/index.html
• Whats the difference between an Internet an
  Intranet?
• Whats Kermit?
• Whats the World Wide Web?

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Scavenger Hunt-Task 5

• Lets go Seek the Sun Other Dirt!
• Sunny Days Dirt
• Answer questions on accompanying worksheet.

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Virtual Field Trip Task 6

• Go to this site for the virtual tour of the
  Pyramids
• The Pyramids
• How many obelisks are still standing?
• How many blocks of limestone were used
• to make the Great Sphinx of Giza?
• How old is it?
• Give 2 practical examples of levers.

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Track Me If You Can Task 7

• Determine an area of interest
• Find some links that will answer questions
• (save them under favorites or to a word document
  or to Backflip
• Start your own TrackStar http//trackstar.hprtec.
  org

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Energize Your LessonsTravel the Info Highway!
Happy Trails to YOU!