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Lesson 3: Internet terminology. Instructions: It is very important for one to be farmiliar with these Internet/computer terminologies below. Those terms would probably include: Bootup, mouse, cursor Network Modem User name Digital Surfing Chat Mailing lists List server Fibre optic FTP Hypertext Key words Log on / log off Online / offline Remote computer Password Software program E-mail Key pal Server Usenet Newsgroups WWW (World Wide Web) Gopher Web browser
	Lesson 4: Guidelines for using the Internet. LEARNING OBJECTIVE: One will be aware of guidelines for proper use of the Internet. Instructions: One has to go on a tour of the Net and make proper use of Internet, including such points as: Never knowingly post or forward information that's not true. Have good manners Tell people when you like their work. Be creative, not destructive. Always obey copyright laws. Think before you send. Be yourself Don't use someone else's account or password. Ask for help when you need it. Think before you upload. (adapted from "Ten commandments for Computer Ethics Institute) Define unacceptable activities on the Internet as being those that purposely do any of the following: Seek to gain unauthorized access to the resources of the Internet Disrupt the intended use of the Internet Waste resources (people, capacity, computer) Destroy the integrity of computer-based information Compromise the privacy of users
Lesson 5: Using E-mail on the Internet LEARNING OBJECTIVE: One will understand the basic functions of e-mail programs. Instructions: Almost all of the e-mail programs do the same things - just in a slightlydifferent way. In this lesson we will look at the basic functions most e-mail programshave in common. These basic functions are: 1. Reading the e-mail that is sent to you. 2. Saving your e-mail to a file on your computer so that you can read it later. 3. Printing out your e-mail so you can give a hard copy to someone. 4. Replying to your e-mail letters. 5. Writing brand-new e-mail letters to send. 6. Attaching files, pictures, or other objects to the e-mail letters you are sending. 7. Sending your completed e-mail messages on the Internet. 8. Keeping an Internet address book to make it easier to send e-mail messages to people you write a lot.
	Lesson 6: Internet Addresses LEARNING OBJECTIVE: One will be able to read and write Internet addresses. Instructions: Every Internet address has three parts: The user name (like Kate or Zack, or even something strange like UU2020). The @ sign, which means "at" The address of the user's mail server eg: kate@mynet.com In the above address mynet.com is actually called a "domain"name. The domain name is based on IP - or Internet Protocol -system. This system is simply a numerical and letter-basedsystem that allows every server on the Internet to have aunique address that cannot be copied or used by any otherserver or user on the Net. IP addresses have been establishedso that every server on the Internet has its own uniqueaddress. Addresses are usually read from left to right. Everything to the right ofthe @ sign is the domain. The word on the left of the @ sign is the username. Sometimes domain names can be very long but each letter andnumber to the right of the @ is all part of the domain name. The com part of the sample address tells you that the domain is acommercial Internet site. Common abbreviations include: edu - for educational sites, such as colleges com - for commercial sites, such as commercial companies like MCA/Universal gov - for government sites mil - for military sites, such as the Pentagon net - for network administrative sites, which are networks running other networks, for example, local Internet gateway servers often are found in the domain. org - for organizational sites, such as public and non-profit businesses and groups Sometimes you will see a subdomain that looks like this: machl.mynet.com. The machl means that it is a subdomain, whichmeans it belongs to another computer that is located within the MyNetlocal network of computers.
Lesson 7: Electronic Signatures. LEARNING OBJECTIVE: One will learn what an electronic signature. Instructions: It is imperative to note the following information: It is customary in the Internet community to tag your outgoing e-mailmessages with a unique signature. These user-created works of art givemore information about the sender and give you an opportunity to express abit about your personality in a word, phrase, or quotation, or even a picturecreated from ASCII text characters. (Eg. include all those witty quotationsyou've always wanted to use) Most software, including Eudora, enables youto append your electronic signature automatically to outgoing messages. A few points to remember: don't send anything through e-mail that you would not write on the board forthe classroom to read (!). You should not send personal information over the net. With your studentsbrainstorm a list of appropriate and inappropriate uses of electronic mail tohelp drive this home.
	Lesson 8: Internet Mailing List LEARNING OBJECTIVE: One will learn what mailing lists are and how to use them. Instructions: I am presenting you with the following information: What is a mailing list? Mailing lists are special kinds of electronic mail addresses that automaticallyforward topic-specific discussions to your e-mail doorstep - just like amagazine subscription does. In fact, as the next section explains, to receivemail from a list, you must first subscribe. Mailing lists enable you to talk with more than one person at a time. Inessence, you are joining an on-line discussion. Mailing lists are sometimesreferred to as discussion groups because they are focused on a specific topic, such as astronomy or ... anything! You will also hear mailing lists referred to as LISTSERVS. If you find a subject you like (for example, the space program), you cansubscribe to a mailing list and read what other subscribers have to say. These are the steps to join a mailing list: To subscribe to a mailing list, all you have to do is send a message to theLISTSERV (the computer that controls, sorts, and distributes incomingmessages on a particular topic). It is easy. 1. Connect to the Internet via your information provider or on-line service and launch your mail program. If you are connected via a SLIP or PPP connection, fire up the program called Eudora or another mail program. If you are connected via a UNIX network, access elm, pine, or another e-mail program. 2. Create a new message. Compose a message to the LISTSERV computer that administers thelist you are interested in. Because your subscription request is read bya computer (rather than brilliant individuals!) you have to follow somestrict rules about what you send. 3. Enter the full Internet address of the LISTSERV computer in the To box, and then press the Tab key to move to the next line. The address of the LISTSERV computer will look something list this: LISTSERV@bigdumbbox.edu 4. Leave the subject line blank. (If your program requires you to enter something in the Subject box, simply enter a period.) 5. In the Message (text) area, type the command subscribe and the name of the list to which you want to subscribe, followed by your full name (not your e-mail address). Here's what a subscribe message for user Jamie Spence looks like: subscribe apple-1 Jamie Spence 6. Click the Send button to send your message, and then wait for a return confirmation. Somewhere in between ten seconds and a couple of days, you'll receive a cryptic message that looks something like the message that follows: You have been added to the apple-1 list. It may also include specific information about cancelling yoursubscription to the mailing list. It is a good idea to save this documentor print it out so that when you mailbox gets overstuffed, you can stopthe waterfall of e-mail from mailing lists.
Lesson 9: Keeping an Internet Activity Log. LEARNING OBJECTIVE: one will learn to use a log to keep track of where they have been onthe Internet. It is a good idea to keep track of where you have been on the Internet.Even if you write down the address, you may forget what you foundthere. This is a system, which is borrowed from the old newspaperreporter's rulebook. A sample of a Surfers Log that you may want to use in your classroomis given on the following pages. You might like to also post theguideline on the following page for using the log: Who: This is the name of the site. How: This is how you got there: Web, Gopher, FTP, Usenet, Telnet, IRC, e-mail list, etc. Where: This is the address. Be careful to spell it correctly and use capital or lowercase letters when needed. What: Write down a brief description of what the place is all about. Do not make it too long, but be sure to put in enough information so you remember what it was like. Why: These are the reasons you would want to go back there again, or maybe why you would not. When: If this is a very busy place, you might want to write down whether it's best to call in the morning or on weekends, or whenever there might be less online traffic. Internet Surfer's Log: Who How Where What Why When
	Lesson 10" World Wide Web "The Web" LEARNING OBJECTIVE: One will learn what the World Wide Web is and how to use it. The World Wide Web - which is also called the WWW, or justthe Web - is rapidly becoming one of the most popular servicesavailable on Internet. It has pictures and hypertext - whichmeans you can jump from one place to another, all over theworld, with a single click of the mouse or a few keys typed on akeyboard. The Web was started in Switzerland by CERN, the EuropeanLaboratory for Particle Physics. The people at CERN wantedto build a hypermedia system with hyper links to other systemsso it would be easier to use the Internet. It is the most user-friendly part of Internet. The can contain text, pictures, sound, and even video information where many of theother Internet services are limited to text only. The advantage of using hypertext is that in a hypertextdocument, if you want more information about the particularsubject, you can usually just click on it with your mouse to readfurther details. Documents can also be (and often are) linked to otherdocuments by completely different authors - much like thefootnotes in your textbooks at school. To access the Web, you need to run a Web browser programme. The Web browser reads documents and can display pictures. And, when you click on a hypertext link, it can fetch documentsfrom other sources on the Internet. Web browsers can read documents and can also downloadthem to your computer's hard disk. Web browsers can accessfiles by FTP, they can read Usenet newsgroups, and they canTelnet into remote computer sites - almost everything you want. Some servers have search capabilities, which means you canlocate documents and databases by searching for specificwords and phrases. What is really so special about the Web is that the Web doesall of this without you having to know the exact address ofwhere you are, or even how you got there! To do this it usessomething called URLs - Universal Resource Locators. URLsare addresses for the location of any Internet resource. When browsing the Web, you are going to see things such as: http://www.library.edu/books/pages.html The http means you are dealing with a Web resource. It stands for HyperText Transport Protocol. HTTP is just a coding systemfor marking up documents with little markers that change theway the information is seen on the screen. URL addresses arecase sensitive, so be careful when typing them. Library, with acapital "L", is not the same as library with a small "I". In the above address, the last item ends in html. That stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. You will find a lot of Webaddresses ending in html.
Lesson 11: "Home Pages" on the Web LEARNING OBJECTIVE: One will learn what a homepage is. You may want to explain the home page concept in the following way: The World Wide Web is like a building. Think of a home page as an office in that building. The office can have many roomsor just one room. That means that a home page can containother pages or other documents all grouped together. For example, home pages are often set up by individual people or companies who want to do business on the Internet. Forinstance, MCA/Universal, a huge company, set up a Web site, or home page, where they could advertise their movies and TV shows. Some home pages have text-only versions so you do not haveto spend a lot of time downloading pictures - not as pretty butdefinitely faster.
	Lesson 12: Using Gospher and Veronica Search tools LEARNING OBJECTIVE: One will learn what Gopher and Veronica are and how to use them. Gopher was developed at the University of Minnesota, which isone of the reasons for its name: The Minnesota football teamis named the Gophers. Gopher allows you to hop around the world looking forinformation through the Internet Gopher is a database and communications system that runs onInternet-connected computers that are called Gopher servers. Gopher will burrow as deeply as you like to help you find theinformation you are searching for. It really is a browsing tool, more than anything else. Not allthe information you will browse in Gopherspace is text - with theproper extensions to your Gopher-getting software, you also canbrowse pictures, sounds, movies (video), and computerprograms. The really cool thing about a Gopher session is that thedirectories shown in your Gopher window may each come froma different server. As you click effortlessly from level to level, you are actually zooming from server to server and it ispractically transparent to the user. In addition to holding files, many Gopher servers include waysto access other Internet information. You know that Internet is a huge place. You could spend dayshunting for a needed resource. Fortunately, Gopherspace hasa wonderful tool that helps you find things in Gopherspacequickly - Veronica. Veronica is a search tool that enables you to quickly accessGopherspace and search for specific files and directories through key words. To get to Veronica, you go through Gopher. Conduct a search using Gopher and Veronica. Here are the steps for a typical search: 1. Open your Internet connection and launch your Gopher-search program. 2. Point your Gopher to a site that offers the Veronica search engine. A good place to begin is liberty.uc.wlu.edu 3. Choose Veronica from the Gopher menu and double-click one of the question mark (?) icons to begin your search. 4. Enter a keyword in the Find what? Dialogue box and press Return/Enter.
Lesson 13: Posting your project on School Net LEARNING OBJECTIVE: One will have the ability to post their personal work on the Internetfor others to see. Instructions: Can you explain the following: SchoolNet is an Internet resource that is growingeveryday with the SchoolNet not only provides learning material, but alsogives students the chance to be teachers themselves SchoolNet provides an opportunity for students to sharetheir ideas, interests and concerns with othersthroughout the world To begin, have you studied a topic of interest to them or a topic thatcorresponds with current themes within this Website? A project that has been prepared previously may also be used.