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Introduction to the Internet& basic Web research skills
Pre-access Bridging Programme
5 March 2008
Learning objectives
At the end of this session you should be able to Say in your own words what you understand by being a self-
directed (or self-motivated, or autonomous) learner Describe ways that you use or could use the internet in your
daily life e.g. PhotoBox, FaceBook, World of Warcraft, eBay,
mySpace, youTube, IM, etc etc etc Show someone else how to use the Web to find information
Google, BBC, maps, government, libraries, Wikipedia
Its your learning
One of the main differences between higher education and other sectors is the very high importance placed on individual responsibility for learning
This can be very difficult for many people to adapt to
The fofo principle
Discussion
In small groups you’ll do a lot of this in HE it won’t all be in classrooms, either
What do you understand by the term self-directed learning
Its our learning
But you are not alone There are many kinds of learning communities in
higher education
Back to those groups How can you use your communities to help you
learn?
Scott Wilson
Kinds of communities
• Practice
• Interest
• Action
• Purpose
• Circumstance
• Position
http://www.slideshare.net/scottw/social-software-17042/
http://www.slideshare.net/scottw/social-software-17042/
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
Mouserobics
Using the mouse is a fundamental skill required for using the Internet
You need to use a mouse to scroll the page
This tutorial is excellent
http://www.ckls.org/~crippel/computerlab/tutorials/mouse/page1.html
Introduction to the Internet:Navigation basics
Address Search Scroll
Mousing about
Links
Address
http:// = hyper text transfer protocol So, basic anatomy of a web address:
http://server_name.sub_domain.top_level_domain/folder_name/page_name.html
Top level domains: .com, .org, .net, .edu, .mil Countries, e.g.: .uk, .fr, .es, .nl, .ca
Sub domains: .brookes .google .yahoo
Links
Links “link” the place you are at to other: Places on the same page Places on pages on the same server Places on pages on other servers.
Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page There are hundreds of links on this page
Find: A link to a different place on the same page A link to a different page on the same server A link to a page on a different server
Address
Search
Links
Scroll
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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
What do 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?
Find out other stuff
Videojug http://www.videojug.com http://www.videojug.com/tag/university http://www.videojug.com/user/UKEX0042/ http://www.videojug.com/interview/choosing-a-higher-education-course
Higher Education Academy http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/learning http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/hlst/resources
Wind up