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