Basic Internet Skills Training Outline

Begining Basic Skills
Advanced Basic Skills
Module 1 - Windows 98 basics
  1. What is hardware and what is software?
  2. Use the mouse
  3. Explore the menus
    1. Start and Windows
  4. Use the taskbar
  5. Manipulate Windows
    1. Opening, maximizing, minimising and closing
Module 1 - Word Processing Basics
  1. Navigate around document.
  2. Select Text.
  3. Cut, Copy and Paste.
  4. Formatting Text
    1. Using toolbar, bold, italics and underline.
  5. Saving.
Module 2 - Find/Explorer
  1. Have you lost anything in your computer?
    1. Use Exact Matches
    2. Use Expressions
  2. How your computer organizes information
    1. Access the Explorer
    2. Create Folders
    3. Copy, Move and Delete files
    4. File Extensions
      1. What are they? How can I make them work for me?
Module 2 - Advanced E-mail
  1. How does e-mail actually work?
  2. Attachments
    1. Type of files, using file extensions, size of attachments.
  3. List Serves
    1. Example of VCN listserv - very brief
  4. Reply/Forward
  5. Re-direct vs Forward
  6. Overview of Advanced Attachments
    1. HTML enhanced e-mail
Module 3 - Intro to the Internet
  1. What is the Internet?
  2. What is the Internet used for?
  3. Three major components of the Internet.
    1. E-mail - the Internet is to transfer your e-mail to anyone else who has a computer hooked up to the Internet.
    2. World Wide Web (www) - a network of computer documents arrange d and posted publicly for anyone to access.
    3. Newsgroups - large 'bulletin boards" for reading and posting messages from and to people all over the world.
  4. Internet etiquette
  5. Search Engines - basic search techniques
    1. Task - simple search on yahoo or other search engine
  6. Security and Privacy on the Net
  7. Evaluate information
    1. Task - evaluate a few hits made on simple search
Module 3 - Advanced Internet
  1. Digital Certificates
  2. Newsgroups
  3. Virtual Communities
    1. Forums/Digital Communities
  4. Advanced search engine techniques
Module 4 - Intro to Netscape e-mail
  1. Anatomy of an e-mail
  2. Send e-mail
  3. Respond to e-mail
  4. Use Address book and Signature
  5. Create Address book Groups
  6. Use Folders to organize your e-mail
Exercises:
  • Take the address of anyone who has e-mailed you and add them to your address list
  • Create a group of these addresses and send a message to them
  • Send an e-mail introducing yourself and group to [email protected]
  • Write a short document in Word and attach it to an e-mail message to your partner
  • E-mail [email protected] and just put 'help' in the text of your message. Try some other commands (please unsubscribe!)
Module 4 - Web Extras
  1. Download files and software
  2. Downloading the newest version of browsers
  3. Browser Plug-ins
  4. Other internet applications