Course Outlines

INTERNET TERMINOLOGY

• World Wide Web (www) vs. the internet
• Web address or URL (uniform resource locator)
• Hyperlink
• ISP (internet service provider)
• Web sites and URLs
• What is a web browser?
• What is a search engine?
• Really simple syndication (RSS) feeds
• Podcasts

BASIC BROWSING TECHNIQUES

• Opening the Microsoft Internet Explorer
• The Microsoft Internet Explorer icons
• What is a web site home page?
• Setting a home (i.e. opening) page
• Displaying a specific web page
• Forcing a web page to display within a new window
• Forcing a web page to display within a new tab
• Switching between tabs
• Closing a tab
• Stopping a page downloading (once it has started downloading)
• What is web page refreshing?
• Refreshing a page download
• Displaying help information

NAVIGATING THROUGH WEB PAGES

• Navigating through web sites
• Going directly to a web page
• Using the back and forward button
• Visiting the home page

SEARCHING THE WEB

• Using keywords and phrases
• Don’t use a single search word
• Searching using specific words
• Searching using an exact phrase
• Advanced google searching
• Searching by excluding a word(s)
• Searching by date
• Searching by file format
• Online encyclopaedias
• Online dictionaries

FAVOURITES

• What is a favourite (bookmark)?
• Adding a web page to your favourites list.
• Adding a web site to the favourites bar
• Opening a favourite
• Deleting a favourite
• Creating a new folder within your favourites list
• Renaming a favourite
• Deleting a favourite

FEEDS

• What are feeds?
• Subscribing to a feed
• Viewing subscribed feeds
• Un-subscribing from feeds

SAVING FILES

• Copying an image from a web page to a document
• Saving a picture within a web page to your hard disk
• Copying a web address to a document
• Downloading files from a web page to a document

PRINTING ISSUES

• Previewing a web page before printing
• Setting up your page
• Changing your web page margins
• Printing a web page
• Printing selected text on a web page

SECURITY & PRIVACY ISSUES

• Internet security & password logons
• Risks associated with online activity
• Viruses
• Virus checkers
• Malware, Spyware, Worms & Trojans
• Spam
• Scareware
• Firewall
• Pop-up blocking
• What is website caching?
• Emptying the cache
• Cookies
• Information bar
• ‘Smartscreen filter’ protection
• Protected sites
• Digital certificates
• Encryption
• Secure web sites and https