Andrew Hill: Key Skills

Using the Internet

Lesson Objectives

You will be using the Internet throughout this course to search for and gather information for your assignments. Most of what you will be doing in these lessons will be things that hopefully you will already have done in the past. However the these skills are so important to your assignment that you need to practice them. In these lessons you will learn the key Internet Skills to use in your assignment and as answers to possible exam questions.

Internet - Key Skills

The Key Skills that you will review are:

What is the Internet
Key Terminology
What is a Browser program
Using a Search engine
Using Hyperlinks
copying text and pictures into your work
Finding sites again (favourites)
Searching (wildcard, ? *)

Take a look at the Notes section for searching the internet

And have a look at this PowerPoint Slide show (or another look if shown in class!)

Your tutor will take you through these skills before asking you to practice them on the following activities.

Practical Activities

Internet Activity 1 - Using Search Engines

Use 2 search engines to search for information about the same topic - King Henry VIII who lived in the Tudor period.

Q1 - How many web pages did they search

Q2 - How many web pages did they find

Q3 - Did they find the same pages

Q4 - Which was easiest to use

Search Engines

Google.com

Lycos.com

Ask.co.uk

alltheweb.com

Yahoo.com

Internet Activity 2 - Hyperlinks

Hyperlinks, or Hotspots are great ways of linking a browser page to either

Other peoples' Web Pages

or more of your own pages.

The way to find out whether there is a hyperlink is

If it is text that is hyperlinked then it will often be in blue with an underline (on this site hyperlinks are a different colour - which?
is this a hyperlink?
or is this a hyperlink?
If it is a picture that is hyperlinked to somewhere else, then as soon as you move your mouse over the top of it the cursor will change from an arrow to a hand

which of these is a hyperlink?

Internet Activity 3 - Using your skill

Your task is to find specific resources on the Internet using your searching skills. The Questions below asked you to find this information and then copy information onto a Word Document. You must answer all the questions in the Word Document. So the first thing to do is open that Word Document and put the title on it "Using the Internet". Now copy the table below from this page and add it to your "Using the Internet" page. Put all your answers - text and pictures into the appropriate boxes in the right hand column of the table. NOW TEST YOUR SKILLS!

Questions - What to Find	What to do with it
Q1 - What is the Headline on the BBC News website for today?	COPY THE HEADLINE HERE
Q2 - Find a map of Egypt	Copy the map and place it here
Q3 - How many people lost their lives in the Titanic?	Copy a picture and state the number of lives lost here
Q4 - There have been many more recent disasters at sea that have claimed people's lives - name one, state where it happened and how many lives were lost	Add a sentence to the information you have on the Titanic and state how many lost their lives
Q5 - What is the diet of Hammerhead Sharks?	Place pictures here of the shark and its diet
Q6 - What is the price of a rail ticket to London from Doncaster return on 16 Feb?	Enter the price here
Q7 - What is the price of a coach ticket to London from Doncaster return on 16 Feb?	Enter the price here
Q8 - Find directions of how to get from your house to Luton Airport	Place a map here
Q9 - What happened in history on the day you were born.	Copy a heading and the first few sentences of an article, together with a suitable illustration of something that happened at that time

Complete the Key Skills Question papers:

test your knowledge about the Internet

test your knowledge about Formatting a Word Processing Document