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PC Passport

PC Passport
INTERNET — Intermediate
Exercise Booklet
Date: June 2004
Publication Code: DB2311C
ISBN for this pack: 1 85969 550 7
ISBN for set of three Internet packs: 1 85969 429 2
ISBN for complete Intermediate level pack: 1 85969 404 7
This guide makes up part of a suite of three documents designed to deliver the PC Passport
course at Intermediate level for Internet
Published by the Scottish Qualifications Authority
Hanover House, 24 Douglas Street, Glasgow, G2 7NQ, and Ironmills Road, Dalkeith,
Midlothian EH22 1LE
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© Scottish Qualifications Authority 2004
Welcome
Welcome to the Internet Intermediate Exercise Booklet. Here you’ll find practical exercises
that you can complete to help you learn the topics covered in the Student Workbook. In the
workbook, you’ll find references that tell you when to do each exercise.
Summary Tasks
The booklet also contains Summary Tasks that should be completed at the end of each
Learning Outcome. An instruction in the workbook will tell you when you should complete
these tasks.
Contents
Internet Exercise Booklet — Intermediate
Exercise 1.1
Exercise 1.2
Exercise 1.3
Exercise 1.4
Exercise 1.5
Exercise 1.6
Summary Tasks for Learning Outcome 1
Exercise 2.1
Exercise 2.2
Exercise 2.3
Exercise 2.4
Exercise 3.1a
Exercise 3.1b
Exercise 3.2
Exercise 3.3
Exercise 3.4
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PC Passport Support Materials
Internet Exercise Booklet —
Intermediate
Exercise 1.1
Complete the table below with descriptions and typical storage capacities of the storage media
listed.
Name
Tape
Cartridge
Description
Typical Storage Capacity
CD-RW
Zip disk
Floppy disk
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Exercise 1.2
Since each system can have a different file and folder structure, you will find that the files and
folders shown in the illustrations in this workbook will not match your windows exactly.
However, once you have located the Internet – Int 2 folder, the illustrations will match.
Check with your tutor to find out where the Internet – Int 2 folder has been placed on your
system.
1. First switch on your computer and open the Windows Explorer program:
♦ Point to and click the Start button then choose All Programs (or Programs) from the
menu.
♦ Next, choose Accessories then Windows Explorer.
The My Documents folder is expanded so that you can see its contents.
♦ Click the plus sign to the left of My Computer in the folders list to see the disks that
are part of your computer.
Drives that are part of ‘My Computer’.
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Important! On many systems you might not be allowed to access the C drive and you
may be instructed to save folders and files on another drive, eg a network drive. Do
not go any further in this exercise until you know which drive your work is to be
saved to.
2. Locate the Internet – Int 2 folder on your system then select and expand this folder so
that you can see the subfolders in the folders list and the subfolders and the files in the
contents pane.
Note: In this illustration, the Internet – Int 2 folder is stored on the C drive. Remember
that this may not be the case on your system. Also, the precise appearance of the items in
the contents pane will depend on the way Explorer has been set to look — here the Views
option that has been selected is Icons.
The subfolder in the Internet – Int 2 folder
can be seen both here in the folders list
and in the contents pane on the right.
The files in the Internet – Int 2 folder can
only be seen here in the contents pane.
3. If your contents pane looks different from the one shown above, click the Views button on
the toolbar and choose Icons from the list.
Click the Views button to see a list of
the different ways you can display the
items in your contents pane.
Choose ‘Icons’ from the Views
button to change the way the
contents pane is displayed.
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4. Experiment with the other options from the Views button and then set it to Icons again.
5. Now you’ll rearrange the contents of the Internet – Int 2 folder into a structured filing
system. Follow these steps to do this:
♦ Make sure the Internet – Int 2 folder is selected in the folders list by clicking it.
♦ The first thing you’ll do is create a new folder named after you, so point to a blank
part of the contents pane and click the right mouse button.
♦ A shortcut menu gives you a list of options relating to where you pointed to.
Point to the New option on the shortcut menu and then point to Folder.
Point to a
blank part of
the contents
pane then
right-click and
point to ‘New’.
Next point to
‘Folder’.
♦ Click Folder to create a new folder in the Internet – Int 2 folder, although exactly
where it appears depends on where you pointed before right-clicking. This new folder
appears in the contents pane, and its name is ready for editing:
A new folder is
created and its name
is ready for editing.
♦ Type your first and last names and then press [ENTER].
Note: For the purposes of this and future exercises, this folder will be represented by a
folder with the name Jennifer Black.
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All the files and other subfolders in the Internet – Int 2 folder are to be moved into
your new folder.
♦ The first step is to select the items that are to be moved. Since you want all the
contents of Internet – Int 2 except your folder, the quickest way to do this would be
to select everything then deselect your folder, so hold down the [CTRL] key and press
A. This selects everything, as you can see here:
To deselect your folder, point
to it then, holding down the
[CTRL] key, click it once.
♦ To deselect your folder, point to it then, holding down the [CTRL] key, click it.
Now the blue highlight is removed from your folder and everything except your folder
is selected.
♦ To move these items into your folder, point to any of the selected items then click and
hold down the mouse button.
♦ Next, still holding down the mouse button, drag the mouse pointer to your folder. As
you drag, a shadow appears, and when the pointer is in the right position, your folder
will appear highlighted again:
— When your folder appears highlighted again, release the mouse button to move the
selected items to this folder. Now the only item in the Internet – Int 2 folder is your
folder:
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♦ In the folders list at the left of the Explorer window, click the plus next to your folder
to expand it. Now you can see that all the folders and files from the Internet – Int 2
folder are now in your folder.
♦ Another way to create a folder is to use the File menu. Click your folder in the folders
list to select it and then choose the File, New, Folder menu option to create a new
folder in your folder.
♦ Name this folder WorkStuff.
Although you changed the view to ‘Icons’ earlier in the exercise, that was for
the Internet – Int 2 folder. If you want the contents of this folder to be
displayed that way, you have to change the view for this folder too.
♦ Create another new folder in your folder, calling this one PersonalStuff.
Your new folders are shown in the folders list:
Your own folder now has these subfolders.
♦ Create a folder in your WorkStuff folder, naming it Spreadsheets.
♦ Create a folder in your PersonalStuff folder and call it Employment.
Next you’ll move some of the items from your folder into the subfolders you’ve
created.
♦ The Documents folder is to be moved into your WorkStuff folder, so click and drag
this folder from the contents pane to the WorkStuff folder in the folders list.
♦ Check that this folder has been moved and so appears only in the WorkStuff folder
not its original location.
♦ Make sure the contents of your main folder are displayed in the contents pane. Change
the view if you want to.
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♦ Building a Business, Vet Letter and Employ are to be moved to the Employment
folder in your PersonalStuff folder, so select these files.
♦ Point to one of the selected files and click the right mouse button to display the
shortcut menu:
Click ‘Cut’ on the shortcut menu
to indicate you want to remove
these documents from this folder.
♦ Click Cut. The selected files are dimmed to show that they’ve been cut.
♦ Display the contents of your PersonalStuff folder so that the Employment folder is
shown in the contents pane.
♦ Right-click the Employment folder and choose Paste from the shortcut menu to place
the cut files here.
The files are removed from your folder and placed in the Employment folder.
♦ Check that this is the case.
♦ Move the Startout file from your folder to the Employment folder.
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♦ Continue to file these items as shown in the table below. Where necessary, create any
folder that doesn’t already exist.
Move these files into the Spreadsheets in WorkStuff folder:
Exchange Rates
Rates Table
First Quarter Sales
Repayment Calculator
Mileage
Salaries
P&L
Second Quarter Sales
Product Pricing
Stock List
Profit and Loss
Stock
Move these files into the Documents in WorkStuff folder:
Advantages of Word Processors
Desktop Publishing
Agenda
Office Automation Conference
Catalogue
Software
Comets
Spec
Conference Room Reservations
Move these files into the Presentations in WorkStuff folder:
Business Proposal
The Internet – Int 2 folder should now have this structure when full expanded in the
folders list:
6. The Employment folder is to be renamed Employee Docs. Point to this folder in either
the folders list or the contents pane and right-click to show the shortcut menu. Choose
Rename from the menu and edit the name to read Employee Docs.
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7. Follow the instructions below to search for some files within the Internet – Int 2 folder.
♦ Point to the Internet – Int 2 folder in the folders list then right-click to display the
shortcut menu.
♦ Choose Search from this list.
♦ Type business into the All or part of the file name box.
Type ‘business’ into this box to search for any files or
folders that have this word as all or part of their names.
The folder you were pointing to when you
right-clicked is shown in this box. The search
will look in this folder and all its subfolders.
When you’ve entered your search
conditions, you click this ‘Search’ button.
♦ Click the Search button.
These are the two files found by the search.
They’re also known as ‘hits’. You can open
any of these files by double-clicking it.
Click here to start
another search.
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♦ Click Start a new search at the left side of the window. You’ll now search for any
documents with the word conference as part of their name that are stored in the
Internet – Int 2 folder.
This time the Search Companion takes you step-by-step through the searching process.
♦ On the first screen, click Documents (word processing, spreadsheet, etc).
♦ On the second screen, type conference into the All or part of the document name box
BUT DON’T CLICK SEARCH YET.
Click here to say that
you want to find any
type of document …
Type ‘conference’
here to search for
files where this is
part of the name.
Next click here so
that you can
specify where you
want to search.
♦ As it stands, the search will look for documents anywhere on your computer. You only
want to search in the Internet – Int 2 folder, so click Use advanced search options.
The Search Companion expands to show more options that you can use to refine your
search.
♦ Click the Look in drop-down arrow and choose Browse from the list so that you can
locate your Internet – Int 2 folder.
Click the drop-down
arrow to see the list
of search locations.
Since the Internet –
Int 2 folder isn’t on
this list, click
‘Browse’ at the
bottom of the list so
that you can find it.
Use this box to find
your copy of the
Internet – Int 2 folder.
Click it once in this
box then click OK to
return to the search.
When you return to the search, the Internet – Int 2 folder has been filled in the Look
in box.
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♦ Now click Search to find any documents with the word conference as part of their
name that are in the Internet – Int 2 folder or any of its subfolders.
These 2 documents have been found by the
search conditions you specified. Changing the
view will let you see where these files are stored.
♦ Use the View button to display the details of these files so that you can see the folder
they’re kept in.
File size.
File names.
The address of the folder where the files are kept. In this
example, they’re both in the ‘Documents’ folder that’s part
of the ‘WorkStuff’ folder that’s in the ‘Jennifer Black’ folder
in Internet – Int 2 (which, here, is kept on the C drive).
File type.
♦ Start a new search and look for documents with the word sales in their name that are
stored in the Internet – Int 2 folder or one of its subfolders.
♦ Make a list here of all the files that are listed as a result of this search.
All ‘documents’ with the word ‘sales’ in their name that are stored in the
Internet – Int 2 folder or one of its subfolders.
8. Close the Search Results window by clicking its Close button.
9. Close the Windows Explorer program by clicking the Close button.
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Exercise 1.3
For this exercise, you’ll need a floppy disk with enough space for the Building a Business
file you stored in the Employee Docs folder in your PersonalStuff folder.
1. Use the Windows Explorer program to copy the Building a Business presentation onto a
floppy disk so that you have a backup copy.
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Exercise 1.4
1. Answer the following questions:
a) What three items do you need to
connect to the internet?
b) What does ISP stand for?
c) What does an ISP do?
d) What is the speed of the fastest
modem?
e) What does kbps stand for and what is
it used to measure?
2. Explain the function of a router on a network.
3. What does a firewall do?
4. Other than the web, what facilities make up the internet?
5. What does the term ‘real-time’ mean?
6. Which of the following parts of the internet work in real-time?
E-mail
Yes/No
Newsgroups
Yes/No
Chat
Yes/No
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Exercise 1.5
1. Open Microsoft Internet Explorer using whichever method is in use on your PC. For
example, you might click the Start button and then Internet, or you may have to use a
different method.
Click here to start Internet Explorer.
Alternatively, click here.
Internet Explorer is opened and your home page is displayed. Since the home page is set
by the user, you’ll find that the actual page displayed when you start the program differs
from that shown below. However, the screen elements will be the same as those shown.
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2. Examine the screen to familiarise yourself with the elements described on previous pages.
3. Take a look at the address shown in this Address box.
A typical web address.
This means that it’s a web page called welcome that’s written in the HTML language, it
belongs to the commercial site on the web called www.altavista.com and the HTTP
protocol has been used to transfer this page to your browser from the server it’s stored on.
4. Click in the Address box to highlight the address that’s already there.
When the address that’s in the Address
box is highlighted, it will look like this.
5. Now type www.bbc.co.uk and press [ENTER]. The address you type here replaces the
original address because you’d highlighted it first.
When you press [ENTER] after typing an address,
“HTTP://” is added at the start if you didn’t type it.
The BBC home page (the main page of the BBC site) is now displayed. On this screen,
there are hyperlinks to take you to whatever part of the BBC Web site you’re interested in.
These include News, Sport, TV and Radio. When you point to these headings, the pointer
changes to a small hand to show that you can click these parts of the screen to jump to the
related area of the site.
6. Move the mouse pointer around the BBC home page and watch as it changes to a small
hand when you point to the hyperlinks.
7. Click one of the hyperlinks to jump to an area of your choice and then explore that part of
the Web site for a short while. Watch the Address box to see that the address changes as
you move from page to page.
This is the address of the TV page that
you can visit from the BBC home page.
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For example, the BBC site has a series of pages relating to the schools’ education system
and exams. The illustration below shows the address for the BBC’s Scottish Higher exam
page.
8. When you have finished exploring, select the File, Close menu option. This means click
the File menu and then the Close option.
The Internet Explorer window closes.
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Exercise 1.6
1. Open Internet Explorer again and go to the BBC’s Web site home page. Its address is
www.bbc.co.uk. When you start typing the address in the Address box, the drop-down
list opens to display addresses that you’ve previously visited that match what you’ve
typed. You can finish typing the address yourself or, since you visited this page earlier,
click it in the drop-down list.
As you type, addresses that you’ve previously visited that
match what you’re typing are displayed in this drop-down list.
2. Click the Sport hyperlink to take you to the sport section of the Web site. Look at the
Address box to see that the address of this page is news.bbc.co.uk/sport If you wanted to
visit this page in the future, you could simply type this address rather than open the home
page and then click the link.
3. To print this page, click the Print button on the toolbar. This button looks like this:
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A single copy of this page is printed on your default printer.
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4. Follow the instructions below to save this page on your computer so that you can view it
later without going online.
♦ Select the File, Save As menu option.
♦ If necessary, follow this procedure to save this page in the Internet – Int 2 folder:
click the Save in box and choose the hard disk (marked with (C:) in the list), or your
network drive where the Internet – Int 2 folder is located, and then double-click
Internet – Int 2 in the main window.
This may be the name of
your network drive instead.
Double-click this folder
to save the page here.
♦ The Web page title BBC Sport has been entered as the file name, so click the Save
button to accept this name and save the page.
5. Open the Windows Explorer program and display the contents of the Internet – Int 2
folder.
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6. Double-click the BBC Sport file. Notice that this file uses the Internet Explorer icon to
show it’s an HTML file. You can also see the BBC Sport_files folder that was created
when you saved the page.
The folder that was created
when you saved the page.
Double-click this icon to
see the saved Web page.
7. Look at the Address box and notice that, although this page looks the same as when it
was online, its address is the Internet – Int 2 folder on your computer.
8. Click any of the links on the page and look at the Address box again. Although the Sports
front page was taken from your computer, the links jump back to the website again.
In fact, if you rest your mouse pointer on any of the links, the status bar at the bottom of
the window shows the name and file path of the page that will be displayed by that link:
The status bar at the bottom
of the window shows what
the link will display.
9. Move your mouse pointer onto one or two of the links on the page that you’re looking at
then look at the status bar at the bottom of the window. The names won’t always be in
plain English as some websites will use codes and shortcuts in some of their page names.
10. Close the Internet Explorer windows and the Windows Explorer program.
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In this set of tasks, you’ll use all the skills and knowledge that you’ve learned in this part of
the course.
Task 1
Identify the storage media from the descriptions given below.
Description
Medium
Widely used by large organisations although, because
of their low access speeds, they are mainly used for
long-term storage of data. Their main use is backing
up data in case of loss.
A newer type of storage. These come in a variety of
forms and the most common type is connected to your
computer via the USB port, which means that on the
newer versions of Microsoft Windows, you simply
plug them in and use them.
Can hold the same amount of data as about 500
floppies, although this varies from manufacturer to
manufacturer
A film, cinema quality sound and special features can
all be stored on a single disk.
Task 2
Describe here the steps you would take to view the ITV main Web site (the address is
www.itv.com) and save the page in the Internet – Int 2 folder on your hard drive or network
drive.
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Task 3
Carry out the steps you described in Task 2 to check that they’re correct. Make notes here of
any mistakes you had made in Task 2.
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Exercise 2.1
During this exercise, if any page you visit appears to be taking a long time to load, click the
Stop button on the browser’s toolbar and then click the Refresh button to try to reload it. You
may have to type the page address again or click the link again. Print or save any pages that
you’re particularly interested in.
1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Visit the Our Dynamic Earth Web site by typing its address into the Address box and
pressing [ENTER].
The address is http://www.dynamicearth.co.uk
3. Follow the instructions below to investigate this site using the links supplied on the site.
♦ Click the What are the admission charges? link at the left of this page.
♦ Click the When is Our Dynamic Earth open? link at the left of this page.
♦ Read through this page and then click the First time visitor?… link at the left of the
page. You may have to use the scroll bar to see this link.
♦ Now click the Back button on the browser’s toolbar to return to the opening times
page.
♦ Click Back again to return to the admission charges page.
The Forward button is now available, giving you the option to return to the admission
charges and opening times pages you already viewed.
♦ Click the arrow next to the Forward button to see this list of pages. There are two
pages on the list and, because of the way the pages have been created, they’re both
listed as Dynamic Earth rather than When is Our Dynamic Earth open? and What
are the admission charges?, although these are the pages that this list refers to.
♦ Click the Dynamic Earth link at the bottom of this list to return to the First time
visitor? page.
♦ Click the picture of Dynamic Earth shown at the top left of every page and follow the
instructions on the screen to investigate this part of the site.
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♦ Answer these questions — you’ll find the answers on the Dynamic Earth site.
1. What time is the last admission in July?
2. How many galleries are there?
3. ‘Our Dynamic Earth is the centrepiece of a
major urban regeneration plan.’ What is this
project called?
4. Who did the architectural design of the building?
5. How long does the tour of Dynamic Earth take?
4. Visit and explore the CIA’s World Factbook site — you’ll find lots of information about
just about every country in the world!
Its address is www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook
5. Visit and explore the Warner Brothers Web site (www.warnerbros.com) or the Fox Kids
site (www.foxkids.com).
6. Return to your home page by clicking the Home button on your browser’s toolbar.
7. Go to the www.encyclopedia.com site and find out what biology is then find out what is
meant by marine biology.
8. Visit www.scottishfa.co.uk and find out which teams Scotland played in the qualifying
rounds of the last football World Cup and what the scores were.
9. Use the Back and Forward buttons on the toolbar to return to some of the pages you’ve
visited during this session.
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Exercise 2.2
Stop button on the browser’s toolbar and then click the Refresh button to try to reload it. You
may have to type the page address again or click the link again.
1. Ensure that Internet Explorer is running then click the History button. This button looks
like this:
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When the History bar is displayed, the amount of information and the actual information
shown will depend entirely on how your computer has been set up and how it’s been used
recently. You’ll find therefore, that although some of the pages that appear on your list are
the same pages as those in the illustrations in this exercise, you shouldn’t expect yours to
look exactly the same.
The History bar shows the pages you’ve visited today, although you could go back
through any of the days or weeks shown on your list. You might have to click Today to
see these pages.
2. Follow the instructions below to re-visit some of the pages you saw earlier.
♦ Click the odci (www.odci.gov) entry in the History bar to see a list of the pages you
visited on that site (this was the site where you saw the CIA World Factbook).
This part of your History list will look something like this, but remember, since you
visited pages of your choice on this site, it won’t be exactly the same.
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♦ Click the CIA – The World Factbook to view it again.
♦ Use the History list to view some of the pages you visited on the Fox Kids or Warner
Brothers sites.
♦ Now re-visit the BBC Sport page you saw earlier.
♦ View any of the pages you’re interested in seeing again.
3. Follow these steps to change the way the History list is shown.
♦ Click the View button at the top of the History list then click By Site:
The sites are no longer sorted by day, so all the sites that have been visited within the
History list’s time range are listed in alphabetical order of site name.
♦ Experiment with the other options on the View list then return to By Date.
4. Click the History button again to hide the History bar.
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Exercise 2.3
Stop button on the browser’s toolbar and then click the Refresh button to try to reload it.
1. Ensure that Internet Explorer is running then click the Favorites button.
2. Visit the Real Radio Scotland website. Its address is www.realradiofm.com/scotland
3. In the Favorites list, click the Add button.
4. Click OK to add this to your Favorites list with the name Real Radio Scotland – Home.
Real Radio page added
to the Favorites list.
5. Add the BBC 1 page to your Favorites list. Its address is www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone
6. Follow these instructions to add another site and make it available offline.
♦ Add the Dynamic Earth site to your Favorites list. Its address is
www.dynamicearth.co.uk
♦ Change the long name that’s suggested to simply Our Dynamic Earth.
♦ Choose to make this page available offline then click the Customize button.
♦ In the first dialog box that describes the function of this wizard, click Next to move
on.
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♦ The second dialog box controls the level of links that should also be made available
offline. Make sure the No option is selected to specify that only this page, not its links
are available offline then click Next.
♦ The next box deals with synchronisation. Since you want to use the Tools menu to
synchronise the pages, and this is the option selected in the box, click Next to
continue.
♦ You don’t need a password to access this site, so click Finish to return to the Add
Favorite box.
♦ Click OK to add the page to the Favorite list. This may take a few moments to make it
available offline.
When you next go offline, use the Favorites list to access the Dynamic Earth site
without connecting again to the internet. However, because none of the links were
made available offline, if you click any of them, you’ll have to reconnect to the
internet.
7. Go to the BBC website and find the Bitesize page for Higher Grade revision and add this
page to your Favorites.
8. View the The Bill TV programme page then follow these steps to create a new folder in
your Favorites list for it.
Hint: View the www.itv.com site and use the links there to find the ‘mini-site’ for this
programme. There’s a drop-down list on the ITV main page that will take you directly to
the page you need.
♦ Click the Add button then click Create in.
♦ Next click the New Folder button and type the folder name Entertainment.
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♦ Click OK to add this folder to the list shown in the dialog box. Remember that the list
of folders shown on your system will depend on how it’s been used in the past.
♦ Make sure the Entertainment folder is highlighted then click OK.
♦ In the Favorites list, click the Entertainment folder to see that it contains The Bill
link.
9. Follow the instructions below to organise some of the pages you’ve added to the Favorites
list.
♦ The names given to the BBC Bitesize page is a little long, so now you’ll rename it.
First click the Organize link at the top of the Favorites list.
♦ Select the link to BBC Bitesize page (just now it reads BBC – Education Scotland –
Higher Bitesize) then click the Rename button.
♦ Edit the page name so that it reads BBC Bitesize – Higher then press [ENTER] to
complete the edit.
♦ Rename the Real Radio entry as simply Real Radio
♦ To move the Real Radio link to the Entertainment folder, first click the Real Radio
link in the list then click the Move to Folder button.
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♦ Choose the Entertainment folder then click OK.
♦ Use the Create Folder button to create a folder called Revision then move the
Bitesize page to that folder.
♦ Close the Organize Favorites box.
10. In the Favorites list, click the Entertainment folder to see the contents then visit the Real
Radio site.
11. Now visit the Bitesize page using the Favorites list.
12. View the The Bill site using the Favorites list.
13. Create a folder called Days Out and move the Our Dynamic Earth link to this folder.
14. Add the site for the National Galleries of Scotland to the Days Out folder in your
Favorites list. Make this site available offline without customising the synchronisation
settings, and call it National Galleries of Scotland rather than the name it suggests.
The address for this site is www.natgalscot.ac.uk
15. Close the Favorites list.
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Exercise 2.4
1. Ensure that Internet Explorer is running then type www.altavista.co.uk in the Address
box and then click Go.
The home page for the AltaVista search engine is displayed.
Note: When you do this exercise you may find that the visual appearance of the site has
changed from that shown in the activity’s illustrations, as Web sites are constantly
updated and improved. You may also find that the sites returned by your search are
different from those shown here.
2. Enter harry potter movie into the search box, then press [ENTER] or click Find.
A list of sites that match your search enquiry is displayed. These may be called
documents, hits or matches. As the sites on the Web are constantly changing, the list you
get may vary from that illustrated on the following page.
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3. Click one of the hits to view the Web site. These sites contain all three words harry,
potter and movie although not necessarily all together or in that order.
Click here to go to this site.
4. Use the Back button on the toolbar to return to the page of search results.
5. Display the next page of search results — there will be link to other pages at the bottom of
the current list:
6. Go to one of the sites listed on this page and then return to the search results page using
the Back button.
7. Search for the beatles and investigate one or two of the sites that are listed.
8. Return to AltaVista’s main page.
9. Try searching for each of the phrases below and compare the search results.
“sunshine holidays”
Only sites that contain this complete phrase are listed.
sunshine NEAR holidays Sites that contain both words within 10 words of each other.
holidays -sunshine
sunshine.
Sites that contain holidays but not if they contain the word
10. Use the www.google.co.uk search engine to find information on your favourite pastimes.
11. Investigate some of the other search engines listed on page 48 of the workbook.
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12. Follow the instructions below to search Google for various images.
♦ Display the Google home page at www.google.co.uk
♦ Click Images above the box and type aberdeen in the search box.
♦ Press [ENTER] to perform the search. A number of images are returned. Remember
that the images that are returned may not be the same images shown here.
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♦ Search for images of the Pentagon.
13. Search for information about the Hard Rock Café and find the closest branch to you.
14. Display the Dogpile metasearch engine then search for information about the pastime you
researched at step on the previous page. Compare the results with those you got earlier.
The website address is www.dogpile.com
15. Try the same search using the Mamma search engine, comparing the hits returned with
those returned by Dogpile. Mamma’s address is www.mamma.com
16. When you’ve finished, close Internet Explorer.
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Task 1
1. Visit the World Time Server website. Its address is www.worldtimeserver.com
2. In the table below, write the current time where you are then find out what time it is in the
other places in the table.
Time where you are:
Time in Argentina:
Time in China:
Time in Kenya:
Time in Chihuahua (in Mexico):
Time in Texas:
3. Use the Back button on your browser toolbar to return to the Argentina time.
4. Visit the BBC’s News site, address news.bbc.co.uk and write the main Scottish news
headline here.
5. Close your browser.
Task 2
1. Add the World Time Server site to your Favorites list. You might want to use the History
facility on your browser to return to this page as you visited earlier in this Summary Task.
2. Add the BBC News site to your Favorites list with the name BBC News, creating a folder
called News and placing it there.
3. Use the ITV main page to find the ITV News site then add it to the News folder in your
Favorites list with the name ITV News.
4. Rename the The World Time Server - correct, current, local item on your Favorites list
as World Times and make it available offline using the original customisation settings.
5. Create a new folder in your Favorites list with the name Search Engines then add the
following sites to it naming them with the names shown in brackets:
♦ www.google.co.uk (Google)
♦ www.altavista.co.uk (AltaVista)
♦ www.yahooligans.com (Yahooligans!)
♦ www.mamma.com (Mamma)
♦ www.zapmeta.com (Zapmeta)
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Task 3
1. Use the AltaVista website to find information about one of your hobbies or interests. List
here the first five sites that AltaVista returns.
2. Use the Mamma website to find information about the same hobby or interest. List here
the first five sites that Lycos returns. Are any of these the same as AltaVista returned?
3. Search for information about another of your interests using the Zapmeta search engine.
4. Use the Google website to find information from UK sites only about cheap flights to the
USA, but not Boston, New York or Florida. Use search operators to help you refine the
search so that you find only this specific information. Write the search terms you used
here:
5. Use any search engine to find information about events you might like to attend in your
area. These might be music concerts, plays or activities that you would like to attend.
Experiment with search terms until you find the information you’re looking for. Write
what you’re looking for and the search terms you use here and mark the set that gave the
best results.
Looking for:
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Task 4
Imagine that you are planning a day trip to Edinburgh with your family. Carry out these tasks:
1. Use the internet to find things you might like to do along with opening times and costs.
Find at least two activities or places of interest.
2. Add any sites you find relating to these activities to the Days Out folder on your Favorites
list.
3. Use the internet to plan your journey by public transport. Find out the times and durations
of journeys along with costs. Make sure you allow for travel between your ‘things to do’.
4. Use the Map24 site to find a map of the area(s) you’ll be visiting and add these map pages
to the Days Out folder on your Favorites list. The address of this website is
www.map24.com
5. Create a plan for the day using Notepad and save the document in your PersonalStuff
folder in a new subfolder called Days Out. Call the document Research.
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Exercise 3.1a
Carry out the following steps if you have a non internet-based e-mail account. The
illustrations shown in this exercise are taken from the Lotus Notes e-mail program, so they
will differ from the screens that you see in your own e-mail program if you use something
else, however, the e-mail messages shown here have the same subjects and contents as those
you will work with.
1. Open your e-mail program.
Click this
button to
check for new
messages.
Double-click any of
these to open them.
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2. Double-click the message headed Quarterly Meeting to open it. The message will
usually be opened in a new, separate window, leaving the main program window open in
the background.
You would click
here to close
the message.
Information about this
message — the
address or display
name of who sent it,
who it was sent to and
copied to (the
recipients), the date
and time it was sent
and a few words about
the content of the
message (the subject).
Message text.
3. Close this message to return to your Inbox.
4. Next read the Monthly Sales Sheet message.
5. Close the message and return to the Inbox.
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Exercise 3.1b
Carry out the following steps if you have an internet e-mail account. The activity suggests that
you use the Wanadoo provider, so the illustrations are taken from Wanadoo. If you choose to
use a different provider, the illustrations may differ from the screens that you see here.
Although you may have more messages than those shown here, these messages will be in
your Inbox.
1. Open your web browser and log into your e-mail account. Your Inbox is displayed.
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2. Open the message headed Quarterly Meeting by clicking any underlined part.
3. Read the message and then click the Inbox tab at the top of the message to return to the
Inbox.
4. Read the Monthly Sales Sheet message.
5. Return to your Inbox.
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Exercise 3.2
If you are working alone, send and forward the messages as indicated in the steps of this
activity but address them to your own e-mail account. If you are not working alone, identify a
work partner and address the e-mails to them.
Again, the illustrations shown in this activity use the Wanadoo e-mail facilities, so the
appearance of the screens may differ slightly if you use a different provider or if you use non
internet e-mail.
1. Open or log into your e-mail program and send the following message:
Subject:
Staff Meeting
Message body:
It is important that you attend this meeting, so I’d be grateful if
you’d ensure you can be there. There will be a short break around
11 am to allow you to pick up any urgent message and the meeting
will continue until around 12:30.
2. Read over the message to check for any mistakes then send it.
3. If necessary, return to your Inbox.
4. Reply to the e-mail that you’ve just received with the response I’ll be there.
6. Display your sent messages then return to your Inbox.
7. Forward one of the messages in your Inbox to another user adding the text Could you
take a look at this for me please? before sending it.
8. Delete one of the messages from your Inbox and then empty your Deleted Items folder.
9. Send the following e-mail with an attachment.
Subject:
Mileage Spreadsheet
Message body:
The attached spreadsheet contains your mileage claim for the
month just past. Could you review it and confirm that the
information given on the ‘Current Month’ sheet is correct please?
Thank you.
Attachment:
Mileage file stored in the Spreadsheets folder in your WorkStuff folder.
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10. Open the message you receive and then open the attachment. As the attachment is an
Excel file, you will need to have Excel on your computer to be able to open it.
12. Sign out of your e-mail and/or close your e-mail program.
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Exercise 3.3
In this exercise you’ll use chat facilities to take part in discussions on a topic of your choice
and to find the provider’s guidelines for safe use of their facilities. When taking part in any
chat room discussion be sure to follow these guidelines and also any other acceptable use,
security or privacy policies that apply in the learning centre you’re using.
Note: If you don’t have an account of your own for these facilities, consult your instructor
regarding an account you can use or for guidance on how to create one.
1. Open the web page www.wanadoo.co.uk then display Wanadoo’s Chat home page.
2. Find and display Wanadoo’s list of guidelines designed to teach you to use the facilities
safely (you’ll find this under the heading How to be Safe Online). Use the links on the
page to navigate to parts of the page that take your interest.
3. Add the guidelines to your Favorites list in a new folder called Internet Safety. Name the
item Wanadoo Safety Guidelines and make it available offline using the default
customisation settings.
4. Now find and log into a chat room on a topic or interest area of your choice and have a
conversation there. Write here the name of two users who joined you in the chat room and
summarise the conversation that took place:
User 1:
User 2:
Summary of conversation:
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5. Use your preferred search engine (or metasearch engine) to find other chat rooms of
interest to you and make a list of up to four providers, writing their names and URLs here:
Search engine used:
Name of chat room provider:
URL of chat home page:
1.
2.
3.
4.
6. Create an account for one of these chat rooms then take part in a discussion that interests
you.
7. When you have finished using the chat service, log out of all chat windows then close
your browser window.
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Exercise 3.4
In this exercise you’ll use newsgroup facilities to take part in discussions on a topic of your
choice The policies and guidelines highlighted in the previous exercise also apply to use of
newsgroups, so please make sure that you’re familiar with those the apply wherever you are
accessing the newsgroups from.
Note: If you don’t have an account of your own for these facilities, consult your instructor
regarding an account you can use or for guidance on how to create one.
1. Navigate from the www.yahoo.co.uk home page to the Yahoo Groups home page then
log in using either your own Yahoo! ID or one supplied by your instructor.
2. If you feel you need to, investigate the Yahoo! policy document on permissible material.
3. Use the Search box on the Groups home page to find a group about a topic of your
choice. This might be your favourite actor, pop group, hobby, or just something that
interests you.
4. Once you find a group you want to explore, enter the group (joining it if necessary) and
catch up on some of the messages that have already been posted.
5. When you’re ready, post a message of your own or reply to an existing one if you’ve
something to add to the conversation. Bear in mind that other users may not be online at
the same time as you, so it may be some time before you get a response to your message if
it needs one.
6. Explore another group and, if you like, contribute to this discussion.
7. When you’re finished, log out.
8. Display the BBC website for the Harry Potter movies. Find and follow the Wizard Chat
link to visit the newsgroup dedicated to these movies. You can read the messages without
creating an account, but you can’t take part in the discussion.
The address of this site is: www.bbc.co.uk/films/harrypotter
9. At the top of the discussion list there’s a hyperlink to House Rules click this link and read
the rules before taking part in any discussion.
10. Register and take part in the discussion if you want to.
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This Learning Outcome has only one summary task, however, it is in the form of a project
that will involve using e-mail, chat and newsgroups and recording the information you
discover as well as making a note of the specific facilities you use.
1. Create a new folder in your PersonalStuff folder. Call the new folder LO3 Summary
Task.
2. Create a new Notepad document and enter the heading Learning Outcome 3 –
Information. Save the document in your new folder and call it Information. Keep the
document open in the background as you work so that you can copy and paste information
into it as you go along.
3. Choose a topic for this project. This could by a pop group, hobby, place of interest, hobby
or any other topic that you can research and discuss online. Write your topic here:
Project topic:
4. Add the line you wrote above to your Notepad document and save the change.
5. Use at least two search engines to find three sites each that relate to your topic. Copy this
information to your Notepad document and record here the search engines you used and
the sites you referred to:
Search Engine 1:
Site 1:
Site 2:
Site 3:
Search Engine 2:
Site 1:
Site 2:
Site 3:
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6. Find a chat room and a newsgroup relating to your topic and write the name of the
suppliers and the titles of the rooms here:
Chat room provider:
Chat room title:
Newsgroup provider:
Newsgroup title:
7. Summarise the information you found in your Notepad document then save and print it.
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