This section will help you learn how to extract and present information from the world wide web [WWW].
What will I...
All over the world there are computers that can connect with each other. The connections are made through different...
Your computer has to have the correct software for connecting to the Internet. This software is called an Internet...
There are a number of services on the Internet, which help to organise the sharing of information. You may have heard...
A website is a collection of web pages with information on the organisation and what it has to offer. People who want...
The quiz below will check your understanding of the Internet terms that you have just met.
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You often search for and find information without realising how you do it.
Before you start a search you should ask...
How do you find the information you want when there are millions of WWW websites? How do you find the correct...
Imagine that you are going windsurfing off the west coast of Scotland and you need information on what the Met...
Start up your computer.
Look for one of these two icons on the desktop.
Click whichever...
There are many search engines. Some popular ones are Google, Yahoo, Lycos and Altavista.
You are going to learn how...
Play the animation to see how to perform a search for information on the Norse Vikings using Google.
Now that you...
Now you are going to navigate to the page that contains the information you require.
You will do this using...
You can print any WWW page in the same way you would print other documents.
Click File on the menu bar at the...
It is quite easy to get lost 'surfing' the WWW. You find a link on a page and you click it to see where it...
This is done in the usual way.
Click the Close button in the top right corner of the browser window at any time....
Use the print button to print out these instructions. Keep the printout at hand whenever you do a...
Before you do another search, check your understanding of Internet terms by trying to answer these questions.
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Imagine that you are a fan of the TV soap Coronation Street.
You have to search the WWW for the latest events that are...
Imagine that you are doing a project on Robert Burns, the poet. Search the WWW for information on his life.
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Now you should make some searches for information that you really want to know. As you do these searches,...
