Internet
Safety Quiz Who's
Your Friend on the Internet
Safety Land Netsmartz
Agents
Shrink the Cyberbully
You're in
Charge
McGruff's Club
Rumor
Control | How to Browse | Bess | Site Problems | |
| Cite a Source | Printing | Vocabulary | Grade Level Requirements |
The Internet is a world-wide network made up of millions of interconnected computers. It is incredibly powerful because these millions of computers store an extraordinary amount of information that is available to any computer connected to the Internet. This information is different from that stored in books in two ways. First, all of the information is stored, transmitted, and received digitally which means that it can be accessed in a number of different forms including text, video, and audio. Second, the Internet is interactive which means that the information you receive is a result of the selections you make.
Safety
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Internet
Safety Quiz |
Who's
Your Friend on the Internet
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Safety Land |
Netsmartz
Agents |
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Shrink the Cyberbully |
You're in
Charge |
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McGruff's Club |
Rumor
Control |
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WWW is the World Wide Web - A network of sites on the Internet that can be accessed and searched using a hypertext "browser". A diagram looks like a spider web. |
At Otsego Elementary buildings Internet Explorer is the supported web browser. You might be using Netscape at home.
To start browsing the Web, click any link on the home page, which is the page that appears when you start Internet Explorer (In the computer lab the home page should be set to NWOCA, our Internet provider). You can see whether an item on a page is a link by moving the mouse pointer over the item. If the pointer changes to a hand, the item is a link. A link can be a picture, a 3-D image, or colored text (usually underlined).
Several ways to get around the Web:
Start typing a frequently used Web address in the
Address bar, and a list of similar addresses appears that you can choose from.
If a Web address is wrong, Internet Explorer can search for similar addresses to
try to find a match.
Browse through a list of Web pages you recently visited by clicking the History button on the toolbar. In addition you can rearrange or search the History list.
Customize
STOP |
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| Bess, the filtering system at school provided by NWOCA sometimes prevents you from entering certain sites. You will know this when you see a stop sign or a picture of Bess, the watchdog. Immediately go BACK; do not try to go to the blocked site again. |  |
As you are using the Internet, advertisements and notices that you have "won" something may appear. Immediately continue with the work you were conducting - just click on the page you need, Do not make a comment to your neighbor or anyone else, ignore the unnecessary window. Do not open the unnecessary window or click in any area of it, do not answer any questions it presents.
| How to search efficiently |
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| If you are doing a report on volcanoes, you need volcano facts. You
also need facts appropriate for elementary school readers, not doctorate
volcanists. So in the search box you would add the word kids
after
the exact phrase: "volcano
facts" kids.
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| If you need a map of Ireland, type:
Ireland map. If you need
to know Ireland's capital, which is a fact, type: "Ireland facts" kids.
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| Google should
be your first choice for searching at school.
Sometimes you may have to go to HotBot. Remember to use keywords, not full
questions.
AskJeeves permits full questions but doesn't provide full answers. Please do not use AskJeeves while doing research at the school computer lab. The resulting URL from Ask Jeeves is not good for citing, or returning to - notice how long the address is and it includes Jeeves with the resource page. Click here to see a fun way to remember how to search efficiently. Click
here to search a dictionary and other help sites. |
Web Site Problems - |
You're on the Internet, but can't get to a site! |
1.
Site connection failures
After you enter the URL, the site won’t come up on the screen.
It may occur for any of several reasons:
URL
syntax errors
(“unable to locate the server.”) Check
the URL and make sure you have not:
• confused the letter “l” with the
number “1”
• confused
the letter “O” with the number “0”
• confused the hyphen “-” with the
underline “_”
• confused the forward slash (/) with the
backward slash (\)
• omitted a required punctuation mark
• misspelled a part of the URL
• used a "space" when there
should not have been a space
• used the wrong domain designator (e.g.,
“edu” instead of “org”)
Local
or domain server is down
If you are positive the URL is correct, it may be that the server that hosts the web site is not working temporarily. It may have technical problem or simply be down for regular maintenance. Try again later, perhaps in a day or two.
Bad
or dead links
If the URL repeatedly fails to connect and you are positive you typed the address correct, the site may have been taken off the Internet.
Firewalls
Sometimes a site will not connect because a network’s firewall
(protection system, or filtering system) blocks it.
2.
Internet features won’t work
Your computer may not have a special program required to see a movie or
hear sound. Usually, if a special
plug-in is needed, the site will have a link to where you can go to download the
plug-in and install it on your computer.
Compatibility
errors
Some sites can be seen only with Netscape; some only with Internet
Explorer. The page usually
indicates if it requires a specific browser.
Programming
errors
Web pages may be written in a combination of programming languages:
HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Java, and less often, Perl.
It may be that there really is an error.
You may get errors because your computer or the program lacks the memory required to see the images at the site or to run the plug-in.
Specify how you want frames to print. You can print "only the selected frame", "all frames individually", or the entire page ("as laid out on screen") as it appears in your Web browser. This option is available only if you are printing a Web page that uses frames. Select at least a portion of the frame you want, then go to print preview.
To be sure everything prints without being cut off, you will usually print "only the selected frame".
| Browser | Software programs like Netscape or Internet Explorer that understand "http" to display graphics and text as you view web sites | |
| Electronic Mail | The most popular activity on the Internet, email is a way of sending and receiving electronic messages to sites all over the world. | |
| Downloading | receiving information from any other computer on the Net - whether you simply display that information on your monitor or save it for future reference. You may download through your Browser, using FTP, or as an email attachment. | |
| ftp | File Transfer Protocol | a way of copying files between computers on the internet - If an organization wants to make its data public, it might allow user to FTP to its site and log in as "anonymous". |
| www | World Wide Web | A network of sites on the Internet that can be accessed and searched using a hypertext "browser". |
| search engine | Examples: Google, Yahooligans | computer software used to find information about specific topics |
| hyperlink | A pointer from text, from a picture or a graphic, or from an image map to a page or file on the World Wide Web. Hyperlinks are the way to get from one page or site to another. Also called link or hotspot. Hyperlinks are usually underlined and when you place your mouse pointer on them the pointer changes its appearance to a pointing finger. | |
| html | hypertext markup language | The standard language used for documents on the World Wide Web. The HTML language uses tags to indicate how Web browsers should display page elements such as text and graphics, and how Web browsers should respond to user actions such as hyperlink activation by means of a key press or mouse click. |
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http |
hypertext transfer protocol | The Internet protocol that enables Web browsers to get information from World Wide Web servers. |
| URL | Universal Resource Locator | the "address" - the URL for Mrs. Bradley's web site is http://www.otsego.k12.oh.us/bradley |
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host |
Any computer can be a host. The machine you log into is your "login host", the machine you read news from is a "news host", etc. | |
| mail host | The machine you get your mail from. Otsego's mail host is NWOCA; many of us use WCNET as our home mail host. | |
| IP | Internet Provider | Otsego's Internet Provider is NWOCA; many of us use WCNET as our home IP |
| Maneuver to and within pages | Click on links within the page(s) and use the scroll bars to get where you want within a web site - If you're "on the Web" you can generally get from one point to another by pointing and clicking on highlighted text on various Web pages. | |
| Access a known URL | To go to a Web page, type the Internet address—for example, www.otsegoknights.org—in the Address bar, and then click the Go button or press the Enter key. | |
| Copy text or images to the clipboard | Select (highlight) the information you need, go to Edit in the Menu Bar, click Copy. If you're using Internet Explorer, right click on the graphic, click Copy from the drop down list. | |
| 4th Graders | 5th Graders | 6th Graders |
| access Internet | Do all 4th grade items | Do all 4th & 5th grade items |
| how electronic mail is sent, received, and stored | downloading files of all types through a browser, ftp, or as email attachments | Copy text or images to the clipboard |
| basic terminology: ftp, www, search engine, hyperlink, html, URL, mail host, IP | how to evaluate information for source, bias and currency | |
| how to conduct a search of Internet for specific subjects or uses | Maneuver to and within pages | |
| Use various search engines | Access a known URL directly | |
| Realize importance of citing source | ||
| How to Browse | Bess | Site Problems | |
| Cite a Source | Printing | Vocabulary | Grade Level Requirements |
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Last updated March 18, 2009
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Mrs. K. Bradley
ot_kab@nwoca.org
