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U3A Computing Beginners Class
Leader – Brian Moore
Week 3 of 10 weeks.
Mondays 4:15 to 5:45 pm
Half Term – Miss 22nd and 29th of
October
An Invite to NEW U3A Members
• The committee would like to invite all new
members, who have joined Crewe and
Nantwich U3A since November 2011, to join us
for coffee (or tea) and a cake on Wednesday
October 31st at 2.30pm at Wistaston
Memorial Hall.
Re Cap
• When logging in the password must be exact.
Is u3a.monday
• Last week we learnt about =
• Files and Folders in My Documents.
• Copy and Paste so that they can be moved.
• Common Files in S: drive.
• Programs open as a Window.
• Using Alt & Tab to switch between Windows.
This week – The Internet
• Is a vast array of interconnected Computers.
• Main uses are =
• World Wide Web. Hence the www in site
names.
• Email – Sending letters by a computer.
• Newsgroups – News on a particular subject –
not used much now.
World Wide Web
• Vast collection of information to search for.
• Copies of what you search for are widespread so it’s
hard for information to go completely missing.
• Once something is published it can never be
withdrawn.
• To view you need a computer connected to the
Internet and a Browser program – Usually Internet
Explorer. Others – Firefox & Google Chrome but no
great need to change.
After logon. Internet Explorer
Running Internet Explorer
• Double click, that's quickly press twice on the
Internet Explorer Icon. Or if you are still
finding this hard single click on it to Select and
press Enter.
It’s on the left near the middle.
• There may be questions you need to answer.
• Do agree to the conditions here at St Thomas
More? This means basically just look at
normal web sites.
St Thomas More Intranet
First Page shown
• When you start Internet Explorer, it goes to
whatever webpage is set as the home page. Here at
St Thomas More it goes to their Intranet page.
That’s a page for viewing inside the school only. At
home you can choose any page (or a blank page) as
your home page.
• To get back to your home page at any time, click the
Home button (has a House Icon).
• To change your Home page it’s a little advanced.
Get the web page you want. Click on Tools, Internet
Options, Use current, OK.
Entering a web address
• Just as every residence has a unique street address,
every webpage has its own web address. That
address is called the Uniform Resource Locator
(URL). Eg the URL for the Microsoft main website is
http://www.microsoft.com.
• If you know the URL for a page, you can type it
directly into Internet Explorer into the Long box at
the top. Then, Click the Green Go button or press
ENTER to go to the website.
• If you have been visiting many pages you can use
the big
arrows to go back/forwards over the
sites visited.
Unfortunately this does not work completely if you
have been in “Secure” web sites as used by Banks.
They start with HTTPS:// and have a Lock Symbol in
orange. Usually they provide a link to go back to
earlier pages in the body of the page and may even
warn you not to use the arrows.
You will get warnings when entering and leaving
“Secure” pages –answer “Yes”.
• You don't have to type http://. For example,
you can type www.microsoft.com and
Internet Explorer will fill in the rest.
• The URL or web site address has to be entered
exactly with no spaces. The case does not
matter so it’s simplest to use lower case or
small letters throughout.
• Because the URL has to be exact most people
use a search engine instead. E.g. its easier to
just search for “U3a Crewe” than to type
http://www.creweandnantwich-u3a.org.uk/ in
the address bar.
Tabs
• Tabs. Allows to switch between several active web
sites screens. Here I am on a page about Lloyds. If
you click on a new tab here you get a empty new
page to work with. You can go back to eg Lloyds by
clicking on it again.
Many new Tabs are allowed.
• But you could just start another Internet Explorer
running. Use one for each subject & tabs for detail.
Search Engines
• Search engines enable you to find relevant
information on the Web easily.
You type a few key words (or phrases) and the
Search engine returns pages which it thinks a will be
relevant
• Here at St Thomas More they use “STM Safe
Search” which is available on the top RHS.
It is Google with extra web filtering of unsuitable
sites.
• Google is the leader in “Search Engines” but “Ask
Jeeves” is better at searching a phrase.
You click a few relevant words into a
box
and press Search or the Enter Key.
Or if you prefer go directly to
www.google.co.uk This also allows
searching specifically for Images,
Videos, Maps, News as well
• If a phrase in enclosed in quotes then it will search
for the exact phrase only, not just the individual
words in any order. Eg "London guide to discover
the many“ is in four places only. Try this later
without the quotes, you get 150,000,000 matches.
• Putting a + sign in front of a word will only find
articles containing that word.
Similarly a - will only find articles NOT containing
that word. This is very useful because a problem of
search engines is too many results.
Google has an Advance Search which uses this.
• If its a brand name you are searching for, Google
will do its best to include Adverts.
Favorites etc
US spelling only
• Internet Explorer (IE) allows a user adjustable list of
Favourite web sites for easy access.
• Its on the 3rd line down where File, Edit, View,
Favorite, Tools, Help are. Or next line down the
yellow star. Just select what you want and it will
enter that site. Some are in Yellow Folders.
• If you have found a interesting site and want to save
it, click on “Add to Favorites” and verify or change
its name.
• Yellow Favorites, also has a History Tab to allow
easy access to site visited up to a week ago.
• Under “File”, Print is useful but beware web pages
don't conform to A4 paper size and may waste lots
of paper. Better to copy what you want to a Word
document and print that.
• “Edit” has cut, copy & paste as talked about last
week. “Find on this Page” is useful. Try it later.
• “View” In Toolbars & Explorer Bars, don't have too
many ticked – they take up too much room. Full
Screen is useful, use F11 to put back as was.
• “Safety” If web pages seem outdated try “Delete
Browsing History” to get all fresh pages from the
web.
Practical
• The world is your Oyster now! If you want to know
something, somebody in the world is bound to
know it. Finding it has now become an Art Form.
Today, just a few ideas. You will need to type them
in (or Google them). Try Find on this page,
Forward/Back, Make as a Favorite, Another Tab,
Change Home Page.
• www.bbc.co.uk/
• www.google.co.uk
• www.ebay.co.uk
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• When is Spring Half Term here?
• What is the Amazon price for “Lawn Grub Killer for
100sq.m” £3.99
• On http://www.facebook.com
Login as email=
[email protected]
and password= u3a.Monday I am known as Brianu
Mooreu. Edit the profile if you like.
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Further reading
• All my course material is available on the local U3A
website. http://www.creweandnantwichu3a.org.uk/ under Course/Groups, Computing & I.T.
Groups, CMP, Course Material, Computing (CMP)
Downloads.
• Getting on the Web – Internet Explorer
has much more detail.
• Searching the Web Word Document - About
Search Engines.