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Conquering the Internet Video
I search the Internet for useful stuff, so you don’t have to. This three part video series was produced by Palm Beach CAFE, a weekly show hosted by Lee Keller and Kim Cavanaugh. The show is created by the School District of Palm Beach County and provides an informal look at technology in education.
Many of our viewers are just starting out on the Internet and wanted to know some basics that will help them conquer the Internet. This series will get you started on understanding the Internet and making it work for you.
For more from Lee and Kim, you can watch part 2 and part 3 of this video series on YouTube. You can also help me out by letting me know in comments if you prefer videos embedded in the post (like part 1, above) or linked to their original source (like parts 2 and 3 on YouTube). If you can’t watch videos at all, please let me know that too.
Popularity: 19% [?]
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How To Behave On An Internet Forum
A fast-talking Englishman, clever animation and some actual good advice.
If you don’t see the embedded video player here, you can watch it on YouTube.
Popularity: 100% [?]
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BBC Webwise Online Course
Course MenuIf you’d like to take a more structured approach to learning about the Internet, the BBC website has a free online course, called The Webwise Online Course. It is presented in 10 sections and is available in both an animated (Flash) and text-only versions. Each section is followed by an optional quiz. Here’s their description of the course, from the Welcome section:
There are ten units and each one should last a maximum of one hour.
Each unit contains a list of guides, which you should follow in order. Start with the one nearest to the left of the screen. Don’t forget to test what you have learnt by doing the quiz after watching each guide.
All the guides look similar. However, in the guides you will be asked to perform certain tasks by clicking somewhere on the screen. When you are asked to do this you will notice the ‘next’ button is greyed out.
If you click in the wrong place don’t worry! You will see an arrow pointing to the right place to click.
After you finish a guide you should click on the ‘Back to the beginning’ link to return to the unit menu. It is here where you will see the link to the quiz.
Once each unit is finished, click on the ‘Back to the beginning’ link to return to the main course menu. Here you will be able to select the next unit on the course.
Keep going until you have completed the course!
This course is definitely intended for the beginner but it looks very complete. It is also full of Britishisms (”Let’s try and have a go at using a browser”) and quite up to the production quality you’d expect from the BBC.
If you decide to try this course out, please come back and leave a comment with your impressions.
Popularity: 11% [?]
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RSS In Plain English
If you look over in the left column, towards the top, you’ll find the Subscriptions section. There you can request that the site notify you whenever we post new content. One of the technologies for doing this is called RSS (for Really Simple Syndication). When you think of syndication, it’s very likely that fond memories of Luverne and Shirley come to mind. Well, maybe not. On the Internet, it’s means something a little different. Here at Internet Newcomer, every post and all the comments are made available for other sites and applications to use. This content is distributed through a feed.
RSS is an incredibly useful technology that’s often not very well understood. Commoncraft has produced this video that does a great low-tech job of covering the basics in 3 1/2 minutes.
When you’re done watching, subscribe to our feed!
Popularity: 12% [?]
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An Internet Primer
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Eva FunderburghSenator Ted Stevens, (R-Alaska), U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearing, June 28, 2006:
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Well…that’s one way of putting it, just not a very good way. Let’s see if we can’t come up with a definition that’s a bit more clear. The Internet is commonly referred to as a “network of networks”, which includes millions (yes, millions) of interconnected computer networks that are operated by commercial, academic, military and government institutions. Because these networks all use the same communication protocols (rules), they can share common online services, such as email, chat, file transfer and the World Wide Web, the service you are making use of at this very moment.
Popularity: 16% [?]
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