Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course students will be able to:

Navigate the World Wide Web
Browse the Internet using URL's and Links
Search for information using search engines
Store favourite web sites
Send and receive e-mail
Chat on the Internet
Subscribe to a Newsgroup; and
Read and respond to news items

Method
This course is provided as hands on and includes and extensive workshop manual and data disk for use during the course.

Section One

What is the Internet?
Centralised Computer Networks
Decentralised Computer Networks
How did the Internet start?
The Internet today
What can be found on the Internet?
Services on the Internet
Connecting to the Internet
What is the World Wide Web?
What is a Web Browser?
Hypertext Markup Language
Netscape Communicator
Netscape Navigator

Section Two

Browsing the World Wide Web
Uniform Resource Locater (URL)
Browsing using URLs
Browsing using Links
Finding information using Search Engines
Popular Search Engines:
Alta Vista
Anzwers
Excite
Infoseek
Web Wombat
Yahoo!
Downloading files from the Internet
Accessing frequently used pages
Printing Web Pages

Section Three

Communicating across the Internet
Electronic Mail messages
Netscape Messenger
Newsgroups on the Internet
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Web Based Chat
Other IRC programs
IRC Web Sites
Netscape Netcaster

Section Four

Other Internet issues
Internet access speed
Downloading and sending large files
Information quality
Internet security
Encryption
Purchasing on the Net
Internet Explorer security zones
Registering at a site
Plug-Ins
Viruses and the Internet
Error messages

Appendix

Netscape Composer
AOL Instant Messenger

Reference

Internet Glossary
Internet Protocols
Popular Web Sites