Class V – Internet applications – Browsing

Tejas: Yesterday our class went on a picnic to aksha dam. We saw the power generating unit there.Jyoti: Here is the poster which shows how we get electricity to our homes through the electric network.Kaumudi/usha: poster of electric network. Moz: So electricity flows through a Pilon, towers, cables and reaches us. How do you get water to your house?Tejas: Through pipes. There are big pipes which get water to a tank in our area. From the tank there are again pipes to carry the water to our homes. Moz: These are called water supply networks. Ther are many such examples of networks in our daily life.Kaumudi: Water supply illustration pleaseMoz: What is common in all these networks.Tejas (puts a thinking pose): In a network everything should be connected. Else it will not work.Moz: Correct. What else? Ok. Let me give you a hint. Many people get electricity from the electric network.Jyoti: I got it. The pipes which brings water to our house also take the water to other houses. Moz: That means the resources in these networks are shared by many people.Concept:Network

A network is made up of units that are linked together to access or reach something distant. Example Electric network, Railway network, Road network.

The resources in a network are shared by many users. Tejas: Networks everywhere. This is fun too.Jyoti (With a mischievous look): We took the railway network and road network to reach one of the resources of the electric network. Tejas: Can computers be connected to one another.Moz: Yes. Computers can also be interconnected. Have you seen your parents booking tickets on a computer.Tejas: Yes.Moz: To book tickets say from Mumbai to Delhi, what is the information that is required?Jyoti: First we have to find the trains that go from Mumbai to Delhi.Tejas: After choosing the train we have to find if tickets are available for the date on which we want to travel.Moz: Very good. Where is this information available.Tejas: Wih railway reservation.Moz: Now suppose this information is on a computer with the railway reservation.Tejas: Then our home computer has to be connected to this computer in railways reservation.Moz: Correct. Jyoti: Through the connection do the computers send the information?Moz: Yes. The computers talk to each other through the connection and send the relevant information. Jyoti: This is just like telephones. We talk to people using a telephone. Computers talk to each other and give us information. Kaumudi/Usha: An illustration of the above conversation. Please discuss with me.Tejas: Suppose I want to get information about space. So a place like space center can have another computer with this information. Isn't it? Moz: Yes. There are many such computers with different types of information. These computers are all interconnected. This is called the internet.Usha/Malati: Please suggest the Illustration of internet Tejas: Similar to a telephone connection do we need a connection to the internet?

Moz: Yes. Your computer needs an internet connection to access information on the internet.

Concept: Internet Internet is a huge collection of interconnected computers around the world. These computers talk to each other to exchange information. A connection to the internet is needed to access the internet.

Moz: We looked at many networks other than computer networks. What is it that people share from water supply networks? Tejas: Water.Moz: What is the source of this water? Tejas: Rivers, fresh water lakes etc.Moz: What is shared on the internet?Jyoti: Information.Moz: Correct. There are millions of pages of information on these computers which is shared. This information network is called the web. The source of information is called the web site.Tejas: Do we find all the pages related to a topic on a web site?Moz: Yes. Usually you can find most of the information related to a topic on a web site. A web site is a collection of related information of web pages. Usha/Malati: Please suggest an illustration for this concept.ConceptWeb:

Sharable information on the internet is called the web. web is a collection of millions of pages of information. The information can include text,

pictures, animations, sounds and video.We can usually find information about any topic on the internet.

The location where the information is available on the web is called a web site.A web site is a collection of related information of web pages.

Tejas: Can we now access the web from this computer.Moz: Yes. You can. This computer is connected to the internet.Jyoti(points to the browser icon): This icon looks like a globe. Is this the application to access the information on the internet?Moz: You are right. Go ahead and open the application.Tejas double clicks on the icon.

Moz(points to the opened browser): This is called a browser. Jyoti: Looks like we have to enter something at the cursor. Moz: Yes. You are right. Suppose I want to come to your house. What should I know.Jyoti: My house address.Moz: Each place has an address. Isn't it? Like a shop, movie theatre, hospital, school?Tejas: Yes. Moz: Similarly a web site is given an address. This address is also called the URL. Skill/Info: (skill/info. Later on we can decide which goes where)

Information on a web site is accessed by using the internet application called the browser. A web site is accessed by using the web site address called the URL.

Tejas: Do you know some address from where I want to find information for my project in Science?Here is a website where you can find information on many subjects. Now enter the URL “www.wikipedia.org” in the address bar.

Tejas enters the address given by Moz.

Malati: Prof. Sridhar said that we need to fine tune this flow. Can you please suggest or edit this conccept.Jyoti: There is no information here. It is just showing us the language names.Moz: In many places like museums, tourist places you find information in many languages. Isn't it? Tejas: Yes. So does this web site have information in many languages.Moz: Correct. Tejas moves the mouse pointer around the page.Jyoti: The mouse pointer changes to a hand icon at English, Deutch etc., These words also appear to be underlined.Moz: Let us look at an example. Suppose you are at a science museum. You want to go to the dinosaur section. So what do you do? Jyoti: The directions in the museum will point to various sections. So using the directions I can reach the section.Tejas: Oh! So these are directions to move to various sections of this web site.Moz: These are links to other sections of the web site. They are called hyperlinks. Tejas: See. When I click on English I get an encyclopedia in English. Moz: This site has the same information in many languages.

Concept: A hyperlink is a link within a web page to a related web page. Text, images can be hyperlinks.

Info: A hyperlink is usually underlined. If you move your mouse over a hyperlink, it will change to the shape of a hand (usha an icon

of hand please). Clicking on the hyperlink takes you to a different page.

Jyoti: This information must have been written by many people and stored on these computers.Can I also write and share it with others.Moz: Good thinking. Yes. You can. You will learn about this later.

Concept: Information on the web is created by many people. Anyone can create the information and share it on the web.

Jyoti: There is so much of

information. Let us click on the Science hyperlink.

Tejas (points to the back

arrow):Let us try this. I want to see what is in the Maths hyperlink.Jyoti and Tejas thus discover that they can go back and forth to revisit the links that they visited.They browse through various subjects.

Skill box: Usha: (point to back and forth arrows and write about their functions )Jyoti (points to search) : Can we search for a topic in Science?Moz: Yes. You can. It is like searching within a telephone diary. Enter a word related to the topic that you want to search for.Tejas: Let us search for “digestive system in a human body” .

Tejas: This is good. See there are further links and we can even search more.Jyoti: I found something interesting here. I would like to visit this page again. Is there someway to save the link?Moz: When you are reading a book and you find some interesting pages that you can refer to later. So what do you do?Jyoti: Usually we have bookmarks which look like this. (Usha image of bookmarks that we use in books) . Or we also use a small piece of paper to mark that page. Moz: Similarly you can save the pages by using the bookmark to save the links. (points to the bookmark).Jyoti saves the web site address and learns how to retrieve it the next time she wants to refer to it.

Skill: Saving the address of a website (Usha: you may design the skill boxes as you think is best)The

address of a web site that you like to visit again can be saved as follows: 1. click on “Bookmaks”2. Click on save “Bookmark this page”3. A box will then appear. You can now click on “Done” to add the page to your bookmarks. 4. You can also change the name to an appropriate name. Ex: Jyoti enters “human body” for

the web site address that she is saving.5. When you have many bookmarks you can organize them in folders. Ex: Jyoti creates a

“Science” folder” and saves “human body” in this folder.

Tejas: Now I can browse this site from home too. But I have seen a different type of icon on my brother's computer to access the internet.Moz: Yes. There are different browsers. Some of the common browsers are:

Firefox Internet Explorer Google Chrome from Mozilla from Microsoft from Google

Apple Safari Opera for MAC systems mostly used for mobiles

and hand held devices

Tejas: Do we need to learn how to use all of them?Moz: Not necessary. The browsers look slightly different. Most of the functionalities are similar.

Tejas: Suppose I do not find information on the web site that we are browsing. Then how do we find another web site address?Moz: More on this tomorrow. I saved some interesting and fun web site links in the bookmarks. Go ahead and browse these sites.