INTERNET, EMAIL, OPERATING SYSTEM CONCEPTS

Nisa Peek

File Operations

Practice opening a folder, renaming, closing, and saving.

File navigation – opening files from hard drive and navigating through folders.

Locating a folder in a subfolder

AUP

Stands for Acceptable Usage Policy Contract between student, employee

and school Official Definition Ethical uses of Internet

Privacy Issues & Email

What does BCC mean for email? Always construct an email as if everyone

was going to read it. Forwarding Appropriateness

Copyright

Permissions Posting copyrighted information on the

web.

Web 2.0 Tools

No software to download, run online from Internet, FREE

Wikkis – can be edited by others, reliable?

Blogs – diaries, journals, add comments, can’t change the entry.

Search Engines

What are they? Most popular? Use “bots” to gather information

Special Needs StudentsLow Tech Solutions:•Making the text bigger in software programs.•Increasing the size of your cursor and mouse clicking options.•Touch Screen•Keyboard/Zoom Text

Productivity Tools

What type of program would you use for: Concept Mapping Creating charts Composing a long document Creating a presentation

Let’s Review – Get your activotes ready1. What program would be best for

presentations?A. Word B. ExcelC. PowerPointD. Database

Review

2. What program would be best for creating graphs?A. WordB. InspirationC. PowerPointD. Excel

Review

3. What program would be used for writing a long paper?A. WordB. ExcelC. DatabaseD. PowerPoint

Review

4. What program is made of fields and records?A. WordB. DatabaseC. ExcelD. PowerPoint

Review

5. Students are selling products at a school store, what is the best program to record profits, losses, etc.?

A. WordB. ExcelC. PowerPointD. Database