Unit A: Internet browsing

What you can learn

The aim of the training unit is to provide the “grandparents” the autonomous ability to carry out the following tasks (provided that they have a  PC with an active internet connection and the browser Explorer installed on it turned on ):

 

• To connect to a search engine or to a web directory
• To search websites and information within typical classification of web directories
• To search websites and information by means of search engines, and analyze the proposed outputs
• To use Wikipedia, the biggest encyclopaedia of the web

 

Moreover, the following cases will be considered by performing some training exercises:

 

• Addresses and characteristics of main search engines
• To search websites and documents by means of the Google/Yahoo directory
• To search websites and documents by using the Google “simple search”
• To search websites and documents by using the Google “advanced search” 
• How browse a website without getting lost: forward and backward buttons, the chronology and “favorites” functions
• To search information within Wikipedia

 

 

Operative details

The training unit will be essentially devoted to practical exercises. Moreover, in order to understand all the possibilities offered by the browser, some theoretical explanations will be also provided. This is useful to understand those functions that will not be possible to test during the lessons.

The “grandparents” will be asked to use the browser, navigating within the pages of the GYM of the G&G project. Those pages are specifically developed in order to allow the training on searching information on Google and/or Yahoo search engines. Moreover we propose the use of the wikipedia webpage.
The “grandchildren” should follow the steps foreseen by the guided navigation of the GYM pages in order to clearly transfer to the grandparent the theoretical concepts, while the grandparent uses the computer, guided and assisted by the grandson.

 

GYM’s exercises associated to this training unit

• The mouse
  explore the mouse
• Exercise with the mouse
  learn how to position the cursor correctly
• Browse a website
  exercise on how to browse a website [ www.geengee.eu ] with Explorer
• Access a typical website (newspapers)
  read an on-line newspaper
• Access a typical website (institutions)
  visit the European Union website
• Access a typical website (commercial)
  visit the largest library of the world
• Save documents and webpages on your PC’s disk
  archive in the disk of your PC the information you don’t want to loose

 

 

Duration

 

Min 2 hours / max 4 hours.
 

 

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