8a. INTERNET
To "surf" the
Internet, you need a program called a web browser. The two most popular ones
are Netscape Navigator (NN) and Internet Explorer (IE).
You can begin to use an
Internet browser with only a few skills.
Use the HELP menu in your
browser should explain what you need to know.
Click on a hyper link to
jump to another part of a web site or to a different web site
Click on the back Button to
go back to the previous page
Click on the Forward button
to come forward again
Use the Go button to access
the list of recent sites
Open the History list to
find things you've looked at recently.
Use the Favourites (or
Bookmarks) to remember sites that you like and may want to use again.
The first thing to do on
your Internet journey of discovery is to learn about the incredible range of
information and experiences available on the Internet. The address of a web
site is called it's URL (Uniform Resource Locator). It just means "address",
it tells the browser how to locate it..
Spend sometime exploring the
web sites described below. The list includes a good selection of Australian
sites.
If you find ones that you
particularly like and think you may use again add them to your Favourites
(Internet Explorer) or Bookmarks (Netscape Navigator). Make a note on paper of
5 to 10 that you particularly like. If any site gives an error message or
doesn't load. Don't worry, don't waste time on it, move on to the next one. It
is quite common for web sites to change address, be busy or be turned off for
the weekend! We'll learn more about that later.
For the latest Satellite
View of Australia look at
http://www.bom.gov.au/gms/IDE00005.latest.shtml
Look at this photograph of
the Earth at night. See where the earth's energy is consumed.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg
How Stuff Works is a
collection of hundreds of explanations of how things work. Look down the left
side for the 10 top questions of the moment http://www.howstuffworks.com/index.htm
For 1 million short
educational activities online try Quia.com
B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework
Helper is one of the best of its kind. It is regularly updated. A great
resource for teachers and kids.
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/
Australian History Links is
a good example of a site which checks and indexes other sites in a particular
area of interest. http://www.ozemail.com.au/~rchaffer/aushist.html
Math's Homework Help is a
similar sort of site which collects together links to resources on a particular
topic. http://users.erols.com/bram/
Enchanted learning is a
fantastic site for animals and themes, lots of printables and great info http://www.enchantedlearning.com
For a virtual reality tour
of the pyramids try
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/
To find out ALL about Egypt
try
http://www.akhet.co.uk/index.htm
Buy a Ferrari at http://www.ferrari.com/
Check your Telstra shares on
line at http://au.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TLS.AX&d=2b
For other shares try http://au.finance.yahoo.com/l
Order your customised
Volkswagon New Beetle http://www.vw.com/newbeetle/
Look for a job at Job Search
e.g. http://www.jobsearch.gov.au/
Find out all about Joe
Cocker at http://www.cocker.com/Menu.html
Find out about almost
anybody at Biography.com http://www.biography.com/
Learn about Parrot Breeding
at http://www.parrotsociety.org.au/index.html
Teaching With the Internet
contains a very good selection of links arranged in curriculum areas. http://web.syr.edu/~djleu/teaching.html
Information about Notre
Dame's East Timor Project is at
http://purple.nd.edu.au/coms/bj/easttimor/index.htm
Good examples of news and
journals on line
The West Australian is
online at http://www.thewest.com.au/
The Sydney Morning Herald is
at http://www.smh.com.au/
ABC On Line is at, take a
look at the BTN pages a while your here http://www.abc.net.au/
The Atlantic Monthly Unbound
(Web Edition) is a great monthly journal with online archives. It has an
excellent food section. http://www.theatlantic.com/index.htm
If you want another view of
the news, you could try the BBC web site at
Or the BBC World Service is
available via Internet TV at
http://www.apple.com/quickTime/hotpicks/news/bbc/
For more Streaming Internet
Television (over 30 channels) try
http://www.apple.com/QuickTime/qtv/
Other sites of local and
Australian interest
The City of Fremantle is at http://www.fremantle.wa.gov.au/
The Australian Stock
Exchange is at http://www.asx.com.au/
The National Library of
Australia is at http://www.nla.gov.au/
National Library Photograph
and Image Collection - half a million images is at http://www.pictureaustralia.org/
Surf Cams and other surf
information http://www.coastalwatch.com.au/
