Internet: A Nuts and Bolts Guide
Audience: Independent trainers or trainers in large corporations with students interested in learning the basics of how to use the Internet effectively and an intensive survey of the most popular Internet tools and services.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with the Windows environment.
Recommended Course Length: 2 days
A Nuts and Bolts Guide to The Internet is designed to:
Acquaint introductory Internet users with the essentials of Internet access and the necessary enabling tools.
Provide an overview of Internet resources and uses.
Key Topics:
HyperText Transfer Protocol and hypertext links
The World Wide Web
graphical Web browsers
Internet addressing
connectivity options
command-line tools: File Transfer Protocol and Telnet
Demonstrations:
(led by instructors with student participation if sufficient communications capacity is available)
- navigating the World Wide Web
- download programs, sound files and video clips from FTP archives
- search FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) and FYI documents
- use FTP to retrieve selected files
- browse newsgroups
- send and receive electronic mail
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