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fandomhigh2011-02-15 02:27 pm
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Intro to the 21st Century, Tuesday, Second Period
They were back in the computer lab today. "So, several classes ago, we discussed the internet as a venue for communication, with email and instant messaging clients. However, the internet is so much more than that as well. Whether you want to find out who that familiar looking actor is in the TV show you're watching, buy clothing, check the scores to the sport's game, find out what the Defenestration of Prague was, or watch a music video, these are all things you can do on the internet."
Her monitor was hooked up to the projector, so she brought her mouse over and clicked on the Firefox icon on the desktop. "Web browsers let users navigate from one page to the next on the web via links. These links are the specific addresses of the pages you would like to access; they can be as simple as typing in google.com or can be incredibly complex, spanning many numbers, letters, and characters."
She continued in this vein for awhile, explaining search engines, wikis, and blogs, as well as giving historical information on the founding of the internet. That segued into a discussion of safety online, both to protect their machines from viruses, trojans, and spyware and to keep themselves and their information safe and secure.
"It doesn't matter what your email tells you," she said, grinning a little. "There are no Nigerian princes who want to give you a million dollars. The biggest problem with the internet is anonimity; the person you're talking to might be the nineteen year old girl from Cleveland like she's claiming, but she could just as easily be a forty-four year old man from Denver. Be very careful about what kind of information you give to others and if you come across anything that makes you uncomfortable, tell someone, okay? Since the inception of the internet as a commercial tool, an entire new kind of crime called cybercrime has flourished. Be safe, be careful, be smart, okay?"
[OCD up]
Her monitor was hooked up to the projector, so she brought her mouse over and clicked on the Firefox icon on the desktop. "Web browsers let users navigate from one page to the next on the web via links. These links are the specific addresses of the pages you would like to access; they can be as simple as typing in google.com or can be incredibly complex, spanning many numbers, letters, and characters."
She continued in this vein for awhile, explaining search engines, wikis, and blogs, as well as giving historical information on the founding of the internet. That segued into a discussion of safety online, both to protect their machines from viruses, trojans, and spyware and to keep themselves and their information safe and secure.
"It doesn't matter what your email tells you," she said, grinning a little. "There are no Nigerian princes who want to give you a million dollars. The biggest problem with the internet is anonimity; the person you're talking to might be the nineteen year old girl from Cleveland like she's claiming, but she could just as easily be a forty-four year old man from Denver. Be very careful about what kind of information you give to others and if you come across anything that makes you uncomfortable, tell someone, okay? Since the inception of the internet as a commercial tool, an entire new kind of crime called cybercrime has flourished. Be safe, be careful, be smart, okay?"
[OCD up]