Session One -
Introduction to Netscape Communicator

Objectives:
    Set up Communicator : Downloading free software, setting up Preferences
    Send, receive, manage your electronic email
    Make  AND EDIT Book Marks
    Communicate with others - Newsgroups and List Serves
    Finding and Utilizing Electronic Penpals
    Other reference materials on the WEB


WARMUP - Fill out the course survey form to let the instructor know your questions and expectations; then check your First Class email account for mail.

Activities:

l. INSTALL:  Visit the Netscape site to see how to download Netscape Communicator to install on your home or classroom computer.

2. You are working in a lab right now.  When you are at your home and SETTING UP NETSCAPE: Open Netscape Communicator to set up Preferences.  Open the Edit pull-down menu and choose Preferences.  Now choose the Navigator category submenu. This is where you can change the default homepage to something other than Netscape's Home Page.  Change it now to

http://www.erols.com/allnutt

 Set up your Mail and Groups Preferences -Open the Edit pull - down menu and choose Preferences.  Now choose the Mail and Groups catagory submenu, open the submenu by clicking the sideways arrow.  This enables you to customize your Netscape Use.  We are primarily interested in you having access to the mail portion of Netscape, so we need to establish your identity on this machine.
Click Identity.

 Your name: ( such as Alice A. Allnutt)   _________

Email Address:  (such as aallnutt@fc.fcps.k12.va.us or allnutt@erols.com) _________________

Reply-to Address: (usually same as above) ___________________________

 Click on Mail Server , it should read:
   mailserver; user name:   ( such as allnutt or aallnutt) _______________
    outgoing: ( such as smtp.erols.com       or    fc.fcps.k12.va.us   ) _____________________
    incoming: (such as pop.eros.com          or     fc.fcps.k12.va.us   ) _____________________
    POP User:  Alice_Allnutt

3. BOOKMARKS Bookmarks are an electronic storage of an Internet site address in a shortcut format for quick reference.   This will provide you immediate access to your most used Internet sites.

    Netscape has Bookmarks for Internet websites already  created for you.  Explore these bookmarks first .  In the top Navigator menubar, look for a green ribbon (like a bookmark), pull it down.   Some interesting Netscape Book marks I found:

When you have found an interesting Internet site you would like for reference, go back to that green bookmark icon in the top menubar and pull it down to ADD Bookmark.  Netscape will save the  Internet address (Universal Resource Locator - URL) as a bookmark.

Editing Bookmarks:  As you use the Internet more and more, you will want to keep the  bookmarks or URL's (addresses) of your sites easily accessible to you and organized.  To do this you will want to make folders to keep all of your newly acquired sites.  Hold down the open Apple key and the B key (for bookmark).  The Bookmark file for this particular computer will appear.  Pull down the FILE menu to NEW FOLDER.  Call the new folder Mrs. Allnutt's Bookmarks (substitute your name).  You may be ready to imagine an organizational strategy from the beginning and make several folders (MATH, SCIENCE, WRITING, Social Studies......)

Now  click on a new website that you have added to this computer.  Drag it into your newly created folder in the Bookmark files.   You can save these on a disk at the end of class or as you wish for further use at home or in your classroom.

 More fun with Bookmarks  -visit these Internet resource sites and find great sites for your use:


 

4. Communicating with  Others
        Netscape Newsgroups (see handout)


 5. Work on your Internet Collection of Resources
 Tonite's Assignment:  Find and annotate 10 Internet sites you plan to continue to use, make sure at least 5 are in your content area.  Be ready to share one Internet site tomorrow morning - what do you like about it and how you plan to use it.

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