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Boulder Community Network
General Public Orientation
Outline

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Pre-Class Preparation

Welcome and Instructor/Assistants Introductions

Participant Introductions and Skills (mouse ability check)

1. Community Networks and BCN

• About BCN
  * non-profit organization
  * supported by: university (classrooms from cont. ed and more), grants, donations

• Community Networks are concerned with
  • developing local web information
  • public access to the Internet

  BCN also provides computer-related consulting to non-profits and schools for a nominal fee.

2. Internet and the WWW

3. Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer Browser

• Definition
• Scroll Up and Down Arrows
• Hyperlinks
• Buttons on Top
  • Back
  • Forward
  • Home (These are CU machines and set for the CU Home Page)
• Location Box and URL
• Bookmarks

• Review
  What are the tools we've learned about so far that help us move to a particular web page?
  • Hyperlinks
  • Bookmarks
  • Typing in the address of a particular page in the location box
  Later on we'll add search tools to this list.

• Questions?

4. Guided Tour of BCN

• Practice using tools learned above
• Questions?

5. Search Engines and Web Guide

• Search Engine vs Web Guide
• Show them Yahoo and maybe one other engine/guide
• Questions?

6. Individual Surfing Time

7. Getting Access

• Public Access computers -- Questions?
• ISPs and Free E-mail Accounts -- Questions?

8. Fill out comment form

9. Thanks and Good-bye

Post-Class Shut Down