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In this workshop you can improve your skills using a web browser and possibly learn some new skills to make you more efficient and productive.

You can then go on to practise your new skills and find lots of Wonders of the Web.

During this workshop you will be using Atomic Learning tutorials.

Click on either icon below to login. This will open Atomic Learning in a new window and you will be able to see that you are logged in (top right corner). Close the new window and you will come back to this page.

Examples of embedded login using a graphic - these will only work with a valid username and password in the code.

or for a bigger impact:

Each time you use an Atomic Learning tutorial, it will open in a new window in front of this one. You will not need to log in again during this session.

The code used to log in when the username is XXX and password is YYY is:

http://movies.atomiclearning.com/uk/home?op=auth&method=login&username=XXX&identifier=YYY

If you wish to set Atomic Learning to open in a new window use target="_blank" in your web authoring programme.

You can use your own graphic, button or text as the link or use one of the approved Atomic Learning graphics at Atomic Learning Logos or Mascots.

Or copy this one:

You must be using a web browser now or you couldn't be looking at this page so you already know about that!

Code used in graphics link to series:
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/uk/intexplorer6
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/uk/safari or you can use a normal text link.

Example of link to single tutorial. The text and graphic both link.

Learn about the Windows Explorer 6 Button Bar

Code used:
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/uk/almovie?key=9367

These are set to open in new windows using target="_blank". The key numbers are provided by doing an Atomic Learning search or next to the tutorial title in the listings.

You can begin to use an Internet browser with only a few skills. Make sure you can do the following before you move on. The help menu in your browser should explain anything that you don't know. Send an email to your online tutor if you need help.

If you are confident of your browser skills jump to the next section.

Hyperlinks are the means to navigate the World Wide Web. You click on a hyperlink to jump to another part of a web site or to a different web page. Hyperlinks are usually blue and may be underlined. You can find hyperlinks on a page by moving your mouse over it. When the mouse pointer passes over a link, it will change to a pointing finger, like this.

You can remember the address of Internet sites by adding them to your Favourites (Explorer) or Bookmarks (Firefox, Safari). When you are looking at a web page that you want to remember, click on Favourites or Bookmarks and you will be offered a way to remember the address.

Learning how to manage your Favourites/Bookmarks is a vital skill which you should keep practising. It is probably the single most important way of improving your ability to use the Internet efficiently.You can create 5 or 6 folders inside your favourites folder and use them to organise your resources.

The Atomic Learning tutorials have very good sections on Favourites or Bookmarks. They are in section B at the following links:

• Internet Explorer 6 (Windows)
• Internet Explorer 5 (Mac)
• Safari (Mac)

It isn't possible to link directly to a section of a tutorial series

Your browser will also remember the addresses of places you visit even if you don't add them to the favourites. The way this happens varies on different browsers and computers but the list of recent sites is usually found by using a button or menu item called Go or History.

• Learn about the Windows Explorer 6 Button Bar
• Learn about the Macintosh Explorer 5 Button Bar

It is often useful to have several browser windows open at the same time. For example you could have one window with the latest cricket scores and another one with this course. When the boss comes in, you flick from the cricket to the course. That's what the students do!

You can also leave a set of search results from a search engine in another window to come back to later.

You can create extra browser windows by using File - New Window and then choose between windows in the Window menu.

If there are things in this list that you can't do, look in the help for your browser, use Atomic Learning, ask a friend for help or send an email to your online tutor.

Have a look at the following web sites, even though they may not be directly relevant to you and your teaching. You will see the quality and diversity of material available on the Internet.

Later you'll be shown how to find Internet resources that are appropriate for your classroom, your learning area and your students.

If you find sites that you particularly like, add them to your Favourites (Explorer) or Bookmarks (Firefox, Safari). If you don't, you may never find them again even though you know they exist.

If you find any faulty links in the course material, please email the tutors and we will fix them as soon as possible. We try very hard to keep broken links to a minimum.

Remember - each external site will open in a new window in front of this one. When you have finished with it, close the window by choosing File menu and Close or by clicking the Close box.

For Windows users, the Close box is in the top right corner and has an X in it, for Macintosh users, the Close box is in the top left corner.

This page will be behind the external site pages. You may need to close more than one external window to reveal this page.

For a start let's look at the weather forecast.

To check the weather anywhere in Australia, look at the full range of Bureau of Meteorology services and forecasts.

You can go directly to today's forecast for the Perth, Sydney, Cairns, Albany, Kimberley, Northern Territory, Melbourne, Canberra.

You will find forecasts for all of New Zealand at Metservice.

For UK weather you can look at the Met Office is the government site but the BBC Weather is also popular.

When you find the site for your local forecast put it into your favourites.

If you want to try your hand at weather forecasting, see the latest Satellite View of Australia.

Here are more detailed State Satellite Photos in colour and current weather charts.

For current satellite images of the UK use this BBC map and you can zoom in to the area you are interested in.

If you want to look for rain in any part of Australia, usually accurate to the last 10 minutes, look at the rain radar sites, There are about 40 sites around Australia which provide live information about rain patterns and this example shows heavy rain near Broome.

Think about ways that you could incorporate these kinds of resources in your teaching.

They all go much deeper than you think, don't gloss over them. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology site has ALL the historical data on weather from every weather station in Australia from when records were first collected, if you can find it. A great resource for Mathematics teachers.

There are excellent curriculum resources for many learning areas at the Australian BOM site.

The BBC Weatherwise site has similar resources and New Zealand Metservice has a Learning Centre.

There is a lot you can do with online news services. Lots of newspapers have an online version for example:

• the Australian
• the Brisbane Courier Mail
• the Sydney Morning Herald
• the West Australian
• the South East Asian Times
• the Alice Springs News
• the New Zealand Herald
• the Times of London
• the Guardian
• the Independent

You'll be surprised just how many newspapers are on the web. The Australian National Library maintains a complete list of Australian newspapers online.

Online Newspapers maintains a list of all New Zealand papers and UK papers.

If you want to find out what's happening elsewhere in the world, there are thousands of online newspapers around the world.

You can check the 50 most popular online newspapers according to Online Newspaper's users.

The Newseum includes the front pages of today's newspapers from all around the world and an archive of front pages. There are also news photography archives, cartoon archives and lots more. Broadband Internet access is desirable for this site.

For radio and TV try ABC online. This site includes links to repeats of shows and the news on demand via the Internet. With a broadband or good dial-up Internet connection, you can watch the news and many other programs anytime you wish at ABC Broadband.

The latest news as it comes in can always be found at ABC News Just In. This can be interesting because not all the news that comes in to the ABC gets broadcast on radio or TV. You can run your own news service by monitoring the news as it comes in and repackaging it for your audience.

If you want to get really serious, you can check the Reuters News Service on a wide range of topics. Reuters started in 1849 using carrier pigeons to carry stock information in parts of Belgium where there was no telegraph. Now it is one of the largest and most respected news agencies in the world.

If you want to compare views of the news, you could try the

• BBC from Britain or
• TVNZ from New Zealand
• CNN from the USA or
• Al-Jazeera from Qatar.

This is a miniature of a photograph (on the left) of the Earth at night taken from satellite images stitched together with the clouds digitally removed. The link to this was sent around many email lists a few years ago and was very popular. You can see where the earth's energy is consumed. An enlargement of Australia is below.

You can see the a larger version of the whole world here. You can use the scroll arrows or scroll bars to move around the world. Take a few minutes to explore it, it's very interesting.

Think about ways in which you could use this image in your classroom to start a discussion or as part of a quiz or project.

• Can you find any lights where you live?
• Can you find the Nile or the Trans Siberian Railway?
• Did you realise that India was so developed?
• Did you know that most Canadians lived on the US border?
• What are your thoughts about Australia when you look at this photo?
• Who do we need to talk to about global warming?

This photo was a NASA Astronomy Photo of the Day and the complete set have been indexed and archived back to 1995.

You've been working hard, take a break and find out more about using the Internet in your personal life and recreation.

The ABC Sport page has the latest news and links to all your favourite sports. BBC Sport has similar services

If fishing is more in your line try Fishnet or for a complete list of Australian fishing information OzFish. Before you go fishing or anywhere near water, check Seabreeze for weather and water information. FishNZ provides similar information for New Zealand

If parrot breeding is more your style, you can learn all about it at The Parrot Society.

If you have a particular hobby or interest go to the Google link in the menu at the top of this page and type in the name of it. Google will usually put the best resources at the top of the list.

If you are planning a holiday in Australia or overseas, you can get up-to-date information at Lonely Planet. There are lots of excellent resources on the Internet to help with planning holidays and they can be very useful in educational projects.

• book a flight
• book a hotel
• hire a car
• find a map of anywhere
• consult The Travel Doctor

Do you ever make overseas phone calls, wonder what time it is at the other end, don't know the dialling code, do they have daylight saving or what's the weather?
The World Time and Date Service will answer all your questions and more.

If you are stuck for ideas for dinner try the Possum Soup(?) recipe at Recipe Source with links to thousands of recipes from all over the world.

Do the same with any recipe and there's a good chance you'll find the best recipe in the world. Go to Google (in the menu at the top of the screen) and try

• Thai fish cakes
• pesto
• chocolate cake.

Try it. You'll be surprised.

(By the way, the chilli on the left is a real one grown in my garden and scanned. Scanners deal with 3D images really well. Try it. Coffee beans look great.)

Make notes in your journal about any points you want to remember and any comments you have. Remeber to keep your Favourites up to date.