Week3: Facebook Part 1

Here are the slides for this week.

You can make them larger by holding down the "ctrl" key and pressing +. This will make any web page larger. Press "ctrl" then - to make it smaller.

You can make them take up the whole screen by clicking on "view on slideshare" and then clicking on "full" at the bottom right of the presentation on sideshare. The only problem with viewing it "full" is that you can't see the notes for each slide. The notes tell you what to do.

To see the notes, view the presentation on slideshare and click on "Notes on slide 1" below the presentation.

Don't forget to do the homework:

Sign up for Facebook and make friends with "Paul Helpful".

Click here to go to Paul Helpful's Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001040042634
You must have already logged into Facebook to make him a friend.

Week3: Facebook Part 1

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Week Two: Blogs

I have put this week's slides on Slideshare.

It is another free service on the Internet. Rather than manually putting up each of my slides one at a time (which I did last week), I uploaded my presentation to slideshare and it will display it for me, as you can see below.

If you click on the forward and backwards arrows underneath the slide you can move through the presentation.

Below you can see just the slides. However, I have also entered notes for many of the slides. These can only be viewed by going to the Slideshare web site. (The presentation is also a bit larger on the Slideshare web site.) So...

1. Click on the words "View on Slideshare" at the bottom right below. (Added 21/4/10: I've just discovered that clicking there does not work if you are viewing this from Google Reader. You need to be at my actual blogsite http://helpfulpaul.blogspot.com/ for this to work.)
You will be taken to the Slideshare web site to my presentation there

2. Click on "Notes on slide 1" located under the presentation.
The notes will appear below. The first is "Quick recap from last week"

Now you can use the arrows under the presentation to move through the slides and follow the notes.

Don't forget to do the homework.

Week 2: Blogs

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Week one: Google Account Sign up

Hello to everyone who went to the first week of the Internet Tour last night. I'm very pleased with the numbers and am looking forward to the rest of the tour.

Here are the slides from last night about setting up a Google Account, with a little of the explanation that went with them.

NOTE: I've moved the start time to 8:15pm so we don't follow right on the top of the Yoga class.

First of all, check for an unused username at http://namechk.com. (Rather then typing in this link, you can just click on it to go to that website.)




Then go to the Gmail login page: http://gmail.com



Click on "Create an account" in the blue box on the bottom right part of the screen.



Fill in you First and Last Names, and your desired Username (also known as a Login name).



Click on "check availability" to see if the Username has not been used already by someone else.



If it has been used, try and come up with something better than the list of suggestions. Don't forget to check this new username at http://namechk.com.



Your Username is available so fill in a password. It needs to be at least 8 characters and including both letters and number is good. Don't use your Username, real name or any word found in the dictionary. A good idea is to use the first letters of a phrase that you can remember, followed by a '1' or a '7'. e.g. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" becomes itbgcthate7





The strength of your password is indicated on the right. Try and have a "strong" password.



You can untick "Enable Web History" unless you don't mind Google knowing where you've been on the internet.

You need to select a secret question and answer. This is used if you forget your password. However, it is more secure to enter a second email address (the "recovery email"). Google can then send a new password to this address if you forget your password. You still need to enter a secret question and answer, though.






For the recovery email you can use the email address provided by your ISP (Internet Service Provider) e.g. otpus, bigpond, iinet, etc. Just remember to change it if you change your ISP.

Enter the word verification.



Have a look at the various terms and conditions and then click on "I accept. Create my account."



If something went wrong, you will be returned to the top of the page to make corrections.



In this case the passwords didn't match, so I had to enter it again.



It also thought I had entered the Word Verification incorrectly, so I had to do that again.



If all goes well: Congratulations!



Click on "show me my account"



We may look at Buzz another time. Click on "I'll just go to my inbox".



You've done it! You now have a Google Account and can use Gmail. We'll look at Gmail another time. Click on "Sign out" at the top left to sign out of your Google account.



You are now back to the log in page.



Your "recovery email" address will receive an email like this, giving you a Verification Code that you may need to provide if you forgot your password. Keep this email in case you forget your password.




See you on Tuesday night at 8:15pm - 9:15pm.