The Internet

Email and Using Today's Internet

This is considered an advanced course.

The course consists of demonstrations and hands-on.

The Course Covers:

1. A brief history of the Internet, what it is, how it works, and who pays for it.
2. ISOC, ISP's, IETF, RFC's
3. Email and the Web:
• Dial-up and Broadband Connections
• Outlook Express
• Clients and Servers
• Web Mail and Client Mail
• Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Chrome
4. Email Attachments:
• Irfanview
• ASCII characters
• File Types
• Viewers
5. Program Downloads
6. Google
• Searching web sites, Images and Video
• Refining a Search
• Stocks, UPC, Phone #, Patents, Address, Calculator, Groups, Books
• Web Page Translation
• Google Maps
7. SIRUS Search Engine
8. Internet Free Software
9. Buying on the Internet
10. Anti-Virus, Firewalls, Spyware and Adware Internet use protection
11. Social Networking
12. eBay and PayPal
13. On-line banking and Stocks
14. Wikipedia
15. Snopes
16. RSS
17. NAUPA
18. Project Gutenberg
19. Blogs
20. Distributed Computing
21. Old/International TV, Radio, Movies
22. Using Computers4seniors.org
23. Open Courseware

Each class meets 5 times (sessions), 3 hours per session (15 hours total).

Each class holds six (6) students - one per computer.