Week 1

Welcome to the LBEC's evening computer class home page! This is your online resources for the course work we will be following during the class. This course will focus on how to most effectively integrate computers into your life, according to your needs. There's a lot to learn when it comes to computers but by knowing a few basics tools you can begin taking advantage of them right away. We will put a lot of emphasis on the Internet during the course. Let's begin with a short introduction to the class. Introduce yourself by answering the following questions:

1. Your Name
2. Past experience with computers / internet?
3. What are 3 tasks would you like to be able to accomplish using computers? (ie. communicating with friends)
   
4. What is your hobby?

Let's start with by explaining a fundemental idea of computing:

The difference between hardware & software.

What these two videos & identify 3 differences between software & hardware.





Internet Browsers:

What is an internet browser. I like to explain internet browser's using the analogy of a car. Say the internet is a giant information highway. There a plently of destinations and they are all reached using highway and streets. The browser is like a car. You use your car to navigate around the internet. Like a car, it can go backward and fowards.

Maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves. What exactly is the internet in the first place. Here's two video's with two interesting perspectives.





Let's spend some time exploring some of the sites on the Internet that could be of interest to you.

http://www.google.com

http://www.globeandmail.com

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/

http://maps.google.ca/

http://translate.google.com