NAME: ______

STATION ONE: NETIQUETTE

  1. What does netiquette mean?
  2. Rule one says to avoid writing emails or posting messages using:
  3. What can you use to add personality and meaning to your messages?
  4. Summarize rule 5:

STATION TWO: HOW THE WEB WORKS

  1. What does the World Wide Web consist of?

The Web physically consists of your p______c______or m______d______, web browser software, a connection to an I______s______provider (ISP), c______called s______that host digital data and routers and switches that direct the flow of information.

  1. What is the client?
  2. What are the servers?
  3. What is the glue that holds the Internet together?

______and ______

  1. What is navigating the Web commonly called? ______or ______

STATION THREE: BEGINNINGS OF THE INTERNET

  1. Who created what later grew into the Internet?
  2. What was the forerunner of today’s Internet called?
  3. Who created NSFNET?
  4. What did NSFNET?
  5. When was NSFNET created?

STATION FOUR: HOW TO READ A WEB PAGE

  1. What is HTML?
  2. What is a URL?
  3. What is a home page?
  4. How can you tell a link? (2 ways)

STATION FIVE: UNDERSTANDING WEB ADDRESSES

  1. Where is the World Wide Web stored?
  2. When you type in a URL or click a hyperlink, what does your browser do?
  3. What does the first part of a URL tell you?
  4. What is the second part of a URL?

STATION SIX: HARNESS EMAIL

  1. What is email?
  2. How does email travel and how long does the processes take?
  3. What advantage does email have over regular mail?
  4. To send e-mail, you need a ______to the Internet and access to am______s ______that forwards your mail to its final destination.
  5. Click on try this and send yourself an email message.
  6. Click on email etiquette at the bottom of the page. What does BCC stand for and what does it mean?

STATION SEVEN: TEST YOURSELF

Take each station test individually NOT as a group and report your score to me by raising your hand! Click on each title below to begin test.

If you've spent any time on Learn the Net, you probably know the answers to many of our quiz questions. But just to be sure, test your cyber-smarts.

The Netiquette Quiz

Rate your online manners.

The Web Whiz Quiz

Do you know Web basics? See if you can ace this test.

The E-mail Quiz

It's the most popular service on the Net, but how much do you really know about e-mail?