The Changes Listed Below Are Done So in the Order of Old Page Number First, Followed By
Internet & Email for Learning – Manual – updates – 3rd August, 2007
The whole Internet and E-mail Manual has been laid out fresh so only the old page numbers are being used in this guide. As Internet Explorer 6 was the version used in the old Manual we have replaced it with Internet Explorer 7. There are a lot of new images to go with these major changes.
Module 1
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The figures on this page now read as,
“The figure for 2002 was 34.1% and by February 2006 this had further increased to 48.7%”
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The complete “Acorn” column in the table has been removed
In the “Windows (PC)” column “Mozilla” has been replaced with “Mozilla – Firefox” and the same in the Mac (Apple) column
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The table here has been changed:
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The following new Internet Explorer 7 images have been added.
There is now a new explanation of the Favourites button, History button,and the Explorer Bar,
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New webshots and screen grabs, such as though below have also been added
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The Apple Mac browser Safari has been added to the list of Other Popular Browsers. This is now available for PCs too.
The Favourites Folder is now called theFavourites Centre and this is explained in detail in the Manual. It also explains how to add RSS Feeds.
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The web address for IATSE has been changed from http://www.iatseireland.com to http://www.iatse.ie
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All of the “Making a Favourite Page Available Offline” section has been deleted
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Other types of sound files have been added to the old table of sound files. See below for details::
WAV / Wav format used in Windows operating system for recording and playback of all recorded sound – voice, music, etc. Wav files are very large, taking a long time for the end user to download.MIDI / Not a recorded audio format at all. The file contains instructions, which can be read by a computer’s sound card to produce particular notes to be played by musical instruments. Because they do not contain digital audio information, MIDI files are tiny in comparison to standard audio files.
AU / A common compressed format used mainly for UNIX.
AIFF / Audio Interchange File Format. A common audio format used for Mac OS. Because the format does not support any kind of compression, it tends to produce very large files.
Real Audio (RA) / RA developed by an independent company, Progressive Networks. One of the first formats designed for Internet use and has gained widespread use. Files are played using a free ‘plug-in’ available. Uses a compression scheme that makes the file size very small. Supports streaming audio.
MP3 / MPEG-1 Layer III Extremely popular format. Uses a compression ratio capable of bringing file sizes down to approximately a megabyte a minute. MP3 uses a compression system that removes information that is largely beyond the human hearing range. These techniques contribute to the near-CD audio quality.
AAC / AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at the same bitrate and is the format used by Apple’s iPods, iPhones and iTunes.
SWA / Shockwave Audio. Produces high quality and small file sizes based, like MP3 on MPEG Audio compression.
WMA / Windows Media Audio. (Microsoft)Windows Media Technologies offers a suite of utilities for creating, serving up and viewing streamed multimedia, including high quality audio.
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The link to the volcano pages has been changed to a newer working link
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/gallery/kilauea/volcanomovies/
The images and instructions in this section have also been changed to reflect the new information.
MODULE 2
SEARCHING THE WEB
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How to use the Tab View to look at many different webpages in the same Browser window is dealt with in this section.
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Replace the image with newimage084.jpg and add the note to it something like below:
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In the last bullet point on this page delete the spaces in “and / or” to read as “and/or”
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The following web addresses have been replaced as outlined below.
“Doras Directory www.doras.ie”
With
“Find It Ireland www.finditireland.com”
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Under the Meta Search Engines heading
http://www.fossick.com
has been replaced with
http://www.ixquick.com
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How to add more Search Engines to this Search list by clicking on Find More Providers is explained, as is how to remove them.
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The Alta Vista link has been changed to read:
http://www.altavista.com/web/adv
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The You Searched link now reads as:
“Go.com http://www.go.com”
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The Watchfire link has been changed to read as:
http://www.watchfire.com/products/webxm/bobby.aspx
MODULE 3
USING THE INTERNET IN THE CLASSROOM
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The final link for CSPE now reads as:
http://www.cspe.ie
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The web address for the shockwave download has been altered from
www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download
to
www.adobe.com/shockwave/download
MODULE 5
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The examples of specialised software now have links that read as:
“Read Aloud http://www.allapp.com/Speaking-Notepad_download_40164/
Dragon Naturally Speaking http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/ “
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Remove the underlines in both e-mail addresses in the last bullet point at the top of the page.
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MODULE 5
INTERNET SAFETY
This module has been completely updated to be more in line with the Integrating Internet Safety into Teaching and Learning Manual. It contains up to date statistics, facts and tables.
MODULE 6
INTERNET SAFETY
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“Web 2.0” has been added in at the end of the list of objectives
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The following link has been changed from
http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=InnovativeTeachers
to
http://www.microsoft.com/education/innovativeteachers.mspx
The following link has been changed from
http://www.surfnetkids.com/emailedition.htm http://www.LessonPlansPage.com
to
http://www.surfnetkids.com/emailedition.htm
The following link has been changed from
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/index_eschola2002.cfm
to
http://elearningawards.eun.org/ww/en/pub/elearningawards2006/index.htm
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A new link has been added to the Activity box:
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/
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The NCTE online course is outlined in this section - “The Internet - A Teaching and Learning Resource”. This is a highly interactive online course which is comprised of the following modules and the link to it is given below
http://www.ncte.ie/ICTTraining/Courses/TheInternet-ATeachingLearningResource/
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This link has been deleted
(http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~fmb/articles/web_based_lms.html)
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This link has been deleted
http://www.rsc-sw-scotland.ac.uk/VLE.htm
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Social Bookmarking in the Web 2.0 section is mentioned here.
The following link has been changed from
http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=eLearning
to
https://www.microsoftelearning.com/catalog/default.aspx#homeAndOffice
The following link has been changed from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/courses
to
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/coursesearch/returning/
The following link has been changed from
http://www.profexel.com
to
http://www.icepe.eu/
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The following link has been changed from
http://www.intel.com/education/handhelds/FAQ_HH.htm
to
http://www.vickiblackwell.com/handhelds/index.html
The following link has been changed from
http://www.ashland.k12.ky.us/trt/pdas.htm
to
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic78.htm#1
The following link has been changed from
http://www.migrant.org/project_info/pda/cotf.cfm
into following two links:
http://www.cet.edu/aboutus/virtualtour.html
http://www.laptopsinitiative.ie/
The Apple iPhone is mentioned in this section also.
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The following link has been changed from
http://www.ncte.ie/ICTAdviceSupport/AdviceSheets/MobilePhones/Page2/
to
http://www.ncte.ie/documents/advicesheets/31MobilePhones(June07).pdf
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The following link has been changed from
http://www.apple.com
to
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
The following link has been changed from
http://www.neomp3.com.tw/index1.htm
to
http://www.sony.ie/view/ShowProductCategory.action?site=odw_en_IE&category=Audio
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The following link has been changed from
http://www.ncte.ie/ICTAdviceSupport/AdviceSheets/InteractiveWhiteboards
to
http://www.ncte.ie/documents/advicesheets/16InteractiveWBs(June07).pdf
The following link has been changed from
http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A2027.cfm
to
http://thejournal.com/articles/14084
The following link has been changed from
http://www.intel.com/education/emergingtech/casestudies.htm
to
http://www.intel.com/netcomms/technologies/wimax/index.htm
The following link has been changed from
http://www.air.org/forum/wpapers.htm
to
http://www.air.org/publications/default.aspx
This link is new to the What’s Next section:
http://www.kwfdn.org/map/map.aspx
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The heading:
Tablet PC
Now reads as:
Tablet PCs and UMPCs
And has the following link added to this section:
http://umpc.com/EducationUMPC.aspx
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The Web 2.0 section, dealing with the collaborative aspect of the internet is a completely new section to the Manual
Glossary:
The following terms need have been added and explained:
RSS
Tabbed Browsing
Web 2.0
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