Today we talked about how the Internet is made up of millions of computers located all over the world. When you access a website, your computer may be talking to another one in France, China, California, New Jersey, or Canada. When you access something on the Internet from school, you can also get to it from home. You just have to enter the URL (or address) of the site. To access the Internet you have to use a web browser like Internet Explorer, Chrome, Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, etc. At school we have Internet Explorer and Chrome loaded and we primarily use Internet Explorer in class.
The students practiced by starting up Internet Explorer. Their homepage is the 1st grade Free Time page. I showed them how to:
The students practiced by starting up Internet Explorer. Their homepage is the 1st grade Free Time page. I showed them how to:
- Select an activity
- Explained to them that it opens a new window
- How to make the window full screen
- How to adjust the volume
- How to close the activity to start a new one