Tuesday, 24 May 2016
Friday, 20 May 2016
Tuesday, 19 April 2016
Friday, 15 April 2016
Friday, 8 April 2016
SESSION 19: IMAGES
PART 1: IMAGE FORMATSACTIVITY
- JPEG: (short for Joint Photographic Experts Group) images are “full-color images that dedicate at least 24 bits of memory to each pixel, resulting in images that can incorporate 16.8 million colors,” and are frequently referenced by their file extension, JPG
- GIF: (Graphics Interchange Format) only display a maximum of 256 colors; as a result, GIFs are great for images with simple illustrations and blocks of colors, like logos and icons, but probably not the best option for photographs.
- PNG:(Portable Network Graphics), offer a wide range of attractive features, including “a full range of color depths, support for sophisticated image transparency, better interlacing, and automatic corrections for display monitor gamma
b) Which image format preserves the quality better when it is compressed?JPEG image format preserves the quality better when its compressed
PART 2: ORGANIZING IMAGES
The web provides us with many different tools to organize our photos and albums. ACTIVITY:
1.Find pictures of the school in the internet, and create a slideshow (album) with them, using FLICKR. Then upload into your blog.
1.Find pictures of the school in the internet, and create a slideshow (album) with them, using FLICKR. Then upload into your blog.
2. View the tutorial on how to use Slideshare.
a) Find out the most common formats for images and write a short description of the features of each of themThere are many formats of images, some of them are:
c) Which formats are more suitable for web design? JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP are the formats more suitable for web design
Slideshare allows you to make slide presentations of powerpoint and pdf files. If you have a power point presentation about a school subject, upload it to Slideshare. Or create a short power point (max. 3 slides) about a topic you like. Then embed it in your blog.
Friday, 11 March 2016
SESSION 14: INTERNET SAFETY
LEARN ABOUT HACKERS. VIRSUSES AND INTERNET SAFETY AND IMPORTANT WORLD ISSUES
TASK 1: PLAY THE GAME OF PETER PACKET. Learn how the packets of information are carried through the web. In this website you’ll follow the adventures of Peter Packet his trip deliver his packets of information against viruses and hackers. Choose a level, “beginner” or “advanced”
Click on the “captions” icon to read and listen to the information. Play the games and answer these questions:
What is a hacker? Hackers are nasty sort. The try to steal the information that packet carry like Credit Card numbers and passwords, and illegally accessing computers.
What is a virus? Virus also attack computers and servers. They cause problems like sending emails that you haven’t written and destroying information stored inside computers.
What is a router? The router moves information along the Internet by finding the shortest and fastest path to the destination computer.
What can happen when packets of information are sent by internet? That hackers can steal their information, and virus can delete the information or copy.
TASK 2: Choose one of the three missions: Haiti, Zimbabwe or India and do all the activities.
In Haiti the family of Pierre doesn’t have clean water; they have to go to the river to take water to drink. But ten years after there isn’t clean water and all the water it’s going to be contaminated. For this cause Pierre sent an email to Life Clean Water to have a structure to clean all the water free.
TASK 3: INTERNET SAFETY. The Internet has a wealth of information, but it can also be dangerous, especially for kids. How can kids be safe when they chat or blogger use the Internet? Think about two aspects: technical safety and personal safety.
Key:
Prohibition: you mustn’t
Obligation: you must
Advice: you should/ you shouldn’t
TASK 1: PLAY THE GAME OF PETER PACKET. Learn how the packets of information are carried through the web. In this website you’ll follow the adventures of Peter Packet his trip deliver his packets of information against viruses and hackers. Choose a level, “beginner” or “advanced”
Click on the “captions” icon to read and listen to the information. Play the games and answer these questions:
What is a hacker? Hackers are nasty sort. The try to steal the information that packet carry like Credit Card numbers and passwords, and illegally accessing computers.
What is a virus? Virus also attack computers and servers. They cause problems like sending emails that you haven’t written and destroying information stored inside computers.
What is a router? The router moves information along the Internet by finding the shortest and fastest path to the destination computer.
What can happen when packets of information are sent by internet? That hackers can steal their information, and virus can delete the information or copy.
TASK 2: Choose one of the three missions: Haiti, Zimbabwe or India and do all the activities.
In Haiti the family of Pierre doesn’t have clean water; they have to go to the river to take water to drink. But ten years after there isn’t clean water and all the water it’s going to be contaminated. For this cause Pierre sent an email to Life Clean Water to have a structure to clean all the water free.
TASK 3: INTERNET SAFETY. The Internet has a wealth of information, but it can also be dangerous, especially for kids. How can kids be safe when they chat or blogger use the Internet? Think about two aspects: technical safety and personal safety.
Key:
Prohibition: you mustn’t
Obligation: you must
Advice: you should/ you shouldn’t
You must
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You mustn’t
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You should
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You shouldn’t
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Be careful with the persons with you talk
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Publish personal photos
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Be carefully and respectfully
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Publish compromising photos
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Respect the users
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Enter to dangerous pages
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Keep private your profile
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Insult to others users
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Follow the rules
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Send virus to other users or hacker another computer
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Don`t do irresponsible things, be responsible
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Talk with people you don’t know
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Friday, 26 February 2016
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
SESSION 9: ELECTRONIC MAIL
Previous questions:
- Have you got an email account? Yes, I have an email account.
- How often do you send emails? Twice a month
- If you don’t have an email account, you must set one. There arefree email accounts on the Web. Some of the most popular a :www.hotmail.com www.gmail.comwww.edu365.cat
ACTIVITY 1:
Put the E-mail term next to the correct definition:
To:
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Send:
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Subject
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Cancel
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Cc:
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Attachments
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Message
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Save draft
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Spell check:
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Bcc:
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1. The main part of an email where you write the information you want to communicate.Message
2. Click here to send your message. Send
3. The line where you write the title of your message. Subject
4. The cc line; the line where you write the email addresses of other people who want to receive your message. To:
5. The blind copy line; an address here gets a copy of the message, but other recipients don’t know. Bcc
6. Click here to specify the file you want to attach and send with the message.Attachments
7. The line where you write the email address of the person you are sending your message to. Cc
8. Click here to save your unfinished message without sending. Save draft
9. Click here to cancel your message. Cancel
10. Click here to check the spelling of your message. Spell Check
SESSION 7: MORE INTERNET TERMS
In this sesion you are going to consolidate the vocabulary of computers and Internet tems.
1.Internet terms
1.Internet terms
- It is an abbreviation for information Technology. True
- The Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) are the same thing. False
- A browser is a person who enjoys looking at the WWW. True
- You can see pictures and words online but you cannot listen to sound.False
- You need the newest fastest computers to see the Web False
- Most Internet users are men True
- @ is called “at” in English True
2. Match the words to their definitions
Browser
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Software are that lets you access the WWW
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To download
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To get programs from the Internet
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To chat
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To have a conversation through the Internet by writing or speaking
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Email
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Letters you send by Internet
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A modem
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Thing that connects a computer to the Internet
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WI-FI
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Wirless device that allows computers connect to the Internet using a router
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On-line
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When you are connected to the Internet
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Software
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Computer programs
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Scroll down/up
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Move the page up or down using the side tabs with your mouse
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3. Choose the best word to complete the definition.
1. Use a fast modem to connect my computer to the Internet.
Downoald
Click
Save
Connect
2. Real Player is computer downoald that you see to listen music on the WWW.
Software
Hardware
Document
Download
3. I always save my documents on floppy disks.
Connect
Install
Save
Browser
4. Chat is a good way of meeting other people on the Internet.
Software
Chat
Address
Documents
5. A beep is a sound your computer makes when theres is an error.
Click
Beep
Downoald
User
4. Answer these questions
1. What is the difference between a Search Engine and a Browser? Give examples of commercial names of both.
You use a browser to access information on the Internet but you use a Search Engine to point you in the right direction of a web site that relates to the words you type in. A browser example is explorer and search engine example is yahoo.
2. .Which search engine do to use more?
We use Google
3. Which browser do you use more?
We use chrome
SESSION 6:COMPUTER TERMS
Answer these questions about the computer you are using. Then compare your answers with a partner.
1. What brand is your computer? My computer brand is philips.
My operating system of computer is Windows.
3. Which web browser(s) does your computer use?
My computer use Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
4. How many buttons are there on your mouse?
In my mouse are two buttons and a little whell in the middle.
5. Does your computer have a CD-ROM drive? And a DVD drive? And USB drives?
Yes, my computer have a CD-ROM drive, a DVD-drive and USB drives.
6. Find these keys on your keyboard. Check each key as you find it andwrite the symbol next to its name
Return (Enter):
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Hyphen or dash:
Guió [-]
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Space bar:
Espai
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Period or dot:
Punt [.]
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Shift:
Mayúscula
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Comma:
Coma [,]
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Tab:
Avançar fins el seguent “ tab stop”
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Colon:
Dos punts [:]
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Delete:
Esborrar
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Rigth parenthesis:
Parentesi [() ]
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Control:
Control
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Slash:
Barra [/]
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Escape:
Sortir
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At symbol:
Arrova [@]
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2. Match these wordprocessing terms with their definitions. Thencompare your answers with a partner.
1.a list of computer operations
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menu
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2. a box on the screen that shows information
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window
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3. a small picture or symbol
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icon
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4. text or other data stored together with a special name
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file
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5. software for creating text files
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Word processor
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6.press and release the button on the mouse
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highlight
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7.a little arrow on the screen that moves when you move the mouse
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cursor
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8.select text/images with the mouse
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click
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3. Match these words processing commands with their definitions below
new
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Cute and paste
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copy
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Close
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print
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open
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Save
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Save as
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1. Duplicate highlighted text /images to put somewhere else: copy
2. Preserve the contents of a document:save
3. Cut text/images from one place and put them somewhere else: cute and paste
4. Open an existing document: open
5. Create a new document: new
6. Send the contents of a document to the printer:print
7. Close the document without quitting the word processor: close
8. Save the contents of a document under a new file name: save as
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