Unit Standard 18758
Demonstrate navigation skills using a browser
Version 2
Level 1
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Unit Standard 18758
Demonstrate navigation skills using a browser (Version 2)
Results:
Element 1
1.1
Launch and close a web browser and use browser controls.
Browser is launched allowing access to the web.
1.2
URL is entered and the webpage is opened.
1.3
Browser controls are used to navigate between webpages.
forward and back,
home,
stop,
search,
favourites/bookmarks,
history.
1.4
refresh
Webpage content is saved.
content is printed,
content is saved to file
1.5
Brower is closed
Element 2
Use search engines.
2.1
Search engines appropriate to the search topic are selected and opened.
local search engines,
global search engines.
2.2
Query is formulated and entered.
simple search query - single word,
phrase;
advanced search - search engine advanced searching options,
use of the Boolean operators
AND,
OR,
Element 3
3.1
NOT.
Use webpage hyperlinks
Hyperlinks are identified on a webpage.
highlighted text,
pictures,
3.2
email addresses.
Hyperlink is opened.
hyperlink linking within a website or webpage,
hyperlink linking between websites.
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What is a web browser?
A web browser is a piece of software that allows you to see files written in Hypertext
Markup Language (HTML). HTML is the underlying language of web pages.
Despite the dominance of Microsoft Internet Explorer there are other Internet web
browsers. These include Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Navigator and Opera. Despite
the range of browsers they all essentially work the same way.
This is the site for Education Resource Services displayed on a computer using
Microsoft Internet Explorer
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This is the site for Education Resource Services displayed on a computer using
Mozilla Firefox.
As you can see both browsers display the site in pretty much the same way.
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Finding websites
Web pages are located through its Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The URL
(which is pronounced by its letters You-are-ell) is divided into several parts.
Take the Air New Zealand website as an example.
http://www.airnz.co.nz
The URL can be broken down into parts.
Part of URL:
What this means
http://
www.
airnz.
co.
nz
Hypertext transfer protocol.
World Wide Web
The domain name of the website
A commercial site
In New Zealand
The easiest way to find a website is to type in its URL into your browser.
exercises on the next page will practice this.
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The
Task One
Air New Zealand
Launch your browser to allow access to the web.
Enter the URL http://www.airnz.co.nz
You should see a site similar to the one below
You will see that there are a number of coloured buttons along the top of the page
These are called hyperlinks and they allow you to click with your mouse on the link to
go to other pages on this or other websites. You can tell that a button is a hyperlink
because the arrow pointer will change from an arrow to a hand when the mouse is
over a hyperlink.
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Task Two
Hyperlinks
Put your mouse over the Promotion hyperlink. The mouse pointer will change from
an arrow to a hand when the mouse is over the hyperlink and a drop down list will
appear.
Let’s have a look at the special offers by clicking on the link
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Once you have had a look at the special offers we need to go back to the home page
by clicking on the back button on the browser toolbar.
This will take you back to the last page you were looking at.
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Buttons
Depending upon which browser you are using the appearance but not the function of
the button will vary. In the table below the function of each button is listed.
Explorer
Firefox
Function
Back Takes you back to the previous page you were viewing
Forward Takes you forward to the previous page you were viewing
Refresh Reloads the current page
Stop Stops the current page from loading
Home Takes you back to the home page you have selected for your
browser
History Shows a list of the pages that you have viewed
Favourites/Bookmarks Shows a list of the pages that you have viewed
and decided to save to visit again later.
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Searching
A search is the use of a search engine to locate resources on a web. You can
perform a search which is;
or
A local search
A global search
So what’s the difference?
See if you can guess by correctly matching the boxes below.
A local search
A global search
Any search engine which is
specific to one website.
Any search engine not limited to
a single website
Any search engine Intentionally
limited to a specific topic
Any search engine not limited to
any topic
Any search engine Intentionally
limited to a specific locality
Any search engine not limited by
locality
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A local search
Launch your browser and go to the NZQA website
www.nzqa.govt.nz
In the search box type
Unit Standard 18758
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This is a local search because the search will only search within the NZQA website.
You should get a result similar to the one below.
To do a global search you
need to use a search engine
such as Google.
The Global search in Google will provide very different results. This is because it
searches globally across the whole World Wide Web.
Try this now
You should find that you will get over 30,000 hits. You don’t have time to look at all
of these and many of these will be irrelevant and no use to you at all. What you need
to do is narrow down your search by using advanced searching techniques.
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Advanced searching techniques
The number of
hits is shown here
Searching just within
New Zealand will narrow your
search down.
Advanced searches can be conducted using Boolean Logic. This means that when
you conduct a search you do so using the terms OR, AND & NOT.
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AND + E.g.: +Roman +Empire Finds pages that include both of the words
•
OR E.g.: Roman Empire Finds pages that include either of the words or both
of the words
•
NOT - E.g.: Roman – sandals Finds pages that contain the first word (Roman)
but not the second (sandals)
•
“…” E.g.: “Roman Empire” Finds pages containing the phrase
•
(…) E.g.: Roman NOT (sandals OR curtains) Finds pages containing the first
word NOT the other two
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Search Tools can speed your searching by eliminating unwanted
information.
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Use + to Add
e.g., if you want to find pages that have references to both Graeme Henry and
Richie McCaw on the same page. You could search this way:
+ Henry + McCaw
Only pages that contain both words would appear in your results.
2
Use - to Subtract
For example, imagine you want information about the rugby league player
Anthony Mundine but don't want to see pages relating to his boxing career. You
could search this way:
Mundine – Boxing
3
Use Quotation Marks To Multiply
This is where you tell a search engine to give you pages where the terms appear
in exactly the order you specify. You do this by putting quotation marks around
the phrase, like this:
"Cook strait ferries"
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Combine Symbols to create complex queries
For example, to find the Star Trek's original series? We might use subtraction &
multiplication:
"star trek" -voyager -"deep space nine" -"next generation"
Using advanced search functions within a Google Search
To access the advanced
search page click here
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This is the advanced search page in Google.
Exercises
Using the advanced search feature in the Google search page perform the following
searches and record the number of hits you get.
Search
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with all the words Taranaki Holiday Homes
2
with the exact phrase Taranaki Holiday Homes
3
with one of the words Taranaki Holiday Homes
4
without the words Taranaki Holiday Homes
Number of hits
Selecting Pages just from New Zealand
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with all the words Taranaki Holiday Homes
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with the exact phrase Taranaki Holiday Homes
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Hopefully you will notice that by using different selections within the advanced search
feature the number of hits will change.
Now practise your search techniques using AND OR NOT “…” & (…) about the
Roman Empire
Search
Number of hits
1
Both of the words Roman Empire
2
Either of the words Roman Empire
3
Only the word Roman but not the word sandal
4
The exact phrase Roman Empire
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Only the word Roman but not the words sandal or
curtain
Favourites
or Bookmarks
When you have found a website that you would like to see again it is often useful to
be able to save it so that you can find it again. This is done by book marking the
page or saving the URL into your favourites. The terms bookmarks and favourites
mean the same thing and are interchangeable.
In Firefox choose
Bookmark this page
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In Internet Explorer choose
Add to favorites
Exercises
Create bookmarks or favourites for each of theses websites.
flicks.co.nz
airnz.co.nz
qantas.com.au
skycitycinemas.co.nz
flypacificblue.com
stagecoachbus.com
intercity.co.nz
hoyts.co.nz
imdb.com
You will soon notice that it is hard to see individual bookmarks or favourites. If you
keep on adding your list will become a huge mess. It is therefore necessary to
organise you favourites into folders just like you would you other files and folders.
This is quite easy to do.
In Internet Explorer choose
Add to favorites
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In Internet Explorer choose
Create Folder
Then move to Folder
In Firefox choose
Organise Bookmarks
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You will then see a window like this:
Create a new Folder here
Drag bookmarks from here
into the appropriate folders
New Folders appear here
Exercises
Organise your bookmarks or favourites.
• Create a folder called Cinema
o Move all the film related bookmarks to this folder
• Create a folder called Travel
o Inside the travel folder create a folder called Buses
o Inside the travel folder create a folder called AirTravel
Move all the travel related bookmarks to the appropriate folder
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Printing and saving web page content
When you have visited a web page you may well want to save or print the content.
Printing the content is easy but if you are not careful you will waste a lot of paper and
ink printing details you do not want such as adverts and navigation buttons.
Exercises
Imagine you are trying to organise your OE. As part of your trip you want to find out
the cost of flights from Manchester in England to Dublin in Ireland. The national
airline for Ireland is Aer Lingus. Visit the website www.aerlingus.com and find the
price of a flight from Manchester in England to Dublin in Ireland leaving on a Friday
and coming back on a Sunday.
You should see a page like this;
You decide you can’t decide on your own and need to show these details to a friend
who is travelling with you. You decide to print out the page. If you print it as it is you
will get all of the logos along the top. This is a waste as all we want is the flight
details.
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• Highlight the page from Select Flights down to the white space below the return
flight box.
• Choose File Print or ctrl p
• When the dialogue box appears make sure selection is selected
• Press Print
Make sure selection is selected.
Then press print.
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You speak to your friend and decide you should compare prices with other airlines.
You agree that you will look up some other prices and then email them all to your
friend at work before deciding to book anything.
• Open Microsoft Word
o create a new document called flights.doc
• Switch back to the Aer Lingus flights page
o Highlight the page from Select Flights down to the white space below
•
the return flight box.
o Copy the text by choosing
Edit copy or
Ctrl+c
Switch back to the document called flights.doc
o Paste the text by choosing
Edit paste or
Ctrl+v
Another airline that flies from Manchester to Dublin is called Ryan Air.
• Create a search for the Ryan Air website and
• find the price of a flight from Manchester in England to Dublin in Ireland
• leaving on a Friday and coming back on a Sunday.
When you have found the flights copy and paste them below the Aer Lingus flights in
your word document called flights.doc
• Create a search for other airlines that fly from Manchester in England to Dublin
in Ireland
• When you have found the flights copy and paste the details below the other
flights in your word document called flights.doc
Currency conversion web page
Your friend is confused by your flight prices – they are all in Great British Pounds or
else Euros. To make sense of them they need to be in New Zealand Dollars.
• Create a search for a currency conversion website and
• Covert the prices of the flights and
• Paste them into the word document called flights.doc in the appropriate places.
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Saving Pictures from a web page
When you are writing projects it is often a good idea to illustrate your work by using
pictures. It is important that the pictures you use are copyright free. Unless pictures
are free of copyright or you gain permission you should not use them. A good place
to find pictures that are free for you to use is flickr.com
Exercises
Go to flickr.com.
• Enter sky tower in the search box.
o Scroll down until you see a picture you like
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I quite like this one.
To save it right click on the picture
• Right click on the picture and then
o Select Save Image As
o Save the image in the appropriate place on your network drive.
o Make sure you choose a meaningful name for the picture so you can
find and identify it again.
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Creating a Photo Montage
Your friend is now uncertain about the trip to Dublin.
Convince him that it would be a cool place to visit by creating a photo montage of
pictures from flickrTM in a new word document.
• Open Microsoft Word
o create a new document called Dublin Montage.doc
• Switch back to the flickr page
• Enter Dublin in the search box.
o Scroll down until you see a picture you like
o Copy the picture by right clicking on the picture and then choosing
o Copy Image
• Switch back to the document called Dublin Montage.doc
o Paste the picture by choosing
Edit paste or
Ctrl+v
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Referencing Pictures from a web page
It is good practice to reference your pictures in your pictures.
• Switch back to the flickr page
• Right click on the picture and select properties
• Highlight the properties
o Copy the text by choosing
Right clicking and choosing copy or
Ctrl+c
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• Switch back to the document called Dublin Montage.doc
o Click next to the picture choose
Insert
Reference
Footnote
Choose insert when this
dialogue window shows.
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The paste the properties next to the little number one at the bottom of the page to
add the reference
Now add more photos to your montage and reference them in the same way.
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