By Lorrie Jackson
WHY A TECHTORIAL?
What will I learn today?
You will learn how to find and use all the Internet Explorer tools.
What hardware and/or software does the techtorial apply to?
The techtorial will be helpful for anyone with a computer with Internet access and an Internet Explorer browser.
Which National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers does the techtorial address?
The techtorial will help teachers accomplish standard IIc in particular.
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has developed a set of National Educational Technology Standards for
Teachers. Standards or Performance Indicators are included for each techtorial to help teachers and administrators improve
technology proficiency. For a complete description of the standards indicated, go to NETS for Teachers, click Standards in the menu
bar on the left, and then click the arrow to the right of Standards and Performance Indicators for Teachers.
SURFING WITH STYLE!
Most relatively new -- and many extremely experienced -- Internet users see their browser as little more than a
window to the Web. Few take the time to explore the many useful tools their Internet browser provides. Internet
Explorer, for example, one of the most commonly used browsers, has a number of little known bells and
whistles that can make your Web work simpler and smarter. If you're one of those Web surfers who has yet to
dive beneath the surface of Internet Explorer, this techtorial is for you.
The best way to complete the techtorial successfully is to have both the instructions and your browser window
available at the same time. To do that, you'll need to either print the techtorial or open two IE windows at the
same time.
To print the techtorial:
Click the blue bar at the top of this techtorial window. Hold down the mouse button and drag the slide until you
can see the first slide of the techtorial beneath it. Click Printable Version of Techtorial. Then, click the Print icon
or click File > Print > OK. Now, you can read the printed instructions and follow those instructions in Internet
Explorer.
To open two Internet Explorer windows:
Open Internet Explorer. Click File > New > Window. Then you can click the first Internet Explorer window to
read the instructions, and click the second IE window to follow those instructions.
"Window juggling" is an excellent skill to have. It allows you to work with any two programs --
Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer, for example -- at the same time.
Ready to begin? Follow the steps in this techtorial to learn some Internet Explorer tips and tricks.
Education World® Tips and Tricks for Using Internet Explorer
SAY TO YOURSELF: ICON DO IT!
On a computer, an icon is an image that represents a frequently used file, program, application, or tool. To
complete this techtorial, you will need to know the meaning of some Internet Explorer icons. Roll your mouse
over each icon in the menu bar at the top of the Internet Explorer screen as we walk through the following most
commonly used icons.
l An arrow pointing to the left: The Back arrow returns you to the Web site you last visited.
l An arrow pointing to the right: The Forward arrow (sometimes labeled Next) returns you to the Web
site -- if any -- you visited after the Web site you are currently on.
l A document or circle with an X in the center: Stop stops the download of a site or its elements (such as
sounds, video, pictures, and so on.)
l Two green arrows on a white document: Refresh reloads the latest version of a Web page. Click this
periodically if you are viewing a Web site -- such as a weather or news page -- that periodically updates
information.
l A house: Home returns you to the page you have designated as your home page.
l A globe with a magnifying glass: Search finds a site by name, topic, or content using the MSN.com
search engine.
l A file folder: Favorites allows you to "bookmark" sites you use frequently or want to save for future use.
l A sundial: History allows you to see which sites you've visited over a specified period of time. You can
use History to find a site you visited recently or to track the sites a student has recently visited.
l A printer: Click Print to print an entire page or document. To print only one page or picture in a longer
document, go to File>Print instead.
l A document with a W or a pencil on it: Click Edit to see only the text and html tags of a Web page. This
tool allows you to copy or print large blocks of text from a Web page. (Do not plagiarize! Be sure to
always cite your sources.)
More Terms to Know
To complete the techtorial, you also will need to know the following terms:
l Home page: the page your browser opens to when you first log on to the Internet.
l Web page: a single World Wide Web file containing text and media (sound, graphics, etc.) and coded
tags (such as HTML) that describe how the file should look when the browser displays it.
l Web site: one or more Web pages maintained as a set by a person, group, business, or organization.
For example, Education World Techtorials is a Web page that is part of the
EducationWorld Web site.
l Address bar: the area at the top of the browser window that contains the URL of the page you are on.
To go to a new page, type the URL of that page in the address bar and hit Enter.
l URL: Uniform Resource Locator; a Web site's address. For example, http://www.loc.gov is the URL for
the Library of Congress.
Education World® Tips and Tricks for Using Internet Explorer
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Open Internet Explorer. Where are you? You're on your home page! Your home page is the first page you see
when you log on to Internet Explorer. Your home page might be Education World; your school Web site; a
search engine, such as Yahoo, an e-mail provider, such as Hotmail, or any other site you choose! Changing
your home page is easy -- once you know how. For example, to make Education World your home page:
l In the address bar, type http://www.educationworld.com and hit Enter. You should now see Education
World's main page.
l In the address bar, find the blue Internet Explorer E directly to the left of Education World's URL.
l Drag the Internet Explorer icon to the house icon in the Internet Explorer menu bar.
l Click YES to answer the question: "Do you want to make Education World your home page?"
l To check whether the change was successful, type the URL of any other site in the address bar and hit
ENTER. Then click the house icon. If the change was successful, Internet Explorer will return to
Education World's home page.
l If the change was not successful, go to the site you want as your home page, and then click
Tools>Internet Options. Under the General tab, click Use Current and OK.
SHORTCUTS TO SUCCESS!
Are there sites you go to a lot or have your students go to a lot? Do you want your students to easily be able to
go to a site without typing a long URL? Do you want to limit your students Internet use to only a few sites?
Make it easy on them and on yourself by creating a desktop shortcut for each of those sites.
l Go to the Web site to which you want to create a shortcut.
l Click File > Send > Shortcut to Desktop.
l A new icon (a piece of paper with the Internet Explorer E on it) should pop up on your desktop. Note the
arrow on the icon. That tells you the icon is a shortcut to a site or document.
l If you want to rename the icon, right-click the title beneath the icon and select Rename.
l You or your students now can double-click the shortcut to get to that site.
QUICK TIPS AND TRICKS
The following additional quick tips will help you make better use of your Internet Explorer browser.
l To enlarge or decrease the size of text on a Web page, click View >Text Size and select the size you
need.
l To save a favorite site, go to that site, and then click the Favorites icon. Click Add or Add to Favorites,
click the folder in which you want to save the site, and then click OK. To rename the site to something
that will help you remember what its' about, type the new name in the Name window. To create a new
folder in which to organize your Favorites, follow the steps above, but before clicking OK, click New
Folder, type a name for your folder in the window, and click OK.
l You can speed up your Web surfing by deleting some temporary files. (Those are pages the computer
Education World® Tips and Tricks for Using Internet Explorer
automatically saves, but they can slow down performance if your computer is short of memory.) Go to
Tools > Internet Options, choose the General tab, and find the Temporary Internet files section. Click
Delete files.
l Separate the good, the bad, and the ugly by using Content Advisor to filter out inappropriate Web sites.
(At most schools, you probably already have a filter, but this also is a helpful tool to share with parents.)
Go to Tools > Internet Options > Content. In the Content Advisor section, click Enable, and then click
Settings. Click and highlight each category, the slider to determine how vigilant you want the filter to be,
and then click OK. A window labeled Content Supervisor Password will open. To prevent students (or
anyone else) from changing your Content Advisor settings, type a password and click OK.
TELL ME MORE!
Where can I learn more?
For a free download of Internet Explorer 6 (the latest version of the program) or for more handy tricks go to
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 page.
What's next?
Next week's techtorial will be Spring Fever Solutions: Six Easy Office Activities for Grades K-6
WHY A TECHTORIAL?
What will I learn today?
You will learn how to find and use all the Internet Explorer tools.
What hardware and/or software does the techtorial apply to?
The techtorial will be helpful for anyone with a computer with Internet access and an Internet Explorer browser.
Which National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers does the techtorial address?
The techtorial will help teachers accomplish standard IIc in particular.
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has developed a set of National Educational Technology Standards for
Teachers. Standards or Performance Indicators are included for each techtorial to help teachers and administrators improve
technology proficiency. For a complete description of the standards indicated, go to NETS for Teachers, click Standards in the menu
bar on the left, and then click the arrow to the right of Standards and Performance Indicators for Teachers.
SURFING WITH STYLE!
Most relatively new -- and many extremely experienced -- Internet users see their browser as little more than a
window to the Web. Few take the time to explore the many useful tools their Internet browser provides. Internet
Explorer, for example, one of the most commonly used browsers, has a number of little known bells and
whistles that can make your Web work simpler and smarter. If you're one of those Web surfers who has yet to
dive beneath the surface of Internet Explorer, this techtorial is for you.
The best way to complete the techtorial successfully is to have both the instructions and your browser window
available at the same time. To do that, you'll need to either print the techtorial or open two IE windows at the
same time.
To print the techtorial:
Click the blue bar at the top of this techtorial window. Hold down the mouse button and drag the slide until you
can see the first slide of the techtorial beneath it. Click Printable Version of Techtorial. Then, click the Print icon
or click File > Print > OK. Now, you can read the printed instructions and follow those instructions in Internet
Explorer.
To open two Internet Explorer windows:
Open Internet Explorer. Click File > New > Window. Then you can click the first Internet Explorer window to
read the instructions, and click the second IE window to follow those instructions.
"Window juggling" is an excellent skill to have. It allows you to work with any two programs --
Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer, for example -- at the same time.
Ready to begin? Follow the steps in this techtorial to learn some Internet Explorer tips and tricks.
Education World® Tips and Tricks for Using Internet Explorer
SAY TO YOURSELF: ICON DO IT!
On a computer, an icon is an image that represents a frequently used file, program, application, or tool. To
complete this techtorial, you will need to know the meaning of some Internet Explorer icons. Roll your mouse
over each icon in the menu bar at the top of the Internet Explorer screen as we walk through the following most
commonly used icons.
l An arrow pointing to the left: The Back arrow returns you to the Web site you last visited.
l An arrow pointing to the right: The Forward arrow (sometimes labeled Next) returns you to the Web
site -- if any -- you visited after the Web site you are currently on.
l A document or circle with an X in the center: Stop stops the download of a site or its elements (such as
sounds, video, pictures, and so on.)
l Two green arrows on a white document: Refresh reloads the latest version of a Web page. Click this
periodically if you are viewing a Web site -- such as a weather or news page -- that periodically updates
information.
l A house: Home returns you to the page you have designated as your home page.
l A globe with a magnifying glass: Search finds a site by name, topic, or content using the MSN.com
search engine.
l A file folder: Favorites allows you to "bookmark" sites you use frequently or want to save for future use.
l A sundial: History allows you to see which sites you've visited over a specified period of time. You can
use History to find a site you visited recently or to track the sites a student has recently visited.
l A printer: Click Print to print an entire page or document. To print only one page or picture in a longer
document, go to File>Print instead.
l A document with a W or a pencil on it: Click Edit to see only the text and html tags of a Web page. This
tool allows you to copy or print large blocks of text from a Web page. (Do not plagiarize! Be sure to
always cite your sources.)
More Terms to Know
To complete the techtorial, you also will need to know the following terms:
l Home page: the page your browser opens to when you first log on to the Internet.
l Web page: a single World Wide Web file containing text and media (sound, graphics, etc.) and coded
tags (such as HTML) that describe how the file should look when the browser displays it.
l Web site: one or more Web pages maintained as a set by a person, group, business, or organization.
For example, Education World Techtorials is a Web page that is part of the
EducationWorld Web site.
l Address bar: the area at the top of the browser window that contains the URL of the page you are on.
To go to a new page, type the URL of that page in the address bar and hit Enter.
l URL: Uniform Resource Locator; a Web site's address. For example, http://www.loc.gov is the URL for
the Library of Congress.
Education World® Tips and Tricks for Using Internet Explorer
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Open Internet Explorer. Where are you? You're on your home page! Your home page is the first page you see
when you log on to Internet Explorer. Your home page might be Education World; your school Web site; a
search engine, such as Yahoo, an e-mail provider, such as Hotmail, or any other site you choose! Changing
your home page is easy -- once you know how. For example, to make Education World your home page:
l In the address bar, type http://www.educationworld.com and hit Enter. You should now see Education
World's main page.
l In the address bar, find the blue Internet Explorer E directly to the left of Education World's URL.
l Drag the Internet Explorer icon to the house icon in the Internet Explorer menu bar.
l Click YES to answer the question: "Do you want to make Education World your home page?"
l To check whether the change was successful, type the URL of any other site in the address bar and hit
ENTER. Then click the house icon. If the change was successful, Internet Explorer will return to
Education World's home page.
l If the change was not successful, go to the site you want as your home page, and then click
Tools>Internet Options. Under the General tab, click Use Current and OK.
SHORTCUTS TO SUCCESS!
Are there sites you go to a lot or have your students go to a lot? Do you want your students to easily be able to
go to a site without typing a long URL? Do you want to limit your students Internet use to only a few sites?
Make it easy on them and on yourself by creating a desktop shortcut for each of those sites.
l Go to the Web site to which you want to create a shortcut.
l Click File > Send > Shortcut to Desktop.
l A new icon (a piece of paper with the Internet Explorer E on it) should pop up on your desktop. Note the
arrow on the icon. That tells you the icon is a shortcut to a site or document.
l If you want to rename the icon, right-click the title beneath the icon and select Rename.
l You or your students now can double-click the shortcut to get to that site.
QUICK TIPS AND TRICKS
The following additional quick tips will help you make better use of your Internet Explorer browser.
l To enlarge or decrease the size of text on a Web page, click View >Text Size and select the size you
need.
l To save a favorite site, go to that site, and then click the Favorites icon. Click Add or Add to Favorites,
click the folder in which you want to save the site, and then click OK. To rename the site to something
that will help you remember what its' about, type the new name in the Name window. To create a new
folder in which to organize your Favorites, follow the steps above, but before clicking OK, click New
Folder, type a name for your folder in the window, and click OK.
l You can speed up your Web surfing by deleting some temporary files. (Those are pages the computer
Education World® Tips and Tricks for Using Internet Explorer
automatically saves, but they can slow down performance if your computer is short of memory.) Go to
Tools > Internet Options, choose the General tab, and find the Temporary Internet files section. Click
Delete files.
l Separate the good, the bad, and the ugly by using Content Advisor to filter out inappropriate Web sites.
(At most schools, you probably already have a filter, but this also is a helpful tool to share with parents.)
Go to Tools > Internet Options > Content. In the Content Advisor section, click Enable, and then click
Settings. Click and highlight each category, the slider to determine how vigilant you want the filter to be,
and then click OK. A window labeled Content Supervisor Password will open. To prevent students (or
anyone else) from changing your Content Advisor settings, type a password and click OK.
TELL ME MORE!
Where can I learn more?
For a free download of Internet Explorer 6 (the latest version of the program) or for more handy tricks go to
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 page.
What's next?
Next week's techtorial will be Spring Fever Solutions: Six Easy Office Activities for Grades K-6
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