How to find materials

1) What is "smart" searching?
Consist of knowing how to sift through the millions of accessible web pages in the fastest and most effective way to find what you and your learners need.
2) What are the most popular search engines?
The most popular search engines are google, yahoo and msn.
3) The websites that appear at the top of the results pages are there for several?
They are a combination of the most popular ones covering this topic and those whose owners have paid to appear near the top of the list when certain words are searched for.
4) Is it better to put more or less words into search engine?
The more specific you search criteria, the more likely the results will include something useful to you.
5) Should you include words such as the, in, and when searching? Why, or why not?
No, because the search engines ignore them.
6) What happens if I put a "+"/"-"before the information that I am searching for?
Placing "+" symbol in front a word means that this word must be on the web page for it to be included in the results and the "-" symbol in front of a word means that no web pages with this word must be included in the results.
7) If I type "OR" between two words that I am looking for, what will the search engine do?
Placing an OR between two words means the web pages must include either one of these words or a both.
8) If I type "Angelina Jolie is going to marry Brad Pitt", what will the search engine do?
Placing a phrase inside double quotation marks tells the search engine to look for this exac phrase.
9) How do you limit the search to only one website?Such as the BBC?
You search criteria should be followed by site.
10) If I go to http://news.google.com, what type of information do you think I am looking for?
Searches only websites of news-gatherering organizations such as newspapers and TV companies.

I saw a UFO

Tagzania: snakerbdn

Reporting on a forum

John Thorp : Good morning Mrs. Waters. I know you like participating in forums about UFOs. You told me that you really believe in them. I know you were in a forum when someone said he had seen a UFO. Could you, please, answer a few questions?

Louise Waters: Oh, yes, sure.

John Thorp : Right then. What newsgroup is this?

Louise Waters: the newsgroup is alt.alien.visitors

John Thorp : who sent the first message?

Louise Waters: the first message sent rsony@hotmail.com

John Thorp : when did he send it?

Louise Waters: he send it 06 March 1998 05.36

John Thorp : where was flight KN162 going?

Louise Waters: the flight KN162 going from Dallas to Fargo

John Thorp : what did the pilot see?

Louise Waters: the pilot see a UFO

John Thorp : who sent the second message?

Louise Waters: the second message sent Ben & Thelma

John Thorp : what was the object?

Louise Waters: the object was an experimental military plane

John Thorp : why do they think so?

Louise Waters: because there are no reports of alien ships with wings

John Thorp : what did the coastguard see?

Louise Waters: the coastguard see 3 winged craft

John Thorp : what was he doing?

Louise Waters: he going to searching for a missing fishing boat

A Online Course

To do this online cours

-An email is needed to comunicate with your teacher an send homework.
-A world web conection is needed to display tasks and texts.
-Access to video conferencing is needed to have live lectures and discussions, so a webcam is needed and also a microphone and headphones.
-Flash and java are also needed.
-A gmail account is needed to have access to google doc.
-A registration number is needed to enter the course.

So you will have to sing up (register) to sign in (enter).

IT classroms use 15 computers, a scanner and a laser printer.
The secretaries office use one computer and one laser printer.
The staffroom use 5 computers and one laser printer.
The headmaster's office use one computer and one laser printer.
The library use 15 computers and one laser printer.
In the IT classrooms, the students use them for working and the teachers use them for displaying different information, for exams and sendinding information.
In the secretaries office, they use them for timetables, students data and reports.
In the staffroom the teachers are the users and they write exams and they also write students reports.
The headmaster uses the computer for sending e-mails to they Catalan departament of education
The libraryan uses data base where she enters all the books in the library.

New Town Health Center Local Area Network

This LAN connects receptionist, doctors and the practise manager in a health center.
It also connects the center whith local health board.
There is a PC in each consulting room and another in the practise manager room and in the reception. There there is also a server and two printers, a laser one and a dot-matrix one.
The receptionits use the PC mainly for appoiments, the doctors use it to get drugs information, to write, to check and to save patients records and for prescriptions.
All of them use the PC for surfing the web and send email to hospital, other practices and the local health board.

updating our storage devices

CD-ROM and DVD-ROM

CD-ROM disks are very com and conformto a standart but we have now in the market the DVD. Now the CD-ROM and DVD-ROM existed two types:
CD-ROM RD(read only memory)
Capacity from 700MB to 800MB
CD-ROM RW(rewriteable)
capacity fron 700MB to 800MB






DVD-ROM RD(read onli memory)
capacity 4.7GB
DVD-ROM RW(rewriteable)
capacity 4.7GB

And now there are also double layer CDs and DVDs

PEN DRIVE

You need an usb port.

They have a diferent capacitiesfrom 128MB to 4GB.
The standart capacity is 1 or 2GB.
They have much more capacity than floppy disk.
They are faster and very easy to carry.
You can use the pen drive to store files but you can also store programs.
There for you can install them in another computer or in the same pen drive.
They are becoming cheaper and cheaper day by day.
Nowadays you can get a 2GB pen drive for less than 20 euros.