Self-Paced Program - Pick a Box..

OutReach Demonstration - 1.5 hours

An on site demonstration of the internet and the World Wide Web is conducted, where the people are located. This could be the local bowls club, bingo hall, community centre etc.

Aim:

Introduce and demystify the internet and www
Promote opportunities and available training

Broad Learning Outcomes:

Reduce the level of anxiety towards the www
Appreciate the www in context of society today

Intro to PC Course - 8 hours

A hands on course, with everyone having their own PC, focussed on getting the key skills and concepts required to navigate a web browser and surf the World Wide Web.

Aim

Develop the basic PC skills to surf
Reduce the level of techno-anxiety

Broad Learning Outcomes:

Understand the concept and uses of a PC
Be able to identify and correctly use keys on the keyboard
Be able to operate a mouse
Identify parts of the desktop

Specifically for GreyNet - In a classroom environment, given a Mouse, pad and personal computer operating Windows 95, the learner will:

navigate within the environment and initiate a nominated application, bringing up the application’s start-up page/screen
open, close and resize nominated application windows using a mouse
use the scroll bar function to navigate up and down an application’s window using a mouse
navigate the toolbar and open drop down windows and initiate a nominated function using a mouse
demonstrate highlighting of nominated text within an application using a mouse

Intro to Net Course - 2 hours

A session where the key concepts and skills required to surf the World Wide Web are discussed and demonstrated. The learners are then introduced to their workbook and the GreyNet website.

Aim:

Enable people to start surfing the WWW
Give people confidence to go it alone: self-paced

Broad Learning Outcomes:

Understand the key concepts required to surf the WWW
Be able to enter and operate a web browser
Be able to manage their own learning through use of a self-paced workbook

Specifically, the learners will be able to:

define the concept of WWW.
define the concept of internet.
recognise and define the concept of URL
recognise and define the concept of links
recognise and define the concept of browser
demonstrate searching the Internet for information using a Netscape browser
demonstrate navigating and scrolling across the web pages and sites, returning home when asked to, using a Netscape browser

Self-Paced Learning - workbook & web site

This is where people are off doing it themselves: self-paced. The process for this is:

Learners will make a booking for access to the web at the local library or friends place for example. This will encouraged in the intro to Net course.
They will read the workbook and refresh their knowledge, hopefully, before determining where they will begin and what they want to do
They will then start the activities in the workbook. The first being to gain access with the following two focussed on refreshing the skills covered in the face-2-face session.

Activities:

1. Accessing the web and logging on to the GreyNet home page

2. Refresher on links

3. Refresher on back & forwards

4. Exploring the www

Has several sites that are local and familiar: the Age newspaper: give contrast to info on line and enable practicing of skills.

5. Exploring sites in more depth

There are a series of questions where learners are expected to start using the www to find things. This will exercise their use of the basic skills and also introduce them to the variety of structures in the www and how information is presented.

6. Search engines

Enable more complex tasks to be done.

The overall aim of the workbook and web site is to introduce people to the www and support their exploration, learning and building of confidence.

Facilitated Session - 2 hours (two weeks after Intro to Net)

A time where the group gets together to share experiences, discuss issues, answer questions posed in the workbook and see where to go to next.

Aim:

enable sharing of experiences
begin to build a community

Broad Learning Outcomes:

none in particular, other than participation in life-long learning

The approach is:

Introduce session and its purpose
discuss experiences to date
walk through the workbook and activities and discuss as you go
demonstrate the activities using either the local harddrive version of the site or if possible the live version
discuss questions asked from workbook and answers got: compare and discuss
discuss issues such as problems, access, barriers etc.

state what’s next: ongoing community development aspect

Future Modules

It is planned to design and develop an array of modules, covering areas such as email, newsgroups, HTML etc.