StopPreviousNext Vicnet Internet training course Workbook 4 Introduction toEasy English workbook March 2011 StopPreviousNext Copyright State Library of Victoria, 2011 You can Share copy it or give it to other people. Remix change it. These are the rules Attribution You must write Copyright State Library of Victoria. Non-commercial You cannot sell it or use it to make money. Share Alike If you change it, the new work must have the same license as this work. For more information, contact Vicnet at the State Library of Victoria PhoneAddress Website (03) Swanston Street, Melbourne VIC This publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Australia License. To view a copy of this license, visit2 StopPreviousNext About Vicnet Internet training workbooks This workbook is part of a series of workbooks in Easy English. They provide basic information on how to use the Internet. You can see all the workbooks on the Vicnet website:The workbooks were written by Vicnet at the State Library of Victoria The funding came from Department of Planning and Community Development When writing this workbook Vicnet used computers with Microsoft Windows 7 operating system Internet Explorer version 8 3 StopPreviousNext How to use this workbook This workbook should be used with a trainer. The trainer could be a friend or someone from your school, library, neighbourhood house or other organisation. Websites on the Internet change often. The text and pictures in this workbook may be different from those you see on the Internet. A circle is used to show you which part of the picture to look at. 4 StopPreviousNext 5 What is in this Workbook WhatWhat is? is ? WhatWhat is anaddress? isan address? HowHow to use touse StartStart your your WriteWrite a new anew Contacts AddAdd new contacts newcontacts SignSign out of your outofyour StopPreviousNext Hint Use the left mouse button for this workbook. 6 StopPreviousNext What is?is electronic mail. You get anin your letter box. Theletter box is called the inbox. You need to have the Internet on your computer to use. You can sendmessages. You can receivemessages. Anmessage can be Writing Photos (attachments) Videos 7 StopPreviousNext What is anaddress? Anaddress has: A name The name can be your real name or a made up name symbol The Internet orcompany name The type ofaccount For example.com (company) Your country For example au (Australia) You need anaddress to use. 8 StopPreviousNext Hint To type symbol Press the Shift key on your keyboard and at the same time Press the number 2 on your keyboard 9 StopPreviousNext How to useYou need to open the Internet to use You can use any computer with the Internet to use your. In this workbook we will use a company called Google (Gmail) to demonstrate. The website address for Google Australia isThis is the home page of the Google Australia website. StopPreviousNext How to use Move your mouse over the address bar showing the current website address. Do 1 click. You will see the current website address surrounded with blue Type in this website addressPress the Enter key on your keyboard. You will see the Google Australia website home page. 11 StopPreviousNext Move your mouse over Gmail at the top of the web page. Do 1 click. You will see the Gmail home page. 12 StopPreviousNext 13 Start yourTo start using youraccount (Gmail) you will need to sign in. Sign in When you sign in it is like using your key to unlock your front door. Use the correct key to open the door and go inside. Username The username is the first part of youraddress. Password Your password can be a word or numbers or both, of your choice Keep your password a secret. This will stop other people using your. StopPreviousNext Sign in to your1.Move your mouse in the box next to Username. 2. Do 1 click Type your Username. Move the mouse in the box next to Password. Do 1 click. Type your Password. You will not see what you type. You will see dots. This is to keep your password a secret. 14 StopPreviousNext Do not tick the box next to Stay signed in. Remember the computer you are using may be in a public Internet place Move your mouse over the Sign in box. Do 1 click. You will see your Gmail screen. 15 StopPreviousNext Your Inbox Your Inbox is like your letter box at home.s go in to your Inbox. 16 StopPreviousNext Your Inbox will show you how many news you have received. 17 For example Inbox (2) means there are 2 news in the inbox. The message list shows yours in your inbox (news and olds). The news will be in bold. StopPreviousNext Your inbox Move your mouse over a newin your inbox. Do 1 click. Thewill open and you can read it now. 18 StopPreviousNext Reply to anYou can reply to thes you get from others. Reply is when you send anback to a person who hased you. 19 StopPreviousNext Reply to an Move your mouse over Reply. Do 1 click. The reply box will appear. When you reply to a personstheiraddress will show in the To: box. You do not need to type the personsaddress. 20 StopPreviousNext 21 You will see a blinking line. The blinking line shows you where to type your reply message. 3. Type your message in the message box. StopPreviousNext Move your mouse over Send. Do 1 click. Yourmessage will be sent to the person you are replying to. 22 StopPreviousNext Write a new Move your mouse over Compose Mail. Do 1 click. Move your mouse in the box next to To: Do 1 click. Type the personsaddress in the To: box 23 StopPreviousNext Move your mouse on the box next to Subject. Do 1 click. Type the subject in the subject line. The subject tells the receiver what the main message in youris. 9.Move your mouse in the space in the message box. 10. Do 1 click. You will see a blinking line. 11. Type your message in the message box. 24 StopPreviousNext 12. Move your mouse over Send. 13. Do 1 click. Your newmessage will be sent to this contact. 25 StopPreviousNext Contacts A contacts list is like an address book. It contains a list ofaddresses of people that you know and that you can sends to. Find a contact Move your mouse over Contacts. Do 1 click. StopPreviousNext A list of contacts will appear Move your mouse over the box next to the contact you want to. Do 1 click. A tick will appear in the box beside this contact Move your mouse over. Do 1 click. 27 StopPreviousNext A newscreen will appear. Theaddress you selected previously is now in the To: box. You can add the Subject, type your message and send the. 28 StopPreviousNext Add new contacts Move your mouse over Contacts. Do 1 click. Move your mouse over the arrow next to Add to My Contacts. Do 1 click. Move your mouse in the box under Add to My Contacts. Do 1 click. 29 StopPreviousNext Type in theaddress of the person you want to add to your contacts. Move your mouse over Add in the yellow line. Do 1 click. The contact has been added to My Contacts. 10. Move your mouse over theaddress of the new contact. 11. Do 1 click. 30 StopPreviousNext You can add details for this new contact, such as their photo, name, phone numbers, address and/or birthday Move your mouse on the Add Name box. 13. Do 1 click. 14. A blue box will appear around Add name. StopPreviousNext 15. Type the persons name over the blue box. 16. Move your mouse over Phone. 17. Do 1 click. 18. You can type the mobile phone number of the new contact. The information will be saved in My Contacts. You can add more phone numbers, the address and birthday of this contact. 32 StopPreviousNext Sign out of yourTo finish using youryou need to sign out. You must sign out to make sure other people cannot use your. 33 StopPreviousNext Sign out Move your mouse over Sign Out. Do 1 click. The Gmail sign in page will appear. You are now signed out of youraccount. 34