ELU/Faculty of ScienceI
nstructor: Buthaina Al Othman

Week 0 & 1

Learning Basic Computer & Internet Skills to Improve Study Skills

During the two first sessions you will learn and practice the following study skills: Signing up for an e-mail account using Yahoo!. Learn some e-mail vocabulary words and phrases. How to use WP to compose and save your homework on your pc, a floppy disk, or to upload it to your yahoo! group. How to create and send an attachment via an e-mail message. How to use on-line dictionaries. What is a search engine and how to use it. How to use some Internet Communication Technologies, (ICTs), to text or voice chat in English with ESL/EFL teachers and students in other countries.

1. Go to Yahoo mail , and then click Sign up and follow the instructions.(To save time, do this activity at home before we meet for this session).
2. Create a Yahoo Messenger (YM) ID, so that you can participate in online text & voice Chat Projects!

You need to Download YMessenger to create your YM ID and to use the Chat tool!

Go to the tutorial page, to learn how to use Yahoo Messenger, ( by Chris Jones, Arizona, USA).

Activity 2: Using Online Dictionaries

1. Click to learn how to use Online Dictionaries.
2. Go to the Vocabulary list of Unit 1- North Star:"Advertising All Over the World" to practice using an online dictionary.(We will do together a few words and you should continue the rest of the list by yourself at home, if you have a pc, or come back later to the C-Lab, whenever you can, during this week).

Activitiy 3: Using Search Engines

Learn more about how to make your Internet Search fast and easy:

REGISTER for the 14 Days Trial at http://www.brainpop.com/

Now, use your username and password to log on to watch this movie Internet Serch!

Activity 4: Internet Search

Use the search skill you learned from the above movie, to find information about the following:

• Ectotourism. (Find the definition only)

• The Beetles. (Find who are they and what did they do?)
• Zaid Al-Refai. (Who is he? What did he do?)
• Go to the Search Engines page, and choose one to do your Internet Search.