Dialogue of African Partners: Book Donations in the New Century

IT/Internet Training Wednesday-Thursday, January 9-10, 2002

DAY ONE

Wednesday, January 9

Introductions and overview

What is the Internet? What is a Browser? What is a Search Engine? How can you use computers and the Internet to make your business more successful?

Netiquette/viruses
Open an email account: yahoo.com

Break

Finding information quickly and effectively:
Discussion and activities surrounding Internet search engines

Lunch

Internet topics: Bookmarks/Favorites, Cookies, File formats, audio/video, Web development

Break

Internet Communications: Chat, ListServs, Groups

Review of Day's Activities and Questions

DAY TWO

Thursday, January 10

Answer questions from Day One and Overview of Day Two activities

Free stuff on the Web vs. "There is no such thing as a free lunch" Copyright issues, freeware, shareware

Refining your Internet search skills

Break

Introduction to HTML
Basic Web site management

Lunch

Using other software programs with the Web: Spreadsheets, word processing, graphics, database.

Break

Follow-up work on topics, as decided by participants

Review of Training and Training Evaluation