SAY
TO YOURSELF: ICON DO IT!
On a computer, an icon is an image that represents a frequently
used file, program, application, or tool. To complete this techtorial,
you will need to know the meaning of some Internet Explorer icons.
Roll your mouse over each icon in the menu bar at the top of the
Internet Explorer screen as we walk through the following most commonly
used icons.
- An arrow pointing to the left: The Back arrow returns
you to the Web site you last visited.
- An arrow pointing to the right: The Forward arrow (sometimes
labeled Next) returns you to the Web site -- if any --
you visited after the Web site you are currently on.
- A document or circle with an X in the center: Stop stops
the download of a site or its elements (such as sounds, video,
pictures, and so on.)
- Two green arrows on a white document: Refresh reloads
the latest version of a Web page. Click this periodically if you
are viewing a Web site -- such as a weather or news page -- that
periodically updates information.
- A house: Home returns you to the page you have designated
as your home page.
- A globe with a magnifying glass: Search finds a site
by name, topic, or content using the MSN.com
search engine.
- A file folder: Favorites allows you to "bookmark" sites
you use frequently or want to save for future use.
- A sundial: History allows you to see which sites you've
visited over a specified period of time. You can use History to
find a site you visited recently or to track the sites a student
has recently visited.
- A printer: Click Print to print an entire page or document.
To print only one page or picture in a longer document, go to
File>Print instead.
- A document with a W or a pencil on it: Click Edit to
see only the text and html tags of a Web page. This tool allows
you to copy or print large blocks of text from a Web page. (Do
not plagiarize! Be sure to always cite your sources.)
More Terms to Know
To complete the techtorial, you also will need to know the following
terms:
- Home page: the page your browser opens to when you first
log on to the Internet.
- Web page: a single World Wide Web file containing text
and media (sound, graphics, etc.) and coded tags (such as HTML)
that describe how the file should look when the browser displays
it.
- Web site: one or more Web pages maintained as a set by
a person, group, business, or organization.
For example, Education
World Techtorials is a Web page that is part of the EducationWorld
Web site.
- Address bar: the area at the top of the browser window
that contains the URL of the page you are on. To go to a new page,
type the URL of that page in the address bar and hit Enter.
- URL: Uniform Resource Locator; a Web site's address.
For example, http://www.loc.gov is the URL for the Library
of Congress.
Next: There's no place like "home."
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