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Are you new to the Internet? The following links are to
Internet tutorials that will guide you step-by-step into
using the Internet effectively. These tutorials will
also point you toward useful sites and help you discover
all that the 'Net has to offer.
Basic Guides:
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Navigating the World Wide Web -
Step-by-step guide for the beginner.
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Learn the Net: An Internet Guide and Tutorial -
Easy to navigate site that has useful graphics.
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Land
Grant Training Alliance - Online Lessons
- Offers lessons on a variety of software, including
word processing, presentation graphics, spreadsheets
and databases, and the Internet.
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Wiredguide - Provides links to
instruction sites, locations with answers to
frequently asked questions, pages with daily tips,
and more. Topics include downloading, e-mail,
newsgroups, and security.
Are the
keyboard and mouse a challenge? Try these helpful
sites.
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Mouse Tutorial The mouse can take a
while to get used to, so this site from the
Northville District Library in Northville, Michigan,
explains how it works and lets you practice too.
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Mousercise This is another site to
practice using the mouse from the Central Kansas
Library System.
Once you are
comfortable navigating the Web, check out these
tutorials on searching
the Internet.
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Bare Bones: A Very Basic Web Search Tutorial
"You can zip through these lessons in no time, any
time. They are very short and succinct; each can be
read in a few minutes. Feel free to jump in wherever
you like, skip what you don't want to read, and come
back whenever you need to. The information contained
in the following lessons is truly bare bones,
designed to get you started in the right direction
with a minimum of time and effort."
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Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Information
Needs This site offers a list of
information needs, for instance, "I need a few good
hits fast," or "I have a general popular or
commercial topic and need to explore or focus it."
For each need, the site lists the best search
engines to use and direct link to them.
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