So You Want to Use the Internet...

Hello and welcome to this blog. My name is Mackenzie, and I am currently an Information Technology student at Central Texas College.

GFCGlobal has made tutorials, titled Beyond Email, to make it easier to understand online communication.

In this day and age, the "Essential Eight" is the basis for many new and revolutionary technologies. More of this can be read about in the "Blogs, Wikis, Socials, and Forums" page.

In this day and age, you've more than likely encountered QR codes. SnapTags are another form of two-way communication between a source and a website. The visual below shows the differences between the two-

In the two videos provided here, The Tech Academy and Crowdstack share their tips to differentiate blogs, wikis, and forums.

Within the online realm, a wide array of social media and platforms exist. The provided graphic explains some types of social media and their more popular examples. There may be a bunch you recognize and some you do not.

Goodwill Community Foundation provides us with tutorials for both navigating email and understanding the functions of cloud services.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a file transfer service, but it works a little differently because it is based on an Internet protocol specifically designed to transfer information on the Internet.

Storing information on the cloud is a popular way to retain, share, and access your data anytime and anywhere, across multiple devices.

For those that wish to learn more, or even just to refresh your existing knowledge of email, Simply Coding provides us with a video on the basics and setup of email.

For different companies and organizations, a distinctive domain extensions exists to designate what the purpose of the website is. The most common among these extensions are .com, .gov, and .org.

Goodwill Community Foundation Tutorials

govinfo.gov Tutorials

As an end-user, you may sometimes have trouble getting search results that are as refined as you want or need. Code.org provides us with an instructional video on how to fine-tune your search queries.

Browser Basics

In the video provided, GCFLearnFree teaches us the basics of computer and WiFi/Internet connection setup. If you've ever questioned if you could do it yourself, or just want a better understanding of setup, this is a good place to start.