The aims of these lessons (3–4) are:
For last week's prep, you created a test Google document. Login to your Google Account and go to Documents. Open your document and go to the top right of the screen:  Click on 'Share' and then on 'Share with others'. Share the document with your teacher (he will tell you which email address to use) and with the two pupils sitting nearest to you. You can choose whether they are collaborators or simply viewers. For now, choose viewers. Send the email invitation to their email addresses.
You've now shared your document with three other people. In essence, this is what the internet is about — and what it makes possible: communicating and collaborating. It could have been a photo, a piece of recorded music, a video, a web link ... The internet just makes this sharing and exchange of digital information possible.
Your teacher will show you something of a nineteenth century "internet". (Resources that might be used include Information Age: People, Information & Technology and Porthcurno - The Victorian Internet.) Why we start with the Victorian internet is explained here. You'll then be asked to work in pairs. Using Internet Pioneers as a starting point, each pair will research material on one or two pioneers. Prep: research your given internet pioneers. Collaboration in prep time will be important: use a Google document, shared between the two of you — one of you creates it and then invites the other as a collaborator. Also invite your teacher — as a viewer. Prepare a 5 minute talk on the pioneers and decide how to divide up the talk within each pair.
If you want to use slides, do — but keep them simple, free of just about all text and to the point. You've probably used PowerPoint before, but why not try Google Presentation? It's easy and, like Google Docs, you don't have to be in the same place in order to collaborate on creating the presentation:
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