DELSA - Digital Empowerment for Digitally Upskilling Adults

Managing Digital Information

What do I need for this unit?Clicca per leggere

A computer, laptop or tablet with internet connection.

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Digital InformationClicca per leggere

•Digital Information is information that you find using a computer.

•Sometimes people use the word data instead of the word information.

•Digital information can be a written/typed document, a picture, a photo, a piece of music, numbers on a spreadsheet.

•Can you find these different types of information on your computer?

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Managing Digital InformationClicca per leggere

•So much information is available on the internet that you might need to manage information so it can be useful to you.

•Digital information can be found on the internet, in an email or stored on your computer.

•Some of the information will be useful to you some of it will not – you decide!

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Managing Information from the InternetClicca per leggere

Do you remember this from a previous module?

This is what happens in one minute on the Internet!

That’s a lot of information!

How to easily find a webpage that you use often?

•Bookmarks and favourites help us to find webpages that we use often.

•On a browser there is a star icon like this

in the toolbar.

•What happens when you point at this star?

•Click on this star to make your computer remember that you want to see this page again.

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Exercise 1Clicca per leggere

•Open the search engine Google:

•Type e.g. ‘cinema times’ and your local town and press ‘Enter’.

•Make sure that this is the webpage that you want.

•Find the star icon on the toolbar and add this page to your favourites.

•Close the browser on your computer and open it again.

•Can you find the website that you have bookmarked/added to favourites?

More information is available from

You can use bookmarks on Twitter also https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Twitter-Bookmarks

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Documents on the InternetClicca per leggere

•You can find written documents on the internet.

•These might be documents with information or forms to be filled in.

•There are different types of documents
This is a pdf:

https://www.netliteracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Basic-Internet-Skills.pdf

Normally, you cannot change/edit this type of document but you can print it or download/save it.

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Saving documents from the InternetClicca per leggere

•To print a document you will need to connect your computer to a printer.

•To download or save a PDF document to your computer you can use these icons at the top of the screen.

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Exercise 2Clicca per leggere

•Click on this link to a PDF:

https://www.netliteracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Basic-Internet-Skills.pdf

•Hold your cursor at the top of the page until you see these signs.

•Click on the arrow.

•Save this document to your desktop.

•Did these symbols appear in the top right hand side of the page?

•If yes, press on the button that says ‘Save As’ when you hover over it then ‘Save’.

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Emails and Attachments Clicca per leggere

•Emails contain information in the email itself and they can also have attachments.

•A paper clip like this:

is the symbol for an attachment.

•An attachment is a document or a picture which you can save so you can look at it later.

•Can you find an email that was sent to you with an attachment? How do you know?

•This email has an attachment:

•This email has no attachment:

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Exercise 3 Clicca per leggere

•Open your email account.

•Find an email with an attachment.

•Open this email find the attachment.

•Choose the option to Download the attachment.

•Save the attachment to your desktop:

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Files and FoldersClicca per leggere

•You can organise your documents like you would organise documents in a filing cabinet.

•You can create a folder on your computer so you can find a document or other information easily.

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Managing Files/FoldersClicca per leggere

•You can create folders for different subjects on your computer.

•You might have a folder marked ‘Car’ this might contain documents to prove that you have paid your car tax or your insurance documents (in soft copy).

•Can you think of other folders you might have?

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Exercise 4 Clicca per leggere

•Creating a folder on your Desktop Go to your Desktop ‘Right click’ on your mouse.

•Click on new (using the left button on the mouse).

•Another menu will appear.

•Click on ‘Folder’ at the top of this menu.

•This ‘icon’ will appear:

•Rename the folder ‘Learning’.

•Drag the 2 documents that we saved in Exercises 2 and 3 into the folder.

Using you Mouse ‘hover’ over the document that you saved in Exercise 2 (You will see a faint blue box appear around it).

•Press the button on the left of your mouse.

•Keep holding the left hand button while you ‘drag’ the document to the ‘Learning’ folder then let go.
Can you find this document by clicking on the folder?

•Repeat this task with the other document that we saved in Exercise 3.

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More folders…Clicca per leggere

•You can create a folder on your computer in your hard drive – you won’t be able to see this file on your desktop when you start your computer.

•Here is a YouTube video to tell you how to do this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjKWX5ANFco

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ConclusionClicca per leggere

In this module we have:

•Found out what digital information is.