 After you click on the special links listed on the home page - you might wonder what to do next! 1. The first section of links will be helpful in learning some of the skills you can do with the computer. Always click on the name of the LINK. You will likely find another listing of other LINKS from that website. We especially recommend the "All Refer.com". An Educational resource provides a comprehensive collection of reference, encyclopedia, health, gazetteer, country studies, and educational databases. Includes more than 150,000 articles on topics covered under health, history, science, people, places, arts, sports, plants, animals, technology, philosophy, religion, literature, and more. Sometimes when preparing a "Word Document" you may want to insert a "clipart" picture. We have listed two "clipart" sites but there are likely thousands more on the Net! To copy a picture from clipart - Right-click with your mouse on the picture. Then "Save To File". Give the file a name and send it to one of your computer files on your hard-drive such as "pictures". Some Clipart websites are now asking for a membership fee but many sites are still FREE. 2. You can find tons of information on websites related to "HEALTH". We have listed a few so that you can enter many websites and learn about certain diseases and treatments. Follow the links! We have included links to Hershey Medical Center and Johns Hopkins in case you need information. We highly recommend for you to check out "MEDLINE PLUS". You can find information about the drugs you take and information on diseases. This website is a service of the National Library of Medicine and The National Institute of Health. 3. Games to play on line. You can play or buy all kinds of games on the Internet, but many games require that you play on line with other partners. The games on our website are ready to play on line by yourself. a. Everyone will have a lot of fun with the hundreds of Jigsaw Puzzles on Jig-zone.com. Click on the Puzzle that you desire, give the puzzle a little time to load. Follow the toolbar on the left and you will see that you can select the puzzle to be sawed into 6 pieces up to 240 pieces. We would suggest that you select about 40 to 80 pieces for the puzzle. The pieces are very small for the higher number of pieces. You can also select the shape of the pieces and you can select to have a reshuffle of the pieces. After putting a puzzle together, click on "MORE" to select from many more puzzles. To move the pieces of puzzle around on your screen, just click on any one piece of the puzzle, then hold down on the left click of your mouse and MOVE that piece to lock into another piece of the puzzle. If two pieces do not lock together, it is the wrong piece of the puzzle. You will get hooked on the puzzles after putting a few together! There are also good puzzles on "Cal's Gallery Plus" - Go to page 2 and check out his daily puzzle. You can download the puzzle to your desktop and put the puzzle together off-line. These puzzles are a lot of fun and different in that you do a right-click to turn the pieces of puzzle around to fit into the right spot. b. The Millionaire game is played like on TV by answering educational questions. See how high you can go by trying to give the correct answers. Check out our game sections for checkers and other games. There are about nine Solitaire Card Games to select to play on "Idiots Delight". Some of the other websites have their own list of games. You can read the "Help" tool for most of the games to see how to play each game. 4. There are many newspapers to read on line. Click on the website - then select from the types of news, such as local news, obituaries, world news, etc. When you see the headline, you should click on the title to get the rest of the story. On the "Total News.com" website, you can connect to newspapers all over the world. 5. In searching around the country, "Switchboard", "Yahoo", "Mapquest", and many other map sites will give you a FREE map for most any address in the country. You can insert your address and also the destination address and you can print out the travel directions with mileage and travel time. If you are making plans for a vacation, you may want to search out some of the listed sites such as parks or beaches. You could also type in the name of the city on any search engine for information on other sites or go to "City Maps". Other sites are listed to book air flights and make hotel reservations. There are many vacation spots to search. 6. You can search for information from "Social Security", "Dictionaries", "Encyclopedias, etc. "Hometime.com" offers you information on how to repair most anything in your home. There are many sites for gardening information. You can send greeting cards on-line to your friends from websites such as "123 Greetings". You can select the picture and words for the card and have it backed up with music! Some greeting card links such as "Blue Mountain" are now making a charge for e-cards but many sites still have the FREE e-cards to send to your friends for special occasions. 7. There are many "Genealogy websites" but many want you to order CD ROMs for more information and some do not include the information up-to-date while people are still living. Many sites will take a lot of searching to get all the information you desire on your family history. We would recommend the Hans and Hannah Wenger Genealogy website but the names are mainly Mennonite, River Brethren, Brethren family backgrounds. If your name is listed, you may find your family tree back to the 1600s. Try it out. Go to "Genealogy Project". Insert your name instead of "j doe" or see the alphabetical listing of over 205,000 names. Select "Go there". If your family name is there, you can find the ancestors and descendants with birthdates, etc. Very good site. The website shows names up to the year of 1900 but by e-mail request, you will receive another web address allowing you to see the year of 1900 and up-to-date to include the past 100 years for listing of families as the site is being updated with additional information. "Roots Web" has connections to several million family names! If you find other good similar Genealogy sites, let us know and perhaps we can add the LINK. 8. There are many good websites to obtain good recipes and cooking information. We have sampled a few. You can select by catagories and likely find recipes and pictures and lots of cooking tips! 9. There are many good search engines. We have listed a few. Just type in a word in the search bar and you might find a thousand websites to click on for more good information on one subject. You decide by the description which site looks most interesting to you. If you have two or more words to search, we suggest you use quotation marks to join the words together for the search - such as "Yellowstone National Park". 10. You can find phone numbers for people around the country, if listed in any phone directory. If they have an unlisted number, you probably won't find it. Reverse address will likely tell you who lives at a certain address. You can also find Zipcodes for most any city in the country. Just fill in the information in the blank boxes to obtain your requested information. 11. There are many good Christian Links on the Internet. Probably almost all Christian Organizations have a website. We have selected a few for your search. You can read the entire BIBLE on the Internet and select the language or one of many translations. On "Bible Gateway", select "view" to see the listing of scriptures from Genesis to Revelations. Click on the chapter or verses that you want to read. Also click on the desired translation you wish to read. You can also get the reference scriptures for words or phrases. On Web Devotionals, such as "Daily Bread" you can read the daily devotional and when there is a scripture, click on it and the verses should pop up for you to read! 12. Be sure to visit the Music Spot and listen to the hundreds of Classical and Christian Music Midis online. You can also download these to your harddrive to listen to when you aren't even on the Internet! We are only giving you some samples of websites to check out on the Internet. Have fun searching out the many LINKS. If you find Links that do not work, please let us know as links are often moved around on the Internet or maybe discontinued. If you see broken links or have problems with the links, please let me know by e-mail and perhaps I can help you. We can't guarantee all information to be correct. If you think a statement is incorrect, please advise and we will check it out for correction. I still have a lot to learn. More Links will be added as we find good educational websites to share with you. Hope you enjoy the Internet! (Harold) |
