Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The Internet Literacy

The first time I started having access to the Internet was when the elementary school opened computer courses. During that time, I heard of Microsoft, windows98 and the Internet. I still remembered my teacher said that the internet was like a line that connected people who had access to it all over the world. The first thing I learned what the e-mail was. Through learning it, I registered an e-mail account. I can hand in homework, send the files to people and give the messages to friends by it. It is really a wonderful tool.

The internet is a vast ocean with unlimited resources. It is broad, and has no boundaries. Any of individual is like a boat which sails on the ocean. How do we know our destinations? The captain would say that a compass was an indispensable part for them. According to my experiences, the Internet literacy is like a compass when we surf the internet. It tells you what kind of information you need and how to explore the new things. For example, I benefited from the internet literacy when I prepared for the TOEFL. Initially, I didn’t know there were tremendous on-line resources. One day, one of my classmates told me of two website named www.xiaomaguohe.com and www.taisha.com

I spent three days searching through them. I found that their purpose was to provide kinds of free test-related resources. They were BBS which were both composed of four sections, such as Reading, Speaking, Listening and Writing. So you can find your problems and solve them specifically. Most of the users were students, this meant we can discuss our problems and get the latest news even though we didn't have the teachers. Listening and speaking sections are my weak parts, so I downloaded lots of listening and speaking materials. I practiced them every day. If I had problems, I would discuss with others on those BBS. Futunetely, My TOEFL scores were 83. I was so excited when I knew my grades. In order to thank people who helped me a lot, I decided to write a paper about my experience of testing TOEFL.

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