Microsoft Edge Web Browser Assignment Digital Literacy

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1 Microsoft Edge Web Browser Assignment Digital Literacy Part A--Add websites to Favorites and Reading List Add to favorites all websites that you access frequently. This makes it fast and easy to return to these websites. Let s add the following webpages to favorites: 1. Open Microsoft Edge Browser 2. Navigate to 3. Click on the star icon located on the navigation bar at the top right corner of your monitor. 4. Make sure Favorites is selected. 5. Key KSL news in the Name box. 6. Make sure Favorites is in the Save in box. 7. Click Add 8. Next, Let s make sure KSL was added to your favorites by clicking on the HUB icon. It looks like this: 9. Repeat steps 3 thru 7 above to add two more websites to favorites. Use the CNN news website and MSN news website Name them CNN news and MSNBC news.

2 10. Click on the Hub icon again. Make sure favorites is selected and take a screen snipping of your favorites list. Your snipping should look like this! 11. Open a blank new Microsoft Word document. 12. Paste the snipping of your favorites. 13. Save the document to OneDrive Davis District in your Computer Literacy Folder in your. Use the filename: Lastname Firstname Edge Browser Assignment (Do not save as a PDF at this time. Keep the document open and continue.) 14. Add a Header and Footer to your word document. Use the following information: Header: First and Last Name (Left), Edge Browser Assignment (Center), Period # (right) Footer: Date and time (left), File Path (right), Leave center blank 15. Minimize Microsoft Word. You will add more snippings to this assignment in the future. 16. Click on the Hub Icon. 17. Select Favorites and return to the CNN news website if it is not already open on your screen. 18. Click on one of the top stories. (Any one you choose is great!) 19. Wait patiently for all advertisements and links to load to the page. 20. When the top story you have chosen has fully loaded the Reading View icon (book) will turn from grey to black. 21. Click on the book icon. 22. This will show the top story article in reading view. It will remove the advertisements etc. so that you only see the article and related photos. This makes it easier to read. Continued on the next page

3 23. Next, click on the star icon again. 24. Click on Reading List 25. Type an appropriate name that describes your news article. 26. Click Add. You just added the website to your Reading List. Type an appropriate name here 27. Click on Favorites and return to the MSNBC webpage. 28. Choose a top story of your choice from the MSN webpage. 29. Click on the news story. Wait patiently for it to load. 30. Repeat steps 21 thru 27 to add this news article to your reading list. 31. Click on the Hub icon again. 32. Click on the Reading List icon 33. You should now see the 2 top stories you added to your Reading List. 34. Take a screen snipping of the reading list. Your 2 nd snipping should look similar to this! 35. Paste your Reading List snipping in the Word document BELOW the other snipping. 36. Save your Word document, then minimize and continue to Part B of this assignment. You will add more snippings to the Word document. Part B Writing on the Web 1. Make sure you are still using the Edge browser. 2. Navigate to the following webpage:

4 3. Click on the Reading View icon to change the document to Reading View. Then scroll below the pictures to the first 2 paragrpahs. If you exit in the middle of making Web Notes (directions A thru L), your data will not be saved. If you must stop in the middle take a snipping of what you have finished and paste in Word. Then resume the next day and take a second snipping! 4. Click on the Make a Web Note icon 5. A purple bar will appear across the top of the browser window. It will look like this: 6. Use the pen, highlighter and note tools to complete the following tasks: a. Highlight Abraham Lincoln s birthday YELLOW. b. Highlight the county and state Abraham Lincoln was born in GREEN. c. Underline in RED pen information about Abraham Lincoln s job in d. Circle in BLUE pen the year Abraham Lincoln was elected to the Illinois state legislature. e. In paragraph 2, highlight in BLUE these 3 words: frivolity, spendthrift, and seances. f. Go to Google Chrome and type define and then each of the words above to learn what each of these words mean. g. Add a typed Note (#1) to the right margin. Use the information you learned in the paragraph above to write a paragraph 4-6 sentences long inside the note telling why Mary Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln s wife was widely unpopular with the people of the United States. **Use your own words (paraphrase). h. Add another typed Note (#2). Type one complete sentence indicating how/where Abraham Lincoln gained his education to pass the bar exam. i. Locate Abraham Lincoln s nickname in paragraph 2 and highlight it PINK. (Hint: his reputation) j. Highlight in ORANGE, the name of Abraham Lincoln s political rival that his wife Mary Todd Lincoln dated. k. Circle in RED pen the year he was married. l. Write your first and last name in BROWN pen in the left margin. Take a screen snipping of your screen. Make sure the snipping shows all of the elements you added above. Hint: The clip tool in the Edge browser works just like screen snipping. All you need to do once you clip is go to your Word document and paste the clip BELOW the other snippings from Part A of this assignment. 7. Click Exit on the purple bar in the Edge browser to close the Web Note feature.

5 8. Exit the Edge Browser. 9. Go to your Word Document. 10. Make sure you have 3 screen snippings: Favorites Snipping, Reading List Snipping, and Web Notes Snipping. 11. Make sure the snippings appear in the order you created them: a. Favorites on top b. Reading list in the middle c. Web notes on bottom 12. You should have previously added a Header and Footer to your word document with the following information: Header: First and Last Name (Left), Edge Browser Assignment (Center), Period # (right) Footer: Date and time (left), File Path (right), Leave center blank 13. Re-Save the document as Lastname Firstname Edge Browser Assignment 14. Save the document again as a PDF 15. Print the document and turn in.