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Concepts:
- Class expectations
- Communication Modes
- Telnet
- FTP
- E-mail
- Web Pages
- Creating Web Pages using Notepad
- Web browsers: Netscape
- Sites, directories, documents
- Web page
- HTML: html, head, title, body, headings, center,
horizontal rule, font
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Activities:
- Introductions/Syllabus
- Logon to e-mail account
- Send classmates e-mail during class
- Use notepad to create local index.html
- Identify the title within the heading.
- Create a text heading for the page.
- Center the heading.
- Put "under construction" statement.
- Place a horizontal rule.
- Open Netscape - identify site, directory, page
- Open http://www.rivier.edu/departments/ic
- Open individual homepage
- Browse one of the following sites:
- http://lcweb.loc.gov (Library of Congress)
- http://www.nasa.gov (NASA)
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Homework (due 5 July):
- E-mail the instructor at dburgess@rivier.edu
with an explanation of the following terms.
- URL
- Web site
- Directory
- Document
- Read Chapter 1 and prepare for quiz over Quick Checks on pages
1.16 and 1.22.
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| Day #2, 5 July 2000 |
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Concepts:
- Search engines
- Listserv
- HTML: paragraphs, bold, italics, ordered and
unordered lists, bgcolor, links
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Activities:
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Homework (due 10 July):
- Join a listserv.
E-mail the instructor informing him of
the listserv joined. Stay with the group for
two weeks, write a short paper at the end of the
two weeks describing the experience, and be prepared to
share the experience orally with the class. This will
be due on day #7 (24 July).
- Read Chapter Two and prepare for a Quiz from the
Quick Quizzes on pages 2.12 and 2.50.
- Design three internet treasure hunt questions for
next time.
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| Day #3, 10 July 2000 |
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Concepts:
- Reliablility of internet sources
- Documentation of internet resources
- Web searching: Focusing the search
- DOS: dir, copy
- HTML: list menus, tables, images
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Activities:
- Quiz #2 (2.11, 2.50)
- Site reliability exercise:
- research cancer
- find a reliable site and an unreliable site
- determine criteria for reliability
(http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/
research/education/net.html)
- read Session 5.2 in the text.
- Site/page documentation exercise: p. 51 Online!
See page 5.30 of the text.
- Focusing the search exercises. See Tutorial 4.
cancer +breast +men +denmark +men +young
- Treasure Hunt assignment: Each students places
three questions into a hat,
each student then draws two questions
(not their own). Research the questions that are
drawn. There will be a short written
assignment describing the experience
due on day #5 (5 June). Also be prepared to orally
share the results on day #5.
- HTML:
- Copy index.html to test.htm
- Change bgcolor in test.htm
- Link index.html, test.htm, and other student's pages
- Create a table with text, images, and links (list menu)
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Homework (due 12 July):
- E-mail the instructor the URL of a reliable site and
the URL of an unreliable site. Justify your choices.
- Prepare for quiz #3 (3.14, 3.38)
- Read Session 9.2 in the text.
- Treasure Hunt assignments due day #5.
- Listserv reports due day #7.
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| Day #4, 12 July 2000 |
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Concepts:
- Social Implications
- HTML: images, backgrounds
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Activities:
- Quiz #3 (3.14, 3.38)
- The Internet and Society, Session 9.2
- Discuss computer ethics and security.
http://www.benedict.com/
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu
/projects/copyright
- Find, get, save and insert images and backgrounds.
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Homework (due 17 July):
- E-mail the instructor a statement about using
backgrounds on web pages. Convince the instructor of your
position.
- Work on treasure hunt activity and prepare a written
evaluation of the project to hand in next time. Include: Your
questions and the answers. Was it
hard or easy to find the answers to your questions?
How long did it take to do the assignment? Was
it fun, worthwhile, boring? How could the assignment be
changed? Should it be required for the next class? This is an
opinion piece, no justification necessary!
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| Day #5, 17 July 2000 |
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Concepts:
- Searching on the Web
- Web page design
- Web site design
- DOS: mkdir, .., cd
- HTML: Links, relational references
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Activities:
- Treasure Hunt reports.
- Page/site rating exercise. Evaluate 4-5 pages and
develop criteria for a good page/site.
- Make a new directory, place pages in the directory and
use relational references for link addresses.
- Find HTML references on the Net.
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Homework (due 19 July):
- E-mail the URL of a good page or a good site. E-mail
the URL of a bad page or a bad site. Justify your choices.
- Prepare for quiz (4.17, 4.28)
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| Day #6, 19 July 2000 |
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| Concepts:
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Activities:
- Quiz #4 (4.17, 4.28)
- Create a frame page with menus.
- Work on web pages.
- Set up Web Site groups
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Homework (due 24 July):
- Begin development of a web site. This site should
have a theme and should include at least four local pages that relate to
the theme. This project can be done in groups of 1 - 3. The groups must be
established by next class period. The project is due on day #12.
- Listserv reports due next class period. A short written
evaluation of the experience should be handed in next
time.
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| Day #7, 24 July 2000 |
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Concepts:
- Reliablility of mailing lists
- Web site development.
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Activities:
- Discuss mailing lists.
- Continue web page/site development.
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Homework (due 26 July):
- E-mail the instructor your position concerning
listserv/chat groups. Justify your position.
- Prepare for quiz #5 (5.28)
- Work on web pages.
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| Day #8, 26 July 2000 |
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Concepts:
- Building a remote web site.
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Activities:
- Quiz #5 (5.28)
- Build a site in the appropriate ic directory.
- Work on web pages.
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Homework:
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| Day #9, 31 July 2000 |
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Concept: - How the Internet is Built
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| Day #10, 2 August 2000 |
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| Day #11, 7 August 2000 |
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Activities
- Wrap Up
- Work on Web Pages/Sites.
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| Day #12, 9 August 2000 |
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