-Course Outline-
June 16 (Monday): Course business including syllabus discussion
June 17 (Tuesday): The World Wide Web
- Netscape tutorial Reading Assignment: Read online
article
The World Wide Web: Making Use of Internet Resources - Activity: Discuss use of search engines and their differences; Create a bookmark of sites related to assigned subject topic.
- The Internet: Netiquette
- Reading Assignment: Read online articles Netiquette and The Internet is for Everyone
- Activity: Discuss netiquette terms and scenarios
June 18 (Wednesday): The Internet: E-mail
- Pine tutorial
- Reading Assignment: Read online article The Internet: The Earliest Beginnings
- Activity: Using e-mail, discuss assigned subject topic with group partners via e-mail; Class member introductions using nickname files in Pine.
- The Internet: Newsgroups & Listservs
- Newsgroup tutorial using Netscape
- Reading Assignment: Read online articles The Birth of the Modern Day Internet and Internet Addresses
- Activity: Subscribe to class listserv; Send assigned subject findings from Newgroups to the class listserv.
June 19 (Thursday): The Internet: FTP & HTML
- FrontPage Tutorial
- Reading Assignment: Read online article HTML: Language of the Web
- Activity: Download course materials using FTP; Create basic homepage using Microsoft FrontPage; Upload homepage to server using FTP application.
June 20 (Friday ): Introduction to course assignment: Creating online class materials
- Course Assignment
- Activity: Discuss online courses and course materials via listserv
- Introduction to web graphics
June 23 (Monday): Advanced Microsoft FrontPage
- Activity: Put mock course syllabus online including graphics
June 24 (Tuesday): Using the Internet to Find Course Resource
- Activity: Find online course resources for assigned subject and discuss with assigned e-mail partners.
June 25 (Wednesday): Projects continued
- Activity: Begin putting mock course lesson online
June 26 (Thursday): Projects continued
- Activity: Finish putting mock course lesson online
June 27 (Friday): Project presentations and discussion
- Course summary and additional resources
Suggested Bibliography or Recommended Journal Readings:
A Beginner's Guide to HTML
(http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html)
An 8-minute HTML Primer (http://web66.coled.umn.edu/Cookbook/HTML/MinutePrimer.html)
As we may think (http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~dduchier/misc/vbush/as-we-may-think.html)
