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Internet Literacy Class Web Site

 

Syllabus

Week One - Getting Online and History of the Internet

Introduction
Chapter 1 lecture
Chapter 2 lecture
Assignment 1

Week Two - Using the Internet

Search Basics
Chapter 3 lecture
Chapter 4 lecture
Chapter 5 lecture
Assignment 2

Week Three - More Using the Internet

Assignment 3

Week Four - Evaluation Web Sites

Evaluating Internet Resources
Quick Quiz: Evaluating Sources
Assignment 4

Week Five - Social Networking on the Web

Social Networking on the Web
Chapter 10 lecture

Chapter 11 lecture
Chapter 12 lecture
Assignment 5

Week Six - Introduction to Web Page Creation

Week Seven - More Web Page Creation

Working with Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets
Assignment 7

Spring Break March 17 - 21, 2008: No classes or assignments!

Week Eight - HTML Editors

CoffeeCup, (Download and install free version.)
Macromedia Dreamweaver, (Download and install trial version--warning--the library or lab computers may not allow you to do this. If you have a problem, please contact me immediately for assistance.)
Chapter 8 lecture

Assignment 8

Week Nine - Internet Graphics and Multimedia

Web Graphics Tutorial
Web Page Backgrounds
Web Page Buttons
Chapter 9 lecture
Assignment 9

Week Ten - Impact of the Internet

What is streaming media?
What is streaming video?
Chapter 13 lecture
Assignment 10

Week Eleven - The Internet and the Law

Internet & First Amendment: Online Libel
Copyright & Electronic Rights
Cyber Cheating
Chapter 14 lecture
Assignment 11

Week Twelve - Keeping Pace With Innovations

Internet Scout Report
ZDNet News Page
Chapter 15 lecture
Assignment 12

Week Thirteen - Developing an Effective Research Plan

Scholarly Research
Assignment 13: Create a Research Proposal

Weeks Fourteen & Fifteen - Conducting Scholarly Research

Visible vs. Invisible Web Resources
Assignment 14: Exploratory Research Document

Week Sixteen - Bibliographic Citation

Cornell University - How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography
Assorted Citation Guides
How to Cite Information from Web Pages

Assignment 15: Annotated Bibliography

Week Seventeen - Online Statistical Databases

Searching Statistical Databases
Assignment 16: Online statistics

Finals Week - Final Project

Final Project: Electronic Portfolio