Serf Exported Syllabus
Title: Internet Literacy
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Text: Welcome to the Internet Literacy course! This course
hasn't officially started yet, but you can go ahead and start working
on it. First, read the information on this page; then you can scroll
down to access the course materials.
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This
course is being delivered by a distance learning system
called Serf. On every Serf screen, you can use the
scrollbar to scroll down to a navigation menu that makes it
easy to find your way around.
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Text: When you submit assignments in this course, you will do so
via the Web. You'll either answer questions asked on the
syllabus or create a Web page containing the work your
instructor assigned, and then you'll click a Submit
button to submit the assignment for a grade.
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Text: At any time, you can see a progress report that shows what
you've done so far in this course. You'll also be able to see your
grades on the assignments you'll be submitting.
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Text: If you have not already done so, you should purchase a copy
of the textbook that will be used in this course. The
textbook is Internet Literacy by Dr. Fred T.
Hofstetter. The publisher is McGraw-Hill. This book should
be available in your campus bookstore. It is also
available in many retail bookstores.
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Text: HEPP 433 (undergraduate) or HEPP 533 (graduate)
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Text: Fred T. Hofstetter
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Text: Provides the conceptual background and the online skills
needed for students to become Internet literate. Includes
a hands-on tutorial on creating Web pages and using search
engines to conduct research. Reflects on the impact of
emerging technologies on the future of schooling and
communications.
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Text: In order to complete the exercises and tutorials in this
course, the student will need to have access to a Windows
PC or a Macintosh running either Netscape Communicator or
Microsoft Internet Explorer. The student will also need an
Internet account that provides the basic Internet services
of e-mail and the World Wide Web. This account must
include at least four megabytes of Web space in which
students will create their Web pages.
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Text: Every University of Delaware student automatically receives
an Internet account on copland.udel.edu. Students who do
not already have Internet access should refer to Part Two
of the Internet Literacy textbook, which provides a
detailed explanation and comparison of the options for
getting connected to the Internet. While high-speed
connections work best, all of the exercises in this book
can be completed via modem over an ordinary telephone line.
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Text: All students registered in this class have the option of
using the multimedia PCs in the Willard 309 computer lab.
This lab operates on a local area network, and you must
have a network account in order to save your work on the
network. The lab assistants can show you how to log on and
save your work temporarily on the computer's hard drive,
but if you want to save your work on the network, you need
to send e-mail to George
Mulford asking him to create a network logon for you.
Note that the use of the Willard 309 lab is totally
optional in this course. If you have your own multimedia PC
and Internet connection, you may never need to use the
network in Willard 309. See the Willard
309 lab schedule to find out when the lab will be open.
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Text: A CD-ROM full of "Show-Me" movies will help you whenever
you have trouble completing one of the Internet assignments in this
class.
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Text: There are two ways to launch the movies. You can either
launch them from the movie index that comes on the CD, or you can
trigger them by clicking on the movie icons you will find on this
online syllabus.
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Text: The movie index is in a file on the CD called index.htm.
To play movies from this index, use your Web browser to open the file
index.htm.
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Text: To launch movies from this online syllabus, which is
probably the best way to watch them, you must first set up
your CD-ROM drive. To do that, scroll down to the bottom
of this page, and in the control panel, choose CD-ROM
Setup. Follow the on-screen instructions, which will set up
your CD-ROM drive for use with this syllabus.
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Text: Every student in this class must have an e-mail address on
the Internet and read e-mail regularly. If you're
enrolled in a University of Delaware course, and you do not
have an e-mail account yet, go to the help center and follow
the link to Distance Learners: UD Link for detailed
instructions on how to activate your e-mail account.
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Text: If you have any questions or problems regarding activating
your e-mail account, please contact the FOCUS office by
phoning (302) 831-3146. During normal working hours,
there's always someone there to assist you. You can also
try calling the UD Help Desk at (302) 831-6000.
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Text: Internet Literacy, Chapter 1.
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Text: Define the Internet, describe how large it is, and find out
how fast it is growing. Explain how to know when you are
really "on" the Internet. List and define the seven basic
Internet services of e-mail, listserv, newsgroups, FTP,
telnet, Gopher, and the World Wide Web. Explain what is
meant by client-server computing. Understand the Internet
naming system of domains and subdomains. Provide a brief
history of the Internet, explaining how it grew from its
humble origins into the worldwide network that we enjoy
today.
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Text: Go to the Hobbes
Internet Time Line and review the latest statistics on the growth
of the Internet.
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Text: For a fascinating interview with the inventor of the World
Wide Web, read The
Web Maestro: An Interview with Tim Berners-Lee.
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Text: For a warm greeting from the author of the Internet
Literacy course, watch this movie,
which will play from the Internet Literacy CD. If you have
any trouble viewing the movie, scroll down to the options
panel at the bottom of this screen, choose the CD-ROM
feature, and follow the instructions to configure your
CD-ROM for use with this syllabus.
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Heading: How the Internet is Changing the World
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Text: Internet Literacy, Chapter 2, read from the
beginning of the chapter until you come to the education section.
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Text: Describe how the Internet is changing the world by means of
a process called convergence. Tell what percentage of the
population is telecommuting already. Gauge the extent to
which commercial advertising is paying for services
available "for free" on the Internet. Share the vision of
how the Web is capable of hosting an interconnected world
of research and scholarship.
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Text: Visit the online shopping locations linked to the Interlit
Web site.
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Text: Go to PointCast and
follow the instructions to download and install the PCN software.
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Heading: Online Newspapers
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Text: Explore the online
newspapers linked to the Interlit Web site.
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 2, start reading at the
education section, and continue reading to the end of the chapter.
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Text: There's a movie on the Internet Literacy CD in which your
textbook's author demonstrates how the World Wide Web
helps achieve the goals of the constructivist movement in
education. As you watch this movie,
you'll see demonstrations of some exciting applications
that involve students actively in discovering and
constructing knowledge. By following the links to the Web
sites listed in the next four events in this class, you
can run this software yourself to experience first-hand how
the Web can help achieve the goals of the constructivist
movement in education.
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Text: Visit the
Virtual FlyLab, where you can learn the laws of
genetic inheritance by breeding fruit flies in a
laboratory environment that lets you save data, formulate
theories, and test hypotheses. Compare this way of
learning to the alternative of memorizing genetic laws in
a textbook.
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Text: Go to the International
Divisia Database, and scroll down to the links that
let you choose monetary aggregates for any country in the
world. Once you get into a country's database, you can
click and drag to copy data onto your clipboard, from
which you can paste it into a spreadsheet or statistical
software to perform your own computations instead of
having to take someone else's word for it.
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Text: One of the most difficult aspects of teaching chemistry is
to help students visualize the structure of chemical
models. Go to the Chemical
Molecule Viewer and observe the chemical benzene.
After noticing how it appears three-dimensionally
symmetrical, use your mouse to click and drag and rotate
the chemical. Notice how the atoms that form benzene are
coplanar. You wouldn't learn this from a textbook that
only showed a static view of the benzene model.
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Text: At the Princeton
Particle Physics Lab, follow the links to the Tokamak
nuclear reactor. If you've never operated a reactor
before, there's a tutorial you can take to learn how.
Then you can follow the links to operate the reactor,
which gets delivered to your screen as a Java applet. By
manipulating the sliders that control the variables in the
Tokamak reactor, you can experience how physicists learn
to run nuclear reactors most efficiently and safely.
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Text: The Internet affords researchers an unprecedented
opportunity to create an interconnected world of
scholarship. Unfortunately, most scholars do not yet know
how to create Web pages. It is hoped that the Web page
creation tutorial you will complete during this course will
contribute to making the world of interconnected
scholarship happen sooner rather than later.
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Text:
Chapter 2
of the Interlit Web Site contains additional links to
educational resources that are helping to transform
education from a teacher-dominated into a learner-centered
perspective. |  |
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 3.
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Text: This class helps you understand the purpose and function of
an Internet Service Provider (ISP). You'll learn how to
find out who the ISPs are in your locale, understand the
difference between connecting to the Internet via terminal
programs and TCP/IP connections, and decide the best way
to connect given your particular circumstances.
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Text: Check the yellow pages of your phone book and find out how
many Internet Service Providers are listed there. Call at
least three ISPs and find out how much unlimited Internet
service costs, and at what transmission speeds. Then go
to http://www.thelist.com
and find out how many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are
listed under your area code.
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Text: Who is the primary ISP in your area, and how much does that
ISP charge per month for Internet service?
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Text: Internet Literacy, Chapter 4.
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Text: If you've gotten this far in the course, you can
obviously surf the Net to some extent already. In this
chapter, you'll learn the finer points of surfing.
You'll also learn how to avoid distractions and stay
focused on the purpose for which you visited a Web site.
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Text: There's a movie on the Interlit CD that shows you how to
go to a Web address, which is technically known as a
Uniform Resource Locator (URL). You can view this movie in
two versions: Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft Internet
Explorer.
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Text: Knowing how to use a scroll bar can help you get around on
a Web page. The Interlit CD contains movies that show how to do this
with a Windows PC or a Macintosh.
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Text: To learn how to make your browser's navigation buttons
visible, watch the Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: There's a movie on the Interlit CD that shows how to
change your Web browser's default home page. You can
view this movie in two versions: Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer.
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Text: There are some tricks you can play with URLs to help you
find information. Watch this
movie to find out how.
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Text: This class presents advanced surfing techniques that will
help you take greater command of the Internet when you're online.
You'll learn how to work with multiple windows, use bookmarks, and
manipulate your Web browser's cache.
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Text: Sometimes you'll want to resize your Web browser's
window so you can do things like side-by-side comparisons
of objects in different windows. You can view a movie that
shows how to do this for Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Macintosh.
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Text: To work with multiple windows, you need to know how to
make a particular window become visible when you want to
view it, and how to hide the window when you want
something else on your screen. You can view a movie that
shows how to do this for Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Macintosh.
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Text: To learn how to bookmark a Web page so you can return to
it easily, watch the Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: To learn how to organize bookmarks in folders, watch
either the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft Internet Explorer
version of this movie.
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Text: Your Web browser keeps track of where you've been so you
can move back to previously visited Web sites easily. To
learn how to backtrack, watch either the Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: No matter how large your computer screen is, you will
sometimes wish it were larger, so more information will
fit on it. To learn how to increase the viewing area of
your Web browser, watch the Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
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Heading: Selected Web Sites
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Text: There's a collection of selected Web sites waiting for you
to surf at the Interlit Web site. Go there
now to experience some of the best of the Net.
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Heading: Caching
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Text: When you surf the Web, your browser keeps copies of the
most recently visited Web sites in a place on your hard
disk called the cache (pronounced cash). To learn how to
manipulate the cache, watch either the Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 115
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 73
Type: 2
Heading: Internet Etiquette
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Text: Internet Literacy, Chapter 5.
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Text: Netiquette is a term coined by combining the words
"Internet Etiquette" into a single name. Netiquette is
the observance of certain rules and conventions that have
evolved in order to keep the Internet from becoming a
free-for-all in which tons of unwanted messages and junk
mail would clog your in-box and make the Information
Superhighway an unfriendly place to be. This class
presents the rules for commercial versus educational use
of the Internet, suggests a way for you to become a good
citizen of the Net (network citizens are called netizens),
and defines everyday terms and jargon used on the Net.
EventID: 118
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Position: 76
Type: 9
Heading: Netiquette Guidelines
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Text: Go to the Bill of Rights and Responsibilities site by
following the links in the Netiquette section of the Interlit
Web site. Read carefully the Bill of Rights and
Responsibilities for Electronic Learners that you will
find there. Do you agree with all of the items covered in
this Bill of Rights? What do you disagree with? Do you
plan to abide by these guidelines? Do you think they leave
out anything important? What's not covered that should be?
EventID: 119
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Position: 77
Type: 1
Heading: Ten Commandments
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Text: Check out the Ten
Commandments of Computer Use developed by the Computer Ethics
Institute.
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Position: 78
Type: 1
Heading: Spam
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Text: On the Internet, the term spam means unwanted messages
posted to newsgroups or sent to a list of users through
e-mail. It's important for you to know how to fight
spam. Follow the Interlit
Web site links to the tutorial entitled "How to
Complain to Providers about Spam."
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Position: 79
Type: 9
Heading: Emoticons
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Text: Go to one or more of the smiley sites you'll find in the
smiley section of the Interlit
Web site, and browse the list of emoticons you will
find there. What are your favorite emoticons? Which
emoticons do you find too esoteric (that is, too hard to
understand) for general use on the Internet?
EventID: 122
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Position: 80
Type: 9
Heading: Jargon
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Text: Go to the Jargon File site linked to the jargon section of
the Interlit
Web site, click the link to browse the jargon file as
hypertext, scroll down to the Ts, and in the section on
talk, browse the list of three-letter acronyms you will
find there. Which TLAs do you think an Internet Literate
person should know? Which ones are too esoteric for
general use on the Internet?
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Position: 81
Type: 2
Heading: Electronic Mail
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Position: 82
Type: 1
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 6.
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Type: 1
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Text: Electronic mail has revolutionized the way people
communicate when they can't talk in person. It's
probably the greatest time-saver in the world. In this
chapter, you'll learn how to get an e-mail account and
use it to send, receive, and file electronic mail messages.
You'll also learn how to create mailing lists, detect
fake mail IDs, and encrypt your mail.
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Position: 84
Type: 9
Heading: E-mail Client
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Text: Chapter 6 of the Internet Literacy textbook
describes several e-mail clients that you can use to do electronic
mail. Which e-mail client are you planning to use primarily in this
course?
EventID: 124
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Position: 85
Type: 11
Heading: Configuring an E-mail Client
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Text: In order to do e-mail, you must first configure your e-mail
client. There's a movie on the Interlit CD that shows how
to do this for Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft Internet
Explorer.
EventID: 125
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 86
Type: 11
Heading: Sending E-mail
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Text: To learn how to send e-mail, watch the Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer
version of this movie.
EventID: 126
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 87
Type: 11
Heading: Reading E-Mail
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Text: You can learn how to read e-mail by watching either the Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer
version of this movie.
EventID: 127
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 88
Type: 11
Heading: Answering E-mail
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Text: To learn how to answer e-mail, watch the Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer
version of this movie.
EventID: 128
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 89
Type: 11
Heading: Forwarding Mail
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Text: Sometimes you will receive mail that you want to send a
copy of to someone else. To learn how to forward e-mail,
watch the Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 395
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 90
Type: 8
Heading: E-mail
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Text: Ten percent of your grade in this course is determined by
the quality and effectiveness of your e-mail. Please note
that quality is more important than quantity; there's no
need to overdo the amount of messages you send. A quick
way to address e-mail to your instructor or fellow class
members is via the class e-mail roster, which is one of
the student options at the bottom of the screen. If you
haven't done so already, make sure you register your
e-mail address by clicking the Register button in the
e-mail section of the Serf control panel at the bottom of
this Web page.
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Position: 91
Type: 2
Heading: Advanced E-mail
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Type: 11
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Text: Occasionally you will receive an important message that you
want to keep so you can refer to it later on. To learn how
to create a file folder to hold such a message, watch the
Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 130
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 93
Type: 11
Heading: Filing Mail
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Text: You can file mail in any e-mail folder on your computer.
To learn how, watch the Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 131
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 94
Type: 11
Heading: Retrieving Mail
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Text: Filing mail would serve no purpose without a way to
retrieve it when you want to refer to it again. To
retrieve a filed e-mail message, follow the steps
demonstrated in either the Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 132
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 95
Type: 11
Heading: Creating a Generic File Folder
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Text: In preparation for creating a signature file later on in
this chapter, you need to learn how to create a generic
file folder. Movies on the Interlit CD show how to do this
for Windows 3.1,
Windows 95, or Macintosh.
EventID: 133
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Position: 96
Type: 11
Heading: Creating a Plain Text File
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Text: A signature file is a plain text file. If you don't
already know how to make a plain text file, watch the Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Macintosh version of
this movie.
EventID: 134
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 97
Type: 11
Heading: Creating a Signature File
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Text: A signature file is a block of text that automatically gets
appended to the e-mail messages you originate. Once
you've created the signature file, you can learn how to
attach it to your mail messages by watching the Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 135
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 98
Type: 11
Heading: Attaching Files to E-mail Messages
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Text: MIME stands for Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions.
MIME is a protocol that lets you attach a file to a mail
message. When you send the mail message, the attached file
goes along with it. To learn how to attach files to
e-mail messages, watch the Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 136
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 99
Type: 1
Heading: Address Books
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Text: Before you can send e-mail to someone, you must know the
person's e-mail address. To avoid having to look up a
person's e-mail address every time, you can record it in
an address book. To learn how, watch the Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 137
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 100
Type: 11
Heading: Addressing Mail via an Address Book
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Text: To learn how to address an e-mail message to someone listed
in an address book, watch the Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer
version of this movie.
EventID: 138
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 101
Type: 11
Heading: Mailing Lists
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Text: Sometimes you'll want to send mail to more than one
person at a time. To learn how to create a mailing list
using your address book, watch the Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 139
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 102
Type: 11
Heading: Finding Things in E-mail
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Text: When you have a lot of accumulated mail, you will
eventually lose track of where everything is. Happily, you
can search your mail messages to find things. To learn how
to search an e-mail message, watch the Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 140
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 103
Type: 11
Heading: Filtering Unwanted Mail
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Text: You can block mail from unwanted sources by using mail
filters. A mail filter blocks mail that comes from e-mail
addresses that you forbid. To learn how to set up a mail
filter, watch the Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 141
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 104
Type: 11
Heading: Detecting Fake Mail IDs
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Text: If you get mail saying it's from someone that you doubt
actually wrote the message, such as a message from your
boss giving you a million-dollar raise, it's possible
that someone used a bogus From field when they sent you
the message. You can get more information about where the
message came from by revealing the headers of the mail
message. To learn how, watch the Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 142
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 105
Type: 2
Heading: Listserv
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 7.
EventID: 144
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Text: Now that you know how to send and receive electronic mail,
you are ready to take advantage of the powerful
capabilities of listserv, which is an Internet resource
that uses e-mail protocols to distribute messages to lists
of users. The messages get served to everyone whose name
is on the list. Hence the name listserv.
EventID: 145
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Position: 108
Type: 11
Heading: Subscribing to a Listserv
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Text: Since it uses e-mail protocols that virtually every user of
the Internet already knows, listserv is easy to learn and
use. To join a listserv, you send its host computer an
e-mail message saying that you want to subscribe. To learn
how, watch the Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 146
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 109
Type: 11
Heading: Responding to a Listserv
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Text: To learn how to respond to a listserv, watch the Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer
version of this movie.
EventID: 147
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 110
Type: 11
Heading: Sending a Message to a Listserv
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Text: You send messages to a listserv with your e-mail client.
To learn how, watch the Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 148
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 111
Type: 11
Heading: Sending a Command to a Listserv
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Text: Your textbook tells you how to send commands that can pause
a listserv, find out who belongs to it, and get various
kinds of information about the list. For an example of how
to send a command to a listserv, watch the Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 149
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 112
Type: 8
Heading: Joining the Listserv for This Course
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Text: Everyone taking this class is required to join and
participate in the listserv that has been set up for
students in this course. The mailing list protocol used at
the University of Delaware is based on a program called
MajorDomo. The MajorDomo commands are a little different
than the standard listserv protocol described in your
textbook. To subscribe to the MajorDomo mailing list that
has been set up for this class, follow the steps below.
EventID: 150
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Text: - Address an e-mail message to: majordomo@udel.edu
- Leave the subject line blank.
- In the body of the
message, type:
subscribe interlit-list
your_email_address- Replace
your_email_address with your actual e-mail
address.
- Soon after you send the message, you'll
receive a reply from Majordomo welcoming you to the
list.
- Then you can send messages to it just like you
would a "real" listserv.
EventID: 151
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Position: 114
Type: 2
Heading: Usenet Newsgroups
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 8.
EventID: 153
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Text: Wonderful as they may be, electronic mail and listserv have
some shortcomings. While electronic mail is a great way
for individuals to exchange messages with each other, and
listserv makes it easy to send mail to lists of people,
it's not easy to maintain your train of thought in a
conversation conducted via e-mail. That's because e-mail
queues up in your inbox on a variety of topics, requiring
your mind to shift gears continually as you read mail on
different subjects. Enter the Usenet Newsgroup, a resource
invented in the late 1970s by students who wanted a better
way to converse over the Internet on specific topics. In
this chapter, you will learn how Usenet Newsgroups enable
users to hold virtual conferences over the Internet.
You'll find out what newsgroups exist in your
profession, learn how to join and participate in a
newsgroup, and know how to go about creating a new
newsgroup.
EventID: 154
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Position: 117
Type: 11
Heading: Configuring Your Newsgroup Client
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Text: Before you can read news, you need to configure your
newsgroup client. To learn how, watch the Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer
version of this movie.
EventID: 155
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 118
Type: 11
Heading: Choosing a Newsgroup
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Text: Your ISP subscribes to a number of newsgroups from which
you can choose one or more that you would like to read.
For help learning how to choose a newsgroup, watch the Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 156
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 119
Type: 11
Heading: Reading a Newsgroup
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Text: Newsgroups are threaded. Each thread represents a
different topic being discussed in the newsgroup. To
read a newsgroup, you point-and-click on the topics and
subtopics to navigate to the part of the newsgroup you
want to read. To see how, watch the Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 157
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 120
Type: 11
Heading: Responding to a Newsgroup
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Text: Responding to a newsgroup is a lot like responding to an
e-mail message. The main difference is that instead of
being sent to an individual, your response gets posted to
the newsgroup. For an example, watch the Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 158
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 121
Type: 11
Heading: Creating a New Topic
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Text: While participating in a newsgroup, you may want to start a
conversation on a new topic. To learn how to create a
new topic in a newsgroup, watch the Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 159
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 122
Type: 11
Heading: Deleting a Newsgroup Message
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Text: Two rules govern the deleting of messages from a newsgroup.
First, you can only delete messages that you write. You
cannot delete messages written by other users. Second, you
should only delete messages to which no one has responded
yet. If another user has written a reply in the newsgroup
to one of your messages, deleting your message will
interrupt the flow of the conversation. To learn how to
delete a message in a newsgroup, watch the Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 160
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 123
Type: 8
Heading: Participating in the Course Newsgroup
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Text: Every student in this class is required to participate in
the course newsgroup. The name of the newsgroup for this course is
udel.fall98.interlit. Please join in the conversations you will find
in progress there, and initiate new topics as you wish.
EventID: 161
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Type: 2
Heading: Communicating in Real Time
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 9.
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Text: E-mail, listserv, and newsgroups are great ways to
communicate, but all three suffer from the lack of
real-time interaction between you and the person with whom
you're communicating. Historically, real-time
communication has occurred either in face-to-face
conversation or over the telephone. Now it is also possible
to converse in real-time over the Internet. If the person
you're talking to has a video capture card, you can even
see the other person on screen. This chapter covers four
kinds of environments used to communicate in real time
over the Internet: chat rooms, white boards,
videoconferencing, and MUDs (multi-user domains).
EventID: 169
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Position: 127
Type: 11
Heading: Internet Relay Chat
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Text: There's a movie on the Interlit CD that shows you how to do
an IRC chat. You can view the movie either for a Windows PC or for the Macintosh.
EventID: 164
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Position: 128
Type: 1
Heading: Online Chat
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Text: After you study the background information in the textbook
regarding Internet Relay Chat, visit the Interlit chatroom
that's been set up for this course. You can enter the
chatroom by clicking the Chat icon at the top of this
page. If the chat icon is not visible, use the scrollbar
at the right edge of this window to move up to the top of
this page. Note: it's possible that when you visit the
chatroom, it might be empty. If so, try again later, and
try to coordinate your schedule with a classmate who will
enter the chat room at the same time you do.
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Text:
Microsoft's
NetMeeting software is a fantastic example of real-time
communication software. Part of the Microsoft Internet
Explorer, NetMeeting has a whiteboard, supports
application sharing, and does videoconferencing if you have
a camera attached to your computer. Follow the Interlit
Web site links to NetMeeting to learn more about this
exciting software. |  |
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Heading: How to Make a NetMeeting Call
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Text: There's a movie on the Interlit CD that shows how to make a NetMeeting call on a
Windows PC.
EventID: 171
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Text: The Interlit CD also has a movie that shows you how to answer a NetMeeting call on
a Windows PC.
EventID: 166
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Text:
One of the first
videoconferencing applications on the Internet is
CU-SeeMe. CU stands for Cornell University, where the
software was developed. CU-SeeMe 3.0 Video Chat Software
has a directory for locating other CU-SeeMe users, twelve
of whom can be viewed on screen simultaneously. To
conserve bandwidth, you push a button in the software when
you want to talk, and your video camera transmits a live
picture to the other users. To learn more, follow the Interlit
Web site links to CU-SeeMe, where you can look in on
video cameras positioned in various locations around the
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Text: - The term MUD has evolved from its earlier
game-related meaning of Multi-User Dungeon to the
more-general concept of a Multi-User Dimension. MUDs are
synchronous multi-user communication environments that
enable participants to take on a persona and create virtual
worlds out of their own imaginations.
- MUSH stands for
Multi-User Shared Hallucination. The acronym MUSH was
chosen because this kind of environment is thought to be
more squishy than a MUD. MUSHes are situated MUDs used for
role-playing games that simulate worlds from books and
movies or completely original environments.
- MOO stands
for MUD, Object-Oriented. The term object-oriented refers
to a style of programming in which applications are
constructed from reusable code segments known as objects
that several programs can share. MOOs enable users to
share code segments from each other's characters.
- For
a fascinating tour of different applications of multi-user
environments, follow the Interlit
Web site links to MUDs, MOOs, and MUSHes.
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 10.
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Text: Telnet is the protocol that enables individual users to log
on to host computers on the Internet. Once you are logged
on, you can access the services provided by the remote
host. This chapter shows you how to configure your
computer for telnet, so you can access the Internet
resources provided via telnet.
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Text: There's a movie on the Interlit CD that shows how to
configure the Netscape Web browser for telnet. You can
view the Macintosh or the Windows version
of this movie. There is no telnet configuration movie for
the Microsoft Internet Explorer, which comes preconfigured
for use with telnet.
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Text: There's also a movie that shows you how to telnet to the
Cleveland FreeNet. Once you learn how to do this,
connecting to other telnet sites is similar. You can view
this movie in Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Macintosh versions.
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Text: For a list of other telnet sites, follow the links to
telnet at the Interlit
Web site. It should be noted that as more and more
services that were provided formerly via telnet have
migrated to the Web, the frequency with which users need
to telnet is declining. Still, telnet is a very important
Internet service that an Internet Literate person should be
able to use when necessary.
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 11.
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Text: The Internet is the richest source of information on the
planet. Just about anything you could ever want to know is
available online. Especially for students and scholars
conducting research, the Internet is a fantastic resource
for finding out what's been done in your field. The key
to unleashing the research potential of the Internet is to
know how to use the search engines. That's what this
class is about.
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Text: Yahoo is the most popular subject-oriented search engine on
the Internet. To learn how to use it, watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: AltaVista is one of the Internet's most powerful search
engines. For an introduction to using AltaVista, watch the
Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: To make the most effective use of keyword search engines
like AltaVista, you need to know how to do an advanced
search that enables you to combine keywords with logical
operators such as AND, OR, NOT, and NEAR to narrow the
scope of your search. To learn how to perform an
advanced search with AltaVista, watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: There are a lot of commercial files out on the Internet,
such as shareware programs, that you can find with file
search engines. To learn how to search for files on the
Internet, watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: In addition to helping you find Web pages, newsgroups, and
scholarly documents, the Internet can also help you
locate people. For some examples, watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
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Be sure to visit
the search section of the Interlit
Web site, where you'll find links to all of the
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Text: The exercises at the end of Chapter 11 are designed to help
hone your search skills. You should work through these
exercises in order to develop the skills you will need to
do a good job of researching the term paper you will write
later on in this course.
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 12.
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Text: When you use an Internet search engine to find something,
the information is almost always returned in the form of a
file. The way in which the file is organized is known as
its format. File formats vary according to the kind of
information being transmitted and its intended use. This
chapter introduces you to the most commonly found Internet
file types.
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Plain text files
are identified by the filename extension .txt. In computer
jargon, plain text files are known as ASCII files. ASCII
(pronounced askey) stands for American Standard Code for
Information Interchange. If you want to learn how ASCII
files work from a technical standpoint, follow the links to
ASCII at the Interlit
Web site. Otherwise, it will suffice to remember that
ASCII files are plain text files. |  |
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HTML stands for
HyperText Markup Language. The markup specifies how the
text will flow onto the screen depending on the size and
shape of the window in which the file is viewed. Follow
the Interlit
Web site links to Lewis Carroll's famous story
Through the Looking Glass, and experiment with
resizing your browser's window. Notice how the text and
graphics of the story adjust themselves automatically to
the size and position of the window. |  |
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GIF stands for
Graphics Interchange Format. Invented by CompuServe for
use on computer networks, GIF is highly efficient. GIF
files are limited to a palette of 256 colors, however; if
you need more than 256 different colors in a picture, you
should use the JPEG format (see below). If you want to
learn how GIF compression works, follow the links to GIF
at the Interlit
Web site. |
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JPEG (pronounced
Jay-peg) stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group,
which is the name of the international standards committee
that created it. JPEG is intended to become a
platform-independent graphics format. JPEG images can
contain millions of colors. For more information about
JPEG, follow the links at the Interlit
Web site. |
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On multimedia PCs,
the most common waveform audio filename extension is .wav,
which stands for waveform. Both Netscape Communicator and
Microsoft Internet Explorer have built-in support for
playing WAV files. For more information about the .wav
file format, follow the links to waveform audio at the Interlit
Web site. |
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High-end
workstations, such as Sun and NeXT, create audio files in
the .au and .snd formats. These formats are essentially
the same, except that .au files do not have file headers
to specify different sampling rates and compression
formats. For more detail, follow the links to Sun audio
format at the Interlit
Web site. |
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Real-time audio
streaming used in Internet radio broadcasts requires a
special file format optimized for real-time transmission
over the Internet. The RealAudio filename extensions are
.ra and .ram, which stands for Real Audio Metafile. Real
audio metafiles are text files that contain the Web address
(URL) of a RealAudio file. For more information about the
RealAudio file formats, follow the RealAudio links at the
Interlit
Web site. |
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AIFF stands for
Audio Interchange File Format. This is the file format
used to create audio files on the Macintosh. AIFC is a
compressed version; the C stands for compressed. For more
information about the AIF file formats, follow the AIF
links at the Interlit
Web site. |
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MIDI stands for
Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI is a music
synthesizer file format that requires very little
bandwidth to transmit, because the sound chip inside your
multimedia PC does the work of generating the waveform you
hear. There are some incredible archives of MIDI files that
you can listen to at the Interlit
Web site. |
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The most common
video format in the Windows world is Microsoft's Video
for Windows, which uses the filename extension .avi. AVI
stands for audio-video interleave, which describes a
clever scheme in which audio frames are interleaved with
the video. For detailed information, follow the links to
Video for Windows at the Interlit
Web site. |  |
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One of Apple
Computer Corporation's greatest gifts to the field of
multimedia is the QuickTime audio-video format. Because of
its cross-platform capabilities, QuickTime has become very
popular on the Internet. The filename extensions of
QuickTime movies are .qt and .mov. For the latest
information, follow the QuickTime links at the Interlit
Web site. |
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MPEG is emerging as
the digital video standard for the United States and most
of the world. MPEG stands for Motion Picture Experts
Group, the name of the ISO standards committee that
created it. For detailed information on MPEG, follow the
links to MPEG at the Interlit
Web site. |
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One of the greatest
challenges on the Internet is to deliver to your PC
full-motion video in an uninterrupted real-time data
stream. First to market with a product that does that is
Progressive Networks. The name of the product is
RealVideo, and the filename extension is RM. RealVideo
follows the industry-standard real-time streaming protocol
(RTSP) that has been invented for streaming audio and
video over the Internet. To read about this and other
technical details, follow the links to the RealVideo
Technical White Paper at the Interlit
Web site. |
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There is a huge
amount of printed text that is not accessible on the Web
yet. To provide a way to digitize printed text into a
format that can be viewed on any computer platform, Adobe
created the Portable Document Format, for which the
filename extension is .pdf. To learn more about the PDF
file format, and to see some examples of PDF files in
action, follow the links to Adobe Acrobat and Portable
Document Format at the Interlit
Web site. |
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Web pages presented
via the HTML file format are two-dimensional displays of
text and graphics. The Virtual Reality Modeling Language
(VRML) extends the Web into a third dimension. To learn
more about VRML, follow the VRML repository links at the
Interlit
Web site, where you will find the "Cyberspace" paper
that led to the creation of the VRML file format. |  |
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Text: Internet Literacy, Chapter 13.
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Text: In this class, you will learn how to download text,
graphics, audio, video, data files, and software from the
Internet. You'll learn how to make sure the downloaded
file has the correct filename extension for the type of
file it is. You'll also learn how to install
self-extracting archives that you download from the
Internet.
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Text: The quickest way to download text from the Internet is to
copy the text onto your clipboard, from which you can
paste the text into any other window on your screen. You
can view a movie that shows how to do this for Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Macintosh.
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Text: The quickest way to download an image from the Internet is
to use your Web browser's option for saving the image to a file. Watch this movie to find out how.
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Text: Downloading audio and video is similar to downloading
graphics. For a demonstration, watch this movie.
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Text: Linked here is a soft jazz
MIDI file. Click the link with your left button to
hear the link, or click with your right button to download
it. Macintosh users with one-button mice should hold down
your mouse button on the link to download it.
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Text: To learn how to download software and data from the
Internet, watch the Windows
or Macintosh version of this
movie.
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course, you will occasionally need to start a program when
its icon isn't visible on your screen. It can be tricky
trying to start a program when it's icon isn't
visible. To learn how to do this, view the Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Macintosh version of
this movie.
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 14.
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Text: This chapter enables you to learn how to cite Internet
resources in APA, MLA, or CMS style. Although it is a
short chapter, it's very important, because when you
write the term paper that is required in this course, you
must follow the correct bibliographic style. Read your
textbook carefully, and refer to the examples provided
there when you write your paper. Note especially how some
of the references have been linked to other documents on
the Web. Your paper should likewise link to other online
resources.
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APA stands for
American Psychology Association. The APA has developed one
of the most popular styles for scholarly writing. In the
APA section of the Interlit
Web site, you'll find resources related to APA
style. |  |
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MLA stands for
Modern Language Association. In the MLA section of the Interlit
Web site, you'll find resources related to MLA
style. |  |
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CMS stands for
Chicago Manual of Style. It's the world-renowned style
guide created by the University of Chicago Press. In the
CMS section of the
Interlit
Web site, you'll find resources related to CMS
style. |  |
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You'll find a
sample term paper presented in all three styles (APA, MLA,
and CMS) at the Interlit
Web site. Study especially the sample paper written in
the style in which you choose to write your term
paper. |  |
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Text: Now that you've learned how to download files from the
Internet and cite Internet references in the proper
bibliographic style, you need to know about the Fair Use
Guidelines for Educational Multimedia, which specify what
you are allowed to do with these materials under the Fair
Use law, and when you need to ask permission to use them in
your writings.
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Text: The Internet Literacy CD contains a movie in which the
author of your textbook presents his interpretation of the
Fair Use law. Watch
this movie, and then study the portion guidelines
presented in the next part of this class.
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Text: According to the Fair Use Guidelines for Educational
Multimedia, students are permitted to download into term
papers certain portions of copyrighted works. These
portions include: - up to 10% or 1000 words of a
text, whichever is less. Special rules apply to poetry;
see section 4.2.2 of the guidelines for details.
- not
more than 5 images by an individual artist or
photographer; for anthologies, not more than 10% or 15
images, whichever is less.
- up to 10% but never more
than 30 seconds of music, lyrics, and music video.
- up
to 10% of motion media or 3 minutes, whichever is less.
- up to 10% or 2500 fields or cell entries, whichever is
less, from a copyrighted database or data table.
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It is important for
everyone to read the full text of the Fair Use Guidelines,
which you can get by following the Interlit
Web site links to the Fair Use Guidelines for
Educational Multimedia. Studying these guidelines will
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 15.
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Text: This class covers the three basic approaches to creating
Web pages. After completing it, you'll know when to use (1) an HTML
editor, (2) a WYSIWYG tool, or (3) an HTML translator.
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An editor that lets
you create Web pages by working directly with HTML tags is
known as an HTML editor. The advantage of creating Web
pages with an HTML editor is that it gives you more
control over the Web page than WYSIWYG editors and HTML
translators, which create the HTML for you. The
disadvantage is that for less technically-inclined
authors, editing HTML tags can seem tedious and
time-consuming. In addition to the HTML editors featured
in your textbook, there are dozens of others you can find
out about by following the links to the Yahoo list of HTML
editors at the Interlit
Web site. |
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Text: WYSIWYG editors let you create Web pages by typing your
text directly on screen, where it appears exactly as it
will look on the Web. To change a font, size, color, or
other text attribute, you select the text you want to
change, then click a button or icon that makes the change.
Never do you see the HTML tags, which the WYSIWYG editor
inserts into the document automatically, depending on
what you do with the WYSIWYG controls. In the Web page
creation tutorial part of this course, you'll learn how
to use the WYSIWYG Web-page creation tools that come with
either Netscape Navigator or the Microsoft Internet
Explorer.
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If you've got an
existing document that you want to turn into a Web page,
the most efficient way to create the page is with an HTML
translator. There are HTML translators for WordPerfect,
Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint. The
translators are free, and you can download them by
following the links to HTML Translators at the Interlit
Web site. |
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Text: Watch this movie
to learn how to make a Web page from a term paper written with
Microsoft Word.
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Text: This movie shows
how to make a Web page from a term paper written with WordPerfect.
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Active tools are so
named because they bring Web pages to life. At the Interlit
Web site, you'll find links to several different
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- Animated GIF, a
special kind of GIF file containing multiple images
intended to be shown in a sequence at specific times and
locations on the screen
- Java, an object-oriented
programming language that enables programmers to create
little applications called applets that can play in your
browser's window
- ActiveX, a Microsoft approach to
creating active Web pages
- Shockwave, a Web-browser
plug-in for playing multimedia sequences created with
Macromedia's Director program
- Roadster, a plug-in
that makes it possible for Supercard applications to be
distributed via Web pages
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Text: There's a movie on the Interlit CD in which the author of
your textbook demonstrates some Web page creation strategies. Watch this movie to learn some
tricks.
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 16.
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Text: An Adobe advertisement states, "If you can dream it, you
can do it." The goal of this chapter is to make you aware of the
design elements you can use to create interesting and effective Web
pages.
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Text: The first Web page you will make in this course is your own
résumé. Many students have told how putting their
résumé's on the Web helped them get jobs.
To view a sample résumé on line, go to Professor Hofstetter's
résumé.
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Text: Chapter 16 of your textbook contains a detailed
presentation of Web page design elements in action. Read this
chapter carefully, because it will provide you with important
background for creating your own Web pages in the next part of this
course.
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Text: Study carefully the résumé design layout at the end of
Chapter 16. Then draw a diagram of how you plan to design
your own résumé. Think especially about the menu of
choices that your résumé will contain. Possible items you
might include on your résumé are: - Educational
Qualifications
- Work Experience
- Computer Skills
- Grants and Awards
- Honorary Societies
- Professional Association Memberships
- Publications
- Software
- Presentations
- How to Contact Me
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Text: Since it is possible to link any document, audio, picture,
movie, or software application to your Web page, you will
be able to link your résumé to examples of your work to
prove your worth to a prospective employer. Think about
the examples you would like to link to your résumé, and
include these links in your résumé design.
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You need to be
careful choosing foreground and background colors for your
Web pages. There are sites on the Web where you can see
what different color combinations look like. To explore
different foreground/background combinations, follow the
links to the InfiNet color index at the Interlit
Web site. |
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Tiled backgrounds
are created when a bitmap smaller than the screen is drawn
repeatedly up, down, and across the screen until all of
the screen surface has been covered. Tiles should be
seamless, meaning that when the bitmap replicates itself
up and down the screen, you cannot perceive the edges of
the bitmap or detect a regular interruption in the pattern
caused by the edges of the bitmap not fitting against each
other smoothly. For some examples of good tiles to use on
Web pages, click the tile icon at the Interlit
Web site. |
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Text:
Many Web pages
contain navigational icons that give the user the option
to page forward or backward, go to a menu, or return to a
home page. Navigational icons normally work best when they
appear lined up in the same region of the screen, instead
of being scattered about the screen. To visit a Web site
that uses navigational icons, follow the links to
navigation icons at the Interlit
Web site. |
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When Web pages
contain frames, more than one window appears on your Web
page, and you can interact with the information in the
windows independently. Some users find frames confusing
and prefer not to use them. That's why Web pages with
frames often allow the user to turn the frames off.
There's a great example of the use of frames at the
Kairos Web site, where you will find the electronic
journal Kairos presented with frames. Follow the Interlit
Web site links to Kairos, try the frames, and decide
whether you like them or not. |  |
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Text: There's a knack to writing a hypertext in such a way that
the wording makes it clear what will happen when the user
triggers the link. Provide three examples of how you could
write a hypertext instruction telling the user how to
return to your home page. Each example should be a line of
hypertext that will appear on the user's screen,
containing one or more hot words that the user clicks to go
back to your home page.
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 17.
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Text: HTML is the markup language used to create hypertext
documents for the World Wide Web. HTML stands for HyperText
Markup Language. The key to understanding how HTML works
is to know what it means to mark up a text. This class
explains the concept of a markup language, defines the
families of HTML tags, and identifies the tags that you
will use in creating your Web page résumé.
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Text: To mark up a text means to insert special codes called tags
into the text. The tags control how the text appears on
a Web page. If you pull down your Browser's View menu
and choose Page Source, you'll see how the text
you're reading now got marked up by Serf so it would flow
well onto this Web page. Notice all of the codes inside
brackets. Those are the HTML codes.
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Text: Chapter 17 contains a taxonomy of HTML tags. You should
study that taxonomy carefully to familiarize yourself with
the different kinds of tags you can use. You need not
memorize these tags, because you'll be using a graphical
Web page creation tool that inserts the tags for you. You
need to be somewhat familiar with the tags, however, so
you'll understand what the Web page creation tool is
doing for you.
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The World Wide Web
is an emerging technology, and new HTML tags get invented
constantly. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the
standards body that officially registers new features into
HTML. All of the major computing vendors and network
companies belong to the W3C. To learn more about the
consortium, follow the Interlit
Web site links to W3C. |  |
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 18.
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Text: Now that you know how HTML works, you are ready to put your
new knowledge to work. This chapter takes you through all the steps
needed to build your own online résumé with text,
graphics, and links to other Web pages.
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Text: Before you can create a Web page, you need a place to store
it on your computer. That place is known as a file
folder. You can view a movie that shows how to create a
file folder for Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Macintosh.
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Text: The first step in creating a new Web page is to get your
Web page creation software running. To learn how to do
that, watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
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Heading: Starting a New Web Page
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Text: Once you have your Web page creation software running, you
can start creating a Web page. Watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie to get started.
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Text: To learn how to create a page title and enter the keywords
for your Web page, watch the Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer
version of this movie.
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Text: You can learn how to write a heading on a Web page by
watching the Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: Whenever you make a change to a file that you want to keep,
you should save the file. Do so now by following the
steps demonstrated in the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
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Heading: Previewing a Web Page
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Text: While you are creating a new Web page, you'll want to
have a look at it with a Web browser from time to time so
you can see how it's going to appear on the Web. To
learn how to preview a Web page with a browser, watch the
Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: To learn how to create a new paragraph on a Web page, watch
the Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer
version of this movie.
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Heading: Creating a Bulleted List
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Text: Bulleted lists help organize content on Web pages. To learn
how to create a bulleted list, watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: Horizontal rules create neat-looking dividing lines between
different parts of a Web page. To learn how to insert a
horizontal rule after the bulleted table of contents in
your résumé, watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: As you create the different sections in your résumé, it
will grow too long to fit on the screen all at once. To
make it easy for the user to find the different parts of
your résumé, you can insert named locations known as
targets into your document. Then you can link each item in
your résumé's bulleted list of topics to its
corresponding target to make it quick and easy for the
user to find that section. To learn how to create a
target, watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: To learn how to link to a target, watch the Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer
version of this movie.
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Text: Web pages often contain a return-to-contents link that
helps the user navigate. To learn how to create a
return-to-contents link in the Education section of your
résumé, watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: There are more than fifty million documents on the World
Wide Web. You can link your résumé to any document for
which you know the URL. To learn how to link to a URL,
watch the Netscape
Navigator or
Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: It is customary for Web page owners to include a mailto
link to their e-mail address to make it easy for you to
contact them. When you click such a link, an E-mail dialog
appears, automatically addressed to the Web page owner.
To learn how to put a mailto link on your Web page,
follow the steps demonstrated in the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 19.
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Text: It has often been said that a picture is worth a thousand
words. The ease with which you can paste pictures onto
Web pages makes it possible to illustrate documents and use
images as design elements in the layout of a Web page.
Before you can paste a picture onto a Web page, however,
you must get it into the proper format for display on a Web
page. This class provides you with a utility that makes
it easy to get images into the proper format. Then you
will not only learn how to paste pictures onto Web pages,
but also create special effects with techniques known as
tiling and transparency.
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Text: Paint Shop Pro is the graphics utility that you will use in
this class if you have Windows. Paint Shop Pro is
shareware. If you keep using it past the free trial
period, please observe the shareware rules and pay the
modest fee. To learn how to download and install Paint Shop
Pro, watch the Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: Graphic Converter is the graphics utility that you will use
in this class if you have a Macintosh. Graphic Converter
is shareware. If you keep using it past the free trial
period, please observe the shareware rules and pay the
modest fee. To learn how to download and install Graphic
Converter, watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: To convert images into the proper format for pasting onto
Web pages, follow the steps illustrated in either the Windows PC or the Macintosh version of this movie.
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Text: Images may be the wrong size for placement on your Web
page. It's common for the images to be too large,
requiring that you reduce them in size. To learn how to
resize images, watch the Windows PC or the Macintosh version of
this movie.
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Text: This exercise is for Windows users only. Sometimes the
Paint Shop Pro resize function doesn't work very well.
Resizing an image that contains alphabetic characters, for
example, can alter the shape of the characters. Increasing
the size of a picture often exaggerates the pixels in the
image, making curves and diagonal lines seem jagged
instead of smooth. Windows users can minimize these
problems by resampling instead of resizing the image. Watch this movie to
find out how.
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Text: Unless you have a special reason for wanting to keep your
images encoded in 16 million colors (24-bit), you should
convert the images to 256 colors (8-bit), which will make
them appear three times faster on your Web page. To
convert a 24-bit image into an 8-bit image, follow the
steps illustrated in the Windows PC or the Macintosh version of
this movie.
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Text: A special effect when an image appears on a Web page is to
make it fade in with a Venetian blind effect. A file
subformat known as GIF 89a Interlaced creates this effect.
To learn how to do it, watch the Windows PC or the
Macintosh
version of this movie.
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Text: You'll be happy to discover that pasting an image onto a
Web page is a lot easier than preparing the picture to fit
the Web page's layout. To paste an image onto a Web
page, follow the steps illustrated in the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: Tiling means to draw a bitmap repeatedly across and down
the screen until the entire window has been covered. If
the bitmap is designed in such a way as to hide the edges
when tiled, you get a seamless appearance in the
background. To learn how to tile an image onto a Web page,
watch the Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
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Text: Transparency is a special effect in which one of the colors
in a bitmap becomes translucent. Instead of seeing that
color, you see through it into the background color or
image on the screen. To learn how to create a transparent
GIF image, watch the Windows PC or the Macintosh version of
this movie.
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Heading: Which Tile Works Best?
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Text:
The Interlit
Web site contains several images designed for use as
tiles on Web pages. Download several of these images, and
try tiling them onto your Web page résumé. Which tile
appears best on your Web page résumé? |  |
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Position: 252
Type: 2
Heading: Advanced Web Page Layout
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 20.
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Text: This class introduces the concept of using tables to create
advanced Web page layouts. You'll learn how to use
tables to organize Web pages into rectangular regions
called cells. Then you'll flow text and pictures into
table cells to create advanced Web page designs. You'll
also learn to recognize the HTML tags that create tables.
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Position: 255
Type: 11
Heading: Creating a Table
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Text: To learn how to create a table, watch the Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer
version of this movie.
EventID: 285
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Position: 256
Type: 11
Heading: Captioning a Table
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Text: Whether to caption a table is a design decision you will
need to make. If you want to caption a table, watch the
Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie to learn how.
EventID: 286
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 257
Type: 11
Heading: Changing Table Text Attributes
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Text: When you enter data into a table, you may want to change
text attributes such as font size, color, bolding, or
italics. To learn how to do this, watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 287
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 258
Type: 11
Heading: Adjusting Table Parameters
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Text: After you create a table, you may decide you want to change
the table size, border, or background color. To learn
how to modify the table parameters, watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 288
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 259
Type: 11
Heading: Inserting Images in Tables
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Text: You can insert images inside any table cell. If the image
is larger than the cell, the cell will expand to the size
of the image, unless you've limited the size of the cell
to a fixed pixel width or height. For an example, watch
the Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 289
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 260
Type: 11
Heading: Subdividing Table Cells
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Text: It is possible to subdivide any table cell by creating a
table inside the cell. This puts a table grid inside the
cell, providing another layer of structure on the Web
page. To learn how to add such a structural dimension to
your Web pages, watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 290
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 261
Type: 11
Heading: Making a Table Cell Span
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Text: By default, each cell in a table is confined to just one
row and column. To vary the layout of a table, you can
expand a cell to make it span more than one row or column.
To learn how, watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 291
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 262
Type: 1
Heading: Table Exercises
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Text: The exercises at the end of chapter 20 will provide you
with practice using tables to create advanced Web page designs.
These exercises build upon one another, so you must complete them in
order.
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Position: 263
Type: 2
Heading: Creating a Home Page
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 21.
EventID: 294
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Text: There are several strategies you can follow for creating a
home page. First, you can use a home page template or a
wizard that will create the page for you; second, you can
design a custom home page that's totally done by you; or,
with proper permission, you can clone someone else's
home page and then customize it to make it your own.
EventID: 295
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Type: 11
Heading: Netscape's Home Page Template
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Text: Netscape Composer comes with a templating feature that
makes it easy to create home pages. Watch this movie to learn how
Netscape's home page template works.
EventID: 296
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 267
Type: 11
Heading: Microsoft's FrontPage Express Wizard
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Text: Microsoft's Web page creation wizard prompts you for the
information needed to make a Web page. The wizard asks you
what kind of Web page you want to make (such as a home
page or a menu), how you want to make it look (fancy,
plain, or business-like), and what kind of information you
have to enter. Then the wizard generates the page for you,
and you fine-tune the results. To see the wizard in
action, watch this
movie.
EventID: 297
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 268
Type: 11
Heading: Cloning a Web Page
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Text: If you see a nicely designed page on the Web, and you want
to make a page with a similar design, it is possible to
clone the Web page, make modifications to customize it as
you wish, then save the page under your own filename. When
cloning Web pages, however, you must observe copyright law
and the principles of netiquette. Refer to the copyright
and fair use section of Chapter 25, and follow the Interlit
Web site links to copyright, fair use, and netiquette. If
you get sued for copyright infringement, ignorance of
these laws is no defense. A common myth about the Internet
is that since the Internet's public, everything on the
Internet is in the public domain. It just isn't so. You
must assume networked information is copyrighted, instead
of believing it isn't. Always ask permission if you have
any question regarding whether your use of the material is
a fair use. With the laws of copyright and the principles
of ethics in mind, you can learn how to clone a Web page
by watching the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 298
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 269
Type: 11
Heading: Creating a Custom Home Page
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Text: The most original way to create a home page is to design
your own. By using tables to divide the screen into the
rectangles you practiced making in the previous chapter,
you can layout your Web page into different regions on the
screen, and enter your text and graphics into the
different rectangles to create a unique screen layout with
a custom look and feel. To learn how to create Web pages
by creating your own design, watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 382
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 270
Type: 2
Heading: Making a Local Web
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Text: Now that your home page has been created, you're ready to
create a local web by linking your résumé to your home
page. This class shows you how to do that.
EventID: 299
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Position: 272
Type: 11
Heading: Linking Your Résumé
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Text: To link your résumé to your home page, follow
the steps illustrated in the Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer
version of this movie.
EventID: 300
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 273
Type: 11
Heading: Creating a Return Link
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Text: Now that you have provided a way for the user to link to
your résumé from your home page, it's time to create a
link from your résumé back to your home page. While it is
possible for users to return to your home page by clicking
their Web browser's Back button, it is customary to
provide a return link to your home page. By now you should
be able to create such a return link on your own, but if
you need help, watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 301
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 274
Type: 2
Heading: Publishing Files on the Web
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Text:
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 22.
EventID: 303
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Text: To publish a file on the World Wide Web means to transfer
the file into a folder on a Web server. Unless your
computer happens to be a Web server, you need a way to
transfer your files to the Web. This class provides you
with the knowledge and the tools needed to transfer files
from your PC to a World Wide Web file server.
EventID: 304
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Position: 277
Type: 11
Heading: Publishing a Folder Full of Files
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Text: Both Netscape Composer and Microsoft FrontPage Express make
it possible to transfer files to the Web. To learn how
to publish a folder full of files to the Web, watch the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 305
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 278
Type: 11
Heading: Verifying the Publication
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Text: After publishing files to your Web site, you should always
check to make sure the files work properly on the Web.
You can view a movie that shows how to do this for Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer.
EventID: 383
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Position: 279
Type: 2
Heading: Managing a Web Site
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Text: While Netscape Composer and Microsoft FrontPage Express
make it pretty easy to transfer Web pages to your Web site,
there's more involved in managing a Web site than simply
transferring files. This chapter covers the finer points
of managing a Web site.
EventID: 306
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Type: 11
Heading: Installing the FTP Software
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Text: Another way to transfer files to a Web site is to use an
FTP program such as WS_FTP for Windows, or Fetch for the
Macintosh. These programs have a graphical user interface
that makes it easy to upload and download files, inspect
the contents of the folders at your Web site, delete and
rename files, and create new folders. To learn how to
download and install the FTP software appropriate for your
brand of computer and browser, watch the Windows Netscape,
Macintosh
Netscape, Windows Internet
Explorer, or Macintosh Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 307
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 282
Type: 11
Heading: Configuring an FTP Connection
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Text: The first time you use your FTP software, you will need to
configure a new connection for your Web site. The new
connection configuration identifies the domain name of
your Web server and your user ID on that server. To learn
how to configure a new connection, watch the Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Macintosh version of
this movie.
EventID: 308
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 283
Type: 11
Heading: How to FTP Files to the Web
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Text: To learn how to FTP files to the Web, watch the Windows or Macintosh version of this movie.
EventID: 309
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 284
Type: 11
Heading: Deleting and Renaming Web Files
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Text: Your FTP software provides a way to delete files you no
longer want on the Web. It also lets you rename files. To
learn how to delete and rename files at a Web site, watch
the Windows or Macintosh version of
this movie.
EventID: 310
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 285
Type: 11
Heading: Creating a New Web Site Folder
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Text: As the number of files at your Web site increases, you may
choose to create folders to help keep your site organized.
To learn how to create a folder at your Web site, watch
the Windows or Macintosh version of
this movie. Remember that in order for the links in your
files to work properly, the directory structure at your
Web site must mirror that of the website directory
on your computer.
EventID: 311
SyllabusID: 1
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Text: After you FTP your files to the Web, you will probably want
to set the file permission attributes to let anyone in
the world read your files, but allow only you to modify or
delete them. If your Web server is Unix-based, the
command to type is chmod 644. For instructions how to do
this, watch this
movie.
EventID: 312
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 287
Type: 11
Heading: Changing Permission Attributes with Fetch
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Text: If you have a Macintosh, watch this movie to learn how
to set the file permission attributes with Fetch.
EventID: 313
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 288
Type: 1
Heading: Promoting Your Web Site
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Text: After you publish your Web site, you'll want to let other
people know about it. Follow the steps suggested at the end of
chapter 22 to make sure the Internet search engines know about your Web
site.
EventID: 314
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Position: 289
Type: 5
Heading: Home Page and Résumé
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Text: After you have transferred your home page and your résumé
to your Web site, you should submit them for a grade by
pressing the Submit button provided below. Make sure you
test your home page first, however, to make sure that it
looks good, contains no spelling mistakes, and links
properly to your résumé. Remember that your résumé should
contain a table of contents with links to targets that
make it easy for the user to find the different sections
of your résumé and return to the contents.
EventID: 315
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Heading: Multimedia and the Web
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 23.
EventID: 317
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Text: Multimedia brings Web pages to life with sound, video, and
animations. In order to hear the sound or see the video on
a Web page, your Web browser must be configured to handle
the multimedia resources contained on the Web page. This
class helps you do that.
EventID: 318
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Type: 11
Heading: Inspecting the Helper App Settings
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Text: In the beginning, the only way browsers handled multimedia
was via helper apps. When the user triggered a link to a
multimedia filetype, the browser would launch a so-called
"helper" application to play the file. Happily, most of
the multimedia support you need comes preconfigured these
days. Netscape still allows you to inspect and modify your
browser's helper app settings. To learn how, watch the Netscape Windows
or the Netscape
Macintosh version of this movie.
EventID: 319
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 294
Type: 11
Heading: Installing the Shockwave Plug-in
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Text: A plug-in is a software module that adds functionality to a
computer application. The most popular plug-in on the
Internet is Shockwave, the Macromedia product that enables
multimedia created with Director, Authorware, and Flash to
plug in to Web pages. For a demonstration of how to
download and install the Shockwave plug-in, watch the Windows Netscape,
Macintosh
Netscape, Windows Internet
Explorer, or Macintosh Internet
Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 320
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 295
Type: 9
Heading: Favorite Shockwave Feature
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Text: After you've installed the Shockwave plug-in, use your
browser to visit some of the Shockwave-enabled Web sites
you'll find at http://www.macromedia.com/shockzone.
Make a list of the features you find Shockwave supporting
that you haven't seen on Web pages that don't use it.
What is your favorite Shockwave feature?
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Type: 2
Heading: Waveform Audio Recording
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 24.
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Text: Waveform audio is a great way to begin adding multimedia
content to your Web pages. Because every multimedia
computer comes with the hardware needed to create waveform
audio recordings, you're already equipped to do it.
This class steps you through the process of recording
waveform audio and linking it to your Web pages.
EventID: 324
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Text:
Windows comes with
a program called the Sound Recorder that enables you to
create waveform audio recordings. On the Macintosh, you
use a shareware program called Sound Effects. If you have
a Macintosh and you don't already have the Sound Effects
program, follow the links to Sound Effects at the Interlit
Web site, and install the Sound Effects program.
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Type: 11
Heading: Selecting the Record Sound Source
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Text: You can record either from a microphone, or from a
so-called "line output" from a tape recorder, audio CD
player, or VCR. Your computer has jacks into which you can
plug a microphone or a line output. Once your audio
source is connected, you need to make sure it's selected
as the source in the recording section of your
computer's sound mixing software. To learn how to do
that, watch the Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Macintosh version of
this movie.
EventID: 326
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 301
Type: 11
Heading: Waveform Audio Recording
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Text: Now that you've got your sound source connected and
selected, you can make the recording by following the
steps demonstrated in the Windows or Macintosh version of
this movie.
EventID: 327
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Position: 302
Type: 11
Heading: Waveform Audio Editing
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Text: In addition to letting you record waveform audio, your
computer enables you to edit the audio. For example, if
you pressed the Record button too soon, there's extra
sound at the beginning of the recording that you need to
delete. Similarly, if you pressed the stop button too
late, there's extra sound at the end that you'll want
to remove. To edit a waveform audio recording, follow the
process demonstrated in the Windows or Macintosh version of
this movie.
EventID: 328
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 303
Type: 11
Heading: Linking a Sound to a Trigger
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Text: Now that you've learned how to record audio, it's time
to put it on your Web page. There are two ways to do that.
You can either link it, or you can embed it. To learn how
to link it, follow the steps in the Netscape Navigator
or Microsoft
Internet Explorer version of this movie.
EventID: 329
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 304
Type: 11
Heading: Embedding Audio On a Web Page
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Text: To learn how to embed audio on a Web page, watch the Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer
version of this movie.
EventID: 330
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 305
Type: 5
Heading: Audio On Your Home Page
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Text: Complete exercises 1 through 3 at the end of chapter 24,
which has you put audio onto your home page. After
you've tested the audio on your Web page to make sure it
plays back properly from the Web, follow the instructions
below to submit the URL of your home page so your
instructor can assign you a grade for your waveform audio
recording.
EventID: 331
SyllabusID: 1
Position: 306
Type: 2
Heading: Societal Issues
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 25.
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Text: As the communications infrastructure for the twenty-first
century, the Internet is the most strategic resource in
modern society. But will its true potential be reached? Who
will control access? Almost any good thing can be misused;
how will the Internet harm society?
EventID: 334
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Position: 309
Type: 1
Heading: Equity, Cost, and Universal Access
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Text:
As this book goes
to press, only about 20 million Americans are using the
Internet. We have a long way to go before achieving
universal access. After you read what the textbook has to
say about this, go to the equity section of the Interlit
Web site and explore the links you find there.
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Type: 1
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Text:
The constitution
guarantees every American the right to privacy. The
Internet threatens this right. Most users are unaware of
how real the threat is. After you read what the textbook
has to say about this, go to the privacy section of the Interlit
Web site and explore the links you find there.
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Text:
Believe it or not,
there's a home page for stalkers on the Internet.
You'll find it linked to the Interlit
Web site. The purpose of the Stalker's Home Page is
not so much to enable you to stalk, but rather to make you
aware of the tools that stalkers could use against you on
the Internet. Go the the Stalker's Home Page and check it
out. While there, you'll noticed how it says how many
times it has displayed the banner ad at the top of the
page. When your course instructor visited this page, the
number was 3,527,860. What was the value of the banner ad
counter when you went to the Stalker's home page? |  |
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To protect networks
against unauthorized access by users seeking information
to which they are not entitled, several steps can be
taken. Security measures include passwords, encryption,
firewalls, and proxy servers. Read what your textbook
presents, then visit the security section of the Interlit
Web site to learn even more. |  |
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Text: Some countries view technology as a cultural threat and are
taking steps to counteract it. You'll probably be
outraged by some of the examples of protectionism
discussed in chapter 25. As the author of your textbook
states: "The Internet is a worldwide resource in which
every country should participate and become a co-inventor.
Restricting or denying access to the Internet will
severely retard a nation's status in the twenty-first
century. Every citizen in the world should have the right
to unrestricted Internet access."
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Many people are
concerned that in addition to being able to monitor
electronic communications that stream across the Internet,
network administrators also have the ability to censor
them. To what extent and under what circumstances should
the government act as a censor on the Information
Superhighway? Study the examples presented in chapter 25;
then visit the censorship section of the
Interlit
Web site to explore links to additional resources.
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Text: A major part of your grade in this course is determined by
a term paper that you write on a topic of your choosing
related to an educational or communications issue on the
Internet. You may elaborate on one of the topics discussed
in the text, or you can choose an original topic. Your
paper must contain at least six bibliographic references.
Make sure the title of your paper, your name, and the date
you completed it appear at the top. Follow precisely the
bibliographic style guidelines for the style you use (APA,
MLA, or CMS--see chapter 14 for details). After you've
transferred your paper to your Web site and tested all of
the links in it to make sure they work properly, you may
submit it for a grade by pressing the Submit button
provided below.
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A lot of bandwidth
on the Internet is devoted to the transmission of
pornographic and obscene sexual content. After studying
the materials presented in chapter 25, follow the links to
pornography and obscenity at the Interlit
Web site to find out what's being done to create
rating systems and other safeguards to regulate access to
obscene materials. |  |
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Unfortunately, the
world contains many insecure individuals who, for some
sick reason, are made to feel superior by defaming people
based on race or ethnic origin. Not only does the Internet
reflect the hatred in society, but it provides bigots with
a wider audience. After studying what chapter 25 has to
say about this issue, follow the links to the Interlit
Web site to find out what you can do to make the
Internet a nicer place. |  |
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Text: In her fascinating book Life On the Screen, Sherry
Turkle (1995) describes what it is like to participate in
Multi User Domains (MUDs). Read about the virtual rape
described in your textbook, followed by Turkle's warning
to parents. Netsex is an issue that parents need to be
prepared to deal with.
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All of the elements
presented in Chapter 12 (Commonly Found Internet File
Types) of your textbook are protected by copyright. This
includes illustrations, text, movies, video clips,
documentaries, animations, music, and software. After
reading what chapter 25 has to say about copyright,
including how to register formally the copyright for your
Web pages, go to the Interlit
Web site and follow the links to the U.S. Copyright
Office. From there, choose Copyright Registration, then
Multimedia Works. (Web pages are considered to be
multimedia documents.) |  |
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Fair Use is a
section of the U.S. Copyright Law that allows the use of
copyrighted works in reporting news, conducting research,
and teaching. Read the copy of the law printed in the Fair
Use section of chapter 25. Then follow the Interlit
Web site links to the Fair Use Guidelines for
Educational Multimedia. Granted, you've been asked
to visit these guidelines previously in this course, but
their importance cannot be overemphasized. It's
important for all users to be aware of and to practice the
right of Fair Use. After all, it's the law. |  |
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Text: The exercises at the end of chapter 25 contain many
thought-provoking issues, in addition to those discussed in the
textbook. Reading through these exercises will help you think about
the issues.
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Text: Internet Literacy, read first half of chapter 26.
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Text: New technologies follow a cycle that includes invention,
prototyping, proof of concept, productizing, and
manufacture. Throughout this process, the inventions are
called emerging technologies. It often takes many years
for an emerging technology to achieve widespread use in
the marketplace. This chapter discusses the technologies
that promise to improve and enrich the Internet in the new
millennium.
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You've
undoubtedly experienced some problems with the
Internet's physical transport layer. Network delay is
the most obvious problem. You click a hypertext trigger to
go to a Web site, and you wait, and you wait, and you
wait. Sometimes it seems like WWW stands for World Wide
Wait. Read what chapter 26 has to say about this, then
follow the Interlit
Web site links to infrastructure. There you'll learn
what's being done to speed up the Web and make other
improvements to the infrastructure. |  |
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In the past, the
Internet has been used primarily for communications that
do not occur in real time. The most popular services on
the Internet, for example, are not real-time technologies.
E-mail is based on a store-and-forward protocol that
delivers mail to your inbox, where the message waits until
you open your inbox to read it. Traditional Web pages
reside on a server, where they wait for you to access them
with a browser. Real-time communications, on the other
hand, don't wait for someone to open them. Instead, they
stream across the Internet and play on your PC in real
time. These emerging technologies are converging radio,
telephone, and television into a networked supermedium.
After you read the real-time section of chapter 26, follow
the Interlit
Web site links to real-time communications. There
you'll find links to emerging technologies from AT&T,
Microsoft, Progressive Networks, Vocaltec, and others.
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Artificial
intelligence (AI) is for real. It's not just a
theoretical science for researchers. Featured in chapter
26 are several AI technologies that promise to improve your
use of the Internet in years to come. The technologies
include voice recognition, text-to-speech conversion,
image recognition, and knowbots. After you read about
these, follow the links in the artificial intelligence
section of the Interlit
Web site. This will expand your horizons for what to
expect and look forward to in the new millennium. |
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Text: Internet Literacy, read last half of chapter 26.
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Computer technology
is creating fundamental changes in the way televisions are
made and videos are distributed. Almost everyone reading
this book will be purchasing one of the new TVs during the
next few years. Study the sections in chapter 26 about
High Definition Television (HDTV), MPEG digital video,
WebTV, and Intercasting. Then follow the Interlit
Web site links to the section on digital television.
By exploring what you find there, you will be able to
prepare yourself for a major purchasing decision early in
the next millennium, namely, what HDTV set to buy. Note
especially how the computer and the television are merging,
or better stated, converging, into this new supermedium.
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When you use a
browser to get a page from the Web, you're effectively
pulling the page from the Web into your computer. Until
you pull, the page stays put. The push/pull metaphor is
changing this paradigm. After you read what chapter 26 has
to say about this, follow the Interlit
Web site links in the section on push technologies.
Explore the materials you will find there, including the
Microsoft white paper on push technologies. This will
probably convince you that push technology will have a
major impact on how people use the Internet in the new
millennium. |  |
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Someday soon, you
may be able to access the Internet from a hand-held,
wireless, highly portable computing device known as a
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). Already, commercial
advertising is promoting cell phones that can "get the
Internet." In your textbook, you can read about
Microsoft's Windows CE, the handheld version of Windows
that runs on products such as Casio's Cassiopeia. Also
featured is Newton, which is Apple's operating system
for PDAs. To learn more about these and other PDA
products, follow the Interlit
Web site links in the section on Personal Digital
Assistants. |  |
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Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 27.
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Text: In a traditional course, the last chapter of a textbook
might be considered "the end." In this course, however,
it's only the beginning. For the rest of your life, the
Internet will continue to evolve in exciting ways. What
you've learned so far is only the beginning. Since so
much of your success in life will depend on how well you
keep up with the Internet, this final chapter is critically
important, because it provides you with ways to use the
technology to keep up with what's happening.
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Your textbook
recommends listservs that will send you periodic e-mail
messages to keep you up-to-date with what's happening in
technology. In addition to the listservs mentioned in
chapter 27, check the listserv section of the Interlit
Web site for the most recent listserv advice. |  |
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Your textbook tells
you how to subscribe to an incredible catalog called the
Computer Shopper. It also recommends a few online
catalogs. For the most recent information on catalogs,
follow the links in the catalog section of the Interlit
Web site. |
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Chapter 27 lists
periodicals that will help keep you up-to-date on the new
technology. Several of these periodicals are free. Be sure
to apply for your free copy, by following the instructions
provided in the text. For links to Web sites that will
help keep you updated, follow the links in the Periodicals
and Web Sites section of the Interlit
Web site. |
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Text: Subscribe to all four of the listservs recommended in Table
27-1 of your textbook. As you begin receiving information
from the listservs, you'll develop a feel for which ones
you like best. After a few weeks of comparing the messages
you'll receive, you can unsubscribe from the listservs
you no longer want. The author predicts that you will fall
in love with the EDUPAGE listserv. It's the best single
resource for keeping up with what's happening on the
Internet.
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Text: You've worked hard in this course, and it's about time
you had an opportunity to get caught up. Today is the last
scheduled class. Use the time to work on your term paper
and any other assignments you haven't completed yet.
Scroll down and click the Inspect Assignments button for a
progress report.
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Text: This may be the end of the course, but it's only the
beginning of your life on the Internet. Live that life fully, and
enjoy!