Serf Exported Syllabus Title: Internet Literacy Columns: 12 EventID: 43 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 1 Type: 7 Heading: Jumpstart Information Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 44 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 2 Type: 6 Heading: Getting Started Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 45 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 3 Type: 6 Heading: Logistics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: 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. EventID: 46 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 4 Type: 7 Heading: Record Keeping Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 47 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 5 Type: 6 Heading: Assignments Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 48 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 6 Type: 6 Heading: Grades Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 63 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 7 Type: 7 Heading: Textbook Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 64 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 8 Type: 6 Heading: Textbook Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 1 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 9 Type: 4 Heading: Course Information Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 2 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 10 Type: 3 Heading: Course Number Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: HEPP 433 (undergraduate) or HEPP 533 (graduate) EventID: 5 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 11 Type: 3 Heading: Credits Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: 3 EventID: 3 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 12 Type: 3 Heading: Instructor Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Fred T. Hofstetter EventID: 2345 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 13 Type: 3 Heading: Course Description Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 8 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 14 Type: 3 Heading: Prerequisites Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 65 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 15 Type: 4 Heading: Computer Logistics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 9 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 16 Type: 3 Heading: Internet Accounts Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 11 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 17 Type: 3 Heading: PC Laboratory Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 67 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 18 Type: 4 Heading: Movie Logistics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 68 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 19 Type: 3 Heading: Show-Me Movies Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 69 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 20 Type: 3 Heading: Playing the Movies Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 70 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 21 Type: 3 Heading: Movie Index Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 71 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 22 Type: 3 Heading: CD-ROM Setup Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 12 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 23 Type: 4 Heading: Electronic Mail Logistics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 18 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 24 Type: 3 Heading: E-mail Addresses Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 20 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 25 Type: 3 Heading: Questions Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 49 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 26 Type: 2 Heading: Defining the Internet Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 23 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 27 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, Chapter 1. EventID: 24 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 28 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 25 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 29 Type: 1 Heading: Growth Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Go to the Hobbes Internet Time Line and review the latest statistics on the growth of the Internet. EventID: 27 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 30 Type: 1 Heading: Web Inventor Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: For a fascinating interview with the inventor of the World Wide Web, read The Web Maestro: An Interview with Tim Berners-Lee. EventID: 2342 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 31 Type: 11 Heading: Greeting from the Author Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 80 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 32 Type: 1 Heading: Interlit Web Site Chapter 1 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
Go to Chapter 1 of the Interlit Web Site for links to the Internet resources mentioned in your textbook.
EventID: 72 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 33 Type: 2 Heading: How the Internet is Changing the World Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 29 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 34 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, Chapter 2, read from the beginning of the chapter until you come to the education section. EventID: 73 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 35 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 74 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 36 Type: 1 Heading: Online Shopping Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Visit the online shopping locations linked to the Interlit Web site. EventID: 75 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 37 Type: 1 Heading: PointCast Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Go to PointCast and follow the instructions to download and install the PCN software. EventID: 76 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 38 Type: 1 Heading: Online Newspapers Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Explore the online newspapers linked to the Interlit Web site. EventID: 393 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 39 Type: 1 Heading: Government, Commerce, and Industry Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
Go to Chapter 2 of the Interlit Web Site for links to the telecommuting, online shopping, government, commerce, and industry resources mentioned in this chapter.
EventID: 375 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 40 Type: 2 Heading: Education and Scholarship Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 388 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 41 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 2, start reading at the education section, and continue reading to the end of the chapter. EventID: 77 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 42 Type: 11 Heading: Education Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 389 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 43 Type: 1 Heading: Experimentation Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 390 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 44 Type: 1 Heading: Databases Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 391 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 45 Type: 1 Heading: Visualization Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 392 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 46 Type: 1 Heading: Virtual Laboratory Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 78 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 47 Type: 1 Heading: Interconnected Scholarship Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 81 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 48 Type: 1 Heading: Interlit Web Site Chapter 2 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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.
EventID: 59 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 49 Type: 2 Heading: Getting Connected Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 60 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 50 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 3. EventID: 61 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 51 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 79 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 52 Type: 1 Heading: Internet Service Providers Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 62 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 53 Type: 9 Heading: Local ISP Tracking: 0 Weight: 1 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Who is the primary ISP in your area, and how much does that ISP charge per month for Internet service? EventID: 82 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 54 Type: 1 Heading: Interlit Web Site Chapter 3 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
Go to Chapter 3 of the Interlit Web Site for links to the Internet Service Providers and technical resources mentioned in this chapter.
EventID: 83 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 55 Type: 2 Heading: Surfing the Net Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 84 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 56 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, Chapter 4. EventID: 85 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 57 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 86 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 58 Type: 11 Heading: Going to a URL Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 87 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 59 Type: 11 Heading: Using a Scroll Bar Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 88 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 60 Type: 11 Heading: Navigation Buttons Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: To learn how to make your browser's navigation buttons visible, watch the Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer version of this movie. EventID: 89 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 61 Type: 11 Heading: Default Home Page Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 90 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 62 Type: 11 Heading: Manipulating URLs Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: There are some tricks you can play with URLs to help you find information. Watch this movie to find out how. EventID: 376 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 63 Type: 2 Heading: Advanced Surfing Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 394 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 64 Type: 1 Heading: More Surfing Techniques Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 91 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 65 Type: 11 Heading: Sizing Windows Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 92 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 66 Type: 11 Heading: Multi-Tasking Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 93 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 67 Type: 11 Heading: Bookmarks Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 94 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 68 Type: 11 Heading: Bookmark Folders Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: To learn how to organize bookmarks in folders, watch either the Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer version of this movie. EventID: 95 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 69 Type: 11 Heading: Backtracking Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 96 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 70 Type: 11 Heading: Screen Space Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 97 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 71 Type: 1 Heading: Selected Web Sites Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 98 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 72 Type: 11 Heading: Caching Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 116 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 74 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, Chapter 5. EventID: 117 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 75 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 76 Type: 9 Heading: Netiquette Guidelines Tracking: 0 Weight: 1 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 77 Type: 1 Heading: Ten Commandments Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Check out the Ten Commandments of Computer Use developed by the Computer Ethics Institute. EventID: 120 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 78 Type: 1 Heading: Spam Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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." EventID: 121 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 79 Type: 9 Heading: Emoticons Tracking: 0 Weight: 1 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 80 Type: 9 Heading: Jargon Tracking: 0 Weight: 1 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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? EventID: 39 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 81 Type: 2 Heading: Electronic Mail Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 40 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 82 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 6. EventID: 41 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 83 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 123 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 84 Type: 9 Heading: E-mail Client Tracking: 0 Weight: 1 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 85 Type: 11 Heading: Configuring an E-mail Client Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 10 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 377 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 91 Type: 2 Heading: Advanced E-mail Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 129 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 92 Type: 11 Heading: E-Mail Folders Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 96 Type: 11 Heading: Creating a Plain Text File Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 143 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 106 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 7. EventID: 144 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 107 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 108 Type: 11 Heading: Subscribing to a Listserv Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 5 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 113 Type: 1 Heading: Majordomo Instructions Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
subscribe interlit-list your_email_address
EventID: 151 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 114 Type: 2 Heading: Usenet Newsgroups Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 152 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 115 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 8. EventID: 153 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 116 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 117 Type: 11 Heading: Configuring Your Newsgroup Client Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 5 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 124 Type: 2 Heading: Communicating in Real Time Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 162 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 125 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 9. EventID: 163 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 126 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 127 Type: 11 Heading: Internet Relay Chat Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 128 Type: 1 Heading: Online Chat Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 165 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 129 Type: 1 Heading: NetMeeting Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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.
EventID: 170 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 130 Type: 11 Heading: How to Make a NetMeeting Call Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: There's a movie on the Interlit CD that shows how to make a NetMeeting call on a Windows PC. EventID: 171 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 131 Type: 11 Heading: How to Answer a NetMeeting Call Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: The Interlit CD also has a movie that shows you how to answer a NetMeeting call on a Windows PC. EventID: 166 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 132 Type: 1 Heading: CU-SeeMe Videoconferencing Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 world.
EventID: 167 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 133 Type: 1 Heading: MUDs, MOOs, and MUSHes Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 168 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 134 Type: 2 Heading: Telnet Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 172 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 135 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 10. EventID: 173 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 136 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 174 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 137 Type: 11 Heading: Configuring a Web Browser for telnet Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 175 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 138 Type: 11 Heading: Telnetting to the Cleveland FreeNet Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 176 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 139 Type: 1 Heading: Other Telnet Sites Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 178 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 140 Type: 2 Heading: Searching for Information Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 179 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 141 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 11. EventID: 180 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 142 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 181 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 143 Type: 11 Heading: Subject Searching Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 182 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 144 Type: 11 Heading: Full-Text Searching Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 378 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 145 Type: 2 Heading: Advanced Searching Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 183 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 146 Type: 11 Heading: Advanced Searching Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 184 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 147 Type: 11 Heading: Searching for Files Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 185 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 148 Type: 11 Heading: Searching for People Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 186 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 149 Type: 1 Heading: More Search Methods Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
Be sure to visit the search section of the Interlit Web site, where you'll find links to all of the search engines discussed in your textbook.
EventID: 187 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 150 Type: 1 Heading: Search Exercises Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 188 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 151 Type: 2 Heading: Internet File Types Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 190 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 152 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 12. EventID: 189 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 153 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 191 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 154 Type: 1 Heading: Plain Text (ASCII) Files Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
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.
EventID: 51 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 169 Type: 2 Heading: Downloading from the Internet Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 56 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 170 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, Chapter 13. EventID: 52 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 171 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 206 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 172 Type: 11 Heading: Downloading Text Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 54 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 173 Type: 11 Heading: Downloading Images Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 207 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 174 Type: 11 Heading: Downloading Audio and Video Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Downloading audio and video is similar to downloading graphics. For a demonstration, watch this movie. EventID: 57 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 175 Type: 1 Heading: Downloading MIDI Music Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 208 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 176 Type: 11 Heading: Downloading Software and Data Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: To learn how to download software and data from the Internet, watch the Windows or Macintosh version of this movie. EventID: 209 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 177 Type: 11 Heading: Starting a Program Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: As you proceed into the more difficult parts of this 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. EventID: 211 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 178 Type: 2 Heading: Bibliographic Style Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 212 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 179 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 14. EventID: 213 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 180 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 214 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 181 Type: 1 Heading: APA Style Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
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.
EventID: 379 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 185 Type: 2 Heading: Fair Use Law Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 396 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 186 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 210 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 187 Type: 11 Heading: Making Fair Use of Multimedia Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 217 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 188 Type: 1 Heading: Portion Guidelines Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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: EventID: 397 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 189 Type: 1 Heading: Fair Use Guidelines Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
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 help you develop a good feel for what's fair.
EventID: 218 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 190 Type: 2 Heading: Web Page Creation Strategies Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 366 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 191 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 15. EventID: 219 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 192 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 220 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 193 Type: 1 Heading: HTML Editors Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
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.
EventID: 221 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 194 Type: 1 Heading: WYSIWYG Editors Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 222 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 195 Type: 1 Heading: HTML Translators Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
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.
EventID: 364 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 196 Type: 11 Heading: Microsoft Word HTML Translator Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Watch this movie to learn how to make a Web page from a term paper written with Microsoft Word. EventID: 365 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 197 Type: 11 Heading: WordPerfect HTML Translator Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: This movie shows how to make a Web page from a term paper written with WordPerfect. EventID: 223 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 198 Type: 1 Heading: Active Tools Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
Active tools are so named because they bring Web pages to life. At the Interlit Web site, you'll find links to several different ways of creating active Web pages. These include:
EventID: 224 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 199 Type: 11 Heading: Strategies In Action Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 225 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 200 Type: 2 Heading: Web Page Design Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 226 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 201 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 16. EventID: 227 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 202 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 228 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 203 Type: 1 Heading: Web Page Design Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 229 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 204 Type: 1 Heading: Web Page Elements Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 230 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 205 Type: 1 Heading: Designing Your résumé Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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: EventID: 231 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 206 Type: 1 Heading: Planning Your Links Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 232 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 207 Type: 1 Heading: Color Combinations Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
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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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.
EventID: 236 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 211 Type: 9 Heading: Writing a Hypertext Tracking: 0 Weight: 2 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 237 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 212 Type: 2 Heading: How HTML Works Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 238 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 213 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 17. EventID: 239 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 214 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 240 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 215 Type: 1 Heading: Understanding Markup Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 241 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 216 Type: 1 Heading: Taxonomy of HTML Tags Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 242 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 217 Type: 1 Heading: Versions of HTML Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
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.
EventID: 243 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 218 Type: 2 Heading: Creating Your Web Page Résumé Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 244 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 219 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 18. EventID: 245 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 220 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 246 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 221 Type: 11 Heading: Creating a File Folder Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 247 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 222 Type: 11 Heading: Running Your Web Page Creation Software Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 248 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 223 Type: 11 Heading: Starting a New Web Page Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 249 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 224 Type: 11 Heading: Creating the Page Title and Keywords Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 250 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 225 Type: 11 Heading: Writing a Heading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 251 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 226 Type: 11 Heading: Saving a Web Page Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 252 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 227 Type: 11 Heading: Previewing a Web Page Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 253 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 228 Type: 11 Heading: Starting a New Paragraph Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 254 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 229 Type: 11 Heading: Creating a Bulleted List Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 255 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 230 Type: 11 Heading: Inserting a Horizontal Rule Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 380 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 231 Type: 2 Heading: Targets and Links Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 256 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 232 Type: 11 Heading: Creating a Target Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 257 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 233 Type: 11 Heading: Linking to a Target Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: To learn how to link to a target, watch the Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer version of this movie. EventID: 258 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 234 Type: 11 Heading: Creating a Return-to-Contents Link Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 259 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 235 Type: 11 Heading: Linking to a URL Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 260 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 236 Type: 11 Heading: Creating a Mailto Link Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 267 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 237 Type: 2 Heading: Preparing Images for Web Pages Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 268 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 238 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 19. EventID: 269 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 239 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 270 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 240 Type: 11 Heading: Downloading Paint Shop Pro (for Windows) Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 271 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 241 Type: 11 Heading: Downloading Graphic Converter (for Macintosh) Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 272 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 242 Type: 11 Heading: Converting Images for Web Pages Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 273 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 243 Type: 11 Heading: Resizing Images Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 274 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 244 Type: 11 Heading: Resampling Images Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 275 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 245 Type: 11 Heading: Reducing the Color Depth Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 276 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 246 Type: 11 Heading: Creating an Interlaced "Fade-In" GIF Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 381 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 247 Type: 2 Heading: Putting Images on Web Pages Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 277 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 248 Type: 11 Heading: Pasting an Image onto a Web Page Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 278 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 249 Type: 11 Heading: Tiling an Image onto a Web Page Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 279 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 250 Type: 11 Heading: Creating a Transparent GIF Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 280 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 251 Type: 1 Heading: Which Tile Works Best? Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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?
EventID: 281 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 252 Type: 2 Heading: Advanced Web Page Layout Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 282 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 253 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 20. EventID: 283 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 254 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 284 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 255 Type: 11 Heading: Creating a Table Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: To learn how to create a table, watch the Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer version of this movie. EventID: 285 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 256 Type: 11 Heading: Captioning a Table Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 1 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 292 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 263 Type: 2 Heading: Creating a Home Page Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 293 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 264 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 21. EventID: 294 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 265 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 266 Type: 11 Heading: Netscape's Home Page Template Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 398 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 271 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 272 Type: 11 Heading: Linking Your Résumé Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 302 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 275 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 22. EventID: 303 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 276 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 277 Type: 11 Heading: Publishing a Folder Full of Files Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 279 Type: 2 Heading: Managing a Web Site Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 399 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 280 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 281 Type: 11 Heading: Installing the FTP Software Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Position: 286 Type: 11 Heading: Setting Permission Attributes on Unix Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 289 Type: 5 Heading: Home Page and Résumé Tracking: 0 Weight: 33 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 1 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 290 Type: 2 Heading: Multimedia and the Web Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 316 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 291 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 23. EventID: 317 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 292 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 293 Type: 11 Heading: Inspecting the Helper App Settings Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 2 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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? EventID: 321 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 296 Type: 2 Heading: Waveform Audio Recording Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 322 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 297 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 24. EventID: 323 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 298 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. 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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.
EventID: 325 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 300 Type: 11 Heading: Selecting the Record Sound Source Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 302 Type: 11 Heading: Waveform Audio Editing Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 4 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 332 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 307 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 25. EventID: 333 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 308 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 309 Type: 1 Heading: Equity, Cost, and Universal Access Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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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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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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.
EventID: 338 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 313 Type: 1 Heading: Protectionism Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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." EventID: 339 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 314 Type: 1 Heading: Censorship Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
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.
EventID: 400 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 315 Type: 5 Heading: Term Paper Tracking: 0 Weight: 33 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 384 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 316 Type: 2 Heading: Rights and Decency Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 340 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 317 Type: 1 Heading: Pornography and Obscenity Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
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.
EventID: 342 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 319 Type: 1 Heading: Chat Room Decency Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 343 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 320 Type: 1 Heading: Copyright Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
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.
EventID: 345 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 322 Type: 1 Heading: Exercises Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 347 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 323 Type: 2 Heading: Emerging Technology: Infrastructure Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 348 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 324 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, read first half of chapter 26. EventID: 349 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 325 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 350 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 326 Type: 1 Heading: Improving the Infrastructure Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
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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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.
EventID: 356 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 334 Type: 2 Heading: How to Keep Up Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 357 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 335 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: Internet Literacy, chapter 27. EventID: 358 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 336 Type: 1 Heading: Topics Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 359 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 337 Type: 1 Heading: Listservs Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text:
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.
EventID: 362 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 340 Type: 1 Heading: Keeping Up Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 386 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 341 Type: 2 Heading: Finale Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 Text: EventID: 387 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 342 Type: 1 Heading: Catching Up Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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. EventID: 363 SyllabusID: 1 Position: 343 Type: 1 Heading: The End Is the Beginning Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Gallery: 0 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!