CS131 - A Gentle Introduction to the Internet

• Number and Title of Course
• Catalog Description of Course
• Instructor
• Required Textbook
• General Objectives
• Specific Objectives
• Major Topics
• Instructional Methods and Techniques
• Assignments for Course
• Evaluation
• COURSE OUTLINE

Number and Title of Course: CS131 - A Gentle Introduction to Internet

Catalog Description of Course

Course Prerequisite

Required Textbook

• 1) Travel Guide to the Internet and handouts
• 2) information available on the Internet

General Objectives

• 1) to introduce the student to the use of the Internet.
• 2) to learn how to navigate around many of the parts of the Internet.

Specific Objectives

• 1) use the basic commands to access resources on the Internet
• 2) understand how Internet works and be able to diagnose common problems
• 3) use Unix and Windows-based communication systems to communicate with other users on the Highlands network and with users elsewhere on the Internet.

Major Topics

• 1) Introduction to the Internet
• 2) E-mail and ListServs, NewsServices
• 3) gopher and World-Wide Web
• 4) Developing and writing homepages

Instructional Methods and Techniques

• 1) The class will meet for four two-hour periods each week. The first part will be lecture/demonstration and the second part will be hands-on lab.
• 2) The lectures and labs should be conducted using state-of-the-art multimedia techniques including a computer projection system.
• 3) The labs will stress hands-on applications by the students .

Assignments for Course

• 1) Readings from the notes and explorations on the Internet
• 2) Experimentation Notebook detailing experiments with Internet
• 3) Presentation on what the student can do using the Internet

Evaluation

• 1) Experimentation electronic notebook (6 * 12 pts. = 72%)
  Students will electronically submit daily before the next class a discussion of their experiences with the Internet that day. This should include any thing you have read in the written press as well as any explorations you have made on the Internet. [You will also be asked to answer questions using a variety of Internet tools including search engines on the WWW].
• 2) Final Presentation (homepage) (28%) Students will design and submit for presentation their own personal homepage. The homepage will contain your own information including headings, images, links . You will be expected to use lists, tables and any other HTML tags necessary to organize your information on the page. Homepages will be graded on content and design.

COURSE OUTLINE (tentative)

DAY	Description	Assignment (due before next class period by e-mail)
5	HTML and homepage development other web development tools e.g. PaintShop Pro	E-mail a discussion of your page, problems you are having, questions you have. Also e-mail me as an attachment a picture (clipart) that you found on the web
6	telnet and ftp homepage development	E-mail a discussion of your page, problems you are having, questions you have. Also e-mail me as an attachment the file htmlnotp.zip found on my ftp server (jaring.nmhu.edu) in the folder Web Editors
7	newsgroups, gopher homepage development
8	Evaluate web pages; misc.	Turn in disk with your web pages