Email: (your email accounts are accessible at: myaicampus.com )

All students are provided with an Art Institute email account. Students are expected to know how to use the email system and to check email regularly. Instructors use email as the primary method of communicating with students outside of class. Students who don’t wish to check the AiNE account on a regular basis should forward it to the email account they check most frequently, or risk missing important class instructions. Students are expected to use email responsibly and respectfully. Refer to Student Code of Conduct as well as “Policy on Computing Ethics” and “Acceptable Use Policy for Networks.”

Course Description:

This course introduces students to the Internet. Through a combination of lecture and hands-on operation, students will gain a greater understanding of how the Internet began and what makes it a cross-platform medium. Topics will include: FTP, Gopher, Email, how to best use search engines, Newsgroups, Usenet and plug-ins: Real Media, Shockwave, Flash, QuickTime, PDF, VRML. Video/Teleconferencing, technologies like online whiteboards, and how these technologies can help people work and communicate over great distances will be discussed. We will look at software that might help define the future and growth of online commerce.

Prerequisites:

CSI 101 Understanding Computer Technologies or Advanced Placement Assessment

To take this class you should have a solid understanding to computers and general-purpose applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and a web browser. You should be comfortable using both the Mac and Windows operating systems. By comfortable we mean that you should know how to move, rename, and manipulate files, minimize and close windows, connect to file servers and printers, log in and out, etc. If you are new to computers or have only used computers for a limited number of tasks (such as IM and email) then you should take Understanding Computer Technologies instead of this course. This course does not cover things like manipulating files, working with operating systems etc.

Course Outcomes Assessment:
When you have completed this course you should be able to:

• Create a basic web site using HTML
• Transfer files using FTP
• Find information on the Internet using a combination of search engines.
• Analyze a URL to find a page when you get a 404 error
• Understand how the specific Internet services differ in their function, capabilities etc.
• Learn basics of intellectual property on the Internet
• Lean basic security procedures used on the Internet.
• Use web applications to enhance your work
• Learn about domain names, hosting companies, ISPs and IP addressing
• Learn about societal and legal issues regarding the Internet

There are two questions that you may NOT ask me after the 3rd week:

1. What is/was the homework? Because that will be on the class’s website every single week and you have no excuse not to know it even if you were absent. It is part of your duty to check the class’s website for homework assignments every week before you come to class. If you have questions about the homework itself or don't understand anything about the assignment please do not hesitate to write to me or ask me or come meet with me.

2. What is the class’s website? Because this means you have not been paying attention in class at all!

Required Reading and Materials

This course is comprised of hands-on lab activities, lecture, assigned reading, and interactive class discussion. Students are required to use email and to check the class web page BEFORE you come to class. Aside from active class participation, students are expected to complete assignments listed below. Students are also responsible for all assigned readings. Supplemental reading materials may be assigned as required during the semester.

• Schneider and Evans, New Perspectives on the Internet, Sixth Edition—Comprehensive Course Technology, 2007.
• 1 Flash USB drive
• Online documents, as assigned (see class website)

Grading policy

Assignment Values:

Late Assignments:

• All assignments are due at the beginning of class on the designated date, unless otherwise noted.
• No late assignments are accepted. Should there be extraordinary circumstances, late assignments will be accepted up to one week after its deadline with one letter grade drop.
• Make-up tests may be accepted up to 1 week after the due date.

Academic Integrity:

College guidelines for academic integrity are strictly enforced. Using the words, ideas, or audio/video/graphics files of others, without attributing proper credit to the author, constitutes plagiarism, which could result in various penalties ranging from project failure to administrative action, including failure of the course. Students must document the original sources of all material that is not his/her own.

Refer to the Student Code of Conduct in the Student Handbook.

Attendance:

Course work at AiNE is very hands-on and students are expected to attend class on a regular basis. Poor attendance will affect a student’s final grade in a class as follows: Our college-wide standard is, that a student with more than 3 absences will have their earned academic grade lowered one letter grade (ex: B+ to C+). More than 4 absences  will lower their grade to D. Students are responsible for making up assignments and communicating with their instructors regarding missing classes. All faculty members have school voice mail and email to help students contact them. The college does not distinguish between excused or unexcused absences. A student who misses all of his or her classes for two consecutive weeks will be withdrawn from the college.

Tardiness:

If a student arrives late or leaves early from class, it is noted in the attendance roster.

4 late arrivals/early departures = 1 absence

Further, if a student misses more then 30 minutes of class, he/she will be marked with a one-half absence for that class.

2 half absences = 1 absence

• Students must turn off cell phones, beepers, and portable audio devices during class.
• Students must adhere to all lab rules during class. Food and beverages are not permitted in the computer labs.
• Respect for self, instructor, and classmates is required at all times. Refer to Student Handbook for Student Code of Conduct.
• Students must turn off cell phones, beepers, and portable audio devices during class.
• You may be asked to leave the class for any of the events listed below. If you are asked to leave, you will not be allowed to return for the duration of the class and you will be marked absent for the entire class. If the problem occurs again during the semester you will removed from course and your tuition will not be rerfunded.

• Your phone or pager rings during class
• You place or answer a phone call during class
• You use chat/IM or email software during a lecture or in-class assignment
• You are listening to personal audio device during class
• You attempt to disconnect or circumvent the links system [unplug monitor etc.]
• You disrupt the lecture

Students with known disabilities should contact their instructors as well as the Student Services Office. All information regarding disabilities is kept strictly confidential.

Academic Support (tutoring) is provided to any student in need of tutoring, at no cost. Students who feel they are able to assist with tutoring this course should also contact their instructor and/or the Student Services Office.