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Date/Week
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Assignments due
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Class activities
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Week 1
9/8
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Assignments for Week 2
Make blog entry
Join forum and join discussion
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Syllabus overview
Email accounts
Introduction to the Internet
Brief history of the Internet
The Internet behind the screen [video]
How the Web works [short animation].
Warriors of the net [video]
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Week 2
9/15
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Assignments for Week 3
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Discuss: Webquest -Understanding computer concepts
Youtube video: The Internet Explained
Respond to questions about the video in class.
Search Engines: WWW search engines and directories
Effective search strategies and techniques.
Spidering, Indexing and Meta-Tags
Web resources
Activity: search for key words on different search engines.
Using 21st Century Information Fluency Project
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Week 3
9/22
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Assignments for Week 4
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Domain names:
How to buy them, whois database. – hosting
TLDs, IP addressing
Activity: Reading a url / viewing the source code
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Week 4
9/29
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Assignments for Week 5
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Wikipedia assignment discussion: Guidelines for making an entry
Evaluating websites. Sucks sites/hoaxesSpoofed/parody sites
In class assignment: Who were the first spammers?
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Week 5
10/6
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Assignments for Week 6
Midterm week is next week: you will present your webquest and submit the wikipedia proposal
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Browsing the WWW
Browsers: IE, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, Safari, Firefox [Cookies, temp files, history]
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Week 6
10/13
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Assignments for Week 7
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Information forensics - begin in class: investigative cases - elect Suzie Flynn
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Week 7
10/20
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Assignments for Week 8
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Multimedia on the Web: commonly found Internet file types
Graphics: types – uses
Streaming media and synchornized multimedia
Audio and video recording and embedding
DRMs
How streaming media works. [short animation]
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Week 8
10/27 Midterm week
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Assignments for Week 9
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Midterm presentations
Midterm Quiz
xHTML: Creating and Uploading Your Web Page
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Week 9
11/3
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Assignments for Week 10
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xHTML and DW: Creating and Uploading Your Web Page
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Week 10
11/10
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Assignments for Week 11
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Finish website in class
Using an FTP Client
Learning activity: Upload the page to http://myaicampus.com
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Week 11
11/17
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Assignments for Week 12
Bring to class next week text and images to work on website in class.
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Privacy and Security issues on the Internet
Security, Firewalls, Hacking, Certificates, Encryption (SSL, PGP), Viruses and DoS attacksM alware/Spyware
Viruses timeline
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Week 12
12/1
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Assignment for week 13
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Working and completing website in class.
Emerging Technologies
Web 2.0 nd Web 3.0.
The Semantic web
Distance Learning
Services/Applications of the Internet: RSS, blogs, podcasting, vlogs
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Week 13
12/8
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Assignments for Week 14
Wikipedia presentation
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Social issues
Cyber Bullying and All About Cyber Bullying
Link to the videos is here
Youth Victimization online video
Emerging Technologies
Web 2.0 nd Web 3.0.
The Semantic web
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Week 14
12/15
Finals week
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Wiki presentation due today
Final Quiz
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Syllabus
