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View Course Schedule Resources (examples and links) Web page: noun. A single, usually hypertext document on the World Wide Web that can incorporate text, graphics, sounds, etc. Website: noun. A connected group of pages on the World Wide Web regarded as a single entity, usually maintained by one person or organization and devoted to a single topic or several closely related topics. |
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| Time & Place: | Ref No. 89665: Orientation: Saturday August 29 2009,
1:00PM – 2:30PM,
Dale Mabry Room Tech–461
Ref No. 89666: Orientation: Saturday August 29 2009, 2:30PM – 4:00PM, Dale Mabry Room Tech–461 | ||||||||
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| Instructor: |
Name: Wayne Pollock E-mail: Internet: Office & Phone: DTEC–404, 253–7213. DM Office Hours: Monday–Thursday, 3:55–5:25 & 8:15–8:30; On-line Office Hours: Wednesday–Friday, 12:00 PM (noon)–1:00 PM; or by appointment.
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| Text: | Gary P. Schneider & Jessica Evans, The Internet Seventh (Comprehensive) Edition, ©2009 Course Technology (Thomson). ISBN-13: 978-1-4239-2506-4, ISBN-10: 1-4239-2506-8. | ||||||||
| Description: |
An introductory course designed to teach the basics of navigating the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web). Students participate in online and offline activities such as accessing the Internet, sending electronic mail, browsing newsgroups, and completing research activities. Also discussed is Internetequette acceptable behaviors and standards of conduct.
This course is an on-line, distance learning course.
Students are expected to be on campus for the first day
orientation.
This course uses the
WebCT / Blackboard.com online course management
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| Objectives: | “After completing this course,
the student will be able to:
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| Prerequisite: | CGS 1000 or Permission of the Instructor. Students enrolled in a degree or college credit certificate program must complete all prerequisites. | ||||||||
| Facilities: | All assignments can be performed on any computer that connects
to the Internet.
These include classroom computers and any HCC open
computer lab (on Dale Mabry, room Tech-462), campus library,
public library, and anywhere else with Internet access.
Required software is Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 (or newer) or
some other web browser compatible with WebCT,
Sun's Java (JRE), and other freely available software
that will be made available.
(This will be discussed at the orientation session.)
You can find information about
accessing the WebCT online@HCCsystem here. Student web sites for this class may be found at http://dm.hccfl.edu/cgs1555/09fa89665/YourName/http://dm.hccfl.edu/cgs1555/09fa89666/YourName/and can be viewed using the class index at: or:
Students may need USB flash drives to save projects
or submit them from HCC.
HCC DM Open Lab
SMARTHINKING | ||||||||
| Grading: |
Grading scale:
A=387-445, B=344-386, C=301-343, D=279-300,
F=0-278 | ||||||||
| Policies: |
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| Projects: |
Projects will be assigned from WebCT Project Descriptions
page, and must be submitted using the correct
drop-box in the WebCT Submit Projectstool. (One exception is your web page project, which also must be uploaded directly to the HCC DM student web server. Further details are given in that project description.) Different projects are worth different amounts of credit, depending on the difficulty. The number of point for each project is shown in the Submit Projectstool. You will have sufficient time to complete the projects. Credit, due dates, and project directions are all given in the individual project descriptions on-line in WebCT.
Feedback comments are sometimes given by your instructor in addition
to a grade.
You should always check for a comment from your instructor if your
grade is not what you expect.
Note comments can only be seen when you review the graded project
from the Projects are not graded when you submit them! They are graded all at once, sometime after the project deadline has passed (usually the next weekend). Every effort will be make to grade projects within a week of the due date, or as soon thereafter as possible. |
| Classes Begin: | Monday 8/24/09 (required class meeting, the orientation: Saturday 8/29/09) |
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| Add-Drop Ends: | Friday 8/28/09 (For this class you have until Wednesday 9/2/09 to drop.) |
| Last Day to Withdraw: | Monday 11/2/09 |
| Classes End: | Monday 12/14/09 (Last regularly scheduled class: Saturday 12/12/09) |
| Grades Available: | Thursday 12/17/09 (from FACTS.org or HawkNet) |
| HCC is closed on: |
Monday 9/7/09 (Labor Day), Friday 10/16/09 (All-college Day), Wednesday 11/11/09 (Veterans Day), Thursday–Saturday 11/26/09–11/28/09 (Thanksgiving Holiday) |
If, to participate in this course, you require an accommodation due to a physical disability or learning impairment, you must contact the Office of Services to Students with Disabilities, Dale Mabry campus: Student Services Building (DSTU) Room 204, voice phone: (813) 259–6035, TTD: (813) 253–7035, FAX: (813) 253–7336. Brandon campus: voice phone: (813) 253–7914.
HCC has a religious observance policy that accommodates the religious observance, practices, and beliefs of students. Should students need to miss class or postpone examinations and assignments due to religious observances, they must notify their instructor at least one week prior to a religious observance.
| Quotes: | Tell me and I'll listen. | — Lakota Indian saying | |
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Learning is not a spectator sport! | — Chickering & Gamson |
| Dates | Topics | Readings to complete |
Chapter Quizzes and Projects to complete |
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| 8/29 |
Orientation session (required on-campus meeting): Course introduction, LAN use. Discuss User IDs for LAN and WebCT, and passwords. Open Lab procedures and hours. Login and use WebCT. Set email, security question on WebCT. |
Syllabus, WebCT access information |
Practice project Practice quiz |
| 9/5 | Practice use of WebCT. | Syllabus, WebCT access information |
Discussion board posting Explore WebCT and class web site |
| 9/7 | Labor Day — HCC Closed | ||
| 9/12 | Basic Internet Concepts: Networks, LANs and WANs, internets and the Internet, TCP/IP, WWW (World Wide Web) | Appendix A | Appendix A Quiz |
| 9/19 | WWW, hypertext (HTML) and web browsers, URLs | Tutorial 1 |
Tutorial 1 Quiz
ISP Search Project |
| 9/26 | Understanding and using email | Tutorial 2 | Tutorial 2 Quiz |
| 10/3 | Searching the web, using Boolean logic | Tutorial 3 |
Tutorial 3 Quiz
Search Engines Project |
| 10/10 | Using libraries and other information sources, evaluating resources | Tutorial 4 | Tutorial 4 Quiz |
| 10/16 | All College Day — HCC Closed | ||
| 10/17 | Downloading and saving files, using WinZip to compress/decompress files, FTP, avoiding computer viruses, uploading files | Tutorial 5 |
Tutorial 5 Quiz
Using Resources Project |
| 10/24 | Images Project | ||
| 10/31 | Creating web (HTML) pages, adding graphics and links, using JavaScript (See on-line resource for additional information) |
Tutorial 8,
on-line resources | Tutorial 8 Quiz |
| 11/7 | Using chat and instant messaging, Understanding wireless networking and how to secure it. | Tutorial 6 |
Tutorial 6 Quiz
Web Page Concept Project |
| 11/11 | Veterans Day — HCC Closed | ||
| 11/14 | Understanding mailing lists, newsgroups, and newsfeeds (RSS), social networking. Protecting your on-line reputation. |
Tutorial 7, on-line resources |
Tutorial 7 Quiz
Scavenger Hunt Project |
| 11/21 | Privacy: legal, social, and ethical issues. Understanding security: threats and countermeasures, encryption (private key, public key), certificates, SSL, cookies. Using browser extensions safely for multi-media |
Tutorial 9, on-line resources |
Tutorial 9 Quiz
work on Website project |
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11/26 thru 11/28 | Thanksgiving Holiday — HCC Closed | ||
| 12/5 | Understanding e-commerce | Tutorial 10 |
Tutorial 10 Quiz
work on Website project |
| 12/12 | Last day to submit any work or exams (including the extra-credit project) | Website/FTP Project |
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| WebCT login page | WebCT (online@HCC) Home |
WebCT Access | WebCT (online@HCC) access information |
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| HCC Library resources | Resources for distance learning students | HCC Distance Learning Home | Additional resources for distance learning students | ||
| HCC's bookstore | Locate, browse, or purchase textbooks | Specialized Search Engines and Directories | Links to useful search engines, organized by type of query | ||
| Wayne Pollock's Website | Home page of Prof. Wayne Pollock | Yahoo Messenger | Get Yahoo Messenger software and more | ||
| CGS-1555 Student website index | A page of links to student web sites on
dm.hccfl.edu |
HCC HawkNet | (also known as WebAdvisor) Find your student ID, password, course grades | ||
| Netiquette Guidelines | Rules for proper etiquette on the Internet | FAQs | The Internet FAQ Archives | ||
| Searching tips | Four advanced searching tips for Google | Using FTP | A PowerPoint presentation on how to upload your web site using FTP. You can obtain a free limited version of WS_FTPle.exe here. (Or you can use another tool such as FileZilla.) | ||
| www.Google.com | Google Internet search engine | groups.google.com | Usenet / Netnews on-line discussion groups (newsgroups) |
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| About ping | The real story of the ping utility |
HelloWeb.htm | A basic HTML page that displays a simple Java applet | ||
| Basic.htm | A simple, basic HTML page | CSS 1.0 Quick Reference | Cascading Style Sheets 1.0 PDF Guide | ||
| Basic2.htm | A basic HTML page with some color | BasicCSS.htm | A basic HTML page with some color, using style sheets | ||
| The JavaScript Source | A collection of free, ready to use JavaScripts, tutorials, and more | The Java Boutique | A collection of free Java Applets and more | ||
| Clock | A basic HTML page with a JavaScript clock button | WinZip | Download evaluation (free) version of WinZip | ||
| ClockApplet | An HTML page with a Java clock applet | FormEx.htm | A demo of using forms | ||
| Frames.htm | A demo of HTML frame documents | w3.org | The home of the World wide web consortium
(formally w3c.org) |
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| W3Schools.com | A collection of tutorials on HTML and related technologies | List of tags | Official HTML 4.01 list of tags | ||
| W3Schools.com - URL encoding | A reference for URL (or percent) encoding | Clickable Links | An explanation of clickable links, or "Hyperlinks" | ||
| World Wide Web Security FAQ | A useful guide to using the WWW safely | Troubleshooting Web Pages | How to work around some common web page issues with FTP, character encoding, and fonts | ||
| Security tutorial | Tutorial on security and public-key encryption (from Netscape.com's DevEdge site) | Public key encryption tutorial | Public key encryption tutorial and other security tutorial links from Webopedia.com | ||
| Network security tutorial | Tutorial on Internet security from iec.com | Home networking security tutorial | Tutorial on securing your home computer from cert.org | ||
| Internet Mapping Project | View pictures of the Internet (12/98 Wired pic, Yugoslavia during the 1999 war) | RFC-2505 | Users' Security Handbook | ||