Course Schedule - Sum I 2001

WEEK	ONLINE NOTES	READINGS
Week 1. Ending May 25	Initial Meeting Pre-Course Survey Course Outline Preliminary Material  WebCT Quiz Tutorial Listserv Info General Computing Background      Applications File and Data Management Simple Email Basic WWW Browsers Quiz 1: due 5/23 USENet User Groups (Newsgroups) Word & Text Processing Common Text Formats  Quiz 2: due 5/25	Hepp Readings Chapters:Appendix A Internet Service Providers, and 3 Internet (3.1-3.3) Internet CD: Section I "Intro to the Internet" and Section IV "Accessing the Internet" [Krol Readings Chapters: "What Is This Book About" & "What Is The Internet". Optional reading: appendicies, "Getting Connected to the Internet", "Setting Up Your Internet Connection". ] Hepp Readings Chapters: 1 Electronic Mail (1.1-1.4), and 4 World Wide Web (4.1-4.2) Internet CD: Section V "Navigating the WWW" and Section VI "Sending & Receiving Email" [Krol Readings: Chapters: "Electronic Mail" (up thru the section on "Choosing an Email Package"), "The World Wide Web" (up through the section on Navigation). Index: find "ListServ".] Hepp Readings Chapters: 10 Newsgroups... (10.1-10.3) Internet CD: Section VI "Introduction to Newsgroups" and Section VII "Introduction to File Types" [Krol Readings: Chapters: "Network News" & "What's Allowed on the Internet". ]
Week 2. Ending June 1	Graphic Formats Hypermedia & Multimedia Adobe Acrobat Quiz 3: due 5/29 Networking Local Area Networks The Internet , WWW Browsing Quiz 4: due 5/30 Telnet Access  Intro to Digital Sound Intro to Digital Video Quiz 5: due 6/1	Online Readings only.  Hepp Readings Chapters: 2 Jump Start (2.1-2.3), 4 World Wide Web (4.3-4.4) 3 Internet (3.4-3.8) and 6 Telnet (6.1-6.2) Internet CD: Section V "WWW Browsers",  Section VII "Internet Naming and Addressing" and Section VI "Introduction to Telnet" [Krol Readings: Chapters: "World Wide Web" (all sections) & "Remote Login". Index: find LAN in the index and read the relevant pages. ] Hepp Readings Chapters: 13 Multimedia 13.1-13.4) Internet CD: Section V "Browser Plug-ins", [Krol Readings: Chapters: "Other Applications" ("Audio and Video" section only). Chapters or Appendicies: "Netscape Navigator" & "Internet Explorer". ]
Week 3. Ending June 8	Electronic Mail      Eudora MIME mail ListServ File Transfer (FTP) File Searches (Archie) Quiz 6: due 6/4 Gopher Web Searching Compression Programs Quiz 7: due 6/6 World Wide Web Authoring (HTML) Quiz 8: due 6/8	Hepp Readings Chapters: 1 Electronic Mail (1.5-1.9), 10 Mailing Lists (10.4-10.5), and 6 FTP (6.3-6.4) Internet CD: Section VI "Introduction to Mailing Lists", "Introduction to FTP" [Krol Readings Chapters: "Electronic Mail" (all sections), "Moving Files: FTP", "Finding Files" & "Other Applications" ("Audio and Video" section only). Chapters or Appendicies: "Netscape Navigator" & "Internet Explorer". ] Hepp Readings Chapters: 5 Searching  Internet CD: Section V "Searching the WWW" and Section VII "File Compression and Encoding" [Krol Readings Chapters: "Tunneling Through the Internet: Gopher" & "Searching Indexed Databases: WAIS" & Index: find "compressed files" & "compression programs" in the index and read the relevant pages.] Hepp Readings Chapters: 2 Publishing (2.4-2.7), 4 World Wide Web (4.5-4.6), 7 Basic HTML Internet CD: Section III "Setting Up a web Site"  and Appendix B "Working with HTML" [Krol Readings Index: find "HTML" & "Home Page" in the index and read the relevant pages. ]
Week 4. Ending June 15	Clickable Image Maps Frames Advanced GIFs Quiz 9: due 6/13 Java/JavaScript Cascading Style Sheets Electronic Journals Electronic Books OPACs (On-line Public Access Catalogs) Quiz 10: due 6/15	Hepp Readings Chapters: 8 Web Graphics, and 9 Advanced HTML (9.1-9.2, 9.6-9.7) [Krol Readings: Chapters: "Resources on the Internet" ("The Whole Internet Catalog" section) ] Hepp Readings Chapters: 12 Web Programming (12.1-12.4), and 11 Electronic Publishing Internet CD: Section III "Java the Risks" [Krol Readings: Library and Information Services (On-line Databases) Chapters: "Resources on the Internet" ("The Whole Internet Catalog" section) ]
Week 5. Ending June 22	Commercial Online Providers Bitnet, UUnet Internet User Directories & Location Tools Web Home Page Due: 6/20 Synchronous Communications talk Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Multi-User Dimension (MUD) Internet Telephony CuSeeMe Quiz 11: due 6/22	Hepp Readings Chapters: 14 Privacy (optional reading - not required) Internet CD: Section III "Business Security Issues" (optional) [Krol Readings: Index: find "Compuserve", "America Online", "Prodigy" & "Microsoft Network" in the index and read the relevant pages. Index: find "Bitnet" & "UUnet" in the index and read the relevant pages. Chapters: "Finding Someone" & "Other Applications" ("Diversions" section). Index: find "CU-SeeMe", "Chat", & "Talking on the Internet" in the index and read the relevant pages. ] Hepp Readings Chapters: 10 Chat Rooms, and MUDs (10.6-10.7) Internet CD: Section VI "Internet Telephony and Video Conferencing" and "Methods of Communication" (optional)
Week 6. Ending June 29	Digital Libraries VT Libraries Virtual Tour VT Libraries Newcomer VT Libraries Quiz 12: due 6/26 VT Online Course Evaluation and Post-Course Survey Summary and Overview Final Exam: due 6/29	Hepp Readings Chapters: 14 Privacy (optional reading - not required) [Krol Readings: Index: find "Libraries", & "Librarians, Robotic" in the index and read the relevant pages. Suggested readings: searching browsing and linking; authoring, copyright, and subscriptions; CD-ROM libraries; interfaces, navigation, and knowbots. ] Final Exam: online Deadline: June 29th