Week 2:

Overview • Objectives • Readings • Labs • Assignments

Unit I: Connections—People, Technology, and Information

Overview

This week we begin the first unit of the course: Connections—People, Technology, and Information. This unit looks at the Internet, Web publishing, how people interact with Web pages, and how they search for and evaluate Web sites that convey information.

During this week, we start with what experienced computer users know. Then we examine search and replace, and learn about networking. And, of course, we look at the "network of networks," the Internet. We look at how data moves across the Internet and how it gets to the right destination. We watch a cool movie, "Warriors of the Net," and a fun animation. We start writing Web pages and marking them up with HTML.We learn to publish our work to the World!

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Objectives

The objectives for this week are:

Explain key ideas familiar to experienced users (the digerati):

Explain how a basic search is done
Use common methods to search and edit text:
Tell whether a communication technology (Internet, radio, LAN, etc) is synchronous or asynchronous, broadcast or point to point
Explain the roles of Internet address, domain names, and DNS servers in networking
Distinguish between types of protocols (TCP/IP and Ethernet)
Describe how computers are interconnected by an ISP and by a LAN
Distinguish between the Internet and the World Wide Web
Know the meaning and use of hypertext terms
Use HTML tags to structure a document
Use the basics of HTML tag attributes
Use HTML tags to link to other files
Explain the differences between absolute and relative pathnames
Use HTML to encode lists and tables