Fall2000 CIS160 and BOST160

Lecture Topics:

Week 1

Introduction to Instructor's background
Introduction to this course
Overview of the Internet
Getting a Yahoo e-mail account
Finding this syllabus online
How to tell the difference between a web address and an E-mail address
E-mail basics
- Structure of an e-mail address
- Parts of an e-mail message
- How to send a new e-mail message
- How to check for new e-mail messages
How your connection to the Internet works from home (continued next week)

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

History of the Internet
Some more on web searching
1. More detail on how to evaluate web resources
2. A new search engine I just found: http://lii.org/
3. Using "All the Web" advanced search to narrow your search
4. Using Meta Search Engines (Dogpile)
5. Web Rings
6. Searching for people
7. A trivia search engine??? http://www.absolutetrivia.com/
Business searches
Business use of the Internet
1. Pre-WWW businesses adapting to online
2. WWW based business
3. Secure Transactions

Week 5

Other uses of the Internet part1 (FTP, Mailing Lists, E-mail attachments; Viruses)
Other uses of the Internet part2 (Newsgroups, mailing lists, chat rooms)

Week 6

Week 7--Finals week--
class meets at normal time
5:20 to 8:20