CIS 140
Introduction to the Internet for Business and Personal Users
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Class 1
In this lesson the learning objectives are:
- How To Navigate Nicole's CIS 140 Web site
- How To Get A Copy Of The Current Syllabus
- Review CIS - 140 - 141 - 142 - 143 Map
- What is the Internet ?
- A bit of History
- A Bit of Terminology
- TCP/IP - Protocols
- DNS
- Routers
- What can I do on the Internet ?
- email
- Newsgroups
- Maillists
- "The Web" vs "The Internet"
- Browsing the web
- Older Technology
- FTP
- Telnet
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Class 2
In this lesson the learning objectives are:
- How To print the labs
- How To download and open the labs
- Web Browsers
- Netscape Navagator or Communicator
- Internet Explorer
- Mosaic
- AOL
- Your Connection to the Internet
- Connection Settings
- ISP Setup Parameters
- Protocol Setup
- Sockets
- Email Basics
- Email Clients
- Web Based Email
- Attachments
- Creating your own services for free
- FTP Client Software
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Class 3
In this lesson the learning objectives are:
- Email
- email address nomenclature
- firstIO445@cis.marin.cc.ca.us
- yourname@yahoo.com
- Preferences
- Mailbox icon on Netscape main screen
- The Netscape Mailbox
- Reading an email
- Sending an email
- Address books
- Smiling faces on email
- Hypertext links in email
- Email Etiquette
- Pass the message along without regard to contents (hoaxes)
- Email Ping-Pong
- SPAM & Flaming
- Newsgroups
- Subscribing
- Posting
- Replying
- Maillists
- Viruses and Hoaxes
- www.symantec.com\avcenter\hoax.html
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Class 4
In this lesson the learning objectives are:
- Browsers
- Netscape Navigator/Communicator
- Nomenclature
- Working with toolbars
- Entering URL's
- Directly
- From other document or email
- Finding "Hot Spots" on a web page
- Using a URL in a email
- Stop & Reload buttons
- Reload Button & Shift Reload
- local Cache vs reload from source
- The History List & Back and Forward buttons
- Bookmarks
- Saving something on the web
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Class 5
In this lesson the learning objectives are:
- Using Search Engines
- Using Yahoo
- Simple Search
- Drill Down By Topic
- Using Infoseek
- Simple Search
- Search Score
- Using Alta Vista
- Advanced Search - Compound Keywords
- Using Help to do compound Search
- Using Web Crawler
- Using MetaCrawler
- Using FTP in a browser
- Using Gopher in a browser
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Class 6
In this lesson the learning objectives are:
- How To Create A Website Using The Following Template:
<html>
<head>
<title>This is Nicole's Web Site</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is Nicole Cook's Web Site</h1>
<br>
<img src="nicole.jpg">
<p>
Some of my favorite interests are:
<ul>
<li>Skydiving
<li>Running
<li>Snow Skiing
</ul>
</body>
</html>
You will need to change the names from my name to your name.
You will also need to have a picture of yourself (you can bring one to lab and we can scan it in)
You should also change the interests to your interests.
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Class 7
In this lesson the learning objectives are:
- Exploration of 3D Browsers
- Chatting on the internet
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