Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

 On successful completion of this course the student should be able to:

Ï      Use the Internet efficiently, productively and professionally

Ï      Describe the Internet infrastructure and the technical issues encompassing the Internet

This course is presented by means of:

Ï         on-campus lectures or distance learning lessons

Ï         on-line discussions,

Ï         individual lab assignments

Ï         group lab assignments.

Students will be required to use essential tools to complete the lab assignments.

 Assessment tasks will include:

• Webliography
• Various hands-on activities related to Internet searching
• Various hands-on activities related to communications tools, multimedia, basic HTML, and transferring and compressing files
• Active participation in small on-line discussion groups
• Objective Exams
• Group assignments

A letter grade will be issued for this course.

Ï      Present a historical perspective of the Internet and World Wide Web

Ï      Describe the technical infrastructure of the Internet including the architecture in terms of client/server.

Ï      Develop a basic understanding of the standards and conventions used to transmit information over the Internet.

Ï      Incorporate the common Netiquette rules that govern the behavior of users on the Internet into Internet communications.

Ï      Differentiate between virus warnings and hoaxes

Ï      Describe and differentiate between e-mail, newsgroups, chat sessions, instant messaging, conferencing and mailing lists.

Ï      Explore the relationship between the Internet and a variety of operating systems.

Ï      Recognize the standards and tools used to measure Internet performance.

Ï      Navigate the Web utilizing Uniform Resource Locators, hypertext links, and bookmarks.

Ï      Analyze, synthesize, and interpret the process of carrying out an efficient and effective Web search using search engines.

Ï      Examine the components of a Web-based document to observe the basics of HTML language.

Ï      Discuss issues involving access to and use of the Internet, including: ethics, security, privacy, copyright, freedom of speech, and ease of access to the disadvantaged. Describe the "digital divide".

Ï      Identify the basic concepts and uses of multimedia (Sound, Video, Graphics, Animation, Special Documents) on the Internet.

Ï      Identify and define E-Business concepts including "privacy statements".

Ï      Observe and identify some of the rapid changes taking place on the Internet in terms of technology, tools, virtual reality and interactive programming.

Ï      Focus on a topic of interest related to the Internet through the creation of a "webliography" using the skills learned in this class.

Competencies, Skills

Ï      Use various search engines

Ï      Use efficient searching techniques to narrow a search

Ï      Critically analyze and evaluate search results.

Ï      Use PCC on-library resources

Ï      Use various communications tools such as, email and email attachments; a mailing/discussion list; a newsgroup; a bulletin board; a chat room

Ï      Ping and trace an IP address

Ï      Upload and download files using FTP

Ï      Identify alternate means of transferring files that are more secure than FTP

Ï      Compress (zip) and uncompress (un-zip) files

Ï      Create a basic web page using only HTML coding with a text editor

Ï      Record an audio clip and include in a web page

Ï      Compress an audio file

Ï      Use pre-written Javascript in a web page

Ï      Use various browser plug-ins and players such as, Acrobat Reader, RealOne, Quicktime, and Flash

Ï      Create a webliography

Ï      Participate in small, on-line discussion groups

Ï      Act as a facilitator at least once during the term for an online discussion group