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BEST OF THE INTERNET

What’s needed? An Internet Connection or Service Provider (ISP),

Programs which know the Rules or Protocols for message decoding

Browser - MS’s Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla’s Firefox, others

Email program – Yahoo or other

plug ins -

Adobe’s Acrobat Reader (PDF or Portable Document Format)

Media players

Apple’s Quick Time, Window’s Media Player, others

COURSE OUTLINE

WHAT IS THE INTERNET? – a Communication Network – “wires” & rules

Across which flow many types of messages – each with protocols (rules)

WWW messages, ie. Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (http)

Email messages, ie. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (smtp)

Voice and TV on the internet (voip) and (iptv)

Streaming media messages

Other types of messages

USING A BROWSER (MSIE7) – for the WORLD WEB WIDE Protocol (HTTP)

DOWNLOAD and USE Internet Explorer 7

KNOW where things are ( www.wallyfant.org - Favorite Places)

Explore interesting web-sites in class

Reference, Bay Area, Computer, Financial, Internet Services, Maps, Medical,

News, Parks & Rec, Science, Search Engines, Shopping, Travel, Other

Assign interesting websites for home review

Reference, Bay Area, Education, Computer, Financial, Medical, News,

Parks & Rec, Religion, Science, Search Eng, Shopping, Travel, Weather

GUESS a web address - techniques for guessing a web-site address

SEARCH and find - concepts for making a search engine do your bidding

In class

Practice with logic operators and related Boolean techniques

Advanced search methods

Home study

Finding answers to questions on your own

USING PLUG-INS - for OTHER INTERNET PROTOCOLS

Readers, Media Players

Streaming media - radio, TV, web-cams

USING EMAIL – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)

Advantages of Web based email

Enroll as a Yahoo member

Using Yahoo email, send/receive email with attachments

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