Internet Literacy Seminar Series

Program

Lecture 1: 6 Nov 1996

  • Key Concepts in understanding the Internet
  • ESL and Literacy on the World Wide Web

    Lecture 2:13 Nov 1996

  • Connecting to the Net
  • Communication on the Net
  • EMail and Live Chats, Meeting People
  • On-line Conferencing

    Lecture 3: 20 Nov 1996

  • News and Journals on the Net.
  • Accessing Newsgroups and Mailing Lists.
  • Searching on the Net:
  • Searching for people and for E-mail addresses.

    Lecture 4: 27 Nov 1996

  • Searching on the Net: Searching for Information.
  • Community groups, Social Justice, Environmental issues on the Net
  • Mathematics on the Net.

    Lecture 5: 4 Dec 1996

  • Software for everyone: Shareware and Freeware.
  • Cool FTP sites. Sending files.
  • Getting the shareware to work.

    Lecture 6: 11 Dec 1996

  • Authoring your own page. HTML basics.
  • Graphics and Animation.
  • Copyright.

    NB: Program content is subject to rearrangement.