INTRODUCTION TO SESSION 2, ARE YOU READY?
Empowering the Internet Generation (30 sec. Cisco Advertisements)
Mouth of Babes 28.8K | 56K, Internet Revolution 28.8K | 56K Click on the number closest to your modem speed.  (Can also be done as an ) Requires the Real Audio Video Player plug-in.

A.  BOOK APPROACH
  Required Reading: Kennedy, Angus J. (2000) The Rough Guide to the Internet. 2001 Edition. More than 500 pages but you should be looking only at pages with information you don't know. Start with pages 3-28, 239-259, 281-284, 449-468, and in your spare time 496-500 (see item 51).

Internet Literacy. Fred T. Hofstetter.  (1998) Irwin McGraw-Hill.
Even a superficial, quick look at this book will fill in many gaps in your knowledge about the Internet.

B.  INTERNET/WEB APPROACH

Internet Literacy Web site [http://www.udel.edu/interlit/contents.html]
Web Manager's Reference Center (considered by many as the best sites for WEB development tools and resources)
[http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/faq.html]
AskTog The Webzine for Computer Professionals, their Families, & Friends [http://www.asktog.com/]
Internet Instructions--H.E.L.P. site is dedicated to helping you teach yourself about maneuvering in cyberspace. [http://www.sfsu.edu/~humanity/helpsite/new/intins.html]

C. TRIAL, ERROR, AND ASKING QUESTIONS--SEEKING INFORMATION ONLY WHEN YOU NEED IT

SESSION 2 LINKED ASSIGNMENT Even if you read the book or check out information on the web, you are likely to have additional questions.  If you neither read the book or check out the web, you can be expected to have even more questions.  Everyone should post one or more questions.  Questions should be posted as  in the Discussion Board--Computer Questions Forum.  Everyone is expected to help answer questions that are posted.  Answers should be posted as .  Responses should include information on where and how the answer was found. Possible questions: Why do the figures on the page sometime stop moving? What is a domain name and how can I request one? In my MS Word document, how do I start my page numbers at 1 for my second chapter? What is the difference between LANs and WANS and why should the leader of my organization know the difference? Post additional questions and answers.

Introduction to Maintaining and Changing a Web Page 01-19-2001

The first version is in MS Word, .rtf format. It is safe to open. It is a very large file and takes for ever to download. http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/doctoral/webmaster.rtf

The second version is in .pdf format. To open the file you musthave Adobe Acrobate on your computer. It is a small file. http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/doctoral/webmaster.pdf

THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET?

Thoughts on the Millenium: Esther Dyson  (6:56)  NPR December 15, 1999
[http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/19991215.me.11.ram]
The Future of the Internet Slide Presentation with notes at the bottom of the slides [http://www.iol.ie/~niallrm/futnet/sld001.htm]
Future of the Internet. A collection of topics related to the Internet's Future [http://navigators.com/future.html]
The Future of the Internet, Looking Beyond the Present [http://www.stanford.edu/~afernand/content/internet/internet.htm]
"Internet’s development could easily hold negative consequences for society."
The Future of the Internet Nerds 2.0.1 [http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/wiring_world/future.html]
Internet: "The Big Picture"  "What are the major pieces of the Internet,  and who are the major players in each segment?" [http://navigators.com/internet_architecture.html]
Keeping up with the changes that are occurring on the Internet. [http://www.hartnell.cc.ca.us/faculty/jlagier/interlit/chap27.htm]
The Battle for the Future of the Internet:  Corporate Cybermall or Global Town Hall? [http://www.corpwatch.org/feature/feature1/feature.html]

Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association APA   [http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html]

The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies

The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. Their site contains a collection of scholarly resources, including university-level courses in cyberculture, events and conferences, an extensive annotated bibliography, and two full-length book reviews each month. The SCCS home page [http://www.otal.umd.edu/~rccs/].

Computerworld free subscription [http://www.cwsubscribe.com/] suggest use of Computerworld's E-mail service
special subscription rate.[http://www.wired.com/wired/subscribe/special/79WH]

Computor Companion Magazine [http://logicalexpressions.com/cc.htm] nComputor Companion is a free computer magazin targeted toward business owners/managers, computer professionals, and home PC computer users in the Inland Northwest. Check out the on-line version.
Major Class AssignmentIntroduction of the Technology, Organizations, and Leadership Project
Students will identify technology issues crying out for leadership in an organization and develop an action plan to realistically impact one or more of these issues.  You may wish to include cost/benefit and social impact analyses of a technology implementation. Projects can be done in the student's own workplace or organization.  Students may work on this project as a team and do a joint report.  Reports should be the equivalent of between 5 and 10 typed pages.  Reports will be expected to make use of appropriate technology, such as a web page or a Power Point presentation. Identify your organization and possible issues by February 1 and post to the Discussion Board--Project forum.

Short hands-on activitiesGroup Work
Introduction to the use of the Blackboard chat room.