COURSE DESCRIPTION/RATIONALE
The World Wide Web, only a few years old, has changed the way we live, learn, play and work. Very few businesses have not been affected by the web, and over 50 million users in the USA alone, testify to its usefulness and fun. "Web" literacy is becoming a requirement in the 21st Century. This course will cover the concepts and current status and growth of the Internet, and in particular, the World Wide Web. We will show how students can use the World Wide Web with a personal computer in business, school and at home to correspond world-wide, access news, research information, do e-commerce, banking, shopping, investing and more. The salient features of popular WWW browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox are covered. How to select and subscribe to an Internet service provider is also covered. The course includes an introduction to web page authoring using some elementary HTML and XHTML and auto-authoring programs such as Word and others. Some exposure to new innovations including Real Audio, RealVideo, chat, conferencing, and podcasting is also presented.

Emphasis is on lots of hands on practice designed to produce interesting and useful projects, learn the features of e-mail, while teaching the fundamentals of the web. Students are expected to become proficient with all aspects of Internet communications, be able to research any topic, and produce a working simple Home page loaded on the student's ISP or the College web site.

YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Meet Your Instructor - Your instructor at Capital will oversee and track your progress in this course. You can stay in touch with e-mail, voice mail and telephone. If you have any questions at all about this course, feel free to contact your instructor.

COURSE CONTENT SUMMARY
* Orientation and Syllabus
* Web Browsing including Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
* Basic communication including email programs and web based email
* Searching the web
* Information resourses
* Downloading and storing data
* Real-time communication
* Mass communication on the internet
* HTML and XHTML basics
* Creating effective web pages
* Security on the internet
* Electronic commerce

COURSE OUTCOMES
At the conclusion of this course the student will have learned:

1. How to use the World Wide Web (WWW) from work, school and home to access and send information over the Internet.
2. How to use latest hardware and software innovations related to the World Wide Web including podcasting
3. How to install browsers in Windows and use plug-ins and extensions such as Java applets, e-mail, voice and video.
4. How to develop skills so to access and search the WWW for research and enjoyment and e-commerce
5. The state of the art in Multimedia Internet access and applications such as Real Audio, Streaming (live) Video, MIDI music files, video conferencing and more.

INTERNET RESOURCES
Students have unlimited access to ITP's CyberClass web site provided by the text publisher. This site extends the students opportunity to participate in real and practice exams, password protected conferencing and other tutorial aids provided by the publisher and consistent with the textbooks. Other web sites of value and reference will consist of cnn.com, microsoft.com, adobe.com, yahoo.com, Realvideo.com and other software download sites as appropriate.

ADDITIONAL TEACHER RESOURCES
On-line instruction to include video and voice conferencing, training video and audio segments, chat rooms and BBS. In addition the texts will be accompanied by companion CyberClass web site support with chat, exams, flash cards and other student/teacher aids, consistent with the chosen textbooks by ITP publishing. CDROMS with additional assignments, student projects, compilers and project evaluations are also included in the texts.

ASSIGNMENTS
All assignments are taken from the required text. Students will correspond and deliver their assignments by e-mail.

OBJECTIVES
Impart knowledge consistent with web familiarity and use. This involves the acquisition, synthesis and implementation as demonstrated by projects and web page creation.

READINGS
All text and web page assignments as listed above.

ACTIVITIES
Multiple step assignments and text book case studies are used throughout the course. Collaborative and team assignments are not anticipated as individual student goals tend to vary.

ASSESSMENT
Primary assessment is obtained through graded project assignments that conform to educational goals prescribed by the course outline, text and instructor distributions and web page notifications. In addition testing may be adapted as appropriate. Project submission is step-wise with target dates assigned to help keep students on track. Flexibility in these target dates is always maintained to allow consistency with student's work, travel and family commitments.