Revised: April 24, 2000

IST 128 Schedule

Date	Topics	Assigned Reading/Homework Due
Jan. 24	Class Organization, Schedule, Student Information Form, Windows Basics,  NOVA Email Instructions, Signup for Hotmail account
Jan. 31	Class Cancelled
Feb. 7	Introduction to the Internet and the WWW, Email	P&S pp 1.1-1.24, p. 2.1-2.12 (2.12-2.50 give details about Netscape Messenger and Outlook Express and can be skipped unless you want to learn one of those programs), Signup for IST128L@onelist.com class email list
Feb. 14	Browser Basics, Finding Things w/o Search Engines	P&S pp. 3.1-3.63, Email exercise
Feb. 21	No class - Washington's Birthday
Feb. 28	Searching the Web, Hints on Searching, More Searching, Quiz	P&S, p. 4.1-4.30
Mar 6	Mailing Lists, Instant Messaging	P&S, p. 7.2-7.16, Search Exercise
Mar 13	Chat, Virtual Worlds, Newsgroups, Comparison of Mailing Lists, IM, Chat, and Newsgroups	P&S, p. p. 8.1-8.34
Mar 20	Midterm, Lab Constraints, Creating Web Pages,  HTML,  (Material from Meyers, Ch. 1 & 2), FTP Instructions
Mar 27	Lists, HTML Editors; Web Site Proposal and Project, Font Tags, Color, Text, Links	Meyers, Ch 1-4; Download WS-FTP Limited Edition for Windows, or Fetch for the Mac, install it, and upload a web page to your web site (NOVA or elsewhere)
April 3	Basic HTML Tags, Goals and Objectives of Web Site; Browser-Safe Color Chart, Finding and Using Web Graphics	Meyers, Ch. 5-7; Download and install AOL Press
April 10	Tables, Monitor Resolution, Netscape Composer, Text and Image Links Exercises	Meyers, Ch. 8-10, Web Site Proposal due
April 17	Uses of Tables, Resolving Web Page creation, FTP, HTML editor, and linking problems; Student-to-student discussion of web site project plans	Meyers, Ch 12-13, Linking Exercise
April 24	Navigation, Common Web Site Problems, Help with projects	Submit draft site for comments (optional)
May 1	Demo web projects, Review for Final	Web Site due
May 8	Final

Comments to William M. Pegram, wpegram@nvcc.edu