Navigating the Internet and creating WWW pages.
Searching, finding and analysing information.

Introduction to today's and tomorrow's new ways of digital communication in computer networks, especially in Internet. The topics of the lectures include information society, teledemocracy, information networks (structures, functions, contents etc.), info rmation services, networks as communication media and phenomena connected to networks. The topics of the demonstrations include integrated information systems (WWW, Gopher), HyperText Markup Language, file transfers, telnet, etc.

Schedule:

Wed 3.4.1996 12-14 Room F222
Wed 10.4.1996 12-14 Room F222
Thu 11.4.1996 12-15 Room F224
Wed 17.4.1996 12-14 Room F222
Thu 18.4.1996 12-15 Room F224
Wed 24.4.1996 12-14 Room F222
Thu 25.4.1996 12-15 Room F224
Thu 2.5.1996 12-15 Room F224
Wed 8.5.1996 12-14 Room F222
Thu 9.5.1996 12-15 Room F224

Requirements

There will be no exam arranged. Instead, the students are expected to search for information and produce an expansive WWW presentation of the chosen topic. The presentation should include a self-written introduction, images, external links found with diff erent search engines and comments about the links. The logically categorized content and impressive lay-out are emphasized.
An 80% attendance is expected. More absences will result in extra assignments.