Course content and tentative schedule

Week 1—January 21, 2009

—Logging on to the Emory Wireless Network and Connecting to the Internet

—Introduction to the Wired Geezer Web page course resource

—Review of the self-assessment activities on the Web site

Glossary

 This introductory class will provide a base for our continued learning, introduce terms, demonstrate how participants can log onto the Emory Wirless network, and how to create a G-mail e-mail account, access and discuss an online Discussion Group for sharing information with other course members.

Week 2—January 28, 2009

The Anatomy and Physiology of the Internet Browser Program. (Internet Explorer [IE]) will be used as the teaching example. "Plug-ins"; Toolbars; cache; 'cookies'; maintenance.

The Wired Geezer Discussion Group—Search Terms-wrapping your head around what you're REALLY looking for.

Introduction to how to join the search terms Boolean Operators 

 

Homework (UGH!!)

for next week...please go to the the I-LIGHTER Web site, look at the demo, decide if it is something you'd use, and (if you're a member of the Wired Geezers discussion group, post something about your feedback.

Week 3—Operators  [how do I join the search terms] - Boolean - Advanced Boolean
Combining or joining search terms to broaden or narrow a search. AND, OR, (AND) NOT, NEAR, (nested searches)

**Discussion of a great search tool to assist with organizing your searches...

I-LIGHTER

When was the last time you:
Opened multiple tabs and accidentally closed them, losing everything you’ve been researching?
Used ‘cut and paste’ to save snippets of web content and than tried to find some of it?
Bookmarked a page and can’t remember what was important to begin with?
Or, the bookmark link was broken, data lost forever?

Week 4—"Beyond Googling" as a home exercise. —

"Meta-engines"

Is one big one better than many smaller ones?

Week 5—HANDS ON PRACTICE—PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

We will use this time to do online searches of your interests using all the strategies and techniques we've learned in the last month. Review tools available.

Week 6—the "Deep Web" (Deepnet, invisible Web, hidden Web); the [NEW] "Web 2.0"; "Blog", Spaces, "Wiki", "Podcast", "RSS Feeds"  [NEW] "Skype" and all the other confusing terms and acronyms.

[NEW]

Web 2.0 Pocket Dictionary
Compiled by Susan McLester

from Technology & Learning

Aggregator:
presents feeds from multiple authors and content types (blogs, wikis, podcasts, Flickr, and del.icio.us) all in a single location for ease of processing.

Blog:
Web log or chronological online personal journal with reflections, comments and often links to other Web sites produced by the writer. Others may subscribe to a person's blog, which allows them to read it and write comments in response.

Folksonomy:
a user-generated taxonomy used to categorize and retrieve Web pages, photographs, Web links and other Web content using open-ended labels called tags.

Photoblog:
(or photolog): a form of photo sharing and publishing in the format of a blog, but differentiated by the predominant use of and focus on photographs rather than text. Photoblogging (the action of posting photos to a photoblog) gained momentum in the early 2000s with the advent of cameraphones.

Podcast:
a syndicated audio (or video) program produced either by traditional media, such as radio and television, or by individuals, including educators, hobbyists, students, or other enthusiasts passionate about a topic.

RSS: (Really Simple Syndication):
a format for aggregating Web content in one place.

Social bookmarking:
a Web-based service where shared lists of user-created Internet bookmarks are displayed. These bookmarking sites are a popular way to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources.

Skyping:
chatting or phoning by using a free downloadable computer program that allows you to communicate with anyone who is also using Skype or any of the numerous peer-to-peer telephony technologies.

Social Calendar:
an online schedule that allows more than one user to read and enter data.


Video Podcast: (sometimes shortened to vidcast or vodcast):
a term used for the online delivery of video on demand clip content via Atomic or RSS enclosures.

Vlog: (short for video blog):
a term used to describe a blog that includes or consists of video clips. Typically updated daily (or with regular frequency), vlogs often reflect the personality or cause of the author. Also called vog.

Web 3D:
a general term for programs that provide a system for the storage, retrieval, and playback of real-time graphics content embedded in applications, all within an open architecture to support a wide array of domains and user scenarios.

Widget:
a generic term for the part of a graphical user interface that allows the user to interface with the application and operating system. Widgets display information and invite the user to act in a number of ways. Typical widgets include buttons, dialog boxes, pop-up windows, pull-down menus, icons, scroll bars, resizable window edges, progress indicators, selection boxes, windows, tear-off menus, menu bars, toggle switches and forms.

Wiki:
a type of Web site that allows visitors to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit and change some available content.

Definitions courtesy of wikipedia webomedia.com, and David Warlick in "A Day in the Life of Web 2.0," October 2006 Technology & Learning