Educational Lesson Plan Outline
Note: This is only a preliminary outline that is subject to change
before the actual project start date.
Importance of the Internet
Computers
- software
- hardware
- representation of digital information
Overview of Internet applications
- email
- FTP
- world wide web
Description of Internet connectivity
- Internet backbone
- protocols
- LAN / WAN
- modems
- ethernet
Navigating the world wide web
- types of files (.jpg, .html, .pdf, .wav, etc.)
- Java scripts
- types of sites (.gov, .edu, .in, .org, etc.)
Creating a web page
- hardware / software requirements
- HTML code primer
Current popular internet scripting languages
- HTML
- JAVA
- SGML?
Various HTML and JAVA programming assignments
Emerging technologies
- XML
General computing issues
- Y2K problem
- privacy and security
- faster hardware limits
- bandwidth limitations
Future of internet and information technology
- trends
- limitations
- forecasted technologies (computer interfaces, portability, etc.)