Network application definition

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Concepts: application, network versus stand-alone application, client, server, application versus system program

The Web – vision, prototype and product

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Concepts: history of the Web, Internet culture, the contributions of Vannevar Bush, JCR Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Tim Berners-Lee, evolution from concept to product

Using Google’s RSS reader

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Skills: subscribe to feeds, read feeds
Concepts: RSS, subscrption

What is a Web log (blog)?

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Skills: reading and searching a blog
Concepts: blog, subscription, one-to-many communication, permalink, label (tag), captcha, long-tail distribution

Using Twitter

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Skills: familiarity with the Twitter user interface and major features, the #hashtag, @-sign and search
Concepts: evolution of Twitter applications and access modes, citizen journalism, trending topics and finding people as well as information

Writing for the Internet

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Skills: none
Concepts: importance, frequency, quality and types of Internet writing, text as a data type

Michael Wesch on classroom architecture and questions

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Video excerpt from a talk by Michael Wesch

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Concepts: the impact of classroom architecture, the sorts of questions one hears in a classroom, might the Internet make a difference?

Blogger

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Skills: create, modify and post to a blog
Concepts: blog, gadget, property sheet, wire frame diagram of a Web page, profile, tabbed navigation

Obsoleted by: http://cis275topics.blogspot.com/2011/02/blog-development-and-user-interfaces.html

SurveyGizmo

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Skills: creating, publishing, reporting the results of online surveys using SurveyGizmo
Concepts: tabbed site navigation