The PI Comp032 Internet Syllabus

prepared by Vance Stevens
Lecturer of Computing at Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi

What should your HTML document have for full marks:

• 10 points - you have submitted an html document to Work Finished
• 10 points - you have an introduction of yourself inside a [p ... /p] tag package
• 10 points - you have at least one picture on it [img src ... etc]
• 10 points - you have a description of at least one picture inside a [p ... /p] tag package
• 10 points - you have a link to the latest version of your BLOG [A HREF etc].
• 10 points - all text and picture displays are working over Internet
• 10 points - all [A HREF etc] links are working over Internet
• 10 points - a centered heading in large font
• 20 points - good use of other features covered in the HTML tutorial steps 1-10 - for example, change text and background color, or use lines, or resize your photo, or make a table to space your pictures

Exam practice for HTML is here:

• The instructions are here
• Open this document and save it to your home folder, then try to get it to display as in the instructions

You also need to write in your blog what you want to do for your term project. The project will be to evaluate web sites for the quality of information they provide on your topic. Your results will appear in a class eZine (more information about the eZine here). You will also hand in 1 or 2 page Word document reporting your findings in a table, with header and footer and other attributes to be explained later. For now you must write in your blog what topic you are interested in for the web search, and how you plan to contribute to the eZine presentation. Vance will check blogs after. Tuesday Dec 16. Vance checked who has done this Dec 21 -->

Now your assignment is to write more in your blog about this assignment. Your teacher is looking for evidence of thought, reflection, and effort on your project (a few words or one sentence are not evidence of thought or effort). For Sat Dec 27, your blog should give:

1. The topic of your research
2. A paragraph (3 or 4 sentences) describing what aspect(s) of the topic you are going to research. In this description you will narrow the focus of your research from a general topic idea to specific information you will be looking for on the Internet. (As you actually find information you might want to later adjust the focus of your topic.)
3. Links to web sites you are considering for evaluation

Please complete and hand in the worksheet Advanced Search Options to Limit or Expand a Search .

Please complete and hand in the worksheet Internet Searching: Classwork . Each student takes one search question, finds answer, and reports to class how answer was found.

Go over "Review: Searching the World Wide Web" in class.

"Internet: Evaluating Web Sites" pages 1 & 2.

We started on "Internet: Evaluating Web Sites" pages 3 & 4. First evaluate the sites according to the criteria questions here.. Then answer the questions using the terms used in the criteria question worksheet. You will see at right when Vance has checked who has handed in this assignment -->

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: Excercise 3 asks you to compare two web sites. You can't do this because one of the sites is not available. So instead please evaluate the site you can access according to the criteria questions here.. Write your evaluation in the space for comparison on p. 3.