CTL3074

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CTL3074

• Welcome to the Internet

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CLT3074 Overview

• Materials available via the web
• url http//www.edn.gu.edu.au/coursei/bedprim/ctl1
  074/index.html
• Assessment
• practical test (30) wk 8
• Prepared exam (30) wk15
• software evaluation (20) about 800
• prepared question 5 gt 3 do 1 Prepare 3! (10)
• curriculum unit presentation (40) 5mins 2000

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A Brief History

• 1962 Inter-Networking
• 1969 ARPA net
• 1972 1st email program
• 1970s Doug Englebart
• 1992 WWW created
• 1993 1st graphic browser
• I havent seen anything grow like this outside
  of a petrie dish

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The Nature of the Beast
The nature of the internet is
connectivity

• this permits
• file transfer (FTP)
• mail transfer (SMTP)
• HyperLinks (HTTP)
• telnet
• We use a variety of different programs to access
  these

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The World Wide Web

• HTTP allows instant viewing of documents
• HYPERTEXT links documents
• Recent developments in HTML (hypertext markup
  language) permits inclusion of sound and video
• 1995 jim goslins team design JAVA
• The Web as a killer-ap

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Searching

• Directories ie YAHOO
• urls (addresses) are collected and categorised
• Search Engines ie ALTAVISTA
• user searches for keywords in a databank
• Meta search engines ie DOGPILE
• searches other search facilities
• Information retrieval skills of key importance

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Needle in a cyberstack..

• Combined, the top six search engines cover about
  42 of the web.

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Interfaces lynx
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Interfaces Internet Explorer
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Interfaces Neoplanet
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Interfaces Netscape
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Telnet
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ICQ
http//www.icq.com/
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CHAT
http//messenger.ninemsn.com.au/
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What to do with it?

• Resource Sites
• http//rite.ed.qut.edu.au/oz-teachernet/
• http//edna.edu.au/EdNA
• gt Communities and Lists
• Source Sites
• http//www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
• Information retrieval skills
• Publishing

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Tasks

• Find the ctl3071 resource pages
• Introduce yourselves via the FORUM
• Start searching for resource and source
  sites.
• Email your tutor
• mrlaneis_at_hotmail.com
• truna_at_hotmail.com
• You can find this PP Slide Show under PP Slide
  Shows in OzEdweb at http//www.teachers.ash.org.a
  u/mrlaneis/