You are going to be spending at least 7 hours each week on this course. To use your time efficiently you should become familiar with the course and this WebCT web site.

There are lots of pages (screens) and the best way to take the course is guided by Course Content and the Calendar.  The Calendar shows when Assignments and Tests are due.

• Course Content contains one chapter per text chapter and one chapter titled "Before you start" the text.
  Each Course content links to
  1. the Prof's review of the chapter (prof's view of what is important in the chapter and how you should attack it),
  2. the text's authors' supplementary material
     • PowerPoint presentation which can either be viewed online or downloaded for a full-screen PowerPoint presentation
     • Recommendation:
       • watch the presentation BEFORE reading the text to prime your brain for what you will read and then
       • watch it again after reading the text  chapter to review what you should have learned
  3. Assignments for the chapter
  4. Practice (multiply choice) and Review (fill in the blank) Tests for each chapter.

Be sure to take the hyperlinks on all the pages - the Calendar links to the Course Content.  The homepage and the drop-down course menu on the left of the screen let you jump directly to:

• Calendar.
• Course Content
• Student Tools
• Assignment
• Tests

This course will NOT be using WebCT's mail function. Use your own e-mail, whatever it is (Yahoo, BlackPlanet, AOL, MSN, Outlook ....) and send me an e-mail at NJInternetProf@gmail.com as soon as possible - see assignment.

This course will NOT be using WebCT's Discussions; it is too inflexible (once something is posted with WebCT, it can't be changed or deleted). Check out the WebBoard, and as soon as you have studied how to do it correctly, make your first post of Introduction Yourself.

Assignments will be submitted by posting them on the WetPaint Wiki or the WebBoard. Thus this will be a conversation among all the students in the class, not simply a dialog between each student to professor.  See Learning Pyramid.

All posts should be put directly in the message, rather than as attachments, so that links that you took (recommend) can be easily taken by those reading your post. Though you should compose your message using a word processor such as MS Word to get the advantage of the spell check and thesaurus.
Do NOT attach a Word documents unless there is specific formatting such as footnotes that world be lost. WebBoard accepts HTML commands such as surrounding a phrase with <i> </i> to italicize it (see Chapter 7, pages 416 & 417 and Appendix B pages APP20 to APP40 or may of the great HTML web sites. Each of your WebBoard. posts is an opportunity to practice HTML- make use of it.

To see that you've received credit for each assignment, you need to submit each assignment via WebCT. WebCT insists that something be upload so make one Word document called "Null.doc" and upload that every time. The dates for submission will be the dates you posted to the WebBoard or the class Wiki.

See the syllabus to se how grades are determined.

All Assignments are due by 11:55 pm of the date indicated on the calendar (so that classmates have time to comment on them.

The text will be covered in the following order Chapter 1, Chapter 2 , then Chapter 4, Chapter 2 , then Chapter 7, then Chapter 3 and chapters 5 to 9. Chapter 4, Communication, is out of order since we need to learn as much about communicating on the Internet as soon as possible to do so in this course. Chapter 7 is handled out of order due to its importance, Two other UCC courses, CIS121, HTML and then CIS122, Web Page Development using FrontPage, will cover web page construction in more detail.

I am sure there are many many errors on this site since I composed it. Some are silly typos and some may be missing web pages and some could be confusing, possibly incorrect information. Please tell me about them so I can correct them.

Finally, since I have been working with the Internet since the early 1990's and more over teaching it (see my informal biography) so students have taught ME stuff, my head is full of lots of stuff that I would like to share with you. You have unique world experiences and Internet experiences that I hope you will share with me and your fellow classmates because if I don't learn something new (optimistically every day) than this is just a job. Please study the knowledge sharing diagram.