Read this First: Assignments and Grades For CIS120 The Internet

This course consists of 5 components:

  1. Reading the text and taking the Practice and review tests that insure you understand the basic concepts
  2. Writing a (3 to 5 page) paper that analyzes the impact of the internet on the society in the USA and on the world
  3. Using the various methods of communicating on the internet
  4. Creating a multiage web site of your own
  5. Learning to work as a community online by reading the the work of other students and making suggestions for improvement so you would if you were working as fellow employees and had a product to deliver to clients

 

Task

 Grade When
Things to do in the first few days of the course
  • Send email to the prof
  • Purchase the Texts online or at the bookstore
  • Take the Precourse Survey
  • Get Familiar with the Course, WebCT, the Website
  • Take a Good Learning Styles Test
 5% week 1
Chapter 01: Into the Internet
  • Introduce Yourself on the WebBoard
  • Wireless WiFi
  • Answers.com
  • Cyberstalking - The Darker Side of the Internet
 5% week 2
Chapter 04: Communicating Online
  • Kids Chat and Internet Addiction
  • Online Learning
 5% week 3&4
Chapter 02: Browsing the Web 7% week 5&6
Chapter 03: Searching the Web
  • Web 2: Visual, Social, User driven (YouTube, MySpace, Blogs)
  • Kid-Friendly Searches or Plagiarism
  • Library Collection and Electronic Resources
  • Web Comics
  • Bookmarks & Social Bookmarking
 6% week 7&8
Chapter 07: Creating Web Pages 10% week 9 &10
Chapter 05: Getting More Out of the Internet
  • Shopping Online for a Laptop (Desktop, printer, scanner, or any piece of COMPUTER equipment)
 3% week 11
Chapter 06: Internet Technologies & Security
  • Computer Virus, Worms & Trojan Horses (Personal Threats)
  • CyberTerrorism (Threats to Society)
 4% week 12
Chapter 08: Understanding E-Business 5% week 13&14
Paper
  • Topic
  • Draft
  • Feedback
  • Final
 5%
5%
5%
3%		 week 4
week 9
week 12
week 15

WebBoard contributions (Class participation)

Tests

Final

 10%

9%

11%

  

This page is part of CIS120 - The Internet taught by Maureen Greenbaum at Union County College Fall 2007.  Page updated 8/25/7