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Week 1 Mon, Jan 14 Wed, Jan 16 Wed, Jan 23	Topics	Course Introduction Computing at GSLIS & UT Password selection Tour of GSLIS ITLAb (Jan. 16) - Instructor at conference The Internet - What is it? Addressing Demo of pine, pico & mailing lists
	Readings	Course handouts 1-5 A Brief History of the Internet http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml GSLIS Technology FAQ's http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/technology/faq.html
	Assignments	Network Access Survey (Jan. 25).
Week 2 Mon, Jan 28 Wed, Jan 30	Topics	Netiquette Finding Someone Visiting other computers: Intro to telnet Basic Unix 1 (File System) Gopher, Veronica & Lynx Internet Service Providers
	Readings	Rinaldi's "The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette" http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/ Start with UT ACITS Introduction to UNIX http://www.utexas.edu/cc/docs/ccug1 or Todino Preface (pp. vii-xiii), Chapters 1, 3, 6 (pp. 1-16, 42-65, 97-129) Course handouts 6-7
	Assignments	Email to Instructor & TA (Jan. 28) Exercise 1 (Jan. 30)
Week 3 Mon, Febr 4 Wed, Febr 6	Topics	Usenet & Tin FTP Basic Unix 2 (File Managment & Compression)
	Readings	Course handouts 8-12 Complete UT ACITS Introduction to UNIX http://www.utexas.edu/cc/docs/ccug1 or Todino Chapter 4 (pp. 66-86) Tutorials at http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/file_utility/ws_ftp/index.html
	Assignments	Exercise 2 (Febr. 8)
Week 4 Mon, Febr 11 Wed, Febr 13	Topics	Intro to the Web, Browsers & Public Portals Quiz 1 (Febr. 11) Return Quiz 1 (Febr. 13) HTML & Web Design I
	Readings	Course handout 13 Review all materials & exercises for Quiz 1. Castro Introduction (pp. 11-20), Chapters 1-2 (pp. 21-42) Explore Kristula "HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners" at http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/
	Assignments	Roamwork 1 (Febr. 11) Exercise 3 (Febr. 11) Roamwork 2 (Febr. 13) Semester Project ideas (Febr. 13)
Week 5 Mon, Febr 18 Wed, Febr 20	Topics	Security and Internet Guest Expert, Bill Bard, former Deputy Dirctor for Telecommunications and Networking HTML & Web Design II
	Readings	Course handouts 14, 17 Castro Chapters 3 (pp. 425-456), 5-7 (pp. 81-133) Explore PGP at http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html
	Assignments	Roamwork 3 (Febr. 20) Presentation/Demonstration ideas (Febr. 19)
Week 6 Mon, Febr 25 Wed, Febr 27	Topics	Search Engines & Indexes Guest Expert, Dr. Mary Lynn Rice-Lively, Asst. Dean GSLIS Search Strategies HTML & Web Design III
	Readings	Course handouts 15, 16 Castro Chapters 8-9 (pp. 135-166), 21-22 (pp. 329-348), Appendix B-C (pp. 353-359) Byrne "WebSearch" at http://www.clubi.ie/webserch/ Tyner "Sink or Swim ..." at http://www.ouc.bc.ca/libr/connect96/search.htm
	Assignments	Roamwork 4 (Febr. 27) Exercise 4 (Febr. 28)

Heiko Haubitz
Last updated: February 17, 2001