IST 100X Internet and Information Access
Class
Schedule, Fall 2007 (Class #7073)
Date
|
Class |
Topic |
Assignments Due |
|
T, 8/28 |
1 |
Course Introduction |
|
|
Th, 8/30 |
2 |
Data, Info, and Knowledge |
|
|
T, 9/4 |
3 |
Internet Structure &
History |
MapQuest
|
|
Th, 9/6 |
4 |
Internet Structure |
Bandwidth |
|
T, 9/11 |
5 |
WWW History & Structure |
AB: Research Topic
|
|
T, 9/18 |
6 |
Annotated Bibliography |
UL: Researching 101 |
|
Th, 9/20 |
7 |
Minerva (D) |
UL: OED & Wikipedia |
|
T, 9/25 |
8 |
Search Strings &
Booleans |
UL: Minerva |
|
Th, 9/27 |
9 |
Information Retrieval |
AB: Reference &
Book |
|
T, 10/2 |
10 |
Research Databases |
|
|
Th, 10/4 |
11 |
Information & Scholarship |
AB: General Article |
|
T, 10/9 |
12 |
Review Exam & AB |
AB: Scholarly Journal Articles
|
|
Th, 10/11 |
13 |
HOUR EXAM
|
|
|
T, 10/16 |
14 |
Lexis-Nexis (D)
|
UL: Evaluating Websites |
|
Th, 10/18 |
15 |
Web Directories & Indexes |
AB: Newspaper article |
|
T, 10/23 |
16 |
Yahoo (D) |
|
|
Th, 10/25 |
17 |
Many Faces of Google
(D) |
Search: Yahoo/AV |
|
T, 10/30 |
18 |
Social Networking |
AB: Popular Web Page
|
|
Th, 11/1 |
19 |
Rudiments of HTML/CSS |
|
|
T, 11/6 |
20 |
Internet News/RSS |
EPIC |
|
Th, 11/8 |
21 |
Information Security |
AB: Scholarly Web Page
|
|
T, 11/13 |
22 |
Internet Security |
|
|
Th, 11/15 |
23 |
Information Ethics |
Internet/Databases |
|
T, 11/20 |
24 |
Annotations/Evaluations
|
Google Search |
|
T, 11/27 |
25 |
AB sources; Review
|
|
|
Th, 11/29 |
26 |
HOUR EXAM
|
|
|
T, 12/4 |
27 |
Final Class |
W, 12/10:� Ann. Bib.
|
Website:� https://www.albany.edu/faculty/ist100/index.html
D:� Demonstration lectures; no online notes.
AB:� Annotated Bibliography