University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Information and Library Science

INLS 102: Information Tools - Fall 2004

Timetable

Daily Class Schedule

Note: You must bring your CCI-compatible laptop computer to class daily (unless other instructions are given). The computer should be configured for wireless or wire-connected network access to the campus network.

1. Week 1: Course Introduction
   • Class welcome and overview
   • SILS laptop use: the network, tech support and software
   • UNC computing environment and support
   • Hardware/software configuration
   • Software installation
   • Software list to be used in the class
   • Backups
   • Read:
     • SILS Computing Lab "Lab Info" pages
     • UNC's About the Campus Web
     • ATN's Internet Access from Off Campus
     • ATN's Backup Strategies: How to Save Your Files
   • Due:
     • Make sure you have your Onyen and password for ATN's login services, for future classes.
2. Week 2: Computing Ethics & Security
   • Computer Use Ethics
   • Information Security Issues
   • Assignment 1
   • Read:
     • CPSR, Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics
     • Jeff Johnson, Netiquette Training: Whose Responsibility?
     • ATN's Security Policy
     • Read: ATN's Basic Security Checklist
   • Due:
     • Make your computer (wireless) network ready
     • Subscribe to 'INLS102_01' mailing list from UNC List Server
3. Week 3: UNIX
   • Why Unix?
   • Fundamental Unix commands for files and directories
   • Unix text editing with Pico
   • SSH Secure Shell Program
   • Read:
     • ATN's Unix: Getting Started
     • ATN's Email & Internet Access (ISIS)
     • For Reference: UNIX Command Acronym List
   • Due:
     • Install WS_FTP LE 6.0
     • Install SSH Secure Shell 3.2.9 Windows Client
4. Week 4: Internet Concepts
   • History of the Internet
   • Internet Protocols
   • Fundamentals of TCP/IP networking
   • IP Addressing System
   • Domain Name System (DNS)
   • Network diagnosis tools (TCP/IP Commands)
   • Assignment 2
   • Read
     • A Brief History of the Internet
     • W3C's TCP/IP Tutorial
     • TCP/IP Basics
     • Internet Protocols
     • TCP/IP Tools (commands)
     • ATN's Windows: Telnet & FTP
   • Due:
     • Create 'inls102' directory under your isis home directory
     • Create a file (sample.txt) using Pico text editor in your 'inls102' directory
     • Install AFS Client in your laptop (install informtaion from here)
5. Week 5: HTML Basics
   • HTML History
   • HTML Document Structure
   • HTML Syntax
   • Your first Web page
   • HTML lists, fonts
   • Read
     • UNC's Guidelines: Personal Web Pages
     • ATN's Creating Web Pages at UNC-CH
     • ATN's Putting Your Pages on the Web
     • W3C's HTML & WWW
     • W3C's Introduction to HTML
     • W3C's HTML Elements
     • W3C's Basic HTML Tags
     • W3C's HTML Text Formatting
6. Week 6: More HTML
   • HTML colors
   • Hyperlinks, Multimedia
   • Tables, Forms
   • Assignment 3
   • Read
     • ATN's Web Authoring with HTML
     • ATN's Web Authoring: Graphics
     • W3C's HTML 4.01 Reference
     • W3C's HTML Examples
     • W3C's HTML 4.01 Entities Reference
7. Week 7: Web Authoring Tools
   • HTML editors
   • Macromedia Dreamweaver
   • Layout and Design
   • Frames/Tables
   • Managing a site
   • Read
     • ATN's Dreamweaver MX: Introduction
     • ATN's Dreamweaver MX: Defining Sites and Advanced Design
     • ATN's Web Authoring with HTML: Advanced Topics
     • ATN's Dreamweaver MX: Cascading Style Sheets and Design Principles
     • W3C's Browser Statistics
8. Week 8: Style Sheets / HTML Validation
   • Cascading Style Sheet
   • HTML style sheets with CSS
   • W3C Consortium
   • HTML specifications
   • HTML validation
   • Assignment 4
   • Read
     • W3C's Why use HTML 4.0?
     • W3C's Introduction to CSS
     • W3C's CSS Syntax
     • W3C's CSS How To
     • W3C's CSS Background Properties
     • W3C's CSS Text Properties
     • W3C's CSS Font Properties
     • W3C's CSS Examples
9. Week 9: Multimedia on the Web
   • Image formats for the Web: JPEG, GIF, PNG
   • Graphic Editing Tools: Fireworks
   • Audio: MP3 and other formats
   • Fireworks Demo
   • Goldwave Demo: Audio Format Conversion
   • Assignment 5
   • Read
     • ATN's Web Authoring: Graphics
     • Webmonkey's Fireworks tutorial
     • Macromedia Getting Started with Fireworks (pp 9-23)
     • Macromedia Tutorial: Exporting and saving files
     • Macromedia Tutorial: Buttons and Navigation Bars
     • Music: editing and converting
10. Week 10: Information Search on the web
    • Information Search on the Web
    • How Search Engines Work
    • Search Features
    • Search Engine Comparison
    • Search Experiments
    • Assignment 6
    • Read
      • Things to know before you begin searching
      • How Internet Search Engines Work
      • How a Search Engine Works
      • Major Search Engines
      • Search Engine Sizes
      • Recommended Search Strategy
      • Search Engine Math
      • Evaluating Web Pages
11. Week 11: Database I
    • Basic concepts
    • Relationsal Database
    • MS Access
    • Access Tables / Relationships
    • Key / Field Properties
    • Referential Integrity
    • Assignment 7
    • Read
      • ATN's Database Concepts
      • ATN's Access XP/2000: Tables
12. Week 12: Database II
    • Access Queries
    • Access Forms
    • Access Reports
    • Entity-Relationship Model
    • E-R Diagram
    • Data Dictionaries
    • Data Flow Diagrams
    • Assignment 8
    • Read
      • ATN's Access XP/2000: Queries
      • ATN's Access XP/2000: Forms
      • ATN's Access XP/2000: Reports
13. Week 13, 14: Web Programming
    • Dynamic content
    • HTML forms
    • CGI Programming in Perl
    • Assignment 9, 10
    • Read
      • ATN's Web Authoring: Forms & Counters
      • ATN's Personal CGI Access
      • Webmonkey's CGI Scripts for Fun and Profit
      • CGI101.COM Introduction
      • Perl Tutorial: from here
14. Week 15: XML
    • SGML, XML, & XHTML
    • Document Formatting: CSS, XSLT
    • Document Modeling: DTD, Schema
    • Semantic Web
    • Wrap-up
    • Read
      • W3C's Introduction to XML
      • W3C's How can XML be Used?
      • W3C's What a Web Developer has to Know
      • Scientific American: The Semantic Web
15. Week 16: Final Exam
    • Dec 6: 2pm-3pm
    • 20 short answer and multiple choice questions
    • This is an open-book and open-computer exam
    • Final Exam Coverage from here

Most recently updated: November 29, 2004