Internet and WWW

Full notes coming soon — here's what the syllabus covers for now:

• Overview of the Internet
• Describe the Internet
• Internet addresses - Internet protocol (IP) addresses and domain names
• What is needed to connect to the Internet referring to
• Internet Service Providers (ISPs), wired and wireless connections
• Overview of the World Wide Web (WWW)
• Describe the WWW
• Web address/uniform resource locater (URL)
• Web page and website
• Types of websites, their purpose/what they offer and examples
• Portal, news, informational, business, weblog (blog), Wiki, online social network, educational, entertainment, advocacy, web application, content aggregator, personal
• Criteria to evaluate websites
• Affiliation (e.g. who supports the website?)
• Audience (e.g. level at which it is written/who is it intended for?)
• Authority (e.g. who is the author and what are his/her credentials?)
• Content (e.g. organisation of content and working links)
• Currency (e.g. is the information on the web page up-to-date?)
• Design (e.g. is it easy to navigate and visually pleasing? How quickly does it download?)
• Objectivity (e.g. does it reflect any preconceptions?)
• Browsing and searching
• Examples of web browsers
• What is a search engine?
• Examples of search engines
• Performing searches using a search engine (search techniques)
• How to access and browse a website
• What is the World Wide Web consortium (W3C)?
• Overview of plug-in applications
• Describe plug-in applications
• Examples and purpose of plug-in applications for browsers such as PDF converters and tools, Flash player, Java, QuickTime player, RealPlayer, Silverlight