Ch. 11 Notes

Chapter Eleven - Learning with Internet Tools

The Internet
• A collection of computers and computer networks on a global level
• ARPAnet: exchange of ideas and information
• The internet is as important to human history as the Gutenberg Bible (printing press).
• The internet was originally intended to help with the free exchange of ideas and info in a military and scientific context.

Internet Pros:
o Access any information anywhere, anytime
o Access to entertainment
o Links people/communicate
o Primary source material
o Convenient/Speed
o Makes things easier when it works.
o Increases Efficiency
o Awareness – global
o Greener
o Can buy anything

Internet Cons:
o Have to be really specific in searches
o Very little privacy and secrecy
o Distracting/addicting
o Too much information can be overwhelming
o Information accuracy (CRAP test)
o Crime
o Viruses Spam, etc.
o Deception
o Lazy/Impersonal
• The internet is not the WWW. Internet is the roadway, WWW is the car.
• Web browser (Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, etc): allows you to get onto the highway. Software that decode *html/htm. (Hypertext Mark-up Language)
• Web Pages have a unique address eg. www.facebook.com
• URL: Uniform Resource Locator (an address).
• http: (comes before the URL) hypertext transfer protocol.
• Index page is the homepage (.htm)