World Wide Web Workshop

World Wide Web Workshop
Class Description & Assignments

This is a half year course

Offered to all grades

World Wide Web Workshop includes:

ü Defining the Internet… History of the Internet

ü Website, Web pages and Web servers

ü Risks and Safeguards

ü The Search Process

ü Communicating Online… Email Systems, Chat and Message Boards

ü Getting More out of the Internet...News, Sports, Weather, and Traffic

ü Research and Reference Tools

ü Health, Entertainment, Hobby, and other special interest websites

ü Personal Finances

ü Education

ü Shopping

ü Downloading and File Sharing

ü Security

ü Website Planning and Page Design

ü Understanding E-Business... Origins and Models

ü Managing a Website

Are you interested in going beyond Google?

Do you have a quest for knowledge? We live in a fast-paced world. The Internet allows us to grasp information at the click of a mouse. Would you like to learn to use the World-Wide Web more efficiently? Weed through the mush to attain accurate and scholarly information? Be proficient in your searches?

World-Wide Web Workshop is an Internet based class which will expand on what students currently know about the World-Wide Web and introduce extensive benefits of navigating through the Internet.

The focus of this course if life-skills for students who will learn how to utilize the Internet using a variety of search engines, reference website research, differentiate between scholarly and non-scholarly websites, identify security measures to protect themselves from identity theft online, utilize the computer database through our Library/Media Center, plan trips online, purchase cars online, research how to buy/sell items over the Internet (i.e. ebay), and much much more.

This course is an excellent foundation for students entering high school with the desire to learn to research quickly and accurately. It is an opportunity for students to learn to use the World-Wide Web as an abundant resource.