College of Micronesia-FSM

Communicating using presentations, email, and web pages

Course Title Level Campus
Communicating using presentations, email, and web pages Pre-seniors Kosrae

Course Description

An introduction to PowerPoint, the Internet, email, and the development of web pages with an emphasis on communication.

Course Schedule and Topics

Week one: Introduction

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Orientation Pretest using PowerPoint Review of PowerPoint
Email options:
Yahoo
briefcase
attachments
calendar
 Email etiquette
Chain letters
Viruses
419 Fraud
Phish • Other phish
Spam ALL CAPS
Netiquette
Flaming
acronyms
emoticons
smiley :-)
sadie :-(
just kidding ;-) 		History of hypertext and the world wide web:
Internet Pioneers • Vannevar Bush • Ted Nelson • Tim Berners-Lee Enquire • Marc Andreesen

Quiz one

Week Two: The World Wide Information Web
Google Micronesia

MondayIP addresses and network topology
LAN: winipcfg.exe
Windows XP: Use cmd.exe and run "ipconfig /all"
WAN: 10.209.10.20 • shark.palikir
206.49.89.226
Tuesday Domain name system More • URLs: http://www.comfsm.fm
top-level domains new top levels
Introduction to searching:
Google
Graphical interface (Flash required): Kartoo
Clustered results displayed schematically: • Mooter
Aids to refining and narrowing: • Teoma
Engine information • Searchenginewatch • Search engine show down
Wednesday Google advanced search • More Google • Google images • Google print • Google scholar • Google maps • Google labs • • Google define: • Google calculator • Google site search • Google filetype search •
Thursday Quiz two
Introduced HTML. Put up following code:
<html>
<body>
<p>Normal paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>
Friday <a href="http://www.comfsm.fm/">Hyperlinks</a>

Week three

MondayImage tag
<img src="http://www.comfsm.fm/~dleeling/cis/sharisey.jpg">
sharisey (45K)
Tuesday Cover the three types of "titles":
  1. Filename
  2. Page title
  3. Header on page
Introduce the following tags:
<head>
<title>Your window title here</title>
</head>
<h1>Header Level One</h1>
Wednesday Add body style command with X11 colors
<style type="text/css">
body {background:wheat; color:saddlebrown}
</style>
X11 colors on white
X11 colors on gray
X11 colors on black
Thursday Added CSS font-family to body:
body {background:wheat; color:saddlebrown; font-family: garamond,serif}
Font types
Relative font sizes at a constant point size.
Font descriptions
Example of a font called sand.
Font test bed
FridayMidterm.

Week four: Web Pages II

MondayMidterm review. Paint. GIF, PNG, JPG
JPEG
ama.jpg • baby.jpg • sharisey.jpg •
GIF
circle.gif • collegelanwan.gif • teachbaby.gif
PNG
collegelanwan.png
Color and resolution issues
GIF • JPG • PNG • keyboard.jpg • teachbaby.gif sircam.jpg • sircam.gif • saveasfiletypes.png
TuesdayScanner demo in library
WednesdayProcessing the image with GIMP.

Unordered and ordered lists including CSS control of lists
<ul><li>item</li></ul>
<ol><li>item</li></ol>
ThursdayDigital camera demonstration

CSS control of anchor tag color behaviour:
a:link {color:blue}
a:visited {color:purple}
a:active {color:red}
a:hover {color:silver}
Friday Quiz three

Week Five

Monday Review quiz. Tables.
Tuesday Controlling tables with CSS
WednesdayWorking on Kosraen story, legend, history, ethnographic essay, or biography. Page will include an image either from instructor's web site or FreeFoto
ThursdayWork on essay.
FridayAttempt to submit web page essays and images.

Week six: Wrapping up

MondayWrap up.
TuesdayReview.
WednesdayFinal