Class one: Online work

Introduction: Multimedia Syllabus (handed out in class and sent to your UCP email), verification of hardware.

Remember that you must have activated and use your UCP account and email so that you can receive the documents for this class. It will also be helpful when you build your website.

Download the syllabus from the MegaShare website : http://www.MegaShare.com/1776456

The PASSWORD this and other downloadable documents is cergyl2

Vocabulary:
Search engine, browser, spider, invisible web

Search engines
What search engine(s) do you use?

Have you ever used a different one other than Google, MSN or Yahoo? (why? How?)

How many search engines can you name?

How do you think search engines Format (form) the information they present to you?

To find out more about search engines, look at the information given at the University of California at Berkeley’s Library website:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/SearchEngines.html

What does it say about how useful Google is?

Why is it good to get a second opinion?

What other search engines do they recommend?

Look below the chart and find out how search engines work.

What is a “spider”?

What is the “invisible web”?

Look at this website which suggests using search engines according to your specific needs. http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html

According to this site, which search engine(s) is(are) suggested to find information for children?

Here is another search engine that you might find useful today, in this class or in the future (for example when looking for a job or some specific information).
http://www.searchengineguide.com/searchengines.html

Now, let me lead you through a “click-search”. Follow the instructions carefully, step by step.
Look at the Magazines search engine under the News and Media section (make sure to scroll below the advertisements – thank you Google!). When on the new page, skip the ads again and find Magazine Boy.

How many magazines are listed about black and white photography?

What picture is on the cover of this magazine?

To answer this question you have to click again on the name of the magazine which appears on the Photo Magazine Topic page. (you may have to click again to get to the magazine cover page).

Optional: If you’ve made it this far, in the last minutes of class, go to the UCP library site and find the e-journals. Try to find Science Direct database and then Sage publishing. Browse the different titles that are available to research about Communications, Marketing, Businesses, Entrepreneurs etc.

HOMEWORK: (texts sent to your UCP email)

Read Alberganti, « Internet l'an 01 », Le Monde, 11 oct 1999 (discussion next week) Download: http://www.MegaShare.com/1776462

Read Manuel Castells’s “Le développement d’Internet”, Le Monde, samedi 1 juin 2002. (discussion next week) Download: http://www.MegaShare.com/1776469

Read the introduction of Howard Rheingold’s Virtual Community (in French Online. It is 10 pages)

http://www.lumbroso.fr/lionel/03_Plume/VC/VC_Ch00.htm (discussion in two weeks)