Lesson Plan

Objectives

• Learn about push technology and how to use it
• Learn about portals and how to customize them
• Investigate examples of push technologies available with IE & Netscape
• Visit high-traffic portal sites
• Use Internet Web subscriptions
• Use Internet channels to direct selected topics to your computer
• Implement Web content delivery with Netcaster
• Establish channels and set their properties in IE

Coursework / Lab Work

• Chapter 10 Pretest (CTM Online - Internet Comprehensive)
• Overview of Personalized Information Delivery (demo)
• Follow steps on pages 10.11 thru 10.18 to personalize your Yahoo! portal.
• CTM for chapters 5 thru 10 in prep for exam. 
• Case problem #2, 3 & 4 from page 10.46 - 10.47 (not for hand in)

Home Work

• Read chapter 10
• Quiz next day [Thurs] (chapters 9 & 10)
• Exam next Tuesday (chapters 5 - 10)

Demo

• Push Technology (pg 10.2 - 10.3)
• Push Clients (pg 10.3 - 10.6)
• Portals (pg 10.6 - 10.10)
• Customizing a Portal (pg 10.11 - 10.18)
• Netcaster Overview & Using Netcaster (pg 10.19 - 10.27)
• Netscape Netcenter Portal (pg 10.27 - 10.31)
• Active Channels with IE (pg 10.32 - 10.41)
• Microsoft Start Page Portal (pg 10.41 - 10.44)