Lesson Plan

January 27, 2000

Details

Reading / References

EMAIL

Read chapter 2 from Internet Comprehensive
Additional references/information (from book source) can be found at 
    http://www.course.com/downloads/NewPerspectives/internet/cmp/t02.html

Setting up your Kwantlen email?
    Outlook Express Email Configuration

Additional documents from TallTech site:

• Anatomy of an Email Attachment (Word doc)

• EMAIL FAQ (Word doc)

• Email Servers (Word doc)

• Email Terminology (Word doc)

• Finding Email Addresses (Word doc)

• Digital signatures (Word doc)

SEARCHING

Read chapter 4 from Internet Comprehensive
Additional references/information (from book source) can be found at 
    http://www.course.com/downloads/NewPerspectives/internet/cmp/t04.html

Supplemental Web Sites/Info

http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/78tutorial.htm (online tutorial)
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/32tools.htm (search engines list & features)
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/77advanc.htm (advanced search techniques)

Objectives

Email

• Learn about email and how it works
• Set up and use Outlook Express
• Send and receive e-mail messages
• Print an e-mail message
• Create folders to save your email messages
• File and delete e-mail messages and folders
• Create and maintain an electronic address book

Searching

• Determine whether a research question is specific or exploratory
• Learn how to develop an effective Web search strategy to answer research questions
• Learn about Web search tools and how they work
• Create different kind of search expressions
• Find information using search engines, directories, and other Web research tools

Coursework

Email

• Chapter 2 Pretest (CTM Online - Internet Comprehensive)
• Overview of email concepts (demo)
• Overview of Outlook Express (demo)
• Review additional references (New Perspectives)
• Do "Email" course lab (installed software)
• Familiarize yourself with the key terms (in bold) throughout the chapter
• Check out http://www.windweaver.com/emoticon.htm for a list of "emoticons".
• Check out http://www.cynet.net/abrv.html for a list of abbreviations used in email.
• Check out http://www.bonzi.com/ for Voice Email!
• Review documents on TallTech site

Searching

• Chapter 4 Pretest (CTM Online - Internet Comprehensive)
• Overview of Searching the Web (demo)

For Marks

Assignment #: IC02
Assignment: Email/Searching Exercise
Due: Feb 1/2000
Marks: 15 marks

PART A [email] (5 marks):

Create an email and send it to me. In the email explain one of the features
of Outlook Express. This email should contain the text of the message. 
The subject line should read "Hand In Exercise - IC02". A signature
should be set up and used within the message. Suggested topics include 
configuring Outlook Express, managing folders, creating signatures, 
attaching files and encoding, and using mailboxes to organize mail. 
Material can be obtained from Web pages, CCI manual, and Internet
Comprehensive manual Included should be a general description of the
feature and the steps necessary to perform the feature. 

PART B [email] (5 marks):

Case Problem #1 on pages 2.51 - 2.52. 

PART C [email] (5 marks)

Complete case problem #2 on page 4.29 

Home Work

• Read chapter 2
• Read chapter 4
• Complete "For Marks" assignments

Demo

Email

• How does email work / key terms (pg 2.2)
• Anatomy of an email message (pg 2.2 - 2.6)
• Email addresses (pg 2.6 - 2.7)
• Finding Email Addresses: Document, http://www.whowhere.com
• Using your email client (pg 2.9 - 2.10)
• Maintaining an address book (pg 2.11)
• Outlook Express: Setting up your account (pg 2.33 - 2.35)
• Outlook Express: Sending a message [send, attach, spell check, priority] (pg 2.35 - 2.38)
• Outlook Express: Receiving a message (pg 2.38 - 2.39)
• Outlook Express: Opening and saving a message (pg 2.39 - 2.40)
• Outlook Express: Replying to a message (pg 2.41)
• Outlook Express: Forwarding a message (pg 2.42)
• Outlook Express: Filing a message [create folder, move to folder, copy to folder, drag & drop, right click] (pg 2.44)
• Outlook Express: Deleting an email message [deleting message, deleting from "deleted items"] (pg 2.45)
• Outlook Express: Adding addresses to address book [using address book, from previous email] (pg 2.46 - 2.47)
• Outlook Express: Maintaining your book [deleting, properties, find people]
• Outlook Express: Creating a group [creating, using] (pg 2.48 - 2.49)
• Outlook Express: Using a signature [text, external html file]
• Outlook Express: Message rules
• Digital Signatures & Encryption

Searching

• Types of search questions (pg 4.2 - 4.3)
• Web search strategy (pg 4.4)
• Using search engines (pg 4.5 - 4.6) - DEMO (altavista.com)
• Meta tags for a web page (pg 4.7)
• Title, content, comment, meta
• What do people search for? - DEMO (metaspy.com)
• Using directories (pg 4.8 - 4.12) - DEMO (yahoo.com)
• Meta search engines (pg 4.13 - 4.14) - DEMO (dogpile.com)
• Other Web resources (pg 4.15) - DEMO (clearinghouse.net)
• Natural language queries - DEMO (ask.com) -askjeeves
• Boolean Logic / Filtering - Boolean Operators (pg 4.18 - 4.20)
• Wildcards (pg 4.20)
• Advanced search using AltaVista (pg 4.20 - 4.22) - DEMO
• Help in AltaVista - DEMO
• Advanced search in HotBot (pg 4.23 - 4.24) - DEMO
• Complex search in Excite (pg 4.25 - 4.26) - DEMO
• Complex search in Northern Light (pg 4.26 - 4.27) - DEMO