1. Historical and Current Uses of the Internet


Students Learn About:

  • What is the Internet?
  • Historical Perspective
  • Intranet
  • Uses of the Internet
    • email
    • research
    • chatting
    • messaging
    • access to information via search engines
  • Internet Software, such as
    • Browser software
    • Authoring software

Students Learn To:

  • Identify and Describe the Internet
  • Identify and discuss key historical events for the internet by developing a timeline
  • examine the features of a school or other intranet
  • compare and contrast an intranet with the internet
  • email a file to a set location 
  • describe email etiquette
  • research using the internet for a given task
  • assess the use of the internet for communication in a variety of situations
  • use search engines to undertake internet research
  • discuss the advantages and limitations of search engines
  • describe and use a range of internet software packages


Student Activity 1:

  1. Work in Groups and create a Presentation using text and images outlining the significant events during the discovery and growth of the Internet (include your names)
    Share permissions of your presentation with the Teacher.
    1. Group 1 - 1951-1960
    2. Group 2 - 1961-1970
    3. Group 3 - 1971- 1980
    4. Group 4 - 1981 - 1990
    5. Group 5 - 1991 -2000
    6. Group 6 - 2001 - present

Student Activity 2:


Open and Copy the following Google Doc: "The Internet and Website Development".  

In that page, answer the following questions.
  1. Define what the Internet is vs World Wide Web.

  2. What is an Intranet?
    1. What are the similarities and differences between an Intranet and Internet?
      1. Include features, uses and examples

  3. Research email netiquette and make a list of 10 rules of email netiquette.
    Then to email this list as an attachment to the teacher (following etiquette rules when doing this).  Also include your research on your website. 

  4. Explain how to do an internet search. Discuss keywords and Boolean values.  

  5. Identify the current most popular Web Browsers
    1. Describe them - what makes them different to other browsers
    2. Pro's and Con's (Advantages/Disadvantages) of each Browser type.

  6. Discuss the importance of designing websites for compatibility with different browsers

Internet Software and Protocols

Student Activity 3: HTML Authoring

Continue with the following questions in your Google Document
  1. What is HTML? 
  2. What is the structure of HTML tags?
  3. What is the structure of a HTML webpage?
  4. Create the following in Notepad and save as "myhtml.html".
<html>
<head>
<title>My First Website</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>My Name's Fantastic First HTML Website</h1>
<p>You should write a paragraph about yourself here.</p>
<p>A new paragraph should be here. Write about what your favourite hobbies here.</p>
<p>This should be a new paragraph. Since your favourite subject is <b>IST </b>Write about it here. Put your favourite words in <b>Bold</b></p>
</body>
</html>


    5. Add a link somewhere with the code

<a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>

    6. Insert an Image

    Download and image to the same folder as your HTML and change and include the following code:

<img src="image.jpg" width="268" height="480" />




Subpages (1): The Internet of Things
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