Introduction

Course title: Internet Publishing

Duration: 13 weeks 2/20 of one year workload
Dates offered: Start date: 4. March 1997
Formal description
Language: English
Content: Lesson titles are as follows:

1. Introduction and Concepts
2. Outline of Technical Services
3. WWW-technology
4. Introduction to HTML
5. More HTML and Development Tools
6. Installation of WWW-servers
7. Forms, CGI-scripts
8. Running CGI-scripts on server
9. Information Indexing, Netscape Frames
10. FTP technology
11 Javascript, WAIS
12 Summing up

Prerequisites:

• Normal student qualification , Access to Internet, Knowledge of how to use a PC, lessons delivered as Web-pages.

Learning activities:

• use of information and communication technology: conferences, hyper-media
• design of web pages.
• installing and configuring web- and FTP-servers

Source of material:

• Assigned textbook is: Mark Surfas and David M.Chandler: Running a Perfect Web Site with Windows. ISBN 0-7897-0763-2. The textbook is published.

• The learning material will be delivered as Web pages. We will use web- and FTP-servers that will run either on a Windows 3.x or a Windows 95/NT-platform. Servers are fetched as free evaluation copies from sources on Internet. In addition there will be established conference system for exchange of information between students - teachers etc. and where discussions may take place. This should act as help to create a virtual classroom.

Method of assessment:

• Written exam , 4 hours, 2 credits (one year study provides 20 credits).

Who should attend?

• anyone whos new task is to publish on the Internet
• teachers (in open learning) using Internet as the teaching medium

What new things should the learner be able to do:

• setting up web- and FTP-servers
• develop web pages, including tables, imagemaps, forms and frames
• writing simple serverscripts and understand interfacing of web-technology to other environments, such as file systems, databases or email systems
• setting up information structures with access control
• simple Java-scripting

Bibliography

• List of actual and recommended literature will be given along the course.

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Contact person

Per Borgesen
phone: + 47 73 55 95 43

More information

For more information about the MECPOL project, visit MECPOL homepage at STC.

Last updated 26. February 1997 by Per Borgesen