1. What is the Internet?

2. Use The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy to explain the meaning of these terms.

a. Denial-of-service attack

b. Content provider

c. Portal

d. Hyperlink

3. How are cybermaps used?

4. What is a hot spot? Is there one in your state?

5. What role do packets play in the function of the Internet?

6. Your club's advisor has instructed the group's secretary to blog the meetings.

What is that? How would it benefit the members?

7. How does bandwidth impact a user's experience of the Internet?

8. What is the digital divide? Use your online research skills to uncover an answer.

9. Use the U.S. Census Bureau data for 2003 to answer these questions:

In your state - What percentage of households have a computer?

In your state - What percentage of households have Internet access?

Which state had the highest percentage of computers per household?

Which state had the lowest percentage of Internet access per household?

What is the median income, of the state, that has the highest computer/house ratio?

What is the median income of your state?

What is the median income, of the state, with the lowest Internet/household ratio?

Off-line - Come to a conclusion

Based on your findings, where would your prefer to live? Why?

Suppose you did not have a computer with access to the Internet. How would you go about finding the answers to question 9?

TAI (Think about it) How would not having access to the Internet alter your life?

10. Read "The Internet What lies ahead?". Make your own prediction. Or suggest a service you would like to see delivered using the Internet.

Use your online research skills to answer:

11. How was the Internet used to help the victims of the 2005 natural disasters?

12. Listen to Does the Internet Undermine Culture? (on NPR.) respond to one question.
a. Do you agree or disagree with Andrew Keens assertions? Explain.

b. Answer his question "What kind of world is this Web 2.0 leading us to?"

Examine Online Collaborations & Social Networking

Extensions:

Boolean search | Finding Info on the web | Keyword Searching

Small Pieces, Loosely Joined activity

Food for thought - Did You Know 2.0? Are you 21st Century Literate?

Watch What is Digital? at Future Channels

* Netiquette - WHAT DOES TYPING WORDS IN ALL CAPS MEAN?

* FYI - Do you have a computer acronym you would like to understand?
Find it at The Acronym Finder

* What do the following acronyms mean?

ISDN -

ISP -

WAN -

FTASB -

* Rich Tennant can put a smile to the greatest computer frustrations. See his most recent funny here.

* Find out: Is there a cybermap of your school's network? the district's network? Why would it be prudent to have one?

2004-2007 Cindy O'Hora Posted 12/19/04 FAQ revised 10/2007

Save a tree use a digital answer format - Highlight the text. Copy it. Paste it in a word processing document. Save the document in your folder. Answer on the wp document in a contrasting color (not yellow) or font. Please do not put them on the web because they will show up in a search engine making them like the odd question answers in the back of the math text.. Or perhaps you have the resources to record verbal answers. If you do, be sure to first read / record the question. Then record the answer immediately after it.

Aligned with the National Educational Technology Standards for Students and the Pennsylvania Standards for Science and Technology