Brief Description:
How is the Internet impacting issues in the social sciences, and what can it do for you and your educational experience? Join me in a discussion of the role of cyberspace in our activities at home, in school and our future jobs and careers. Let's discover together (hands-on!) how we can apply some of these new technologies to our work on and off campus.

We will search for available resources, work on individual Web sites, explore the basics of hypertextual writing, and trace some historical roots (and speculate about the future) of these amazing developments and challenges.

Tentative Seminar Outline:

Introduction: The Internet Revolution	(Resources)
Establish your own Web Presence [Hands-On!]	(Resources)
Impact on Education	(Resources)
History	(Resources)
Impact on Business, Institutions and Jobs	(Resources)
Tele-Work and Tele-Lifestyles	(Resources)
Hypertextual/ Hypermedia Writing and Publishing	(Resources)
Applications to the Social Sciences
Applications to our own Coursework, Academic Self-Organization, Daily Life and Career Plans [Hands-On!]
Quo Vadis?

Seminar Books on Reserve in OUGL (Reserve Desk):

Document 1
Hafner, Katie and Matthew Lyon.
Where wizards stay up late : the origins of the Internet
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1996.
304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-286) and
		index.
Internet-Computer-network.
Undergraduate Reserve: TK5105.875.I57 H338 1996 / 4 HOUR RESERVE  

Document 2
Horn, Robert E.,
Mapping hypertext : the analysis, organization, and display
		of knowledge for the next generation of on-line text and
		graphics /
Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Institute, c1989.
289 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-280) and index.
LC Subject:   Hypertext-systems.
              Electronic-data-processing-documentation.
              Online-data-processing.
Engineering General Stacks
                QA76.76.H94 H675 1989
Undergraduate Reserve: QA76.76.H94 H675 1989 / 4 HOUR RESERVE

Document 3
Nielsen, Jakob, 1957-. Hypertext and hypermedia.
Boston : Academic Press, c1990.
xii, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
              	Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-247) and index.
Hypertext-systems.
Engineering General Stacks
                QA76.76.H94 N54 1990
              Natural Sciences General Stacks
                QA76.76.H94 N54 1990  
              Undergraduate Reserve
                QA76.76.H94 N54 1990 / 4 HOUR RESERVE 

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• Week 1: Introduction
  • Nature and scope of this seminar
  • Seminar members introducing themselves

• Week 2: Learning with the Internet: Building Learning Webs
  • Tasks for Week Two

• Week 3: Search Strategies and Search Engines
  Meta-Engines:
  • MetaCrawler
  • DogPile

• Week 4: Searching the UW Libraries and the Internet

• Week 5: Virtual Communities

• Week 6: Hypertextual Organization of Your College Writing?

• Week 7: History of the Internet (Part I) & work on home page!

• Week 8: History of the Internet (Part II) and Related Stories

• Week 9: Internet & Society [and Student Web Presentations]

• Week 10: Web Volunteering; UW Social Science Web Pages & Student Web Presentations

Other Resources:

• Information in Cyberspace: Diverse References [Univ. of Texas]
• Teaching Social Issues of Computing: Challenges, Ideas, and Resources by Tom Jewett and Rob Kling (1996)

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