1. The Internet and the World Wide Web (ch. 7)
Internet-based communications
other Internet services
the World Wide Web

2. Internet-Based Communications
Internet (p. 251)
Internet offers communication tools that can be
asynchronous (p. 253)
synchronous (p. 253)

3. Internet-Based Communications
asynchronous
(p. 253)
network-based vs. Internet-based (p. 256)
using in teaching and learning (p. 256, Table 7.2)
address vs. uniform resource locator (URL) (p. 258)
discussion (p. 258)
mailing list (p. 259)

4. Internet-Based Communications
synchronous
chat (p. 260)
instant messaging (p. 260)
videoconferencing (p. 261)

5. Discussion
“What Do You Think?” #2 (p. 274)

6. Other Internet Services
file transfer protocol (FTP) (p. 262)
decompression program (p. 263)
file types available at FTP sites (p. 264, Table 7.4)
newsgroups (p. 264)
World Wide Web (p. 264)

7. World Wide Web hyperlinks (p. 265)
links and navigation buttons (p. 265)
Web site (p. 265)
Web page (p. 265)
home page (p. 265)

8. World Wide Web hypertext markup language (HTML) (p. 266)
Web browser (p. 266)
features of a Web browser (p. 266, Figure 7.6)
uniform resource locator (URL) (p. 267)
anatomy of a URL (p. 267, Figure 7.7)
evaluating Web sites (p. 269, Table 7.5)

9. World Wide Web multimedia on the Web plug-in (p. 268) graphics
graphic interchange format (GIF) (p. 268)
Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) (p. 270)
audio files vs. streaming audio (p. 270)
streaming video (p. 270)
virtual reality (VR) world (p. 271)

10. World Wide Web
search engine (p. 272)
portal (p. 272)

11. Discussion
“What Do You Think?” (p. 274) #2 #1