1. Internet Literacy for Educators Project 1: Research Project Kelley Dixon Fall 2007

2. Part 1 History of the Internet

3. What is the Internet a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide. The Internet includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same set of communications protocols. a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide. The Internet includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same set of communications protocols.

4. Did Al Gore Create the Internet? Although Al Gore did provide early support, most historical accounts say the Internet was created in 1969, when the first network of widely separated computers was set up by the Defense Department to aid in computer research. It was called the ARPANET, and it was created by scientists at Bolt Beranek & Newman, or BB&N, in Cambridge, Mass., and at Stanford University, based on concepts described earlier by Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists J.C.R. Licklider and Leonard Kleinrock (and a few others). Bolt Beranek & Newman Al Gore

5. Internet Usage INTERNET USAGE STATISTICS - The Big Picture World Internet Users and Population Stats

6. Growth Chart

7. Part 1: Sources Slide 3 internet. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved October 01, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/internet http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/internet Slide 4 http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/nett20.shtml http://www.bbn.com/About_BBN/Timeline http://america-daily.com/?cat=11 Slide 5 and 6 http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

8. Part 2 Google Docs

9. What are Google Docs? Create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online

10. What are Google Docs? Share and Collaborate in Real time

11. What are Google Docs? Control Who Can See Your Work

12. What are Google Docs? Safely Share and Organize Your Work

13. What are Google Docs? https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=writely&passive=true&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.goo gle.com%2F%3Fhl%3Den&followup=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2F%3Fhl%3Den&ltmpl=homepage&nui=1

14. Part 2: Sources Slides 9-13 http://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/tour1.html

15. Part 3 Internet Privacy

16. How Safe are We? From companies losing laptops Free Internet Service containing sensitive data to Time Warner AOL releasing customers search terms -- have again turned the spotlight on Internet privacy. Internet privacy is at risk due to the presence of different elements. The presence of spyware is one factor of risk for Internet privacy security.

17. Keep Out! These days Spyware, Adware and other malicious software programs are everywhere, and it seems almost impossible to stop them. You can be infected just by visiting a website, or by installing a popular software title. Once you are infected with even one of these malicious programs they can download and install even more! In fact, the people that produce Spyware and Adware pay good money to software developers to distribute their malicious programs. The more Spyware they can get installed on your computer, the more money they make!

18. Who’s Watching Not only are people producing malicious software programs to track our computer use and install unwanted software, the internet has also allowed access to a wide variety of personal information

19. Let Your Fingers Do the Walking Check out all the things you can find on www.whitepages.comwww.whitepages.com

20. Give a Stranger Your Phone Number?? Type your phone number into Google and see what happens…scarey!

21. Who’s that Knocking at the Door?? Once someone has your address, they can easily use mapquest for step by step driving directions

22. This is only the Tip of the Iceberg Many government documents are now available online

23. Part 3: Sources Slide 18 http://ro.altermedia.info/?m=20041019http://ro.altermedia.info/?m=20041019 Slide 16 http://www.find-internet.net/http://www.find-internet.net/ Slide 17 http://www.pcprivacyalarm.com/Software_Detail s.htm http://www.pcprivacyalarm.com/Software_Detail s.htm