TEC 912: Background Information #2



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	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	What the Web does… Since exploding into the national consciousness in the mid-90’s, the media focus has been on what the Web can do. Descriptions of the Web in the media have ranged from the solution for all that is wrong with education to the symptom of all that is wrong with society. The Web is described in many different ways: The world’s largest shopping mall: Web commerce continues to grow exponentially with no end in sight. A source of up-to-the-minute news: You can find late-breaking, in-depth news from around the world on the Web. A source of computer software: You can download thousands of freeware, shareware, trial software applications as well as purchase full versions of many software packages on the web. A communications medium: Web chat, newsgroups, web discussion boards, interactive video and audio are all consuming vast quantities of internet bandwidth these days. The Information Superhighway: It is this aspect of the Web that has generated the most interest among educators. The Web does offer phenomenal resources to users. In the August of 2005, Wired Magazine estimated that "The total number of web pages, including those that are dynamically created upon request and document files available through links, exceeds 600 billion." (Wired 13.08: We Are the Web) Information on nearly every topic imaginable does exist somewhere on the Web. While all the other aspects of the Web are of value to busy professionals, it is the access to distributed information that makes the Web so useful. Interestingly, the notion of easy world-wide access to documents stored on distant machines was not an entirely new idea when the Web came along. continue

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	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	What the Web does… Since exploding into the national consciousness in the mid-90’s, the media focus has been on what the Web can do. Descriptions of the Web in the media have ranged from the solution for all that is wrong with education to the symptom of all that is wrong with society. The Web is described in many different ways: The world’s largest shopping mall: Web commerce continues to grow exponentially with no end in sight. A source of up-to-the-minute news: You can find late-breaking, in-depth news from around the world on the Web. A source of computer software: You can download thousands of freeware, shareware, trial software applications as well as purchase full versions of many software packages on the web. A communications medium: Web chat, newsgroups, web discussion boards, interactive video and audio are all consuming vast quantities of internet bandwidth these days. The Information Superhighway: It is this aspect of the Web that has generated the most interest among educators. The Web does offer phenomenal resources to users. In the August of 2005, Wired Magazine estimated that "The total number of web pages, including those that are dynamically created upon request and document files available through links, exceeds 600 billion." (Wired 13.08: We Are the Web) Information on nearly every topic imaginable does exist somewhere on the Web. While all the other aspects of the Web are of value to busy professionals, it is the access to distributed information that makes the Web so useful. Interestingly, the notion of easy world-wide access to documents stored on distant machines was not an entirely new idea when the Web came along. continue

Fresno Pacific University \| School of Professional Studies

Website maintained by Bob Jost \| bjost@josts.net \| last revised August 3, 2005 Copyright © 1998-2002 by Bob Jost & Geoffrey Jost. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be transmitted, stored or recorded in any form without written permission from the authors.