STS:
Internet and Society Lesson Plan for September 3, 1999.
Section One - Topics to be
Covered in Class. Links are for your information.
Our class happens to begin
on the friday afternoon before Labor Day weekend. I encourage you
to attend anyway - maybe it'll rain! In any event, attendance will
be taken and missing today will count against the two classes you are allowed
to miss during the term. As always,
if you miss class, you
can find the week's assignments on this page.
These are the topics we will
cover. If you miss class, you can fill yourself in on the material
by going to the sites listed.
We can use the rest of the class
to go over instructions for how
to post a Home Page on clam. If the group
needing this assistance is not too large, we may be able to go over to
the computer lab (Room 109 is the BSB) and get some personalized help with
this. If you don't learn this today, however, we will go over it
again next week and the week after.
Section
Two - ASSIGNMENTS FOR NEXT WEEK
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Learn How to Use a WEB Browser
such as Netscape Navigator 4.05 (on the Communications folder on Rutgers
Computer Lab Computers.)
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Sign up for the class mlist, the
Yahoo club, and the New York Times as described on the syllabus.
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Experiment with the Use of Search
Engines to do some "environmental scanning" on the use of and likely future
impact of the Internet in your area(s) of interest. For a list of
Search Engines, try the New York Times CyberTimes
Navigator.
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Read Methods
and Approaches of Future Studies. You'll want to print a copy
of this, as we will be using it as the framework for our class projects
this term.
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Read excerpts from the book The
Great Disruption by Francis Fukuyama (whose picture is at left) as
published in The
Atlantic
Monthly, May 1999. These excerpts are in three files, use the links
in the files or on this page to go from part
one to
part
two to part
three. Be prepared to discuss this essay with your support group
next week.