Online, Fall 2005
"Information is the new world currency and wealth will be measured by how much information a company, individual, or country can create, distribute, accumulate, and mine."
Mark Dean, Ph.D., UT '79, IBM Fellow, Inventors Hall of Famer
Instructor
Teresa Welsh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
School of Library & Information Science
Cook Library, Room 206H
118 College Dr. # 5146
The University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001
Office Hours: Mon-Thurs, 1-4 pm or by appointment
Phone: 601.266.4228
Fax: 601.266.5774
Teresa.Welsh@usm.edu
http://ocean.otr.usm.edu/~w146169/Description
This three hour course introduces the practical and theoretical issues related to information collection, storage, access and retrieval in a technologically-oriented society using the Internet as the underpinning for both discussion and practical exploration.
- Course content will be presented primarily in online lecture notes and coordinated readings, which will be supplemented by discussions and interactive tutorials in the virtual classroom and discussion board postings in Blackboard.
- Virtual Classroom sessions: students will select one night and time and attend each week a session is scheduled: Friday 7:00-8:30pm, Saturday 10:30-12:00noon, Central
Drop Date
The last day that this course may be dropped with refund is September 8th.
The last day to drop full-term classes without academic penalty is October 14th.
Required Texts may be ordered from USM Bookstore or barnesandnoble.com
Internet Effectively
Adams & Scollard, 2005Web Wisdom
Alexander & Tate, 1999HTML for the Web, 5th Edition
Elizabeth Castro, 2002
Course Goals (see detailed syllabus in Blackboard for specific course objectives)
After completion of the course students should be able to:
- Be familiar with the history, development and governance of the Internet
- Use the Internet to communicate with others
- Use the Internet to locate and access information
- Evaluate information located on the Internet
- Create and maintain web pages
- Discuss ethical and social issues related to using the Internet
- Be able to demonstrate how the Internet can be effectively used in a library environment.
Weekly Schedule
Subject to Revision
- Week 1: History of the Internet
- Adams, Chap. 1-2
- Week 2: Impact of the Internet
- Adams, Chap. 13, 14, 15
- Week 3: E-mail; Listservs
- Adams, Chap. 4, 5
- Week 4: World Wide Web
- Alexander, Chaps. 1, 2, 3
- Week 5: Evaluation of Web Pages
- Alexander, Chaps. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Research Paper Topic Due
- Week 6: Web Design
- Alexander, Chap. 11
- Week 7: Searching Techniques
- Adams, Chaps, 3, 10-12
- Week 8: Computer Mediated Communication
- Midterm Exam
- Week 9: Web Design
- Adams, Chap. 6
- Week 10: HTML, XML
- Castro, Chaps. 3,4
- Week 11: Webpage Accessibility
- Adams, Chaps. 7, 8, 9
- Week 12: Legal Issues
- Adams, Chaps. 14, 15
Web Research Paper Due
- Week 13: More Web Design
- Castro 13-15
- Week 14: Internet in the Library, Future Applications
- Adams, Chap. 13
Web Pages Due
- Week 15:
- Presentation, Evaluation of Web Pages
- Week 16:
- Final Exam
Course Requirements
- Class participation and lab exercises (20%)
- Midterm Exam (20%)
- Production of original web pages. Additional information will be given by the instructor (20%)
- Research paper on an approved topic related to the Internet (20%)
- Final Exam (20%)
Grading
- A = 95-100
- A- = 93-94
- B+ = 91-92
- B = 86-90
- B- = 84-85
- C+ = 82-83
- C = 75-81
- C- = 73-74
- D+ = 71-72
- D = 66-70
- D- = 64-65
- F = 0-63
Course Policies
Students are responsible for reading syllabus content and becoming familiar with course policies and proceduresStudents will not be granted an Incomplete for this course for failing to complete assignments. A student who receives an Incomplete will have only ONE semester in which to complete the work, and will not be eligible to receive an A.
If a student stops attending class and does not complete the appropriate withdrawal papers or procedures with the registrar, that student will be assigned an F. If this is the only class a student is taking then the student must call the USM graduate school to properly withdraw.
If a student commits plagiarism, that student will receive an F in the course.
A student may not self-plagiarize or submit work done in another course unless receiving prior permission from the instructor. Any assignment that is self plagiarized without prior permission from the instructor will receive zero points.
Virtual classroom attendance and participation is expected. Participation is a large part of the grade and consists of the virtual classroom participation and discussion board postings.
Students are required to subscribe to lisnews, the LIS listserv. Subscribe to lisnews by sending an email to: Majordomo@usm.edu with nothing in the subject box and the following command in the body of the email message: subscribe lisnews
All assignments should be saved in .doc or .rtf format and posted to the Digital Drop Box. Work not turned in on time will be assessed a penalty of 10% per week without prior approval from the instructor.
Failure to follow specific instructions for content and formatting of assignments will result in lower grades.
Writing skills: All work must be in standard English; inappropriate grammar, punctuation, and/or spelling will result in lower grades.
Academic Code of Conduct
Students are expected to follow the Academic Code of Conduct, which includes mutual respect and academic honesty.
"When cheating is discovered, the faculty member may give the student an F on the work involved or in the course. If further disciplinary action is deemed appropriate, the student should be reported to the dean of students. In addition to being a violation of academic honesty, cheating violates the Code of Student Conduct and may be grounds for probation, suspension, and/or expulsion. Students on disciplinary suspension may not enroll in any courses offered by The University of Southern Mississippi." USM Graduate Bulletin, p. 30.
"Plagiarism is scholarly theft, and it is defined as the unacknowledged use of secondary sources. More specifically, any written or oral presentation in which the writer or speaker does not distinguish clearly between original and borrowed material constitutes plagiarism. Because students, as scholars, must make frequent use of the concepts and facts developed by other scholars, plagiarism is not the mere use of another's facts and ideas. However, it is plagiarism when students present the work of other scholars as if it were their own work. Plagiarism is committed in a number of ways:
Plagiarism is a serious offense. An act of plagiarism may lead to a failing grade on the paper and in the course, as well as sanctions that may be imposed by the student judicial system." USM Graduate Bulletin, p. 30; USM Student Handbook, p. 73.
- Reproducing another author's writing as if it were one's own.
- Paraphrasing another author's work without citing the original.
- Borrowing from another author's ideas, even though those ideas are reworded, without giving credit.
- Copying another author's organization without giving credit.
Disability Statement
If a student has a disability that qualifies under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and requires accommodations, he/she should contact the Office for Disability Accommodations (ODA) for information on appropriate policies and procedures. Disabilities covered by ADA may include learning, psychiatric, physical disabilities, or chronic health disorders. Students can contact ODA if they are not certain whether a medical condition/disability qualifies.
Address: The University of Southern Mississippi, Office for Disability Accommodations, 118 College Drive, # 8586, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001
Voice Telephone: (601) 266-5024, or (228) 214-3232; Fax: (601) 266-6035
Individuals with hearing impairments can contact ODA using the Mississippi Relay Service at 1-800-582-2233 (TTY) or email Suzanne.Hebert@usm.edu.
Note: This is an abbreviated version of the course syllabus. The complete syllabus is posted on the Blackboard LIS558 course site.Webpage Design
Teresa S. Welsh
e-mail: teresa.welsh@usm.edu
Updated 9/12/2005