TEC 3012: 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 is growing exponentially and is expected to reach $300 Billion in sales by the year 2002. A source of up-to-the-minute news: You can find late-breaking, in-depth news on the Web as networks like CNN and MSNBC expand their interactive news websites. 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. With the number of webpages reaching the 600 million mark (estimated - mid 1999), 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 a new one. 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 is growing exponentially and is expected to reach $300 Billion in sales by the year 2002. A source of up-to-the-minute news: You can find late-breaking, in-depth news on the Web as networks like CNN and MSNBC expand their interactive news websites. 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. With the number of webpages reaching the 600 million mark (estimated - mid 1999), 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 a new one. continue

Fresno Pacific University \| School of Professional Studies

Website maintained by Bob Jost \| bjost@josts.net \| last revised Jan. 1, 2002 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.