DECENT TEMPUS Project

Proposal of the course

Title of the Course:

IT2: Internet Skills Tuition

Working Group:

WG3: Information Technology

Persons responsible for development of the course:

• Julius Csonto
• Jan Sandrej

Members of the working team:

• Peter Kupcik
• Marek Hatala
• Marian Mach
• Peter Sincak

Background information:

Rapid development of computer network technology and development of Internet provides people great possibilities of access to information sources. There is a growing demand to improve information technology skills and particularly "Internet skills" to enable using of this possibilities. There are great amount of information concerning environmental problems in the Internet sources.

Objectives of the course:

To increase skills of the course participants to use Internet services for different spheres of activity, but mainly oriented to environmental activities.

Target audience:

People from environmental agencies, independent environmental foundations, environmental authorities, interested in the use of communication possibilities and information sources on the Internet.

Required qualifications of the course participants:

• beginners: basics for working with PC, basics of OS UNIX
• advanced: absolvents of course for beginners

Duration of the course:

1 to 2 days

Structure of the course:

Intensive tuition including both theoretical and practical parts:

• 1/2 to 1 day of theoretical presentation
• 1 to 1 and 1/2 days of practical exercises online on INTERNET.

Teaching aids for the course to be developed:

• booklets with short description of Internet services
• index of "shortcuts"

Syllabus of the course:

• History of Internet
  • Internet in the U.S.A.
  • Internet worldwide
  • Internet in Slovakia
• Connection to and usage of remote hosts (Telnet)
• Electronic mail
  • Mail exchange
  • Mailing lists (Listserver)
• Electronic news (Usenet)
• File transfer services
  • File transfer - technology
  • Anonymous FTP servers
• Communication services
  • Off-line and on-line communication
  • Bilateral and multilateral communication
  • Trends (videoconferencing)
• Database oriented services
  • Using worldwide database of documents (WAIS)
  • Searching Internet (X.500, NetFind etc.)

  Information services

  • Character oriented information services (Gopher)
  • Hypertext and hypermedia information services (WWW)

Connections to other courses developed within the DECENT project:

1. WG1 Environmental Law
2. WG2 Environmental Management
3. WG4 Telecommunication Technologies
4. WG5 Cleaner Technologies