This document outlines the Internet and Web Technology curriculum at Limerick School of Art & Design. It introduces the instructor, Bernie Goldbach, and explains that the course will teach essential skills for business students such as analyzing and specifying website functionality. Students will learn about infrastructure components, authoring content with tools like WordPress, maintaining sites, and basic security practices. The document emphasizes connecting with online communities and sharing work to build an effective online presence.

1. INTERNET AND WEB TECHNOLOGY
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2. I’M BERNIE GOLDBACH.
TEACHING CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA
AT LIMERICK SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN
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3. I LIKE ENABLING TECH.
YOU WILL LEARN TO ENABLE.
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4. This #LITiwt presentation outlines where “Internet and Web Technlogy” fits in
the curriculum and where it suits the professional interests of a business student.
We assume:
-- Business students need to articulate website specs.
-- Responsive websites are essential touchpoints in our mobile world.
-- Accessibility remains a key design factor.
-- Effective business practise happens with online security and privacy considered
in fundamental planning factors.
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5. THE
ESSENTIAL
SKILLS
-- Analyse sites.
-- Specify site behaviour in
textual format.
-- Update static sites.
-- Embed dynamic content.
-- Recognise industry services.
-- Vet independent web
developers.
-- Discover online professional
web dev communities.
-- Learn how to increase your
productivity as a member of a
webdev team.
You are on a pathway of
professional
development.
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6. INFRASTRUCTURE
-- Hosts.
-- Clients.
-- Servers.
-- Protocols.
-- Gateways.
-- Proxies.
-- Browsers.
Infrastructure can limit
and it can enable.
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7. BUILDING AN
AWARENESS
You need to deconstruct
what you see displayed by
using simple tools
(notebooks and small
screens).
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8. BUILD AN
AWARENESS OF
OPEN SOURCE
There are Open Source
advocates on campus and
in Limerick business
meetings.
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9. HASHTAGGED
TWEETS
#LOCC
First Thursday of every
month in the Absolute
Hotel, Limerick, Ireland,
attracts #webtech
practitioners.
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10. HASHTAGGED
TWEETS
#LIMERICK
Hashtags represent a
clever implementation of
web technology.
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11. YOU WILL
LEARN BASIC
SECURITY
TENETS
Good hosts offer security
checkpoints at many key
junctions of web
technology.
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12. WED STATS
You will learn to read top-level items in web stats.
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13. WEB
AUTHORING
-- As simple as writing, if you
have the service.
-- You will get hands-on with
Typepad and WordPress.
-- Think about imagery and
media elements.
-- Try to connect real
experiences to shared web
stories in your project work.
-- Join the conversation.
An effective web
presence is part of a flow
of conversation.
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14. WEB TOOLS.
You will learn to embed
content.
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15. WEBSITE
MAINTENANCE
-- Process should be quick.
-- Develop and cultivate
themes.
-- Safeguard your best work in
an ePortfolio.
-- Text records are essential.
You can’t escape having
a web presence.
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16. FLICKR
ACTIVITY
STREAMS
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You will capture and
share your works in
progress.

17. YOU ALSO NEED TO BE ON GOOGLE PLUS.
[PRIVACY]
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18. TIP: KEEP A TICK-OFF LIST..
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19. HELPFUL
OASES
-- LinkedIn Group “Marketing
Over Coffee”.
-- Moodle.
-- The private LITwebtech
Community on Google Plus.
-- Listen to @boagworld.
-- Neville Hobson and Shel
Holtz on For Immediate
Release.
It’s easy to find
inspiration.
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20. CIRCLE ME.
OR FOLLOW ME @TOPGOLD.
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21. PRIMARY CONTACT
@topgold
bgoldbach@gmail.com
Direct Audioboo message
SMS from Twitter page
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22. LET’S CONNECT AND SHARE.
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