DNS in Plain English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72snZctFFtA

If you want to explain DNS to students, this might help.

Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus

http://vimeo.com/25118844

I always like to use short videos to help explain computer technology topics.

This video is an infographic dissecting the nature and ramifications of Stuxnet, the first weapon made entirely out of code.

Global Internet traffic

http://www.kurzweilai.net/global-internet-traffic-to-quadruple-by-2015

Sometimes it’s nice to have some data about the Internet to wow students when you are explaining the Internet to them. Here’ s some data like that.

How the Internet Works

http://manuals.makeuseof.com.s3.amazonaws.com/MakeUseOf.com_-_How_The_Internet_Works.pdf

Good high level, quick overview of what makes up the Internet.

Simple virus for teaching

http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/06/2150242&from=newsletter

A Slashdot discussion in response to

 

Currently I am teaching a 101 class on computers. It is more of a ‘demystifying the black box’ type of class. The current topic is computer viruses; I am looking for a virus with which I can infect the lab computers (only connected to local network, no outside network connection) that would be easy for the students to remove by hand. Can the Slashdot community point me in any directions? Is there an executable out there that would work, or do I try to write one myself, or is there one that is written that I can compile myself?”

NSF and the Birth of the Internet

http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/

Interesting video/Flash app that might be good to show to students. Talks about the history of the Internet, Web, E-mail,…

How the internet works

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/%7Egk/PTAM/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8552415.stm

Some simple slides showing the very basics of how the internet works.

Visualizing the Internet

We were looking for ways to show students visually how the Internet works.

1. http://www.caida.org/publications/animations/active_monitoring/traceroute.mpg

Nice video showing technical details of how the Internet works.

2. http://www.caida.org/tools/visualization/gtrace/

Free app to visualize traceroutes.

3. http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/routes.html

Info on tracing paths through the Internet

4. http://www.mapulator.com

This looks very cool but it doesn’t do the mapping part like it promises.

5 http://map.butterfat.net/emailroutemap/
For mapping e-mail routes. Isn’t very accurate!

6. http://kharkoma.homelinux.com/gmaps/gmaptc.html – same problem

Internet Safety for Kids

http://www.netsmartz.org/

Not really computer technology, but important to teach…

Cisco’s Packetville

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/edu/packetville/index.html

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