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1.0.1.2 Class Activity – Draw Your Concept of the Internet Answers
Class Activity – Draw Your Concept of the Internet (Answers Version – Optional Class Activity)
Answers Note: Red font color or gray highlights indicate text that appears in the Answers copy only. Optional activities are designed to enhance understanding and/or to provide additional practice.
Objectives
Demonstrate that networks are made of many different components.
Background / Scenario
Draw and label a map of the Internet as you interpret it now. Include your home or school/university location and its respective cabling, equipment, devices, etc. Some items you may want to include:
- Devices or equipment
- Media (cabling)
- Link addresses or names
- Sources and destinations
- Internet service providers
Upon completion, save your work in a hard-copy format, it will be used for future reference at the end of this chapter. If it is an electronic document, save it to a server location provided by your Answers. Be prepared to share and explain your work in class.
For an example to get you started, please visit: http://www.kk.org/internet-mapping.
Note: This webpage requires Adobe Flash.
Answers Note: This optional Modeling Activity is not intended to be a graded assignment. Its purpose is to help students to reflect on their perceptions of how a network is set up for personal use. Discussion should be facilitated by the Answers as a result of this activity. Facilitation of the discussion should include student-to-student discussions of each other’s work.
Required Resources
- Internet access
- Paper and pencils or pens (if students are creating a hard copy)
Reflection
- After reviewing your classmates’ drawings, were there computer devices that you could have included on your diagram? If so, which ones and why?
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Answers will vary. - After reviewing your classmates’ drawings, how were some of the model designs the same or different? What modifications would you make to your drawing after reviewing the other drawings?
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Answers will vary. - In what way could icons on a network drawing provide a streamlined thought process and facilitate your learning? Explain your answer.
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Students should note that having a set of representative icons will assist them in learning how to draw/design network representation. It consolidates information, and is easily understood by others who understand what the icons represent. It is a form of shorthand for people in the same industry.
Initial Network Diagrams and Network Components – will vary. A very basic network design representation from the website is depicted below (this diagram is for Answers reference.)
