Careful planning of all aspects is necessary to accomplish your objectives. A caution to remember is that less is often more when teaching skills in a short time frame. You need to plan the hardware and software necessary and determine the teaching methods to use such as presentation, hands-on work, small group work, etc. It is useful to have some idea of your learners experience and expectations. Remember that students, including adults, learn best through active and cooperative learning.
Research data shows students learn and understand more if they do active, cooperative work.
When planning also plan ways for learning to be extended through handouts, exercises, and other integrated assignments. Cooperative work is harder to do with distance learners, but it is possible in part due to current technology. An example of an objective might be to have the learner understand and input Boolean statements correctly into Hot Bot and Alta Vista. It is then easy to determine in a hands-on situation whether you accomplished your objective. Hansen also dealt with teaching information literacy skills on the Net.