Session 1
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Welcome; Introduce ourselves and research interests--preference for mac or
PC? Scope/goals of pre-conference sessions--equipping YOU to answer questions
using the technology (both related to your own research and technical problems).
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Overview of the Internet/web (use a diagram) what is the internet, how am
I (ie, Princeton) connected to it? What are the basic ways one communicates
over internet? (ftp, telnet) Personal computing environment vs. campus network
vs. web.
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Overview of personal computing environment - wordprocessing, e-mail
(client vs text based), file management, Mac vs. PC, what to buy? what to
upgrade? Bibliography managers and other data management tools (text and
numbers).
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Introduce facets of the internet which could be used to solve research problems
and which could be useful in teaching (email, web sites focused on a particular
area, search engines, listservs and newsgroups (also searching discussion
archives) ; telnetting to catalogs of other libraries (course syllabi, listservs
for class discussions). Setting up your browser (Preferences) DEMO 1.
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Using the web to answer technical and conceptual problems you might
have--learning how to develop an "inuition" for searching, so that you can
solve any problem by yourself. Contending with computer/web lingo;
constantly changing technology.
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Platforms--MAC; Intel-based; UNIX--Web is platform independant. What does
this mean? How is it accomplished? (Markup!) DEMO2 (view source).
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File structure--how to find a file (finder or ms explorer) desktop
inventory--Info Access tools
Simple home page creation with AOL Press
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Start right in. Act like it's a word processor (your name, field of study,
dissertation topic)
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View Source (Tools-->show HTML). Explain tags and the fact that it is
helpful to know some amount of coding, or at least where to go to find out
about it. [link to HTML asst]
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Go through the major pull-down menu, choices/buttons--mention tables and
how they can be used for formatting. Explain that while AOLPress looks like
it should behave like a word processor, there are some rough spots ("bugs")
that make it slightly inflexible.(another reason why knowing some HTML is
helpful.)
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Assignment: bring your CV or syllabus, and decide which parts you'd want
to hypertext. bring it in word processing format.