Infopeople - Archive June 1994 to June 1995: ANNOUNCEMENT--Make the Link Workshop (fwd)

ANNOUNCEMENT--Make the Link Workshop (fwd)

Gerald Maginnity (gmaginn@cello.gina.calstate.edu)
Mon, 8 May 1995 07:38:21 -0700

>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Sun, 7 May 95 01:12:01 -0700
>From: owner-announce@gigantor.arlington.com
>To: announce-outgoing@gigantor.arlington.com
>Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT--Make the Link Workshop
>
>MAKE THE LINK WORKSHOP (WORLD WIDE WEB FOR EVERYONE)
>
>Make the Link Workshop (World Wide Web for Everyone) is a six week
>distance-learning workshop conducted entirely by e-mail. It
>introduces the beginner to the World Wide Web (WWW), the Internet's
>distributed hypermedia information system, as well as enhances the
>skills of the somewhat more experienced user.
>
>WWW is a powerful hyper-textual medium for integrating all of the
>resources of the Internet. You can read through a page of text, and
>on the spur of the moment, link to related information anywhere in
>the world. For example, after reading a short piece on twentieth
>century abstract art, one can link to and view a collection of color
>prints of paintings by Picasso, Klee, and Mondrian. A high school
>biology student in Japan can dissect a frog the easy way by linking
>to a California lab and accessing its collection of magnetic
>resonance images of a frog--in effect, a virtual frog dissection. A
>business woman in Paris, France can check out the "home page" of her
>counterpart in Toronto, Canada, complete with his picture and
>professional vita. There are thousands of computers throughout the
>world on the Web and literally millions of interconnected WWW pages,
>and all are easily accessible from your desktop computer.
>
>Since the 1993 introduction of Mosaic, a wildly successful WWW browser
>program, WWW, or simply "the Web," has taken the Internet by storm,
>and has become, along with gopher and FTP, one of the most popular
>Internet applications, if not THE most popular.
>
>WWW's amazing growth has resulted largely from its ease of use and
>power to almost instantaneously transport a rich array of text,
>graphics, sound, programs, etc. to the computer desktop with the
>click of a mouse button. However, WWW can also be successfully used
>in a text-only mode, or even by those who have access to the Internet
>only by e-mail.
>
>Having a WWW home page providing one's personal information has
>become the 1990's version of the business card, resume, telephone
>answering machine, and on occasion, electronic recreation area, all
>rolled into one. In fact, WWW provides the opportunity to participate
>and collaborate with others at many levels.
>
>The Make the Link Workshop will focus on how to gain maximum
>advantage from this simple to use, yet very sophisticated, Internet
>tool. During the workshop, you will learn:
>
>* How to gain access to the WWW, including information on setting up
> a direct TCP/IP connection to the Internet (SLIP/CSLIP/PPP).
>
>* How to link to specific Web resources using Uniform Resource
> Locators (URLs). This includes how to construct URLs for various
> kinds of resources, such as WWW, gopher, FTP, telnet, etc.
>
>* To distinguish between various kinds of WWW browsers, including
> Netscape Navigator, NCSA Mosaic, Arena, Agora, Lynx, etc. and the
> strengths and weaknesses of each.
>
>* How to navigate Webspace and use various searching tools such as
> Wandex, CMU Lycos, WebCrawler, MOMspider, and others.
>
>* To make WWW bookmarks and organize your bookmarks with Hypertext
> Markup Language (HTML).
>
>* How to effectively and efficiently design your own home page with
> HTML and install it on a server.
>
>* The principles of good home page design, in order to project a
> favorable image for you and/or your employer or business.
>
>* Advantages and disadvantages of HTML editors such as HoTMetaL and
> HTML Assistant and related utilities.
>
>* How to build interest in your home page through USENET Newsgroups,
> mailing lists, IRC, BBSs and MUDs.
>
>Make the Link Workshop (World Wide Web for Everyone) begins on June
>19 and lasts six weeks until July 30, 1995.
>
>The cost of the workshop is $20 US.
>
>To sign up for the Make the Link Workshop, please send an e-mail
>message to the address:
>
> majordomo@arlington.com
>
>and in the body of the message, include:
>
> subscribe links
>
>This will automatically put you on the mailing list for more
>information about the workshop, and you will receive an
>acknowledgment with the particulars about signing up.
>
>In order to get the most from this workshop it is helpful to have
>access to a WWW browser program, either by remote access, or by
>actually running one on your own computer directly connected to the
>Internet. If you wish to run Netscape or Mosaic you will need to have
>a computer with a TCP/IP connection, that is, a direct connection to
>the Internet. Information will be provided in the workshop on setting
>up a TCP/IP connection. To participate in the workshop you only need
>access to e-mail. However, it is very desirable to actually use a WWW
>browser.
>
>The workshop leader, Thomas P. Copley, Ph.D., has taught the popular
>Go-pher-it Workshop, an e-mail course on the Internet gopher for more
>than one year. Make the Link Workshop (World Wide Web for Everyone)
>is his newest venture in the field of on-line education. Dr. Copley
>is one of the founders of the Electronic University in San Francisco,
>and is an experienced instructor of distance learning courses via
>networks. In addition to consulting for Apple Computer, Inc. on
>hyper-textual distance-learning software, Copley has served on the
>faculties of Washington State University, Antioch College, and
>Armstrong University. He is also the Editor of the electronic
>newsletter the TELELEARNING NETWORK SYNTHESIZER.
>
>
>
>
Gerald Maginnity, Coordinator
Mountain-Valley Library System Voice: 916-264-2722
828 I St., Suite 524 FAX: 916-441-3425
Sacramento, CA 95814-2508 Internet: GMAGINN@CELLO.GINA.CALSTATE.EDU
"I feel good today...... hibernicisms are in the Eire."