Agenda

• Jeff's survey
  
• Organizational
  • books
    
  • pizza
    
  • Icebox accounts
    
  • Dialup names and passwords
    
  • Dialup numbers: 217-244-8081 and the 800 number

The 800 number

• Only use it if you have to
  
• use 217-244-8081 if it is local to you or if you run out of time and still need to get on
  
• Security: your dialup name & password
  
• Limits: 1 hour/week; 30 minutes/session; 15 minute inactivity
  
• Unused time will carry forward

The Internet

• network of networks
• distributed services: terminal server in one place, mail in another, web resources all over the place

World-wide Web

• Netscape
  
• Other browsers: Mosaic et al.
  
• client
  
• Newsgroups
  
• Gopher
  
• FTP
  
• etc.

Newsgroups

• like cork board bulletin boards
• thousand and thousands
• view and post to using Mosaic

Listservs

• like the SATEX list
  
• subscribe and unsubscribe
  
• Drinking from a firehose

Requirements for the course

• Short bio
  
• Project exploration
  
• Paper 1
  
• Network project 1
  
• Project proposal
  
• Exploration summary
  
• Network project 2
  
• Progress report
  
• Final report & net log

Projects

• Stages of network-based educational projects
  • Proposal
    
  • Refinement
    
  • Organization
    
  • Pursuit
    
  • Wrap-up
    
  • Publication
• Different mediator roles in each stage