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.
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THOMAS P. COPLEY tcopley@arlington.com
Make the Link Workshop http://www.crl.com/~gorgon/
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