Internet in Instruction Agenda 10/8/96
Individual activity- Check Email - review Eudora and ask questions.
A copy of this agenda is also in your email from the idisc mailing list.
Group activity - Look at page 24-27 of "The Internet Roadmap for Educators"
- Some Mailing Lists of Interest Discuss any lists that are of high quality.
Try subscribing to one that is of interest to you.
As an alternative list of lists check out http://edweb.gsn.org/resource.cntnts.html
Other sites to search for email lists are:
http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/lists.html
http://www.liszt.com
Demonstrations of other Internet Tools-
FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
- A protocol for moving files from one computer on the Internet to another computer on the Internet.
Windows based PC - use WS_FTP
MacIntosh - use Fetch
Try to FTP to kckps.k12.ks.us (use your user name and password to enter
the KCKPS server) Try to FTP to one of the addresses in the book "The
Internet Roadmap for Educators" pgs 8-23 for example: spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov
Manual FTP Commands
Binary (tell the host computer to get ready to move a binary
file)
Ascii (tell the host computer to get ready to move a text file)
Get (move file to remote computer from host computer) or (download)
Put (move file to host computer from remote computer) or (upload)
cd (change directory)
cd .. (back up one directory)
You can also use the Netscape browser to implement an FTP session.
Type in ftp:// before the ftp address.
Try ftp://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov using the Netscape browser.
Compression of Files
Often files will be compressed on a host computer to save space. They
must be uncompressed on the client computer once they are downloaded. Windows
and DOS files are often compressed using PKZIP. Files compressed with this
program are given a .zip extension. They should be uncompressed using PKUNZIP
or WINZIP. Macintosh files are often compressed using a compression program
named Stuffit. Files compressed in this way are generally given a .sit
extension. Mac files are also often encapsulated as a text file with a
protocol called BinHex. Files encapsulated with this protocol are generally
given a .hqx extension. Both .hqx and .sit files can be uncompressed with
the program Stuffit or Stuffit lite.
Try to find a .zip or .hqx or .sit file and download it and uncompress
it.
Telnet
- A protocol for remotely logging into and utilizing programs on a host computer on the Internet.
Windows based PC - use Ewan
Macintosh - use NCSA Telnet
Try to telnet to bigsky.bigsky.dillon.mt.us (login as bbs)
If you have an account to another Internet service provider try to telnet
to them using your account username and password. (Remember: you must usually
use logout or logoff or quit or exit to get out.)
Creating Web Pages in HTML
Basic Tags
< HTML > (Indicates an HTML document..... place at beginning.)
< HEAD > (Indicates header information such as the title below.)
< TITLE > type_Document_Title_here < /TITLE > (Places the title
in the title bar at top of the browser.)
< /HEAD > (Turn off header.)
< BODY > (Indicates the beginning of the body of the page.)
< /BODY > (Turn off the body.)
< /HTML > (End of the html document.)
Sites to visit recommended in "Netlearning"
A HTML Crash Course for Educators: http://edweb.gsn.org/htmlintro.html
HTML Premier: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
Other sites for learning HTML
http://www.w3-tech.com/crash/
Where to get web editors for your computer:
Stroud's Consummate Winsock Applications (Windows 32 bit): http://www.wlyn.com/stroud/32menu.html
Stroud's Consummate Winsock Applications (Windows 16 bit): http://www.wlyn.com/stroud/16menu.html
Vdot Net Tools: http://www.vdot.net/tools.html
Yahoo's World Wide Web Tools: http://www.yahoo.com/computers_and_internet/internet/world_wide_web/