Tools and Tasks: Email |
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Open Netscape Mail to start. What is your email address?
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Log in to your email. |
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Read messages in Inbox. |
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Compose and send messages to others. |
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Reply to messages from others. |
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Introduce yourself to your teacher and the person next to you. |
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Send self-introduction to your teacher and the person next to you. |
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Delete messages, as needed. |
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Log out. |
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Read and talk about "netiquette." |
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Email can open up a world of opportunity. It can also get to be too much of a good thing. This will require some management from you. |
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Create folders; move messages and files in and out of folders. |
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Add addresses to the address book. |
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Added features: signatures and attachments |
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Create a signature file. |
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Send and receive attachments. |
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Connecting with people
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Responding to the teacher and fellow classmates. |
Keypals - start at Kenji Kitao's Keypals page |
Tools and Tasks for Mailing Lists |
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Use www.listtool.com to find a list of interest. For EFL, try TESL-L. |
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Subscribe to a mailing list. |
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Read the Welcome message. |
Don't let the list mail overrun your mailbox. |
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Set the Digest option to get one long message per day. |
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Many professional lists archive useful materials and information. |
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Get a file from a mailing list archive. Save it to disk. |
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E-lists can be a useful way to coordinate information flow for groups of people involved in courses, committee work, and conference planning. |
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Do I understand how to set up a future list with a service such as at www.e-groups.com? |
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Any questions or comments about mailing lists? |
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Tools and Tasks for the World Wide Web |
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We will use the Web browser software application Netscape for email, conferencing (group communication), information searches (browsing), and authoring hypertext documents. |
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Basic Netscape Menus: File-new window, Go. |
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Close vs. quit Netscape. |
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Basic Netscape functions: buttons and URL bar. |
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Bookmark Menu (Favorites) basics: add, go to. |
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Each engine has strengths and weaknesses, and each uses its own "syntax" in queries.
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Search basics:
Search results:
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Practice with searches. |
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Bookmark useful sites |
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Better bookmarking. |
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Edit bookmarks. Add folders, sort bookmarks, add annotations. |
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Save bookmarks to disk and open them from the disk. You can follow instructions at osu.orst.edu/dept/eli/feb1997.html |
Evaluate site authenticity and quality: http://osu.orst.edu/dept/eli/july1996.html |
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Rate the sites you've bookmarked. |
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Back up strategies (print, floppy, file transfer). |
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Save to a floppy disk. |
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Mail to yourself. |
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Print selectively. |
Privacy with browser-based mail. |
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Identity in the preferences; clearing the cache and history. |
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Citing Electronic Documents; see the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) |
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Add a citation to a bookmark. |
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Specialized search engines; finding people, graphics, sound, and video clips. |
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Find different types of media. |
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Evaluate content and size. |
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Save selectively to disk |
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Integrate a graphic into a handout or mini-project. |
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Conferencing online using Nicenet. Go to www.nicenet.net and look at the group communication from my advanced reading and writing class, ELI 162. |
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Join by typing 2487ZE53 as the class code. After the first time, you'll just type your username and password. |
Discuss online what you might do with this tool. |
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Join the Sabanci Workshop group by typing PZ2783S90 as the class code the first time. |
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Web page creation. The first project will be to turn your bookmarks into a web page that you can carry around on a disk. |
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Word or Netscape Composer basics. |
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Use a template from Tech-Niques to create a second HTML document. |
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Netscapes view source function. |
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Design basics: think of your audience! |
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Layout basics. |
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Effective use of images. |
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Header and footer requirements. |
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Assess your work. |
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Informal peer review of projects. |
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Assess at least two web pages. What elements would you incorporate into your own page(s)? |
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Any questions or comments about this? |
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