This overview session introduces students to this environment, with a focus on the public computer labs and the on-line resources of the library. This session gives students an introduction to the Internet, HyperText, and the World Wide Web using the Netscape browser. Topics such as preferences, bookmarks, browsers, and search engines are also covered. The Web is exploding with freely accessible useful information. But finding what you want among the few hundred million web pages out there can often be a chore.
Search engines ease the chore but they can be difficult to use efficiently.
In this session, you will learn quick and effective ways of using search engines and other tools to find useful sites while avoiding having to sift through long lists of irrelevant sites. All students have accounts on Wesleyan's Netware fileservers. This hands-on course teaches students how to login to these servers from their dorms and from the public computer labs, what resources are available on these servers, and how to use them to store and share information. The CTW Online Catalog is easy to use for simple searches. But it has many advanced features which are not obvious and which are useful for more thorough research.