Introduction to Navigator
General Links
Quiz on Basics
Quiz on Buttons
Quiz on Menus
Teaching Guide
Netscape Navigator Basics
General Links
Contents
Overviews of The Whole ThingThe History of the Internet and WWW
Internet Glossaries
How good is a web site?
Assessment
Starting your own web pages
Composer Help
That FTP / File Transfer thing
The HTML language itself
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Overviews of The Whole Thing
(This differs from the Others' General Guides to Navigator section of the main document which has links to sites about using Netscape Navigator. These links cover the whole of that Internet / WWW thing.)Walt Howe's
Internet Learning Center
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/walthowe/ilrntree.html
A nice beginning place: questions with links to sites that explain the
answers. From here you can begin to know what you might want to know!
Life on the Internet:
World Wide Web (WWW)
http://www.screen.com/start/guide/www.html
Yet another wonderful, annotated guide to a set of links that will tell
you all you need to know. This one covers these topics: The Latest [Web
Browser] Software, World Wide Web Guides, How to Search the Net, Subject
Directories, Search Engines, Meta-Search Engines, What's New.
Unit 1 - Introduction
To The Internet
http://www.depaul.edu/~dlash/frequent/Unit1.html
A set of links to what the internet is and surfing the web and using Netscape
Navigator to surf.
Why Interest
In The Internet
http://www.depaul.edu/~dlash/frequent/Intro.htm
An interesting site. The author uses the US Interstate system as an analogy
in explaining the Internet. Topics: What Is The Internet?, What Services
Are Available On The Internet?, What Are Internet Service Providers
(ISPs), What Makes Characteristics Of The Internet Make It Interesting?,
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The History of the Internet and WWW
Internet Society (ISOC)
All About The Internet: History of the Internet
http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/
Links to many different histories of the Internet.
Delphi FAQs:
A Brief History of the Internet
http://www0.delphi.com/navnet/faq/history.html
A wonderful timeline with some juicy quotes as well!
Hobbes'
Internet Timeline - the definitive Internet history
http://www.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html
Very much into year-by-year with some technical information.
Internet
Hosts Worldwide (linear, GIF)
http://www.mids.org/growth/internet/html/hosts.html
An intriguing graph showing the number of machines set up on the Internet
from the beginning until 1997. The number grew some.
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Internet Glossaries
New Internet Glossaryhttp://www.teachersfirst.com/glossary.htm
Using simple language, a pretty brief and decent glossary.
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How good is a web site?
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Critical Evaluation Surveyshttp://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html
An excellent annotated set of links to articles on how to figure out whether the information on a web site is any good and how good a web site is. Part of Kathy Schrock's noble effort....
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Assessment
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Assessment Rubricshttp://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html
Need I say more?! Another fine job ty Ms. Scrock & Co.
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Starting your own web pages
Filamentality: Activity Formatshttp://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/formats.html
OK, now you'd like to do this web thing. How should you think about you own web pages? Strategies and tactics explained here with examples.
Life on the Internet:
Creating Your Own Homepage
http://www.screen.com/start/guide/HTML.html
A wonderful annotated set of links with all the topics you need to create
and publish web pages: HTML Guides, Web Site Style & Design, Online
Tools and Resources, Web Page Development Software, Announcing Your Web
Page.
Composer Help
Using Composerhttp://help.netscape.com/products/client/communicator/IntroComm/chap05.html#996824
Here is netscape's own page for using Composer, the part of Netscape Communicator that allows you to create web pages. Lots of information if not the most fun read.
WIT
Homeroom Module: Introduction to Composer
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/wit/2000/curriculum/homeroommodules/introComposer/
Our own WIT 2000 module that is an introduction to Composer.
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That FTP / File Transfer thing
Life on the Internet: FTP (File Transfer Protocol)http://www.screen.com/start/guide/ftp.html
A wonderful annotated list of URLs that will guide you to software you can use to FTP (transfer files) from your computer to servers on the Internet. Pays good attention to Windows and Mac. As well as explanations for that software!
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The HTML language itself
HTML Tutorial with Guided Hypertexthttp://fcit.coedu.usf.edu./david/
A wonderful and very interactive HTML introduction. Do those tags!
WIT Homeroom
Module: Introduction to HTML
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/wit/2000/curriculum/homeroommodules/introHtml/
WIT 2000's own HTML introduction.
NCSA
Home Page
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/newtest/index.ncsa.html?Info=
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html,
Nav=/newtest/ncsaNav.html,navIcon=ncsaNav,infoIcon=infoNode
This (unbelievably) long URL will take you to an introduction to HTML. Not
as good as the
Interactive one above but it lays out lots of information.
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