Internet citizenship tutorials

The 19th century, in fact, was very advanced in the transmission of correspondence. ... Pneumatic tubes carried messages (pneus) around major cities in Europe and even North and South America. "...The system was large enough to carry small parcels,... and on one occasion a cat was even sent from one post office to another along the tubes" (Standage: 97).

Susan S. Lukesh, E-Mail and Potential Loss to Future Archives and Scholarship or The Dog that Didn't Bark in First Monday Vol. 4 No. 9 - September 6th. 1999

Tutorials

About the Internet

• What it is, and what it isn't;
• What you can do, and what you can't do;
• Internet etiquette;
• Asking for help.

Internet communications

• Electronic mail;
• Collaborative work;
• Asynchronous communications
• • Mailing lists;
  • Usenet discussion groups;
  • Web based discussion;
• Real time (synchronous) communications
• • Text chat (inter relay chat);
  • Web based chat;
  • Multi-user dungeons (MUDs);
  • Internet telephony;
  • Video conferencing.

Research via the Internet

• Library catalogues;
• Finding journal articles;
• Finding stuff on the Web;
• Playing with Web addresses;
• Evaluating material from the Net;
• Talking to experts;
• How Yahoo! works:
  A perfect result on Yahoo! ... clever html? ... unique site? ... how Yahoo! works ... my experiment.

Publishing on the Internet

• Giving something back.
• What is the World Wide Web?
• Satisfying your audience;
• Layout is optional;
• Make your Web pages accessible;
• Help people to find your pages
• Add other people's metadata to your pages
• Planning your Web site;
• Writing for the Web;
• Reading the Web;
• Navigation;
• Choosing Web consultants.