Internet Resources


Virginia Montecino's Home Page.

This site, compiled by a member of the English Department at George Mason, is an invaluable source of information on all internet-related questions. The site includes instructions on how to open your own web page at Mason, how to search the internet, how to evaluate internet resources and includes practical, easy-to-follow advice on how to use the internet in college and stay sane. The well-organized links are particularly helpful.

Milton's Pages

These pages offer clear, extensive guidance on the evaluation of internet resources for research use.

Great Web Searching

A short article suggesting ways in which neophyte internet users can accelerate and focus their internet searching

Bedford Guide to Internet Searching

This site includes easy-to-follow advice on how to use the multiple search engines available on the web, and offers good templates for developing a web-based research strategy for your project.

The Media Authoring Center

If you wish to build your own web page, the Media Authoring Center (on the second floor of the Johnson Center) will teach you how to use the latest web-authoring software and help you to build your page at Mason. Call or visit the Center to book an initial two-hour appointment. The Center also offers instruction in computer graphics, sound and video recording and editing, the creation of multimedia presentations and the cutting of CD-ROMs. All this instruction is FREE.

Art Work

The following sites provide backgrounds, logos, lines and other artwork for your web pages:-

Arizona State's Graphics Warehouse

The Background Sampler

The Icon Browser

Multimedia and Clip Art

Netscape: The Background Sampler

WebMuseum Network

 


Internet Exercises