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| George Mason University Resources | |
| GMU Resources - Links to STAR student technology assistance, IRC Instructional Resource Center for faculty, ITU computing systems info, help files, virus protection, web development and guidelines, academic systems support, reserve labs, lab information, libraries, listservs.... |
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| Internet and Network Access | |
| Activate a new mason account using telnet or reset your password [necessary for creating Web pages on the mason server] || Activate or reset ON THE WEB | |
| Connecting to Mason’s Intranet from Off-Campus - Windows (95/98/XP) | |
| Dial-in Intranet Access to GMU - restrictions and options | |
| Electronic classrooms support at GMU | |
| GMU MEMO E-mail account on the WWW - Virginia Montecino | |
| GMU Resources for faculty and students | |
| Internet Connection to GMU from Home (Windows 95/98) | |
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| Eliminate SPAM on Mason with Mail Frontier Enterprise Gateway |
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| MEMO (Mason Enterprise Messaging Online) e-mail system information | |
| Activate your GMU e- mail account or reset your password. | |
| Using your GMU E-mail account on the WWW - Virginia Montecino | |
| Forward GMU e-mail to your preferred e-mail account -Virginia Montecino | |
| Set up GMU E-mail Address Directory in Netscape 7x Browser | |
| Configuring Netscape Messenger Client 4.7x for a GMU Email account | |
| Set up GMU E-mail Address Directory in Netscape 4.x Browser | |
| Activate your Mason account or reset your password using telnet. OR: Do it on the Web. You must activate this account to create a Web site on the mason server. | |
| Using Netscape Messenger E-mail (General instructions from Netscape)- does not apply to GMU email on the Web. | |
| Listservs at GMU - sign
up, documentation for users and managers |
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| People Finder - Faculty/ Staff and Student Directories (on the Web) | |
| PINE E-Mail with your Mason Account - Virginia Montecino | |
| Quick list of basic Pine commands - Virginia Montecino | |
| Pico Editing Commands (to edit Pine email messages) | |
| PINE Information Center, University of Washington | |
| FORWARD Mason Pine E-mail to another E-mail account (AOL, etc.) | |
| Upload/download files to and from your mason account - with ftp - non graphical | |
| The IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) Connection - a public service of the Univtersity of Washington | |
| Groupwise |
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| FORWARD Groupwise LAN mail to your mason account (Faculty and Staff) | |
| GroupWise on the Web - Access your GroupWise mail from remote locations | |
| Cut / Paste, Up/ Download |
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| Cut and Paste Text in E-mail and in other other windows-type environments | |
| WS-FTP- an easy to upload and downloadfiles from a local computer to a server & vice versa | |
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| Listservs / Newsgroups / Online forums / Blogs | |
| Blogging Resources - compiled by Virginia Montecino | |
| CyberFiber Newsgroups - directory to USENET and alt. Newsgroups | |
| Deja.com - index of Internet discussion sites | |
| GMU - Request or subscribe to a GMU Listserv - Virginia Montecino | |
| Google Groups (formerly Deja) | |
| Google Groups Help - basics, FAQs, glossary | |
| Internet FAQ Archives | |
| McFind - 14 search types | |
| news.newusers.questions - information for new users of newsgroups - from http://www.geocities.com | |
| TILE.NET/LISTS - list search by name, description, domain, favorite topic | |
| Topica - "thousands of newsletters and discussions" | |
| The Well - "a cluster of electronic villages on the Internet, inhabited by people from from all over the world." | |
| Yahoo Groups - includes a directory of groups categorized by interest areas | |
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| Web
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| Guidelines for Student Web Pages - Protections/Precautions - Virginia Montecino | |
| HTML TAGS - Virginia Montecino | |
| Web Page Creation on GMU Mason - set up directory and HTML instructions - Virginia Montecino | |
| Web Page Accessibility Validator - GMU | |
| UNIX pico editing commands - for creating and modifying text in a UNIX environment | |
| PICO Tutorial ( line-mode text editor) - NC State University Computing Services | |
| Suggestions for Writing Hypertext - Lesley Smith | |
| Website Instructions for GMU departments - (has some general info.) | |
| Web Page Creation using Netscape Composer - links - Virginia Montecino | |
| Web Page Creation - Style Considerations- Virginia Montecino | |
| Web Design Principles - Virginia Montecino | |
| What is Hypertext - Virginia Montecino |
| More Web publishing guides |
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| Web page analysis/accessibility | |
| Accessibility Validator - GMU | |
| Accessibility on the Internet- create access by the disabled - Leo Valdes | |
| A Beginner's Guide to HTML - NCSA, a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Copyright 1997 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | |
| Bobby - a web-based tool that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities | |
| Making Web Pages More Accessible - Microsoft | |
| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - W3C | |
| WebAIM - The Web Accessibility How-to Site | |
| WebAIM - Section 508 Web Accessibility Checklist | |
| Web Usability - Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan 1999 | |
| Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide | |
| CSS - Cascading Style sheets |
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| Cascading Style Sheet authoring tools - WC3 - set margins, indents, white space .... clear up problems caused by different browsers. | |
| Cascading Style Sheets - Short Guide - WC3 | |
| CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Pointers Group | |
| CSS Styling with Style Sheets - Netscape Webbuilding | |
| Frames |
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| Frames - an introduction - WC3 World Wide Web Consortium | |
| Frames - Netscape | |
| More HTML / XML Guides |
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| The Barebones Guide to HTML- Kevin Werbach | |
| Color Codes - Web Monkey, Lycos |
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| Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts | |
| Edit-Work.com - "help [Web] editors make their site's content work as effectively as possible, whether the site is thousands of pages or a dozen." | |
| Extensible Markup Language (XML) - W3C | |
| FREE Web space page - top 25, with brief descriptions | |
| HTML Goodies - tutorials, images, backgrounds scripts,.... | |
| HTML , JAVA, CGI, Perl + other resources - Willcam Group Ltd. | |
| HTML TAG Library - ZDnet | |
| HTML Writers Guild | |
| HyperText Markup Language Home Page - W3C - World Wide Web Consortium | |
| INTERNET-HELP.com - Web publishing resources | |
| More Advanced Features of HTML - Dave Raggett, W3C | |
| NCSA (at UIUC) Beginner's Guide to HTML (extensive) | |
| Builder.com | |
| Office 2000 HTML Filter (remove Office-specific markup tags embedded in Office 2000 documents saved in Hypertext Markup Language) | |
| Shockwave / Flash resources for Web sites | |
| WEB alley - web publishing made easy | |
| Web Monkey - The Web Developer's Resource - extensive list of resources | |
| Web Pages that Suck.com - "Where you learn good Web design by looking at bad Web design" | |
| XML and the Second Generation Web - Bosak and Bray (Scientific American) | |
| XML Tutorial - W3Schools.com | |
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| Java
Applets and CGI Forms, Perl, PHP, Moveable type [Always check for viruses when downloading files.] |
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| Web Programming |
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| the Joy of JAVAScript -companion Web site for JavaScript for the World Wide Web, Visual Quickstart Guide, 2nd ed. - includes scripts | |
| Matt's Script Archives, Inc. | |
| CGI |
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| The CGI Collection - Create scripts to fill in forms, etc. - have to run on a cgi-ready server | |
| The cgi-lib.pl Home Page | |
| The CGI Resource Index | |
| Script Search - bills itself as the World's Largest CGI Library - over 5458CGIs & scripts | |
| JAVA |
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| JAVA by Anfy - "free download, freely usable" applets | |
| Java Script City | |
| JAVAScript.com | |
| JAVAScript Kit | |
| the JAVA Script Source | |
| New-to-Java TM Programming Center - java.sun.com | |
| ScriptSearch .com | |
| Moveable Type |
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| Moveable Type - decentralized, web-based personal publishing system designed to ease maintenance of regularly updated news or journal sites, like weblogs | |
| PERL |
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| Perl.com - the source for perl | |
| Perl Crawler tm - Perl and CGI programming search engine | |
| Perl FAQ - from perldoc.com | |
| PHP - general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML |
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| Flatfile PHP - Flip- only requires a web server that can parse PHP 4.2 or greater. You must also have the ability/rights to change permissions on files and directories. | |
| PHPBuilder | |
| PHP.net -downloads, tutorials, online manuals, links | |
| PHP Resource Index | |
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| Images,
Backgrounds for Web pages [Caution:Too many "bells and whistles" can overwhelm a Web site.] |
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| CoolArchive - make buttons, logos, banners online | |
| FreeFoto.com - free photographs for non-commercial use on the Internet | |
| gettyimages.com - The images are not free | |
| GMU - Photofile | |
| GMU - Viewfinder (interactive database of university pictures to preview and download. Photos can be downloaded for free in a low-resolution format suitable for web use or ordered for a fee in a high resolution format) | |
| Media Builder - make banners, buttons, text, background | |
| MM Designs- free animated gif files | |
| Microsoft Design Gallery Live - search tool, photos, bullets, backgrounds, icons.etc. | |
| Pics4Learning - provides "copyright friendly images for use by students and teachers in an educational setting. The original photographers of each image retain the copyright to these images and have graciously allowed their use in this collection." | |
| Science Graphics - free for educational purposes | |
| The Whole Internet Guide to Clip Art - also fonts, backgrounds, script archives, html resources | |
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| Web/Internet Guides | |
| December Communications - guide to using Internet resources | |
| The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking - Tracy LaQuey | |
| Internet Guides, Tutorials, and Training Information - Library of Congress | |
| InterLit - Internet Literacy Web Site - by Pat Sine, U. of Delaware, contains online resources for the Internet Literacy textbook by Fred T. Hofstetter | |
| Internet Terminology, basic - Virginia Montecino | |
| Lynx, a non-graphical Web browser (can access it from your Unix-based mason account) | |
| TechEncyclopedia | |
| Web Monkey Guides - "Internet Basics","Use the Web" - HotWired | |
| Web Works - creating and using Web resources a quick reference guide | |
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| Search Engines / Internet Research | |
| Recommended Search Strategy: Search With Peripheral Vision- Teaching Library Internet Workshops, UC Berkeley | |
| Search Engines, Guide to, explanation of Boolean logic - Virginia Montecino | |
| Search Engines, using on the WWW - Virginia Montecino | |
| Searching for discussion forums/lists/newsgroups | |
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| Internet Etiquette | |
| The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette - Arlene Rinaldi | |
| Netiquette - Virginia Shea | |
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| GMU supported Web based environments for education | |
| Classweb a server for instructors/faculty needing a place to host their instructional web pages. |
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| Classweb instructional Web space | |
| Reserve classweb instructional Web space | |
| Townhall | |
| Townhall - GMU's Web-based meeting place | |
| Request a Townhall site for instructional/program purposes - faculty/staff | |
| Townhall Resource Page - IRC/Instructional Technology & Classroom Services | |
| Townhall instructions - Virginia Montecino | |
| Townhall instructions for Host/Moderator - Virginia Montecino | |
| Townhall for Teaching - Virginia Montecino |
| Web CT | |
| Web CT Resource Page - IRC/Instructional Technology & Classroom Services | |
| Request a Web CT site for instructional/program purposes - faculty/staff | |
| WebCT.com- community resources | |
| WebCT- support and documentation | |
| The Ultimate WebCT Handbook - Georgia State University | |
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| File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Telnet | |
| EWAN - a telnet email program that lets you print to your LOCAL PRINTER | |
| Download
WS-FTP LE (limited edition) |
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| - WS FTP is a File Transfer Protocol software program for Windows. It has point and click capabilities (can transfer documents/graphics from your computer to your mason account and vice versa, send attachments in e-mail and upload Web documents to your mason public_html directory.) | |
| WS-FTP set up with your mason account | non-graphics version - Virginia Montecino | |
| WS-FTP PRO - tutorial (purchase version) | |
| What is ftp? - sponsored by Ipswitch, makers of WSftp | |
| SSH Secure Shell Telnet and FTP - provides an encrypted link between client and server computers for more secure file transfer. | |
| Installing and using SSH Secure Shell telnet and ftp - Virginia Montecino | |
| Get/Install Secure Shell (SSH) to FTP to and from Mason Server (GMU Instructional Technology Support) - | |
| Upload/download files to and from your mason account with FTP- non graphical | |
| MAC telnet and ftp programs: Nifty Telnet | Fugu | Fetch | |
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| PowerPoint | |
| PowerPoint - Guidelines for effective presentations - Ann Agee | |
| Effective PowerPoint Presentations - Virginia Montecino |
| Software | |
| Software for communication / telnet / file transfer / graphics / html / multimedia. | |
| Software for distributed education, Web forums / writing / discussion, MOOs, MUDs |
| UNIX | |
| UNIX Commands- quick list of basic commands (also used for mason account and managing html files)- Virginia Montecino | |
| UNIX File Permissions - What are they and how do they work? | |
| UNIX - GMU support | |
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| Teaching with Technology | |
| Teaching and learning with technology resources for Faculty - Virginia Montecino | |
| Electronic Classroom - Instructions for GMU Faculty |
| MOOs / MUDS / IRC | |
| MOOs / MUDS |
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| Connections - Extensive guidelines and software client to use the MOO to meet as a full class or in small groups, to work on projects, to meet with people from other classes, and so on. Tari Lin Fanderclai | |
| Frankenstein Moo - Ron Broglio and Eric Sonstroem (good intro to MOOing) | |
| Kairos - special issue on teaching and learning w/MOOs, plus basic instructions | |
| Lingua MOO - an Academic Virtual Community | |
| MOO-Cows FAQ - Ken Fox | |
| Moo Home Page - LambdaMOO Resources | |
| Primary Sources on MOOing- Composition in Cyberspace - Annenberg/CPB - Leslie D. Harris | |
| Software for MOOs / MUDs | |
| Text-Based Virtual Reality - About MUDs and MOOs, connect to notable MOOs, research | |
| Wizard Basics on maintaining your own MOO | |
| IRCs |
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| What is IRC, Where to get the software, and how to use it? | |
| Windows Shortcut keys |
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| Windows Shortcuts | |
| Windows Expanded Shortcuts | |
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