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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 | |
| GMU MEMO E-mail account on the WWW - Virginia Montecino | |
| GMU Resources for faculty and students | |
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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. | |
| People Finder - Faculty/ Staff and Student Directories (on the Web) | |
| 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 | |
| GMU - Request or subscribe to a GMU Listserv - Virginia Montecino | |
| Google Groups (formerly Deja) | |
| Google Groups Help - basics, FAQs, glossary | |
| Internet FAQ Archives | |
| TILE.NET/LISTS - list search by name, description, domain, favorite topic | |
| 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
Publishing
Basics |
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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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Making Web Pages More Accessible - Microsoft | |
| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - W3C | |
| WebAIM - The Web Accessibility How-to Site | |
| WebAIM - Section 508 Web Accessibility Checklist | |
| 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 | |
| Frames |
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| Frames - an introduction - WC3 World Wide Web Consortium | |
| More HTML / XML Guides |
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| The Barebones Guide to HTML- Kevin Werbach | |
| Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts | |
| Extensible Markup Language (XML) - W3C | |
| Flash | |
| HTML Goodies - tutorials, images, backgrounds scripts,.... | |
| HTML Writers Guild | |
| HyperText Markup Language Home Page - W3C - World Wide Web Consortium | |
| More Advanced Features of HTML - Dave Raggett, W3C | |
| Office 2000 HTML Filter (remove Office-specific markup tags embedded in Office 2000 documents saved in Hypertext Markup Language) | |
| WEB alley - web publishing made easy | |
| Web Pages That Suck | |
| 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 | |
| PHP - general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML | |
| 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 | |
| Presenter Media - make banners, buttons, text, background | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
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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 | |
| 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 | |
| Blackboard | |
| Blackboard - Web-based Learning Management System (LMS) used at Mason to deliver online or web-enhanced courses. |
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| File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Telnet | |
| WS-FTP |
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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.) | |
| File Transfer Resources - by makers of WS_FTP | |
| 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 & Presentations | |
| Effective PowerPoint Presentations - Virginia Montecino | |
| PowerPoint - Guidelines for effective presentations - Ann Agee | |
| PowerPoint SlideFest - Microsoft | |
| Presentation Skills Advice - Presentation Skills Advice.com (in-depth advice beyond creating visual aids) |
| 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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| Frankenstein Moo - Ron Broglio and Eric Sonstroem (good intro to MOOing) | |
| Kairos - special issue on teaching and learning w/MOOs, plus basic instructions | |
| Software for MOOs / MUDs | |
| 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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