The Web as a Teaching and Outreach Tool
I. Background for Writing and Serving Web Documents
WEB DOCUMENTS MUST BE WRITTEN IN HTML
To use the World Wide Web (WWW) for teaching, you must learn to write documents in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML is a system of tags that you add to text. These tags guide the Web browser software (the software used to view Web documents) as it displays text, graphics, sounds, and video.
NETWORKED WEB DOCUMENTS CAN BE USED AT MANY LOCATIONS
The documents you write in HTML can be used- to teach users at their personal networked computer or a networked public computer inside or outside the
library (dorm rooms, at home, in computer labs)
- as a teaching and presentation tool in the classroom or instructional facility where a computer and
projection system is available
- and as a way of sharing instructional materials and approaches with peers via the Internet.
WHAT YOU NEED TO CREATE NETWORKED WEB DOCUMENTS:
- Web browser software (Netscape, Mosiac, MacWeb, WinWeb, Cello, or Lynx)
- Web server software to serve your documents to the Internet (MacHTTP or HTTPD)
- HTML editing software (not necessary, but a help)
- and a computer hooked up to the Internet.
Web documents compared to print documents
II. Tools for Writing and Serving Web Documents
GUIDES TO HTML TAGGING AND STYLE
A Beginners Guide to HTML--easy site for reviewing specific tags
Composing Good HTML--points out common errors in html tagging
HTML Style Guide--advice on server etiquette, structuring a work and a document, and testing documents
TUTORIALS, ETC.
Creating a Successful Web Page
The Table Sampler [examples of table tagging]
Cornell Engineering Library Instruction Page [class outlines and tutorials for forms, images, etc.]
SOFTWARE
Guides to Mac and Windows Web software of all kinds
TAKE A CLASS
Internet classes offered by Olin*Kroch*Uris Reference
A WEB DISCUSSION LIST: WEB4LIB
Web4Lib is an online discussion group among people who are interested in library uses of the World Wide Web. To subscribe, send the command "SUBSCRIBE Web4Lib [type in your name here]" in the body of an e-mail messsage addressed to listserv@library.berkeley.edu.
For example, I would send the command SUBSCRIBE Web4Lib Michael Engle to listserv@library.berkeley.edu
Leave the subject line of your e-mail header blank.
Revised September 28, 1996
Michael Engle
Division of Reference Services, Olin*Kroch*Uris Libraries
Cornell University Library
URL: http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/enyacrl.htm
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