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Computer and Internet Training Workshop
Internet Skills for English Language Teaching Professionals
Cairo, Egypt: April 3-8, 1999

WORLD WIDE WEB


Vocabulary || Getting Started || Tips || Extended Resources

Vocabulary

Every day in the workshop you will hear and read Internet-based vocabulary that is new for you. We will provide a small, base set of terms with definitions and applied uses for English Language Teaching (ELT) for email and other topics that we cover. Workshop participants are encouraged to personalize the list and add more words, definitions and possible uses.

Internet vocabulary is available from: http://cc.uoregon.edu/docs/etiquette.html

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Getting Started

Do you need to know every book in the library in order to "know" your field or area of interest? Just as the answer to that is, of course, "No", the same can be said for the ever-expanding Web. Workshop participants will develop strategies for working with the following kinds of tools and topics in a hands-on, process-oriented approach:
  • Web browser software basics (Netscape Navigator).
  • Search engines and web site evaluation (cf. Comparison of Search Engine User Interface Capabilities by Gillian Westera.)
  • Professional online resources.
  • Resource and information management.
  • Web boards as communication tools, e.g. NiceNet.
  • Web page authoring basics (Netscape Composer).
  • Web page updating and storing online, e.g. GeoCities.
  • Copyright and fair use issues.
  • Privacy issues.
Handouts will be provided during the workshop. Topics and questions raised by workshop participants are most welcome and will be addressed and incorporated as they arise.

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Tips

  1. Allow yourself time. Just as doing "research" with paper materials in a traditional library takes a lot of time and patience, the same is true for online research. Know that you will hit "dead ends", encounter poor authoring and redundancy, and suffer through inevitable delays as part of the process.
  2. Use your time looking for things that you can not get access to elsewhere. The Web is best viewed as an addition to, not replacement for, resources that already work well for you.
  3. Fully document and save in as many formats as possible those truly great "gems" that you do find (through annotated bookmarks, selective printing, save to floppy disk, etc.).
  4. In keeping with the spirit of the Web, ask questions and share your "wealth" of academic information freely.

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Extended Resources

Following are some sets of resources to explore. Focus questions are suggested as "food for thought". Information from these sites and any related sites will be good information to discuss with your workshop keypal (through email) or with a group of workshop participants (face-to-face, through the workshop list, or through the workshop web board).

Content Resources

ELT Resources

One Computer Classroom

Media and News

Research Resources

A list of these and other "starter" WWW resources is also available on this site at:
IELPbookmarks.htm

 

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Vocabulary || Getting Started || Tips || Extended Resources

Website Information:

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~ielp/

This site established:

21 February 1999

Last revised:

22 March 1999

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