ERIC Number: ED426710
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1997
Pages: 390
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ISBN: ISBN-1-887902-28-7
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Learning To Use the World Wide Web. Academic Edition.
Ackerman, Ernest
This book emphasizes how to use Netscape Navigator to access the World Wide Web and associated resources and services in a step-by-step, organized manner. Chapters include -- Chapter 1: Introduction to the World Wide Web and the Internet; Chapter 2: Using a Web Browser; Chapter 3: The Basics of Electronic Mail and Using Netscape Email; Chapter 4: Internet Email Discussion Groups; Chapter 5: Usenet-Reading and Writing the News; Chapter 6: Finding Information on the Web-Directories and Searching; Chapter 7: Writing Your Own Web Pages; Chapter 8: Telnet, FTP, and Gopher; and Chapter 9:Legal Issues, Ethical Issues, Privacy, and Security. All the chapters (except for Chapter 9) and selected appendices contain step-by-step examples to demonstrate using the tools, services, and resources discussed in the text. Each chapter contains several exercises to be used to explore the use of the tools and topics discussed, and several of the chapters contain a section dealing with proper etiquette and responsible uses of the Internet and World Wide Web. Appendices include a glossary of Internet and Web terms, instructions for setting Navigator's options and preferences, information on email in a Unix environment and email using Eudora, and Java, Java Applets, and JavaScript. (AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Mail, Information Retrieval, Information Services, Information Sources, Online Searching, Public Policy, World Wide Web
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Publication Type: Books; Guides - Non-Classroom
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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