what the internet offers
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What the Internet Offers. Communications Across the country or across the world Information resources and services On a huge scale A wide range of subjects Many formats Publishing The ability to publish and provide online services. Information Resources. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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What the Internet Offers
Communications Across the country or across the world
Information resources and services On a huge scale A wide range of subjects Many formats
Publishing The ability to publish and provide online
services
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Information Resources
Many subjects and formats available Documents Graphics, video & audio Software (free & shareware) Newspapers Directories Library catalogues & databases Books & journals Junk
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Basic Internet Tools
Require very basic hardware and have existed for a number of years
TelnetProvides simple text based access to a
remote computer
File transferAllows files to be moved from one
computer to anotherOften called FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
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World Wide Web
World Wide Web (WWW or Web)
Distributed multimedia hypertext system
Uses client/server architecture
Clients known as browsers - Netscape, Mosaic, IE, Lynx
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Client/Server ArchitectureWWW is based on a client/server architecture
Give me file x
Here it is
A computer elsewhereon the Internet holdinginformation
Desktop Client
Remote Server
Request made using http
Your desktop computer
graphics: NNS, Inet98
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Locating Internet Resources
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
Standard address format for Internet resourcesURL indicates:
• Method of access• Location
For example:
http://www.isiswomen.org
http://www.jca.apc.org/aworc/index.html
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TerminologyWWW - World Wide Web
Distributed multimedia hypertext system
HTML- HyperText Markup LanguageNative language for documents on the WWW
HTTP - HyperText Transfer ProtocolSet of rules for communication between client & server
URL - Uniform Resource LocatorAddress of an object on the Internet
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Uses of the Web: ResearchWWW was developed at CERN for particle physicists.
http://www.cern.ch/
Sources of research material and funding are available for researchers, administrators & students.
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~MAPatric/sgroup/eurinfo.html
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Teaching/Distance Learning
WWW is used widely for teaching.
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Women are using the Web to teach and to support educators
http://www.lynda.com/
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/updates.html
http://women.or.kr/
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Providing Information Resources
Library catalogues
Information gateways
Electronic journals
News services
Online support
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Searching for InformationSubject catalogues and sophisticated search engines can help in finding information using the WWW.
http://www.yahoo.com/
http://www.lycos.com/
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http://wwwomen.com/
http://femina.cybergrrl.com/
Women-focused Search Engines
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Activism and AdvocacyWomen, individually and collectively, are using the Web to enhance their social activism by networking with other like-minded women, by publisizing news and information, as well as their analysis of issues affecting women www.jca.apc.org/aworc/bpfa/index.html
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Women are using the Web for Social Advocacy http://womensnet.za.org/
http://www.mediawatch.ca/frames.htm
www.igc.org/igc/womensnet/
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Group Work and Project Collaboration
Together with groupware applications, the Web can
also be a space --a virtual office--for people living in
different continents and time zones to share and
organize files, track projects and timelines, share
address books, and conduct meetings.
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Commerce
http://www.women.com
Increasingly used for sales, marketing and online services
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How do You Use the Web?