Summary - Web support page for students

Tue Jan 27 10:29:15 EST 1998

I posted the following message to this list a few weeks ago.  For
those interested I have summarised the responses recieved and given
the URL of the subsequent web pages developed. 

Initial request for information :

> I'm about to write a web page, for students, giving some help/advice
> on using the internet in their studies, which will be a general
> support page that acdemics can link to if they are planning to use
> the web in their teaching, which will cover things like what is the
> internet, how to search it, tips of most effective use in your
> studies, etc..   As yet I haven't found any other examples of this
> type of page, but it would be useful to see some.  So if anyone can
> point me to examples of similar types of pages, I'd be grateful.
sometimes with/without sender depending on whether they developed the
site.

The pages I wrote in response to this question can be found from :
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~ntdf/guides/studentintro.htm

The first set of sites (6) are ones that were most relevant to the 
work I was developing, and therefore used most by myself : 

The Netskills Training  materials. Its free to UK HEI's, and is 
customisable
http://www.netskills.ac.uk/NETEG/

Newbie-U New User University
http://www.newbie-u.com/  bills itself as "Helping Newbies Become 
Knowbies -- Online!" 

Alan Deschner  sent info on the home page of the  Department 
of Computing Services, University of Saskatchewan has lots of links 
on it, organized as web development, general internet, and other 
locally based things. http://www.usask.ca/dcs/courses/cai/index.html 
has

Bonnie  Petry, University Library, CSUSB
Is currently building a site called  The Information Jungle.  It's 
designed especially for students with minimal technical knowledge who 
need to use the Internet, particularly the Web, for academic 
research.  Although still under construction it looks like a very 
promising site
http://www.bville.com/jungle

net.TUTOR interactive Internet instruction program. A good resource
but very slow for those in the UK For further information, contact
Nancy O'Hanlon, User Education Librarian for Internet Instruction, at
ohanlon.1 at osu.edu. http://gateway.lib.ohio-state.edu/tutor/

Walt Howe's Internet Learning Center at 
http://world.std.com/~walthowe/
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The following sites were sent but were not directly related to what I 
was doing, but some I found useful for other areas of my work, and so 
have pasted them here in case anyone else finds some good stuff.
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Multidisciplinary WWW Subject Directories for Scholars  
http://info.lib.uh.edu/wsub.htm

Where the wild things are : Librarian's Guide to the Best Information 
on the Net
http://www.sau.edu/cwis/internet/wild/Internet/Training/trindex.htm

EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet - an electronic book
http://www.eff.org/papers/eegtti/eegttitop.html

Netscape Basics:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/NetscapeBasic
s.html

>From Todd Murton,  Kwantlen University College, B.C
I am working on such a site at the college I work at and that is how
we found other examples. We kept our instructional pages very brief.
http://www.kwantlen.bc.ca/student_services/library/homepage/virtual/ne
tscape.htm Another Canadian site that is really good is:
http://oksw01.okanagan.bc.ca/libr/connect96/search.htm 

Janice Painter, Princeton Public Library
You might want to check out some of the links on my library's Internet
help page <URL> http://www.princeton.lib.nj.us/inet-help.html

Justin Ervin, Jackson Library Electronic Information Resources, UNCG
"What's this thing called the Word-Wide Web?" is a very basic
introduction to what the WWW is and how it works;
http://www.uncg.edu/lib/eir/citi/help/web.html.
I've also put together some course-specific pages for use during BI
for a couple classes; they don't go into a lot of detail, but they do
integrate the WWW into the research strategy that I suggest.
http://www.uncg.edu/lib/eir/bi/.

"Doing the WebQuest" (http://edweb.sdsu.edu/edfirst/courses/)  which
contains numerous activities and links that can easily be adapted for
classroom and library use including:

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators (aimed at school age)
http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/eval.htm to help students 
evaluate the materials that they find.  Can also be adapted for other 
information resources to teach information literacy skills.

>From Prof. Richard Einer Peterson, University of Hawaii
The course I teach, BUS313 Economic and Financial Environment of
International Business, is Internet-intensive and the students produce
Student Web Reports on international companies.  All relevant links
are located at http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rpeterso/onestop.htm

For those that can speak French  GIRI (Guide d'initiation a la 
recherche sur Internet - in English, Introductory Guide to Searching 
the Internet) developed in cooperation by the Universite du Quebec, 
the Universite du Quebec a Montreal library, the Universite Laval 
library, and the Universite de Montreal library.    
http://www.unites.uqam.ca/bib/GIRI/index.html

>From Sara Zaidspiner-Leibo, Program Specialist for Technology Integration
Greater Capital Region Teacher Center.  "One of the best web-based 
essays on evaluation skills and CRITICAL use of sites comes from the 
Widener University library.  
http://www.science.widener.edu/~withers/webeval.htm

>From Sarah Beasley, Portland State University Library
These pages don't do all of what you're talking about but they
do some:
http://www.sccd.ctc.edu/~sbeasley/mais/tblcont2.html
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/research/classes/gs175/3gs175/evaluati
on.html
http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/wwwguides.html
http://www.science.widener.edu/~withers/webeval.htm

You might also look at some of the pages we're creating at our library
for various disciplines: http://lrs.austin.cc.tx.us. 

>From  Vicky Gerik, Baylor University
This information is what we provide to our faculty, staff, and
students in addition to teaching seminars using Claris Home Page. 
http://www.baylor.edu/~ITC/services/web_providers/ 

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Hope all this is useful.
Jenny

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Jenny Booker
WWW Project Coordinator
The Robinson Library
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne 
NE2 4HQ
Tel: 0191 2226688
email: Jenny.Booker at newcastle.ac.uk
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