[1144] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Internet document and class handout for FTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Judy Hallman)
Fri Sep 4 10:51:02 1992
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 09:44:14 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
From: Judy Hallman <hallman@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
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With the assistance of our local Internet guru, Paul Jones, the Office of
Information Technology, UNC Chapel Hill, has prepared an Internet document
and a handout for a hands-on class. Both are available for FTP from
sunsite.unc.edu in the directory pub/docs/about-the-net.
Molly Munro wrote "Venturing Into the Internet," which offers a bare-bones
introduction to the Internet in 13 pages. The ascii filename is
venturing_oit and the postscript version is venturing_oit.ps.
The handout is in the file exploring_oit. I've been teaching the class. I
put big chunks of the handout in our campus information system and use
that as "overheads." You can look at that too; telnet to info.oit.unc.edu
and login as INFO. Then type f for find and press return, and then type
4001.
For the class, it takes 45 minutes to an hour to go through the material.
Then they choose which exercises they want to do and go at it. I've taught
10 sessions this summer with about 12 people at each (the number of PCs in
the room). It's great fun.
Molly and I both got a lot of our material from the Internet and it seems
like a good idea to give back what we have. Thanks for all the useful
information -- especially from PACS-L.
Judy Hallman, Office of Information Technology, UNC-Chapel Hill
PS: In case you are wondering why there isn't a postscript version of the
class handout, it became too much of a challenge. I've got what the
student types in Courier and descriptive text in Times. There apparently
are too many font changes. After spending a couple of days messing with
it, I decided it wasn't worth it.
