Making A Cyber Library on Netscape

1. Select the Netscape Communicator icon from the desktop of your computer.
2. Open Netscape by selecting "Start Communicator" from the profile manager.
3. Select "Search" from the top of the screen. Choose a search engine from those listed on the left column. A good search engine to use is "Google" or "Alta Vista." Scroll down to select a search engine or use the default provided.
4. Enter a general description of your subject or content area in the blank space, then select Enter, Search, Find or Go, depending on your search engine. You may wish to begin with general topics and move to more specific or follow the linear order of your course in weekly instructional units.
5. Review the results of your search. As you find promising Internet sites of content, select Bookmarks on the top left of the Netscape page, then choose Add Bookmark. Your cite will be saved at the bottom of the bookmark list.
6. To save your Internet bookmarks in a Web-page, select Bookmarks, then Edit Bookmarks. Next, select File. Scroll down to Save As to name your Bookmarks. You may wish to save your bookmarks on the desktop for easy retrieval.
7. Your bookmarks will be saved as a Netscape document with active hyperlinks for future reference. In essence these links can be used as an active Cyber Library for any course.
8. You can e-mail your bookmarks to your home or SPJC e-mail address by using any of the following Internet e-mail providers.
9. yahoo.mail.com or hotmail.com
10. Set up a free account and e-mail your bookmarks as an attachment to your SPJC e-mail account. Select compose, then attach, then browse to find your saved Bookmarks on the desktop. Make sure to select All Files below your browse window and Desktop above your browse window. Then send your bookmarks to your SPJC account for further use after this workshop. You may wish to restart your Cyber Library on your office computer.
11. Explore the Internet resources in your Cyber Library to generate activities for students. Cyber Activities are activities which utilize the Internet as a content-rich information environment for active learning. Cyber Activities can help guide student inquiry on the Internet, while enriching both face to face and online learning experiences which reflect authentic student-centered learning.

Making A Cyber Library on Internet Explorer

1. Select the Microsoft Internet Explorer icon from your desktop.
2. Select Search. You may also wish to select Customize Search Settings to select multiple search engines for your content search.
3. After reviewing the results, you can save by selecting Favorites, and then Add to Favorites. Select OK to save your favorite at the top of the list of favorites.
4. To organize your favorites in a folder, select Favorites, then Organize Favorites.
5. Then select Create Folder. Next name your folder according to it contents.
6. Your newly created folder will appear at the bottom of your list of favorites. You can organize your favorites by simply dragging them into this folder. This folder can then be dragged onto your desktop for future use. Your selected Favorites will appear as hyperlinks within the folder, which can also be sent as an e-mail attachment following the same process as sending Netscape Bookmarks.

Some Good Starting Points for Course Specific Internet Resources

If you wish to see some sources that other instructors have organized for your course contents, you may wish to view the following sites.

Visit the World Lecture Hall at the University of Texas at Austin to see online courses by sorted by categories. Select the URL address below and then choose WHL Courses.

http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/

View Web sites recommended for specific SPJC courses through the Cyber Library at the SPJC Seminole Campus.

http://www.spjc.edu/se/CyberLib/coursesites.html

Argus Clearinghouse - The Internet's Premiere Research Library: a Selective Collection of Topical Guides: http://www.clearinghouse.net/index.html

Multidisciplinary WWW Subject Directories for Scholars

http://info.lib.uh.edu/wsub.htm

University of Florida - George A. Smathers Library - Subject Guides

http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/subguide.html

Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections: University of California

http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Search the Internet: Organized Search Engines: University of Berkeley Library

http://library.berkeley.edu/Help/search.html