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Special Files and Information for Staff Development Classes:

 
CTAP 2004 Class: Uncovering the Gold On the Web
Selected links for the CTAP class on effective location and selection of Web information sources.

CTAP PowerPoint Class Resources
Selected links for the class. Includes tutorials and image searching links.

WebQuest Workshop Series Resources
These resources have been organized for use by the participants in the Fall 2000 Chico High School staff WebQuest class taught by Peter Milbury.

Web Page Development Class Resources
This is the collection links to resources that have been gathered for participant use during and after the Web Page Development Class, taught by Peter Milbury in the C.H.S Library.

Links For Class: Smart Searching On the Web
Some links related to effective use and searching of the Web, to be used with a workshop taught by the library webmaster.

CTAP Online
A direct link to the CTAP Online courses in technology for educators.

CTAP 100 Image Floating Over Text
 
 

The Virtual Community
The Table of Contents to the influential and visionary book, The Virtual Community, by Howard Rheingold.

Network Observer
The Network Observer (TNO) is a free on-line newsletter about networks and democracy edited by Phil Agre of the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. Volume 1 (1994) was published on a monthly basis; future volumes will be published irregularly.

The Internet Index
The Internet Index is an occasional collection of facts and statistics about the Internet and related activities. The Index is edited by Win Treese.

Spams, Hoaxes, Urban Legends, Privacy, and Viruses: Protect Yourself

 
Junk e-mail and SPAM: Don't Wast Time and Bandwidth!

Fight Spam on the Internet!
One of the foremost resources for stopping unsolicited commercial e-mail. Please see their many different resources for stopping this incredible waste of time and of abuse of the Internet!

The SpamCon Foundation
In addition to offering helpful information to the public, they "support measures to reduce the amount of unsolicited email that crosses private networks, while ensuring that valid email reaches its destination."  Please note the list of valuable resources in the left column.

The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
"This site is designed to provide information about the problems of junk email, some proposed solutions, and to provide resources for the Net Community to make informed choices about the issues surrounding junk e-mail."

Network Abuse Clearinghouse
Offers valuable and practical information for dealing wityh spammers. Includes a forwarding service as well.

Realtime Blackhole List: Mail Abuse Prevention System
This is a system for creating intentional network outages ("blackholes") for the purpose of limiting the transport of known-to-be-unwanted mass e-mail. Information is available on reporting spammers.
 
 
 

Virus Myths, Urban Legends and Internet Hoaxes: Don't Be Tricked!

Hoaxbusters
"Among the junk mail and spam that fills our Internet e-mail boxes are dire warnings about devastating new viruses, Trojans that eat the heart out of your system, and malicious software that can steal the computer right off your
desk. Most all of these messages are hoaxes or chain letters. These pages describe some of the warnings, offers, and pleas for help that are filling our mailboxes,clogging our mailservers, and that generally do not have any basis in fact."

Viruses and Hoax Warnings
This is from a commercial virus software center in Europe. Has sections on real and hoax viruses.

Computer Virus Myths
Exposes the myths, hoaxes and urban legends that get passed around the Internet over and over and over....

Internet Hoaxes
"Computer virus hoaxes are time consuming and costly to handle. This page describes many of the hoax warnings that are found on the Internet today, some of the history of hoaxes on the Internet, how to identify a new hoax warning, how to identify a validated warning and what to do if you think a message is a hoax."

Urban Legends Archive
An Internet Urban Legend may end up on your doorstep. Cjheck this page out before you are tricked!
 

Real Computer Viruses: Get Help Here

CERT® Coordination Center: Virus Resources
"We study Internet security vulnerabilities, provide incident response services to sites that have been the victims of attack, publish a variety of security alerts, research security and survivability in wide-area-networked computing, and develop information to help you improve security at your site."

Symantec Security Updates
This is one reliable place to look for information on real and "hoax" viruses. Check out their Virus Encyclopedia and Virus Hoaxes for some good information.
 
 

Privacy Issues

Consumer Information Privacy
The Federal Trade Commission Consumer Privacy section. Offers several helpful documents related to the Internet.

Internet Fraud Complaint Center
The IFCC Web site allows consumers nationwide to report Internet fraud; enables the development of educational programs aimed at preventing Internet fraud; offers local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies training in Internet fraud; and allows for the sharing of fraud data by all law enforcement and regulatory authorities.

Finding Useful Information Online

Links For Smart Searching On the Web
The CHS Library collection of links to resources which help you efficiently use the Web to locate information.

Net-Happenings
Lots of new resources are appearing on the Internet every day. This is one of the places to find out about some of the more useful sites. Operated by Gleason Sackman.

Internet Scout Report
The Scout Report is a regular publication provided by the Info Scout and the InterNIC to provide a sampling of the best of newly announced Internet resources.
 

Learning to Use the Internet, the Web and Its Resources

Argus Internet Guides Clearinghouse
The Internet is as much about collaboration and cooperation as anything else. Individuals and organizations make their information resources available, usually free of charge, via the Internet. The Clearinghouse service is to find, describe, evaluate, and make available these guides via a single central location.

From Now On
An online journal with lots of ideas and help for educators using the World Wide Web and the Internet, edited by Jamieson McKenzie, the well-known writer, speaker and presenter of Bellingham, WA.

How to get a free e-mail account
A selected list of free e-mail providers, liststes by InfoPeople.

Internet Training
From the master of the Web, John December, a huge, well organized set of links to pages that can show and tell you all you ever wanted to learn about the Web, and help you teach it to others as well!

Net Origins
A simple history and explanation of what the Internet is. From "EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet. A round trip through Global Networks, Life in Cyberspace, and Everything..." See the "next section" as well, linked from the bottom of the page. It explains how it works.

New User Tutorial
A self instructional aid to thoes who are very new to the use of computers and the Web.

Resources for Internet Trainers
A direct link to the Library of Congress page on Internet Guides and Tutorials.

Internet and Computer Terminology

Net Lingo
The online dictionary containing hundreds of words that are emerging as a new vocabulary surrounding the technology and community of the Internet and the World Wide Web.

The Webopedia
"4000 computer terms at your fingertips." Search or brows this free resource to get a very thorough definition of computer terminology terms.

ILC Glossary of Internet Terms
A thorough source for definitions of words and terms related to the Internet.

Internet Terminology and Definitions
Find definitions for those strange and exotic new words you see while using or reading about the Internet.

Netscape Handbook
If you are browsing with Netscape right now, this link can be found in the "Help" pulldown menu.

A Guide to Eudora
Eudora is a free (there is a commercial version available too) e-mail application that allows you to read and write e-mail off line. You need a direct-connect, SLIP or PPP route to the Internet to use it.

Creating Web Sites

Free File Hosting On the Web
Yahoo's list of places that will provide a free, private place for you to store your files. With files stored on the Web, you can acess them from anywhere.

Free Web Page Hosting On the Web
Yahoo's list of places that will provide a free place for you to have your own Web page.

Web 66: Cookbook
Lots of interesting information about how schools can prepare for their Web Home Page, and lots more related information.

WebMonkey: Lean & Mean HTML
Tips on designing and creating Web pages that run smoothly and load quickly. Also links to other aspects of page design.

Web Weavers Bibliography
A central site (at Purdue University) where information and links to Web development information is kept and updated.

THE LIST -- Service Providers By Area Code
Internet service providers organized by telephone area code are listed here. Costs are included, along with other relevant information.

WebSite Garage
A free service that will check your website for efficiency, making sure that you have properly designed it, and offering suggestions for improvement.

Beginner's HTML Guide
All about HTML, the HyperText Markup Languaged used to allow Web documents to be read and interconnected with each other. Provided by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

The Teachers.Net Website Handbook
A one-stop Web Page to get teachers started creating WWW Pages, including nice tips and ideas for using Web browsers, and where to get the free software for Web authoring and use.

Home Page Generator
Creating your own Homepage is as easy as 1-2-3...
1.Complete the form, 2.See how it looks and make as changes 3. Complete the "mail me the source" section. It's that easy!

HTML for Netscape
(Or: "How to tame the wild Mozilla.") These documents show which Netscape extensions and attributes are common to HTML 3.0, offers HTML 3.0 alternatives for those that are not, and gives guidelines on their use.

Netscape Frames
Netscape frames make it possible for documents to divide the browser window into one or more independently scrollable frames of arbitrary layout, and then to assign separate document URLs to each of them. Additionally, hyperlinks in framed documents can update and control not just the contents of their own frames, but also the contents of other frames and windows as well, making it possible for web programmers to build extremely pleasing, sophisticated WWW pages with easy-to-navigate user interfaces.

Designing Pages With Style on the Web

Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
Have you ever wondered why you are having trouble getting information from a Web Page that claims to offer everything you ever need to know about whatever? This article from Sun Microsystems offers a possible explanation.

The Top Ten New Mistakes of Web Design
A revisit to the subject of the article directly above!

The Vision of an Accomplished Webmaster
A feature article/interview from a 1995 issue of Computer Mediated Communications online magazine. Reveals how a successful Web Page designer plans for the production of an excellent page.

Tips for Writers and Designers
David Siegel's extremely helpful tips on how to create a Web Page that looks good and does what you want it to do. A "write" friendly page!

Hypertext Style Guide
This guide, from the CERN people who developed the WWW, "is designed to help you create a WWW hypertext database that effectively communicates your knowledge to the reader. It has been prepared in the light of comments by readers, and many demands by providers of online documentation."

Yale Web Style Manual
This manual describes the design principles used to create the pages within the Center for Advanced Instructional Media's (C/AIM) World Wide Web site. This is not an introduction to HTML authoring, as excellent resources already exist for those purposes.

Graphical Images to Use on Your Web Pages and Elsewhere

Barry's Clip Art Server
Lots and LOTS of useful links to downloadable art to use on the Web, and elsewhere, provided by Barry Pase!
    Here are several more websites with lots and lots of images, backgrounds, lines, animations, and other graphics.
    Clipart.Com
    Design World Free Images
    The Animation Factory
    Nyanna's Backgrounds and Graphics
    A+B+C Graphics for the Web

Video and Multimedia

Common Internet File Formats
Similar to the resource above. "This list is mainly intended for use on Macintosh computers and PC's running MS-Windows. This is only a partial list of what really is out there but for these common platforms, the majority of the file types encountered on-line can handled with the tools herein."

Multimedia File Formats
File formats on the Internet, with links to download them, by Allison Zhang. (Specializes in Windows and PC versions, but is helpful for Mac users.)

QuickTime Home Page
QuickTime is the multimedia architecture used to store, edit and play synchronized graphics, sound, video, text and music. It is for multimedia delivered on CD-ROM and the Internet. In other words, QuickTime is the technology that makes multimedia a reality on Macintosh, Windows and other platforms, capturing, creating, editing, and delivering multimedia.

Connecting to the Internet

Kegel's ISDN Page
A vast, comprehensive site with all sorts of information on ISDN, one of the commonly used methods to connect to the Web via modem.

Macintosh NCSA Telnet User's Guide
The software that allows machine to machine connections on the Internet has an online guide. Version 2.6.

Facts and Information About the Internet and World Wide Web

Where to announce your new WWW pages and journals
Here are some sites onto which you can announce your new WWW publications. Share what you have created with the World Wide Web!

The Internet Index
The Internet Index is an occasional collection of facts and statistics about the Internet and related activities. The Index is edited by Win Treese.

Help, Software, Hardware and Using the Web Effectively

The Virtual Doctor's Computing resource
One can get help with a specific problem, download software, grab updates for their operating system, and more! (Windows only.) Free software, tutotials, OS update information, etc.)

Everything Computers Radio Show
The web site for the "O'Donnell on Computers" radio show, featuring: This Week's Links and Previous Week's Links and Shows for lots of helpful tips.

California Schools' Software Discount Purchasing Via CTAP
Here is the special pricing available to K-12 schools, due to arrangements made with CTAP. Only schools and districts may purchase at these prices.

Download.Com
A source of free and inexpensive software which can be downloaded.

Shareware and Freeware From Tucows
Large collections of free and low cost software for the Internet.

Microsoft Free Downloads
The Microsoft Company offers free software, including their Internet Explorer, and lots of others that stand alone or run with other major Microsoft applications.

Free Internet Downloads
ZDNet links to their Shareware Library, which offers a wide variety od freeware and shareware.

NCSA Mac software
Free software to use on the Internet, from NCSA, including Mosaic, an alternative Web browser to Netscape.

Price Scan
Check here for prices on computers and peripherals. They list and compare prices nationally, with links to the vendors.

Price Watch
Check here also for prices on computers and peripherals. They list and compare prices nationally, with links to the vendors.

NewsBytes
A daily and weekly collection of news stories about computers and networking.

Macworld Online
Online version of Macworld magazine.

Windows Sources
A place for the serious Windows user to get the latest information.

PC Magazine On the Web
The Web version of Power PC Magazine.

Apple Product Information and Product Support
An official Apple Web site with company and product information.