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2. Libraries of Links
The spider web metaphor is apt: the web is spun continually, is often broken, and the potential entrapments are many. Gaining useful access to material through the major search engines
like Yahoo or Alta Vista, is like searching for the proverbial needle. Having
students begin with search engines is less useful than telling them that there are lots
of books in the library, at least we selected those. Faculty
can provide an expert's guide to the mass of information available on the internet. Annotated listings of relevant web sites composed by faculty members can be invaluable. This became crystal clear for me when I was looking
at the hits the keyword 'Mombasa' turned up in Alta Vista with Mary Porter; she could quickly
identify the political agenda of the various groups posting information, the assumptions
built into certain image and map selections, and so on.
Examples:
This is a way of reproducing your bookmark file for your students, and annotating it for them.
In fact, you can do it just that way:
- Go to the Window menu, select Bookmarks
- under the File menu chose Save As.
- This will prompt you for a filename and save the file to
your harddrive.
- If you transfer this file to a web accessible site on our SLC web server it can then
be viewed from any location.
Transferring Files to the Webserver
In order to be viewed from any machine with web access a file containing HTML has to be
moved onto our web server. To make use of this, you need to have a web directory set up for you
by our webmaster, Leigh Heyman (lheyman@mail.slc.edu). You can then transfer files using
an FTP (file transfer protocol) program or from within one of the HTML editors.
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