Go over Course Outline
What is to be covered during the lecture.
1.Welcome, textbooks, regulations, motivation.
* 2.Logon to St.FX
3.Start Netscape
4.Bring up the Ed467 homepage - at netsite add /people/rjmackin/ed467/ed467.htm
to ST.FXU URL
5.bookmark the Ed467 web page http://www.stfx.ca/people/rjmackin/ed467/ed467.htm
6.Start the Messenger Mailbox of Netscape
7.Set your email password
8.Open your mailbox
9.Send email to me and to yourself
10.add me to your address book
11.Change your nt password.
Before we start doing hands on stuff we will need an assessment of the
level of the class:
1.How many are familiar
with Window 95? Your the ones that will have a problem in this course.
2.How many have not used
a computer before?
3.Used Dos but not windows.
4.used windows 3.1?
5.used windows 95?
6.used windows NT?
7.used the Internet?
8.own their own computer
with windows 95 on it?
9. Used Microsoft Word?
Excel? PowerPoint? Downloaded software from the WEB?
In Class exercise - Show switching from Ed467 Home to lectures
- to Email
It would be useful if the people who are familiar with computers would
sit with people who have not used a computer before. The people who
have used a computer before can can help out their neighbor. But you are
not allowed to touch the other person's mouse or keyboard. Please talk
in whisper tones while explaining something to someone or asking a question
so as not to disturb the class as a whole.
Background
Please note
that there will be discrepencies between this guide and what really happens.
There are a number of programs that
do an initialization
the first time you use it and I will have to guide you through it at the
time. You should only have to do it once.
Once you have
it done once it should look more like this.
1.All of the computers in the lab are connected to a network called webfx.
Web FX provides a number of servers that
each serve 1 or more specific functions. Servers are basically the same
as the computers you are using except they have
more disk space and memory and may run different software. We will go into
more detail later about Webfx but for now
that's enough for you to know.
2.All of you should have been given a username for webfx. I am told by
other instructors that about 15% of them won't
work. We will deal with that later. If you fail after trying 3 times, go
to the TSG helpdesk and get them to fix your account right after class.
3.Your webfx id will work anywhere on campus. You do not have to be in
this room or on any particular computer for the
username to work.
4.You have a certain amount of disk space that is provided to you by the
servers it is called drive H:
5.Anything you save on H: will travel with you if you store it anywhere
else it better be on a floppy or it will disappear.
Let's begin the login on process above *