The Narration of the Video for Case Study # 1
Updated August 28, 10:50 a.m.
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1. The text of the Video for: How To: Connect to the Internet using the Netscape application
To start up the Netscape application, find the appropriate folder. Within it find the Netscape folder using the version you are after. Double click on the application itself. In a few moments the opening screen of Netscape will appear.
2. The text of the Video for: How To: Reach the CROP site.
To reach the CROP site, go into the location window and enter this address, erasing some of the old address which is already there: www.ceap.wcu.edu and tap the return key. The new page will appear in a moment.
When you arrive at our College page, take the link called CROP located in the upper left hand corner of the table. This page is the home page for CROP (Communities Resolving Our problems).
3. The text of the Video for: How To: Make a Bookmark in Netscape
To create a bookmark to CROP's home page, you must of course be on the home page. If you are, click on Bookmarks, drag down to Add Bookmark. When you return to Bookmark and the menu's again you will see that your bookmark is at the bottom. As new bookmarks are added, it will of course move up the list.
4. The text of the Video for: How To: Find Higher Order Questions
To find higher order thinking skill information, click on the link which says THINK Guidance. Of the many branches, here's one, NorthWest Regional Labs model. By way of example, take Comparison and notice a detailed definition of a higher order thinking skill.
5. The text of the Video for: How To: Explore LEAP
LEAP's problem solving process page is CROP's home page. Many of CROP's pages have an address right at the top. Click on LEAP and with a bit of scrolling you can see the four major stages of LEAP's problem solving process.
6. The text of the Video for: How To: Study Concepts in Problem Solving
To find the hunter's curriculum integration table, click on Look. From the Look web page, click on focusing words. To study the curriculum integration table, scroll it up, and down, and left, and right.
7. The text of the Video for: How To: Make a Folder on a Diskette
To store the information that you find, let's resize the window. Insert a floppy diskette. When the diskette symbol appears on your screen, double click on the disk and click on file. The first choice is New Folder and give this folder a name, China Project. This folder will store the files that you will find and create.
8. How To: Make a Word Processor File, Save it, and Place it.
8.1. The text of the Video for: How To: Make a Word Processor File and Prepare it for work with the Internet
Word processing files work well with Internet Browsers like Netscape. Open up the hard drive and go looking for an application which can handle word processing. Once you've selected your word processor, a new blank sheet of paper appears. Resize the word processing window so that you can see the Netscape window behind it. You can move a window by clicking and dragging on the stripes found at the top of each window frame. Once properly resized you can move quickly and easily from one application to the next merely by moving the cursor on to that window and clicking, bringing that window to the top.
8.2. The text of the Video for: How To: Save Your Word Processing and Place it in a Folder
Create a new blank word processing window to hold the data as you find it. Resize your screen so that can see the Netscape window which is behind and click somewhere on the Netscape window and bring that one to the front. Scroll to the appropriate point. Click and drag across the information which you want to retain. Go to the Edit menu. Drag to Copy. Move the cursor over to the visible part of the word processing window. Click on Edit. Drag to Paste. To save this information to your disk, click on file. Drag to Save As. Make sure you are looking at the disk with the proper name, that the folder is open, and give your file a name. Click the Save button. Always double click on your disk and check in the folder to see that the file is present before you leave and take your disk with you.
9. The text of the Video for: How To: Find University Web Site
To look for information, click Look. To look for people, drag to the topmost pyramid. Click People Direct. In this table of contents, since we are looking for an institution which is Stanford, let's click Institution. Take the link to American Higher Education web pages. To search on a long web page, click on Edit and drag to Find. Type in Stanford. Click Find. And from this click the link. When you arrive at Stanford's web page, scroll to find the Table of Contents.
10. The text of the Video for: How To: Find Faculty Contact Information
To find faculty with particular interests, we'll have to make some educated guesses. Let's try Schools and Departments. If their specialty is China, let's try School of Humanities and Sciences and their departments. And from this list as we browse, we find an East Asian Study program. Scrolling further, we find a faculty list. Looking for faculty with comparative interests, we find some basic information. We will copy it. It gives us a place to start. We'll paste it into our word processing document and save the file.
11. The text of the Video for: How To: Find and Save Email Data.
To find an email address, we'll have to look elsewhere. We will click the Back buttons until we return to the original Stanford home page. We are looking for a directories link. Finding one we click it. And far down this page we find a link to Directory of People at Stanford. Typing in the name and with a little scrolling this takes up to the critical contact information we need. We'll go Edit, then to Copy. Move into the word processor with a click. Position our cursor and paste in our newly found information. Once again we will save our file and keep our work current.
12. The text of the Video for: How To: Find a LISTSERV
To hunt for email conferences, click Look. Move down this page to People Direct.
Move down this page to Email Conferences. Click LISTSERV searching. Move down this page and enter your search term. Click Search. Move down this page looking for appropriate sets of experts. Here's one, china-experts. Move down this page and look for the button, Learn More About, in this case, China-experts. Scroll to copy the critical contact information. Edit to Copy. Click in your word processor window. Paste the information in.
13. The text of the Video for: How To: Find a Newsgroup
To search for email conferences, click on People Direct. Move down to Email Conferences and click on Newsgroup Searching, by DejaNews. Skip Quicksearch and put in your search term, china and click Find. DejaNews sorts them out and prioritizes what it finds. Highlight and copy what you've found. Paste this information into your word processor.
14. The text of the Video for: How To: Organize with an Outline Processor
To further organize your information, click the Zoom box to enlargen the screen. Go to the Edit menu and say Select All. It is time to turn on the Outline Processor. Click on the body button and drag down to Diamond, as it one of those styles. Create a heading for your work. We'll create a second heading and the collapse this information underneath that heading. Let's create another heading. Email Conferences, and collapse the information that we've found here underneath that heading as well. By double clicking on one of these headings all of the information underneath that heading collapses or disappears underneath it. But we can expand it by double-clicking to have it reappear. These headings can have their own sub-headings. In this way, we can organize the information as we collect it.
15. How To: Find Juvenile (Children's) Literature Online
15.1. The text of the Video for: How To: Find Major Libraries e.g., the Library of Congress
To Look for books, move down the Look pyramid page to Library Systems. Scroll the Library Resources or Systems page and take the link to Four Major Public Libraries and Children's Literature. For example, let's try the Library of Congress. To do a thorough search of the Library of Congress, use the Telnet interface link here. But notice there is also tutorial information available as well. It is possible however to connect to the Telnet application into the Library of Congress without using Netscape at all. So at this point, click on file. Drag to quit. Quit the Netscape application and follow the next Cameraman videoclip.
15.2. The text of the Video for: Find and Use Telnet to Connect
To find the Telnet application, double click on the hard drive. Open the folder containing Internet applications. Open the NCSA Telnet folder. Find the application icon for Telnet and double click on that file. Your desktop screen does not change, but notice that the symbol in the upper right corner has changed. There is a checkmark in front of the NCSA Telnet application. Next click on File. Drag to Open Connection. Put in the address that is the Library of Congress, locis.loc.gov and click connect or tap the return key. You've now arrived at the Library of Congress.
15.3. The text of the Video for: Set Up to Capture Data.
Once you've arrived at the Library of Congress, you'll want to save your online session for future study. Click on Session in the menu bar. Drag down to Capture Session to File. Give your file a name. Make sure that you are saving it to your disk, in the proper folder on your disk. Click Save. The screens from all further activity will now be saved to that file. Let's reach the Library of Congress catalog itself. You've now reached the many different forms of the Library of Congress catalog.
15.4. The text of the Video for: Search the Library of Congress.
To search for more recent children's books, follow these commands. Tap 3. and press the return key. Type B for browse, then type juvenile literature and repeat your command several times if they don't appear to be going through. Select the sixth item on this list. Now browse or search for books on China in the subject area. Again select the sixth item of the list. Tap H for the history command. COMBINE 1 AND 4 then Display Set 6. Tap the Return key, to browse the screens.
15.5. The text of the Video for: Quitting LOCIS and Telnet
When you have finished looking for books, use the Quit command. Type the number 12. Type the number 12 again. If you turned on data capture, all of your work has been saved to this point. Click on file and go to Quit.
16. The text of the Video for: How To: Find Quality Rated Children's Web Sites
To find children's safe web sites, work from CROP's Look page. Scroll down through the pyramids and take the one at the bottom which says Full Access Search Systems. From this page scroll to take the first choice at the top which contains some 40,000+ reviewed web sites. Click McKinley's Magellan. When the Magellan site comes up do not click and type into the Search For box immediately, but click on the blue button for Options. In the Options box, scroll to where you can click on some high rating, 3 or 4 star sites, but most important for searching for children's safe sites, click the button which says Green Light Only. Once you set those conditions, now you can move to the Search For line and type in your topic of interest. Then click Submit choices. Magellan found over 63 reviewed results which are ranked with a 3 or 4 rating and the green dot indicates that these are children's safe web sites, of great benefit to school and classroom application.
17. The text of the Video for: How To: Gather Further Email Addresses of Experts and Consultants
Web pages also contain other very useful information. In particular the email address of the author of the web page. Generally the names are found toward the bottom of a web page. Clicking on the underlined words leads you to further information about the authors of these pages. As you find this information, copy it by clicking and dragging across the text as before. Using the copy command, flip to your word processor and do a Paste. And then by properly overlapping your windows it is easy to move back to prior information space. Down at the bottom of another page we find an email address. We'll copy that. It is also important to note the web address along with the email information. So we are copying by clicking and dragging across that information as well, saving this to our disk as we go.
18.1. The text of the Video for: How To: Save a Set of Bookmarks to Disk
To save your bookmarks to disk, move the cursor to Window in the menu bar. Drag down to Bookmarks. When this window opens you can do further editing. You can drag bookmarks so that are in a different sequence. You can clear and cut or copy or paste them. When you are finished editing click on File, drag to Save Bookmarks File As. Make sure that you are looking on your disk and that you are in the China Project or whatever folder is necessary. Give your file a name and click save. Your existing file will be updated with the latest changes that you've made.
18.2. The text of the Video for: How To: Import/Restore a Set of Bookmarks from Disk
If you discover that the bookmarks you need are missing, and if you've previously saved them to disk, you can restore them. Click on window. Drag to Bookmarks. Once this has opened the Bookmark Editor, drag down to Import Bookmarks. Make sure that you are looking on the proper disk and the correct location. Once you've located your bookmarks, open that file. Now you will see that they are back and available again underneath the Bookmarks command.
19. The text of the Video for: How To: Search a Web Catalog Search System
To use one of the Internet cataloging search systems, scroll down the Look page until you find Full Access Search Systems. Then, from the World Wide Web search pyramid, move to the middle section of this table, which says Subject Catalogs. Try the first one which says Yahoo. When the site comes up, in the search box click and input your search term, then click the Search button. Just ignore the commercials. Scroll to see the wide number of site matches that are available. Try one of the headings that Yahoo offers. Notice that they have already categorized a wide variety of information on China. Take the Education link as an example. Click K-12. Take another link. You will find that you have arrived in another culture.
20. The text of the Video for: HowTo: Search a Web Robot based System
To go Looking in one of the really immense web based search engines, click on the bottom level of the pyramid, follow the link to Full Access Search Systems, and in the page that follows, move down into the section titled Robots. Let's try one of them, the Lycos search system. From the Lycos search page, enter your search term, and tap the return key or click the Go Get It button. From the search page, it will tell that you found a certain number of documents, and in this case over 15,000 on the subject of China. Scrolling, and clicking on the blue underlined words will take you directly to the web sites that were found.
21. The text of the Video for: How To: Print.
To print out a document, you might want to follow these steps. Give it a heading. You can center that heading by highlighting the text on that particular line. You can bold-face the heading. With that done, click on File and drag down to Print. If 1 is the only number of copies that you are going to need and you want all of the pages in it, then just click the word Print and begin the process.
22. The text of the Video for: How To: Annotate a Netscape Bookmark.
To annotate a bookmark, means to add a description or comment to the bookmark itself. To do so, click on Window and drag down to Bookmarks. This activates the bookmark editor. Click on any one of your bookmarks. Click on Item and drag to Edit. In this way you can see if a description has already been left. Note that here is the location or the URL bookmark. This what Netscape uses to take you to the website. That same address has been copied here so that when it prints out, those who use your printout will know what to type in to arrive at the web sites that you have found of interest. Let's add a description to one. "In native Chinese, not English." Then we will copy the web site address down to the description field. In this way you will end up with a complete set of descriptions for all of your bookmarks.
23. The text of the Video for: How To: Save and Print Out Bookmarks.
To give others copies of your bookmarks, follow these steps. Click on Window, drag down to bookmarks activating the bookmarks editor. Click on File and drag to Save Bookmark As. Give this file a name. We will save this one to the desktop. Take this symbol for the file bookmarks, and drag it on top of a diskette to give a copy of this file to someone else. One could also make a printout of those bookmarks as well. Click on File and drag down to Open File. Select the name of your bookmark file. As this item appears on the screen you will see all of those items listed as bookmarks. If you completed the annotations or descriptions, they will be visible as well. Plus, this is also a linkable web page. Clicking on a link takes you directly to a web site. To print, click on file. Drag down to Print. Click Print one more time to send a copy to the printer.
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24. The text of the Video for: How To: Find the Evoke section of LEAP
To move to the Evoke stage of problem solving, follow these steps. If you are not already there, click on LEAP and scroll to find the word Evoke in the LEAP section of the CROP site. Notice a wide range of application suggestions, though the emphasis should be put on the terms word processor, spreadsheet, paint and draw for there are many applications which do these same activities.
25. The text of the Video for: How To: Use a Spreadsheet.
25.1. Search for comparative data. This data will be copied and inserted into the spreadsheet.
To quickly find online reference information, click the apple on the Look problem solving page. Click the link to Full-access Meta-Library. And as this page appears, scroll down and find the General Reference section. Click on More underneath the word Reference. In this case, let's click on CIA Publications. We click the link to the 1995 World Fact Book. To find information on China, click C, then click the word China. Scroll to read basic information. The categories are the same for each country, facilitating comparisons. Click the back arrow to return. Choose a different country. Each time this data appears, you can copy relevant information from a web page to a word processing screen or you can click on File and print out the information that you need.
25.2. Insert comparative data into the cells of a spreadsheet.
Spreadsheets are fine tools for making comparisons. When you open up a spreadsheet from some application, whether Clarisworks or Excel, you will see rows and columns broken up into cells. Each cell can hold information. Let's enter some information here as a basis for our comparison. Running down the left edge of our columns we can add additional features for our comparison. As we research and find information through the Internet and Library resources we can enter in the basic data that we find. We can see that in this regard our countries are very similar in terms of land area. But in terms of communication resources, what is available to the citizens of each country is very different. Continually save your spreadsheet as you work. SS for spreadsheet.
26. The text of the Video for: How To: Modify Netscape to Run Local Applications.
To configure Netscape to work with other applications on the desktop of the computer where you are working, click on Options and go to General Preferences. From General Preferences click on Helpers. From the Helpers screen click on New to indicate that you are going to connect Netscape with a new application. Type in these terms: [application, clarisworks]. Next you need to indicate to Netscape where the Clarisworks program or the application you are looking for is located. You will find it in the application folder, the Clarisworks folder. Double clicking on it to Open it will establish a connection. When the Clarisworks program is found we want it to launch that particular program. Files will be coming from the Web server with the extension CWWP to indicate that they are Clarisworks. We need to indicate that the Filetype is Clarisworks both here and in this location. Click OK or Apply in the bottom right hand corner of your screen in order to make these changes.
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31. The text of the Video for: How To: Organize Class Interaction for Online Practice.
31.1. Find the SUP database's entry form for questions.
To let others know about the questions you have, click on Sharing Problems from CROP's home page. Scroll down the page and find the link which says Add a New Problem to the SUP database. You have arrived at the Entry Form page in which you can add your own problems to the database.
31.2. Add and send the question.
Enter your question in the Problem or Question field. Scroll down the page further and give your question a title. Another way to think of it is as a Keyword. If you have hints or solutions you can put them in that box that might help solve your question. As this is an entry question indicate No it has not been solved. Then indicate who the message is from. Pass on the team name for now and at the bottom click, Send Now. In a few moments the database will respond with a Thank You and an indicate that it has successfully received your question.
31.3. A test search of the SUP database for her entered question.
To check on questions and their responses, scroll down the Sharing Problems page and click the Search the SUP Database link. A Frame page comes up. In the frame on the left enter a Keyword. Scroll to the bottom of the frame on the left and find the button to Start Search. It will respond with a table of questions and responses. In this case there is only one question and no responses have been entered. Click the last name of the first question in the table. In the window on the right the question that that person contributed will appear. Scrolling further you will find an empty box where a contributor can add their response to the question which has been entered and find a button at the bottom to add it to the database and the thread of thought that was begun by Mrs. Morris.
32. The text of the Video for: How To: Use Email Conferences.
32.1. Configure web browser for newsgroup and email addresses
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32.2. Find and Browse newsgroup categories for all newsgroups.
To reach one form of electronic mail conferences click on Window. Drag down to Netscape News. In the screen that appears, open your connection to your local Newsgroup provider by clicking on it. To see the full collection, click on Options. Drag down to Show All Newsgroups. The extensive list in your electronic library will begin to appear. It may take some time if this is the first time that this computer has accessed newsgroups. It is important to also be able to read the sign language, the symbols that are going by on your screen as you scroll through the groups. This symbol is the symbol of a collection of newsgroups, some 34 with their own sub-collections. We click K-12 Education and see that there are twelve groups there. We click on the link to K12 Computer Literacy and see there are two unread messages out of a total of 22 currently available. In clicking on any one of those messages, this list of subjects, this pulls the full message up in the frame at the bottom.
32.3. Explore an email thread from a newsgroup.
Email messages come in threads. You may see several under the same topic. When one is indented, it is indicating that it is responding to the one that is to the left and above. For example, this one, and this one, both responding to the general topic of keyboarding. This one is a direct response to the one immediately above it and to the left.
32.4. Reach just one certain newsgroup.
To quickly and directly reach any newsgroup, highlight the Location window and type news for newsgroups. Type the name of the newsgroup you wish to reach. Tap the Return Key and it will begin loading email messages for the particular newsgroup that you wish to reach. You will see the red thermometer scrolling across the bottom as newsgroups come in. But even while those newsgroups are being loaded, you can begin to click on the ones which are available. That message will be loaded into the frame at the bottom.
32.5. Reply to a newsgroup email message.
To respond to a particular message, click on Message in the menu bar, but be very careful about the choice that you pick. For example, if you choose Post Reply and begin typing your message, and if you click Send Now you will send your message to everyone of the newsgroups in the addressing box. If you want it to go to a particular newsgroup then you will need to delete all the other newsgroups from the box. But in the case of a job offer you would really not want your message to go to all the other newsgroups that were listed in the return address field. Instead you would want your message to go directly to the individual who sent the mail to the newsgroup. Notice that here it is addressed to one person. Then you would enter your response and click Send Now.
33. The text of the Video for: How To: Send an Email Message with an Attachment.
To send email messages to someone, click Window and drag down to Netscape mail. Clicking on your Inbox will put your email messages in the window on the right. To send mail to an individual, click TO: MAIL. Enter their address, and a subject. Add a file as an attachment. Click Attach. Click Attach File. Find the file that you want to add to your email message and click Open. Click Done, then enter your message. Click Send Now.
34. The text of the Video for: How To: Email a Newsgroup with a New Topic.
To add a new newsgroup, click on Window. Drag to news. Double click on the link to your newsgroup provider. At that point you can click on File and say Add a Newsgroup. In this case we will add the K-12 social studies newsgroup to the list. If you were to add a message now to this list, by clicking Post Reply, you would first of course have to select something. If you Post a Reply it will be appended to the existing message. If you truly want a new message and a new topic you will have to click on file, and go to New News Message.
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35. How To: Make a Simple Web Page
35.1. The text of the Video for: Prepare the Word Processing Document for Quick Web Page Insertion
Find your word processing file and open it. When it becomes visible, use the "Select All" command under "Edit." Change the format from outlining to standard body text. From there, click on "Edit" and go to "Preferences." Put the "x" under "show invisibles" so that all carriage returns will be visible in the document. Copy one of those carriage returns, unselect it, click on "edit" and go to "find, change." Insert the carriage return symbols in that location, in the location on the right hand side, enter "
" for a line break in your web pages and select "change all" so that every carriage returns in your document will be found (in this case all 58 of them). At this point say select all text, copy your text and you are prepared to insert this information into a web page
35.2. Copy and Paste the WP Document into the Web Page Template and Save
Once you have copied your word processing information, find a simple web page template. Open it up, put the cursor underneath the main heading and say paste. Resize the screen if necessary, and you now have all of your data from your word processing document ready to be a web page. We'll do some moving around here of a title, and paste that information in two different locations on the page. We will save the file by appropriate name--HTML means hypertext markup language--and save this file to disk.
35.3. Test the New Web Page.
To test a web page that you've created, click on "file" and drag down to "open file." Then go looking for your disk in the file that you've created. Open, and you can see that this file is ready for transmission on the internet, though at the moment, it`s only being viewed locally on this computer work station.
36. How To: Use Fetch to Transfer Files between Computers
36.1. How To: Use Fetch to Contact a Remote Web Server Computer
To place a file that you've been preparing on a web server on the internet, use a program like "Fetch." Click on "file" and establish a new connection. Enter in your host address, a user ID, a password, and indicate a directory, and then click, "OK."
36.2. How To: Use Fetch to Send a File to the Web Server Computer
A series of files will appear on your screen after you have clicked OK. You need to go looking for the file that you want to place in that directory. Once you have found it click Open. Text is the correct format. Click OK. A small graph will appear in this corner of the screen indicating your progress. The file has been transmitted. It has successfully arrived.
37. How To: Copy a Disk.
37.1. How To: Copy Your Source Disk Data to the Computer Workstation's Hard Drive
To copy a diskette, click on it to select it. Click and drag it on top of your local hard drive. The thermometer on the screen will indicate your progress in copying your files. To check to see if you made such a copy, you will see a new folder on your desktop (window). That folder will have the same name as your diskette.
37.2. How To: Copy Your Source Data from the Hard Drive to Your New Disk
To copy your files and folders to a new disk, remove the old disk and insert a new one in the computer. When that disk symbol appears, go to the folder you just created. Open it. Say, select all. Click on the files and folders within it on any one of them, and begin dragging those symbols to the right. Move the tip of the arrow on top of the diskette. When it inverses in color, lift up on the mouse button. The copying process will begin. When the copying process is completed, double click on the diskette and make that all of your files and folders have arrived.