GIS 2030 EPE, Library, and Computer Workshop

Despite all sense and reason she couldn’t give up worrying about her children, couldn’t give up wondering where she’d failed. Hadn’t she birthed, nursed, and cuddled them? Hadn’t she tucked them in, read to them, kissed their hurts, taught them manners, disciplined them even when it had hurt her to do so? Hadn’t she watched, hawk-eyed, for their individual tastes and talents, and fostered those talents as best she knew how? Even after they’d left home, hadn’t she called and written, fiddled with the bank accounts to send them money, taken them back in whenever they’d wanted? Hadn’t she scaled down all her great expectations to a tepid "Whatever makes you happy" that secretly stuck in her craw? But none of her understanding, compromises, or maneuvering had helped. All of her children . . . were lost to her. It was one thing that her marriage had started on a tidal wave of love then shipwrecked and bleached and dried to bitterness. That happened to so many women. But her failure with her children—that was the ache for which there was no painkiller, the foghorn she heard on the sunniest day.—Lois Battle (1996, Bed and Breakfast)

This workshop is aimed at improving your skills in accessing and storing ISP, CLL, WSU, and WWW resources.  In particular, we'll

• Explore some of Wayne State's internet resources.  
• Conduct internet searches.
• Explore some other useful or fun internet links.

Creating Favorites (=Bookmarks):   To avoid re-typing the long internet address we've just typed, we need to place it in the computer's memory:

• If you are working with Internet Explorer, left-click Favorites, then Add to Favorites, then OK.  From now on, if you are anywhere on the internet, and want to go back, you left-click Favorites, then find the address you've just added (at the end), and left-click again.
• If you are working with Netscape, left-click Bookmarks, then Add a Bookmark.  From now on, if you are anywhere on the internet, and want to go back, you left-click Bookmarks, then find the address you've just added (at the end), and left-click again.

Creating and Switching Windows:  Bill Gates is a rich man now thanks, in part, to the creation of Windows--which involves working on two or more computer applications at the same time.  You have one internet application open; that's what you're reading right now.  But to write things for today's assignment, you need to open a word-processing program as well.

• Go to File on top right of this screen, choose Save As . . . and save this file in your computer.
• Go to top left, and click on the - sign.  This minimizes this internet application, but doesn't close it (you can still see it at the taskbar at the bottom of your screen).   Now open Microsoft Word.
• In Microsoft Word, open the file you have just copied (links2.htm). 
• From now on, you'll be gathering information in your internet application, then highlighting it there, copying it, and pasting it into your Microsoft Word links2.htm file.

With the help of your neighbors and floating instructors, answer the following questions (use Microsoft Word to write and print your answers and hand your answers to class instructor before going home tonight):

I. We've discussed in class David Stannard's American Holocaust.  Use your computer to find out:  

• What's this book's call number?  (Hint:  go to Wayne State University Library System, then choose catalogs, then Wayne.  Choose the title option on the left)
• When was it published?
• Is it available right now at Wayne State, or has it been checked out?
• If available at Wayne State, at which libraries?
• Is it available at DPL? (now choose Other Library Catalogs, then DALNET, then DPL).  At which department?  What's the call number there?
• Give one citation to a review of this book? (go to Electronic Resources, then First Search to find one reference)

II. Contemporary Events:

• Visit the New York Times and tell us:  What's today's top story?
• Visit Mother Jones and tell us what's their top story?
• Visit NPR Online- National Public Radio, then search for Elephant, listen (if your computer allows you) to one report about elephant communication, then give us its title.

III. Internet Searches.  Use FAST Search to find out: 

• Best treatment for skunk spray (you see, it's the middle of the night, you have just been sprayed while jogging, and you have got to do something about this, quick!)
• Capital City of the country of Bhutan.

IV. Some Useful Skills:

• Find the address, phone number, or e-mail, of a long-lost friend at: WhoWhere? Phone Numbers & Addresses.
• Use Books Online to find out the first sentence in Chapter 1 of Nathaniel Hawthorn's House of Seven Gables.
• Visit the ISP Welcome Page , click Online Courses (a moving center panel) and identify online courses offered by the ISP.
• You are considering taking a class with ISP professor Lisa Maruca, and wish to send her an e-mail.  Find her e-mail at WSU People Search.

V. Our class site: 

• Visit  our class site: www.cll.wayne.edu/isp/mnissani/2030/2030.htm   Now, let's say that you are going to be in Kenya for the next 3 weeks, that you'll have ready access to the internet there, that you want to keep up with your work, and that you want to travel light.  So you only want to take with you class materials that are NOT available online.  Which pages of your coursepack do you need to take with you?

When done answering all questions, print them out, write your name on top, and hand them in to class instructor--this is a formal class requirement.

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