American
Studies
Barnard College, Columbia
University
AMS 3002y,
Technical Aspects of the Seminar
EARLY AC HOMEPAGE
The Use and Utility of a Course
Newsgroup [Columbia.spring.hist3464]
- The Columbia CUNIX System provides for newsgroups, to
which students taking a specific course (and anybody else
with a CU ID!) can subscribe. The newsgroup for this
course is << Columbia.spring.ash3002 >> and
can be subscribed to by going to the Pine e-mail system
on the Columbia network [ type "pine" at $
prompt] and following the prompts on subscribing to
newsgroups.
- Once subscribed, announce your presence to the rest of us
in the newsgroup by posting something relevant to the
course. You may also wish to comment on an earlier
posting by one of us. The point is to get you using this
medium by which students can communicate with me, but
more importantly, with each other. A substantial part of
your grade for participation will be based on your use of
our newsgroup. You came to Barnard and Columbia not just
to learn from the likes of me, but from the other
smartypants students around here. So start doing so.
The Use & Utility of the Course
Homepage
[ http://cedar.barnard.columbia.edu/~history/earlyac ]
The course also has a homepage/site published on the
World Wide Web and accessible from all computers with
access to the Internet. It contains a variety of
materials relevant to the purposes of the course,
including electronic versions of the provisional calendar
[earlyac/cal.html], list of readings [earlyac/read.html],
other relevant Web-sites [earlyac/sites.html and a
schedule of assignments [earlyac/assign.html] distributed
in hard-copy at the beginning of the semester. Updates of
all these materials will be published henceforth at the
web site as the semester goes along, so keep checking.
This web site will also provide links to the course
homepages/sites of all students in the course. It is on
these where your assignments will be electronically
published and made available to the world. More on this
below.
The Use and Utility of Web Search
Engines [Yahoo, Alta Vista, etc].
Students in this course will be expected to utilize
electronic as well as hard-copy bibliographic resources,
which means developing skills in the searching the World
Wide Web. This includes learning to characterize your
research needs in searchable terms, which give you fair
assurance of discovering the web sites relevant to your
research purposes. Several different search engines are
accessible from either the Barnard Library home page
[http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/ ]or by clicking on
"Internet" on the Coumbia University home page
[http://www.columbia.edu].
The Use and Utility of Your Own Course
Home Page [http://www.columbia.edu/~CUID/earlyac.html]
All formal student presentations [heretofore
"papers"] will be published on your own seminar
home page, which makes them readable by me, the other
students in the course and pretty much the rest of the
world! This means you will need to become familiar with
the format language of the Web -- HTML. This will permit
you to include images in your presentations, to make
hyperlinks from one part of your presentation to another
and/or to distant web sites.
Publishing on the Web also means that you need to take
into account not only your immediate audience in this
course and its specific purposes but your much larger
potential audience and its heterogeneous needs. All such
published presentations will be linked to the course home
page during the semester and especially effective ones
will be made a permanent part of the course's homepage.
Your chance for electronic immortality….
EARLY AC HOMEPAGE
