Electronic Information Sources
JOMC 97.55

• Wednesday, Aug. 23 -- Intro. to the course and to one another
• Lab session: Intro to Lab Sessions, How to Remember Names
• If you have computer and modem please read Connecting to UNC-CH via Modem. This WWW document is also available as a handout from OIT, 402 Hanes Hall or 300 Wilson Library.

Week 2

• Monday, Sept. 4 -- HOLIDAY Labor Day (No Class)
• Wednesday, Sept. 6 -- Topic Project #1 due
  Q & A topic assignment
  What's S.E.A.R.C.H?
  The Boolean Search
  
• Please read:
  Chapters 1, 2 and 4 of Kessler and McDonald.
  Collect OIT Handouts from Wilson 300 or Hanes 405
• Lab session:
  An Exciting Intro. to Computers
  Bob's Pop Computer Quiz
  
  Bring a Macintosh or unformatted disk
• If have not used a Macintosh before, please read Macintosh Basics , Macintosh Getting Started, & Mac Advanced. These WWW documents are also available as a handout from OIT, 402 Hanes Hall or 300 Wilson Library.

Week 5

• Monday, Sept. 18 -- Graded Topic Projects Returned
  Discussion: Topic feedback
  Bob's intro to WWW
  
• Wednesday, Sept. 20
  Video: Chief Yahoos: David Filo/Jerry Fang
  What's Yahoo?
  Treasure Hunt - Q & A -
  Other Search Engines
  
• Lab session: Hands-on WWW WWW
  Difference: Lynx and Netscape.
  Netscape in more detail
  Finding Info. on the WWW
  Tell us your favorite WWW sites.
  
• For explanation on Lynx please read Using Lynx at UNC-CH. This WWW document is also available as a handout from OIT, 402 Hanes Hall or 300 Wilson Library.

Week 6

• Monday, Sept. 25 -- Treasure (Govt. Docs) Hunt #1 Due
  Commerce & Business Online
  EDGAR SEC documents
  InfoTrac
  
• Please read: Chapter 7 (The Culture of Commerce) of Kessler and McDonald
• Wednesday, Sept. 27 -- More business resources; flagship companies
  First Search, U-Search, Academic abstracting
  Annotated Bibliography Assignment Part 1
  • Five each: books, periodicals, Web sites, Reference sources, Electronic sources.
  • (Details to be announced)
• Lab session: Email review & Netiquette
  Commerce Online
  Using EDGAR
  Share your favorite WWW sites (Continued)
  
• Please read Pine and Pico Introduction. This WWW document is also available as a handout from OIT, 402 Hanes Hall or 300 Wilson Library.

Week 7

• Monday, Oct. 2 -- Databases for journalists; People as Sources Public relations & public information; "Official" voices and experts; PROFnet
  
• Please read: Chapter 8 (Experts and Where to Find Them) of Kessler and McDonald
• Wednesday, Oct. 4 -- Mid-semester evaluation & feedback
  Types of Interviews; Another personal database: bibliography
  
• Annotated Bibliography Part 1 Due
• For the class, please read: Chapter 9 (Interviewing) of Kessler and McDonald.
• For the holidays, please read: Internet: Introduction and Internet Browsing. These WWW documents are also available as handouts from OIT, 402 Hanes Hall or 300 Wilson Library.

  FALL RECESS BEGINS 5 P.M. NO LAB SESSIONS THIS WEEK

Week 8

• Monday, Oct. 9 -- Print (& other) publications online
  Familiar and unfamiliar faces:
  Newspapers, magazines, and publications born on the Web:
  Samples of Web publications to read outside class or in labs.
  User interface issues
  
• Please read: Chapter 10 (Trust, Truth and Thoughtful Assumptions)
  and Chapter 11 (Writing: Visions and Revisions) of Kessler and McDonald
• Wednesday, Oct. 11 -- Lexis/Nexis and beyond
  Howell library online resources
  Comparisons: Dialog, Nexis, others
  
• Please read: Appendix (Access and Integrity) of Kessler and McDonald For Oct. 11 and Oct. 13
• Lab session: Gary N. Pattillo and Pam Dutcher, Electronic Services/Reference Librarians, conduct special session on Lexis/Nexis at Conference room C of Davis Library.
  Please assemble near front door of Davis Library.
  Sources You Can Trust; Evaluating sources worldwide.

Week 9

• Monday, Oct. 16 -- Mid-term Pre-exam Review
  Questions about the text readings
  Questions about the Mid-term
  
• Wednesday, Oct. 18 -- MID TERM Exam will have two parts:
  1. a multiple-choice test on all aspects of the course including discussions in class, lab sessions, and handouts. 50 Questions (Time limit: 45 minutes)
  2. Mid-term Treasure Hunt assignment.
• Lab session: Questions & answers on Treasure Hunt assignment
  Intro to HTML: Text-only/ASCII, RTF
  Web page on your disk
• Please read Internet Authoring handout from OIT and Policies.

Week 10

• Monday, Oct. 23 -- Discussion: Mid-term Questions
  Mid-term Treasure Hunt assignment due
  Discussion of finding Authoritative sources in Treasure Hunt Assignment.
  
• Wednesday, Oct. 25 -- GUEST SPEAKER: Teresa Leonard
  research director, News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.
  A newspaper's News Research department
  Internal & external research resources, Job skills & options
  
• Please read Macintosh: Telnet and FTP File Transfer to www.unc.edu and File Transfer Using Fetch. These WWW documents are also available as handouts from OIT, 402 Hanes Hall or 300 Wilson Library.
• Lab session: HTML headings, lists, links
  Uploading with Fetch & FTP
  Look at Sunsite

Week 11

• Monday, Oct. 30 -- Cyberpublishing & Cyberpublishers
  Paul Jones, manager of UNC Sunsite
  What IS Sunsite? Library? Publication?
  How reliable and authoritative are Web sites?
  This is a new link to Paul's in-class examples, including some that he did not have time to get to in class.
  
• Wednesday, Nov. 1 -- Online Resources
  Barbara Semonche, director of the UNC-CH JOMC McPherson Library
  Gopher, Bookmarks, Polling Information
  Gopher -- the pre-WWW best idea
  Internet tools: Archie, Veronica, Whois.
  
• Annotated Bibliography Assignment To Be Announced
  (please disregard the description in the previous version of the schedule)
  
• For Nov. 1 and Nov. 3 Lab sessions, please read Creating WWW Pages at UNC-CH and (if you haven't already) File Transfer Using Fetch, although we won't be using Fetch in the labs for another week. These WWW documents are also available as handouts from OIT, 402 Hanes Hall or 300 Wilson Library.
• Bring your disks! In class, we'll still be using Last week's lab notes and asking ourselves why anyone should create personal Web pages in the first place. One possible answer mentioned in the lab notes is "to use a page as an Annotated Bibliography."
• Resources used in class:
  • OIT Handout: Web Page Advanced Design (may not be available online yet)
  • OIT Web Page Guidelines
  • Background colors, as indexed by infi.net
  • Netscape's free collection of background texture files
• If there's time, we'll also discuss Creating Web Pages by Copying and Adapting, using Bob's "Steal this" page and some of the pages linked to the lab notes above.
  

Week 12

• Monday, Nov. 6 -- Cyberpublishing & Cybercasting
  Commercialization vs. Personalization
  Information about Yourself
  Publishing yourself assignment due Nov. 20.
• Wednesday, Nov. 8 -- Rich Beckman: Pictures on the Page
  Internet Authoring: How and Why?
  What Should You Do
  Links to Information sources
  
• Lab session -- Fetch-fest with Ranjeev Singh:
  Understanding just enough Unix
  Using Fetch to put your pages online
  What is "raw data"?
  JPEG, GIF and graphic formats
  Scanning pictures
  Bring your photo & favorite graphic!
  

Week 13

• Monday, Nov. 13 -- Usenet Newsgroups & Virtual Communities
  Difference between newsgroups and listserv
  News readers (TIN, PINE, Netscape)
  
• Please read NewsReaders: TIN. This WWW document is also available as a handout from OIT, 402 Hanes Hall or 300 Wilson Library.
• In-class examples and background readings:
  
  • Howard Rheingold's Virtual Community book
  • New Republic Article -- Internet discourse
  • New Republic Article -- Flaming (also available in The New Republic magazine, but these online editions have been enhanced with links to newsgroups and other URLs. Original publication dates are mentioned in the online editions.
  • USENET FAQ files for news.announce.newusers
  • Links to USENET groups (only work if Netscape is configured properly)
    • news.newusers.questions
    • rec.music.folk
    • alt.banjo.clawhammer
    • rec.boats
    • unc.jomc
    • unc.chat
    • triangle.jobs
    • triangle.general