Graduate Program in Public Health

• Where can I go at UMDNJ to find computers?
• How do I use the World Wide Web?
• How do I find interesting things on the World Wide Web?
• How can I create an annotated list of sites I have found and submit them to Professor Kaufman?
• Can I do this stuff at home?
• Save important email!

This lab is managed by the Academic Computing Services (ACS) Department. If you have any questions about the equipment in the lab or your UMDNJ computer account in general, you can see the attendent at the help desk or send email to the UMDNJ computer system administrator at the address: hostmaster@umdnj.edu

If you have any questions about how to use the World Wide Web at UMDNJ, direct your questions to UMDNJ's World Wide Web administrator at www@umdnj.edu

If you have any questions about the class, send email to your instructor at kaufman@umdnj.edu

There are other ACS computer labs at other UMDNJ locations you may use. In addition, the Dean's office at RWJMS has made available a dozen or so Macintosh computers 24 hours a day in the Interlab located directly behind the N217 lab.

ACS offers a 3-hour class on how to effectively use the World Wide Web and other Internet-based services as well as a class on how to publish information on the World Wide Web. You can consult the course schedule for the availablity of these classes.

You may teach yourself a lot about the topics by looking at the starting point documents for both the Internet class and WWW Publishing class. Each of these documents contain a lot of useful information and hypertext links.

One way to effectively search for information on the WWW is to start at the Internet Search Tools document. You can find this document by starting at the UMDNJ home page, selecting Search Tools, and then selecting Internet Search Tools.

Using the search tools, I was able to find a variety of links about a given topic (managed care, in this case.)

1. Configure your browser to send mail.

   Choose Preferences from the Options menu of Netscape and select the Mail and News panel. The dialog box below is from the Unix version of Netscape (PC and Macintosh platforms are similar.)

   
   You need only concern yourself with filling in the first three fields.

2. Collect your bookmarks.

   Choose View Bookmarks from the Bookmarks menu and erase any existing bookmarks.

3. Find a web site that you want to add to your bookmark list and select Add Bookmark from the Bookmarks menu.

4. Annotate your bookmarks one at a time or all at once using the options in the View Bookmarks dialog box.

   NOTE: You may have to choose the Refresh option under the View menu to see changes you recently made reflected in the document.

5. Mail your bookmarks.

   You are creating a WWW document when you create and annotate your bookmarks. To see your document as a WWW document, choose View Bookmarks or View in browser (or something synonymous) in the View Bookmarks dialog box.

6. So, your bookmark list can be manipulated like any other web document (printed, saved, mailed, etc.) To mail the bookmark list to Professor Kaufman, select Mail Document from the File menu.

   Attach the Document Source of your bookmark list to the mail message as shown in the figure below:

   

7. Protect your good name!

   Congratulate yourself after you send the mail. Since you are working in a public computer lab, you will want to erase the personal information you entered in the first step.

If you want to install web browsing software, read the overview first. The UMDNJ remote access archives contain further instructions and the software. External sources contain more information than you can shake a stick at!