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                                                           M. Prior
                                             connect.com.au pty ltd
                                                       October 1996

            Catalogue of Network Training Materials

Produced as a collaborative effort by the Joint IETF/TERENA(RARE)
   Network Training Materials - Working Group (TRAINMAT)

Status of this Memo

This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Abstract

The purpose of this document is to provide a catalogue of quality Network Training Materials for use by Internet trainers in training their users. By providing such a collection of pointers to useful resources, it is hoped that trainers will be relieved of much of the load of producing current training materials.

   Internet Passport: NorthWestNet's Guide to Our World Online .  5

   Course Notes and Exercises: Networked Information Services 1:

   Information Sources: the Internet and Computer-Mediated . . .

   The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalogue (2nd ed.) . . . 15

   An Introduction to Using the Internet at St. Louis University

   Network Services on Janet and Internet: A Lunch Time seminar

   All About Internet FTP: Learning and Teaching to Transfer . .

   Charm Net's Learning Page: Books, Tutorials, Hint sheets  . . 34

Introduction

As the range of information and services on the Internet expands, so does the potential user population. Given the significant investment in the network and the various networked information and data services, it is essential that the broad spectrum of potential users are made aware of these services. In particular they require training in using these facilities and in making effective use of the tools available for searching for and retrieving information available on the global network.

The rapid expansion of the user base has made it difficult for network trainers to keep up with the demand for training. Librarians, Computing Service staff and subject-based Network Support staff all have a vital role to play in training users. Easy access to quality network training materials and the pooling of resources will help spread the load.

The purpose of this document is to provide a catalogue of quality Network Training Materials for use by Internet trainers. By providing such a collection of pointers to useful resources, it is hoped that trainers will be relieved of much of the load of producing current training materials. The intention is to make this a "living document". It will be held on-line so that each section may be updated separately as appropriate.

How the information was collected

The information contained in this report was collected over the network by volunteers from the Trainmat Working Group from the contacts for each network training resource using the Trainmat template (see Appendix A). The contents of this template had been discussed by the Trainmat WG at its meetings and on the mailing list. The decision on whether or not to include an item was made by the members of the working group.

What is covered?

This catalogue covers network training materials. These are categorised as follows:

Presentation Material: including OHP masters, speaker's

                       hand-outs and speaker's notes

Workshop Exercises: including workshop hand-outs as well

                       as detailed instructions for
                       undertaking hands-on exercises

Self-Paced Material: including online tutorials

Some material such as selected User Guides, Resource Guides and Trainer Guides are of particular use to trainers and have been included as appropriate. The resource lists included are those assembled for training purposes and those frequently used or referred to in training.

Special Online Collections of training materials are now available and a selection of these is included.

The full list of Categories used is:

       User Guides
       Resource Guides
       Trainer Guides
       Presentation Material
       Workshop Exercises
       Self-Paced Material
       Online Collections

Updating information

The catalogue is available online. As this will be more up to date than the RFC version, the online version should be used as the basis for any updates. The WWW version of the document provides a mechanism, through an HTML form, to send updates (and new material) to the maintainers of this catalogue.

To access the document online you may use the World Wide Web using:

 http://www.trainmat.ietf.org/catalogue.html
 http://www.trainmat.ietf.org/template.html

Updates to the catalogue are welcome and can be made by either completing a template and sending it to "[email protected]" or (preferably) by using the HTML form on the World Wide Web

  http://www.trainmat.ietf.org/form.html

The new and revised entries are reviewed by a small international editorial board made up of TRAINMAT volunteers. The updating of the catalogue is done on a best effort basis and is subject to review.

Network Training Materials

This section contains the completed templates of network training material, as received by the publication date of this document. The online versions of this document may have more up to date material. The material falls into the following broad categories (see also section 3):

   User Guides
   Resource Guides
   Trainer Guides
   Presentation material
   Workshop exercises
   Self-paced material
   On-Line Collections

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 2 Category: User Guides Country: US - United States Title: Internet Passport: NorthWestNet's Guide to Our World Online Author-Name: NorthWestNet Author-Email: Organization-Name: NorthWestNet Organization-Address: 15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Bellevue, WA 98007 Audience-Level: Beginner Language: EN - English Keywords: Internet; Network services; OPACs, databases; Usenet News;

    electronic mail, WWW, gopher, ftp, archie, telnet, WAIS,
    directory services, electronic publications, information
    provision, security, health care, K-12, supercomputing.

Description: Step-by-step manual, covering the current tools and

    resources of the Internet with explanations by information
    professionals and experienced Internet trainers.

Contact-Name: Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: +1 206-562-3000 Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: January 1995 Cost: US 29.95

Access-Type: www URL: <URL:http://www.nwnet.net/passport>

Access-Type: printed guide Publisher-Name: Prentice Hall Publisher-Address: Publisher-Phone: Size: 667 pp. Reference: ISBN 0-13-194200-X

Notes: Information on ordering is available from:

    http://www.nwnet.net/homepage/abtpassport/passhome.html

Record-Last-Verified-Date: October, 1995 Record-Last-Modified-Date: October, 1995 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Isaacs, Margaret Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 7 Category: User Guides Country: US - United States Title: The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette Author-Name: Rinaldi, Arlene H. Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: Information Resource Management, Florida Atlantic

    University, USA

Organization-Address: Audience-Level: Beginner Language: EN - English Language: DE - German Language: IT - Italian Language: ES - Spanish Language: FR - French Language: PT - Portuguese Language: JA - Japanese Keywords: netiquette; network applications; Usenet; ethics Description: Guide to responsible practice in making use of network

    services. Gives guidelines in areas of telnet, ftp, e-mail,
    Listserv groups, mailing lists, Usenet, plus "The Ten
    Commandments for Computer Ethics."

Contact-Name: Rinaldi, Arlene Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: January 1996 Cost: free

Access-Type: www URL: <URL:http://www.fau.edu/rinaldi/netiquette.html>

Notes: The translated versions may not necessarily have the same

    `Lastest-Version' date as the original.

Record-Last-Verified-Date: February 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Date: February 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Wright, Emma F. Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 8 Category: User Guides Country: US - United States Title: Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette Author-Name: Templeton, Brad Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: Organization-Address: Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN - English Language: DE - German Language: FR - French Keywords: advice, netiquette, satire Description: Lessons about network etiquette through advice on good

    practice, heavily laden with irony.

Contact-Name: Templeton, Brad Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: May 1995 Cost: free

Access-Type: ftp URL: <URL:ftp://pit-manager.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/

    news/emily-postnews/part1>

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: February 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Date: February 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Wright, Emma F. Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 10 Category: User Guides Country: US - United States Title: Surfing the Internet Author-Name: Polly, Jean Armour Author-Email: Organization-Name: Net-mom.com Organization-Address: Net-mom.com 4146 Barker Hill Rd. Jamesville NY

    13078

Audience-Level: Beginner Language: EN - English Keywords: Description: Overview of the Internet with somewhat of a focus on

    education. Includes projects underway and various kinds of
    services, including bulletin board systems, databases, OPACS,
    listservs, and muses. Gives contacts for getting connected and
    discusses common Internet tools. Magazine article, which is
    included in the ftp file, is a non-technical introduction to the
    Internet without the specific information given in the ftp file.

Contact-Name: Polly, Jean Armour Contact-Address: Net-mom.com

    4146 Barker Hill Rd.
    Jamesville
    NY 13078

Contact-Phone: +1 315-469-8670 Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: May 1993 Cost: free

Access-Type: ftp URL: <URL:ftp://nysernet.org/pub/resources/guides/surfing.2.0.3.txt> File-Size: 60 K

Access-Type: journal article Publisher-Name: Wilson Library Bulletin Publisher-Address: Publisher-Phone: Size: 2 pp. Reference: v. 66 no. 10, pp. 38-39

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: February 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Date: February 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Shepstone, Jon Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 14 Category: User Guides Country: GB - Great Britain Title: A Guide to Electronic Mail Author-Name: Brack, Verity Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: Academic Computing Services Dept, University of

    Sheffield

Organization-Address: Sheffield S10 2TN, UK Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN - English Keywords: e-mail; Janet; gateways; names; addresses; networks Description: Details of using e-mail from Sheffield to other sites and

    networks, including sending files by e-mail. Section on use of
    gateways. Some site-specific information.

Contact-Name: Brack, Verity Contact-Address: Academic Computing Services

    University of Sheffield
    Sheffield S10 2TN

Contact-Phone: +44 114 282 4253 Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: October 1994 Cost: free

Access-Type: email Access-Email: [email protected] File-Size: 222,744 bytes Content-Type: Word for Windows Email-Command: send a message to Verity Brack asking for ppnotesmail2

Access-Type: printed booklet Publisher-Name: ACS, University of Sheffield Publisher-Address: Publisher-Phone: Size: 39 pages, A4 Reference: Mail2

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: October 94 Record-Last-Modified-Date: October 94 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Brack, Verity Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 58 Category: Self-paced Material Country: GB - Great Britain Title: Course Notes and Exercises: Networked Information Services 1:

    Janet

Author-Name: Brack, Verity Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: Academic Computing Services, University of Sheffield Organization-Address: Sheffield S10 2TN, UK Audience-Level: Beginner Language: EN - English Keywords: Janet; use; bulletin boards; information services Description: Notes and exercises covering the use of information

    services on Janet. Includes using the NISS gateway, the NISS and
    BUBL bulletin boards, Janet News, OPACs and the X.500 directory
    service.

Contact-Name: Brack, Verity Contact-Address: Academic Computing Services

    University of Sheffield
    Sheffield S10 2TN

Contact-Phone: +44 114 282 4253 Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: September 1994 Cost: free for non-commercial use

Access-Type: email Access-Email: [email protected] File-Size: 140,870 bytes Content-Type: Word for Windows Email-Command: send a message to Verity Brack asking for

Access-Type: booklet Publisher-Name: Academic Computing Services, University of Sheffield Publisher-Address: Sheffield S10 2TN Publisher-Phone: Size: 8 pages, A4 Reference: CN-Comms1

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Brack, Verity Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 61 Category: User Guides Country: NL - Netherlands Title: SURFnet Guide 94/95 Author-Name: Geerlings, Ben; Heijne, Maria; Stals, Bert Author-Email: Organization-Name: SURFnet BV Organization-Address: Utrecht Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN - English Keywords: Description: Comprehensive guide to services accessible via SURFnet

    complete with access details. Explains in non-technical language
    about networks, e-mail, remote login, file transfer, bulletin
    boards, remote job entry, electronic conferencing, etc.

Contact-Name: Geerlings, Ben Contact-Address: SURFnet BV

    PO Box 19035
    3501 DA Utrecht
    The Netherlands

Contact-Phone: +31 30 310290 Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: 1994 Cost: free

Access-Type: ftp URL: <URL:ftp://ftp.nic.SURFnet.nl/surfnet/publications/guide/> File-Size: 329 K

Access-Type: book Publisher-Name: SURFnet bv Publisher-Address: SURFnet BV

    PO Box 19035
    3501 DA Utrecht
    The Netherlands

Publisher-Phone: +31 30 310290 Size: 265 pp. Reference: ISBN 90-74719-01-5

Notes: Special contributions: Janneke Abbema, Xander Jansen, Pien

    Verhorst Available in Dutch and English, and in ascii, Word
    Perfect, and postcript formats.

Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Isaacs, Margaret Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 64 Category: User Guides Country: US - United States Title: A Cruise of the Internet Author-Name: Burdick, Steve Author-Email: Organization-Name: Merit Network Inc. Organization-Address: Ann Arbor, Mich. Audience-Level: Beginner Language: EN - English Keywords: basic introduction internet Description: Merit's "Cruise of the Internet" is a computer-based

    tutorial for new as well as experienced Internet "navigators."
    The Cruise will introduce you to Internet resources as diverse
    as supercomputing, minorities, multimedia, and even cooking. It
    will also provide information about the tools needed to access
    those resources.

Contact-Name: Ward, Jo Ann Contact-Address: Merit Network Inc.

    Information Services
    2901 Hubbard
    Pod G
    Ann Arbor
    MI 48105

Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: 1992 Cost: free (US$10 for diskette version)

Access-Type: ftp URL: <URL:ftp://nic.merit.edu/internet/resources/cruise.dos/> File-Size: approx. 1.5 MB Requirements: This tutorial will run on any IBM-DOS or DOS-compatible

    computer which is equipped to display 256 colors at an aspect
    ratio of 640 x 480. To run the Cruise tutorial you will need -
    An IBM-DOS or DOS-compatible computer - XGA- or XGA-compatible
    adapter set to display 256 colors at 640 x 480 - Microsoft
    Windows(TM) version 3.1 running in enhanced mode - Approximately
    1.5 MB of disk space - 2 MB RAM minimum

Access-Type: ftp URL: <URL:ftp://nic.merit.edu/internet/resources/cruise.mac/> File-Size: approx. 1.5 MB Requirements: This tutorial will run on any color Macintosh which is

    capable of displaying 256 colors. To run the Cruise tutorial you
    will need - A Macintosh II, LC or Quadra series computer - 8-bit
    color and any color monitor (12" minimum) - System 6.05 or 7.x -
    Approximately 3 MB of disk space - 4 MB RAM is recommended

Access-Type: disk Publisher-Name: Merit Network, Inc.,Information Services Publisher-Address: 2901 Hubbard, Pod G Ann Arbor, MI 48105 Publisher-Phone: Publisher-Email: [email protected] Size: (1.44MB HD diskette only)

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: Never Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Mann, Dawn Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 68 Category: Resource Guides Country: US - United States Title: Information Sources: the Internet and Computer-Mediated

    Communication

Author-Name: December, John Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Organization-Address: Troy, New York, USA Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN - English Keywords: Computer mediated networked communication information Description: The work's purpose is "to list pointers to information

    describing the Internet, computer networks, and issues related
    to computer-mediated communication (CMC)."

Contact-Name: December, John Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: December 95. Release 4.05 Cost: Free for non commercial use

Access-Type: ftp URL: <URL:ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/pub/communications/internet-cmc.txt> File-Size: 230KB (approx.) Requirements: none

Access-Type: www URL: <URL:http://www.rpi.edu/Internet/Guides/decemj/internet-cmc.html>

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 1995 Record-Last-Modified-Date: February 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Scales, Walter Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 69 Category: User Guides Country: US - United States Title: The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalogue (2nd ed.) Author-Name: Krol, Ed Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: O'Reilly & Associates Organization-Address: 103 Morris Street, Suite A Sebastapol, CA 95472 Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN - English Keywords: User guide, resource guide, catalog Description: A guide for both new and experienced users of the Internet.

    Utilities such as email, News, ftp are discussed along with some
    of the newer tools such as WWW, gopher and archie. A good
    resource section is provided as well.

Contact-Name: [email protected] Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: +1 707 829 0515 or (800) 998-9938 Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: April 1994 Cost: Commercial

Access-Type: book Publisher-Name: O'Reilly & Associates Publisher-Address: 103 Morris Street, Suite A Sebastopol, CA 95472 Publisher-Phone: +1 707 829 0515 or (800) 998-9938 Publisher-Email: [email protected] Size: 572 pages Reference: ISBN 1-56592-063-5

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: September 94 Record-Last-Modified-Date: February 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Scales, Walter Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 70 Category: Presentation Material Country: GB - Great Britain Title: Network Training Pack Author-Name: Network Training Materials Project Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: University of Newcastle Organization-Address: Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU UK Audience-Level: Beginner/Intermediate Language: EN - English Keywords: networks, network training, networked information, network

    services

Description: A mix'n match set of generic training materials comprising

    presentations with notes, workshop exercises, handout sheets,
    etc. Intended to be taken and adapted by trainers in their local
    training programmes.

Contact-Name: Foster, Jill Contact-Address: Computing Service

    University of Newcastle
    Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU

Contact-Phone: +44 191 222 8080 Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: Cost: Free for non commercial use

Access-Type: ftp URL: <URL:ftp://ftp.ncl.ac.uk/pub/network-training/trainpack/> Requirements: Presentation files for PC Windows or Apple Mac require

    Microsoft PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer to run. Viewer is
    available free on this server.

Access-Type: gopher URL: <URL:gopher://trainmat.ncl.ac.uk:7070/11/NetTrainPack/> Requirements: Presentation files for PC Windows or Apple Mac require

    Microsoft PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer to run. Viewer is
    available free on this server.

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Isaacs, Margaret Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 71 Category: Workshop Exercises Country: GB - Great Britain Title: Janet Hunt Author-Name: Daniels, Graham Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: Bulletin Board for Libraries Organization-Address: University of Bath, Bath, UK Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN - English Keywords: JANET, Internet, quiz Description: Set of quizzes with answers Contact-Name: Daniels, Graham Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: Cost: Free

Access-Type: gopher URL: <URL:gopher://bubl.bath.ac.uk:7070/11/BUBL_Main_Menu/K/K02/K02A>

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Isaacs, Margaret Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 73 Category: User Guides Country: US - United States Title: An Introduction to Using the Internet at St. Louis University

    School of Law

Author-Name: Milles, Jim Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: St Louis University School of Law Library Organization-Address: St Louis, Missouri, USA Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN - English Keywords: VAX, Pine, Email, telnet, ftp, kermit, Gopher Description: Largely a local document, but has detailed descriptions of

    Pine and VAX mail systems. Also acts as a resource guide for
    legal information and e-mail lists.

Contact-Name: Milles, Jim Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: May 94 Cost: Unknown

Access-Type: ftp URL: <URL:ftp://lawlib.slu.edu/pub/millesjg/interlaw.exe> File-Size: 138186 Requirements: Self-extracting archive to a WP file

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: February 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Date: February 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Scales, Walter Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 74 Category: Resource Guides Country: US - United States Title: "Where to Start" for New Internet Users Author-Name: Milles, Jim Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: Saint Louis University School of Law Library Organization-Address: St Louis, Missouri, USA Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN - English Keywords: Bibliography, Internet Description: An annotated bibliography of books and ftp documents.

    Arranged by category of potential user.

Contact-Name: Milles, Jim Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: May 94 Cost: Free

Access-Type: email Access-Email: [email protected] File-Size: 18095 Content-Type: Text Email-Command: get newusers faq nettrain f=mail

Access-Type: ftp URL: <URL:ftp://lawlib.slu.edu/newusers.faq> File-Size: 18095

Access-Type: www URL: <URL:http://lawlib.slu.edu/newusers.htm>

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: February 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Date: February 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Scales, Walter Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 75 Category: Self-paced Material Country: US - United States Title: Introduction to the Internet II Author-Name: Author-Email: Organization-Name: Globewide Network Academy Organization-Address: Texas, USA Audience-Level: Beginner Language: EN - English Keywords: Distance education, on-line courses, catalog, MOO, Internet Description: Online Internet course Contact-Name: Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: Latest-Revision-Date: Cost: Free

Access-Type: www URL: <URL:http://uu-gna.mit.edu:8001/uu-gna/text/internet/welcome.html>

Notes: Although this course is free, some Globewide Network Academy

    services are charged for, for example membership.

Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: February 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Scales, Walter Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 76 Category: Workshop Exercises Country: US - United States Title: Internet Hunt Author-Name: Gates, Rick Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: University of Arizona Organization-Address: 1515E 1st Street, Tucson, Arizona, USA Audience-Level: Advanced Language: EN - English Keywords: quiz, Internet Description: Monthly quiz for individuals or teams, with useful archive

    (ceased April 1995)

Contact-Name: Gates, Rick Contact-Address: Student and Lecturer

    hool of Information Resources
    University of Arizona
    1515E 1st St
    Tucson AZ

Contact-Phone: +1 602 621-3958 Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: Cost: Free

Access-Type: ftp URL: <URL:ftp://ftp.cic.net/pub/hunt>

Access-Type: gopher URL: <URL:gopher://gopher.cic.net:2000/11/hunt>

Access-Type: www URL: <URL:http://www.hunt.org/>

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Date: February 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Scales, Walter Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 78 Category: Resource Guides Country: US - United States Title: LIBCAT Author-Name: Noonan, Dana Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: Minnesota State University Organization-Address: Minnesota Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN - English Keywords: Description: Describes library-related resources available via the

    Internet, such as online catalogs, library gophers, WWW servers,
    special collections, databases and bibliographies, discussion
    lists, etc. Links to many services.

Contact-Name: Noonan, Dana Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: Latest-Revision-Date: January 1995 Cost: Free

Access-Type: www URL: <URL:http://www.metronet.lib.mn.us/lc/lc1.html>

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Isaacs, Margaret Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 79 Category: Resource Guides Country: US - United States Title: A Guide To Internet/Bitnet v.2.0 Author-Name: Noonan, Dana Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: Minnesota State University Organization-Address: Minnesota Audience-Level: Language: EN - English Keywords: Telnet, ftp, Electronic Journals, Newsletters. Description: A comprehensive overview of network resources.

    Overwhelmingly North American bias. Covers e-mail lists, Usenet
    and library catalogs well, but has comparatively little detail
    about gopher, WWW etc. Early sections aimed at VAX users only.
    Good bibliography.

Contact-Name: Noonan, Dana Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: Latest-Revision-Date: June 1995 Cost: Free

Access-Type: www URL: <URL:http://www.metronet.lib.mn.us/guide/guide.html>

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: February 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Wright, Emma F. Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 81 Category: Presentation Material Country: GB - Great Britain Title: Network Services on Janet and Internet: A Lunch Time seminar for

    Library Staff

Author-Name: Munroe, George & Kirkpatrick, Diana Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: Queens University Organization-Address: Belfast Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN - English Keywords: JANET, Host connection, Email, File transfer, Clients and

    Servers, Gopher, WAIS, WWW.

Description: Seminar on Janet & the Internet Contact-Name: Munroe, George Contact-Address: Queens University Computer Centre

    Belfast BT7 1NN
    Northern Ireland

Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: March 1994 Cost: Free

Access-Type: www URL: <URL:http://boris.qub.ac.uk/george/library/>

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Hiom, Debra Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 85 Category: On-Line Collections Country: GB - Great Britain Title: SOSIG Documentation and Training Materials Author-Name: Huxley, Lesly & Ferguson, Nicky Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: Centre for Computing in the Social Sciences Organization-Address: University of Bristol, 8 Woodland Road, Bristol

    BS8 1TN

Audience-Level: Beginner/Intermediate Language: EN - English Keywords: Internet, Social science, Social Science Information Gateway

    (SOSIG), WWW, Telnet, Lynx, Information services, Netscape,
    Mailbase, NISS, Mailbase, Library Catalogue, Nameflow, BUBL.

Description: Collection of training and documentation specifically for

    social scientists.

Contact-Name: Huxley, Lesly Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: +44 117 928 8472 Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: January 1996 Cost: Free

Access-Type: www URL: <URL:http://sosig.ac.uk/training/training.html>

Access-Type: ftp URL: <URL:ftp://sosig.ac/pub/sosig/doc>

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Wright, Emma F. Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 87 Category: Presentation material Country: US - United States Title: University of Washington Internet training Author-Name: Larsson, Laura Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: University of Washington Organization-Address: Seattle, Washington, USA Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN - English Keywords: Description: A series of presentation graphics about the Internet,

    including material for trainers on Internet training

Contact-Name: Larsson, Laura Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: 1994 Cost: Free

Access-Type: gopher URL: <URL:gopher://nisp.ncl.ac.uk:7070/11/OtherMat/GeneralTrainMats/

    Washington/>

Requirements: Presentation files for PC Windows or Apple Mac require

    Microsoft PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer to run.

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Kessler, Gary Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 90 Category: User Guides Country: US - United States Title: Global Quest Video Author-Name: Sellers, Jennifer Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: NASA - K-12 Internet Initiative Organization-Address: US Audience-Level: Beginner Language: EN - English Keywords: Description: Video on benefits to schools on using the internet Contact-Name: Sellers, Jennifer Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: Latest-Revision-Date: Cost: Commercial

Access-Type: video Publisher-Name: NASA Publisher-Address: Publisher-Phone: Publisher-Email: [email protected] Size:

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: Never Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Dunlop, Angela Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 91 Category: Trainer Guides Country: US - United States Title: Introducing the Internet: A Trainer's Workshop. Author-Name: Jaffe, Lee D. Author-Email: Organization-Name: Organization-Address: Audience-Level: Advanced Language: EN - English Keywords: Description: "A good starting point for Internet trainers in developing

    their presentations... looking for support to use to develop
    their own materials. Plus version has the added feature of
    Powerpoint diskettes for PC Windows and MAC." (Anonymous review)

Contact-Name: Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: Latest-Revision-Date: 1994 Cost: Commercial

Access-Type: book Publisher-Name: Library Solutions Press Publisher-Address: 2137 Oregon St., Berkeley, CA 94705 Publisher-Phone: +1 510-841-2636 Publisher-Email: [email protected] Size: 92 Pages + Disks Reference: ISBN 1-882208-05-6

Notes: Internet Workshop Series Number 1 Supplement to Crossing the

    Internet Threshold. Information about book available at
    http://www.internet-is.com/library/introduc.html.

Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: April 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Prior, Mark Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 92 Category: Trainer Guides Country: US - United States Title: All About Internet FTP: Learning and Teaching to Transfer Files

    on the Internet.

Author-Name: Robison, David F. W. Author-Email: Organization-Name: Organization-Address: Audience-Level: Advanced Language: EN - English Keywords: Description: "A solid work demystifying file transfer protocol (FTP). A

    good starting point for Internet trainers in developing their
    presentations. Plus version has the added feature of Powerpoint
    diskettes for PC Windows and MAC." (Anonymous review)

Contact-Name: Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: Latest-Revision-Date: 1994 Cost: Commercial

Access-Type: book Publisher-Name: Library Solutions Press Publisher-Address: 2137 Oregon St., Berkeley, CA 94705 Publisher-Phone: +1 510-841-2636 Publisher-Email: [email protected] Size: 90 Pages + Disks Reference: ISBN: 1-882208-06-4

Notes: Internet Workshop Series Number 2 Supplement to Crossing the

    Internet Threshold. Information about book available from:
    http://www.internet-is.com/library/ftp.html

Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: April 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Prior, Mark Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 93 Category: User Guides Country: US - United States Title: The Computer Chronicles Author-Name: Author-Email: Organization-Name: Station WITF-TV Organization-Address: Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN - English Keywords: Description: "The reporter (it is produced by a TV station) interviews

    Brendan Kehoe, Howard Rheingold, Carl Malamud, and some other
    individuals. Short visits are made to NASA, ARPA, and a couple
    other sites. A few examples of Internet resources are briefly
    shown (getting a file with ftp, using MOSAIC, using gopher). It
    moves at a brisk pace and makes a nice, quick intro to the
    Internet." (Reviewed by Vicki Pengelly, [email protected])

Contact-Name: Andrews, Donna Contact-Address: Harrisburg

    Pa

Contact-Phone: +1-800-366-9483 or +1-717-236-6000 Contact-Email: Latest-Revision-Date: Cost: Commercial

Access-Type: video Publisher-Name: Station WITF-TV Publisher-Address: Publisher-Phone: Size: 25 minutes

Notes: US$37.50 Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 1996 Record-Last-Modified-Date: October 94 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Anagnostelis, Betsy Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 94 Category: User Guides Country: US - United States Title: The Video Guide to the Internet Author-Name: Author-Email: Organization-Name: Visual Edge Productions Organization-Address: 2750 Highview Ave., Altadena, Ca. 91001 Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN - English Keywords: Description: "It uses lively graphic examples, and a sense of humor

    while giving demonstrations and explanations on all the major
    Internet tools: e-mail, listserv lists, newsgroups, telnet, ftp,
    archie, gopher, veronica, WAIS and the world wide web with
    Mosaic." (Anonymous review)

Contact-Name: Contact-Address: Visual Edge Productions

    2750 Highview Ave.
    Altadena
    Ca. 91001

Contact-Phone: +1-818-797-4638 Contact-Email: Latest-Revision-Date: Cost: Commercial

Access-Type: video Publisher-Name: Visual Edge Productions Publisher-Address: 2750 Highview Ave., Altadena, Ca. 91001 Publisher-Phone: +1-818-797-4638 Size: 45 minutes

Notes: The tape costs $19.95 + $3.50 shipping + $1.65 tax if you live in

    California

Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Anagnostelis, Betsy Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 95 Category: User Guides Country: US - United States Title: INTERNET, The Video Tape Author-Name: Author-Email: Organization-Name: New Technologies, Inc. Organization-Address: Suite 903, One East Chase Street, Baltimore, MD

    212 02

Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN - English Keywords: Description: "This tape serves as an introduction to the Internet and

    its numerous benefits... The tape starts off by briefly
    introducing the history behind this network of networks, and
    immediately proceeds to the tools most readily available on this
    network. Each networking tool is followed by a real
    demonstration right on your TV screen." (Anonymous review)

Contact-Name: Contact-Address: New Technologies Inc.

    Suite 903
    One East Chase Street
    Baltimore
    MD 21202

Contact-Phone: +1-410-659-0959 Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: Cost: Commercial

Access-Type: video Publisher-Name: New Technologies, Inc. Publisher-Address: Suite 903, One East Chase Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 Publisher-Phone: +1-410-659-0959 Publisher-Email: [email protected] Size: 80 minutes

Notes: Media format: VHS; system: NTSC; $64.95 (video tape, booklet,

    support), $5.00 (shipping in the USA, international rates vary),
    5% tax for Maryland residents

Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Anagnostelis, Betsy Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 98 Category: Trainer Guides Country: US - United States Title: Crossing the Internet Threshold, 2nd ed. Author-Name: Tennant,Roy; Ober,John; Lipow, Anne Author-Email: Organization-Name: Organization-Address: Audience-Level: Intermediate. Language: EN - English Keywords: Internet training; Networking Description: Introduction to basics of networking, oriented to interests

    of information professionals. Includes practice exercises.

Contact-Name: Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: Latest-Revision-Date: 1995 Cost: US$45

Access-Type: book Publisher-Name: Library Solutions Press Publisher-Address: 1100 Industrial Road Suite 9 San Carlos CA 94070 Publisher-Phone: Size: 169pp. Reference: ISBN 1-882208-07-2

Notes: Intended as an introductory resource for beginners and a guide

    for trainers. Further information available from:
    http://199.182.58.44/crossing.html

Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Isaacs, Margaret Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 102 Category: On-line Collections Country: US - United States Title: Charm Net's Learning Page: Books, Tutorials, Hint sheets Author-Name: Author-Email: Organization-Name: Charm Net Inc. Organization-Address: Maryland, U.S.A. Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN Keywords: Internet, Internet guides, Internet training, E-mail, Usenet,

    WWW, Unix, IRC, Resource lists

Description: A collection of pointers to Internet training documents and

    guides.

Contact-Name: Contact-Address: 2228 East Lombard Street

    Baltimore
    MD 21231

Contact-Phone: +1 410 558-3900 Contact-Email: Latest-Revision-Date: Cost: Free

Access-Type: www URL: <URL:http://www.charm.net/learning.html>

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Isaacs, Margaret Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 103 Category: On-line collections Country: US - United States Title: Internet Training and Tutorials Author-Name: Author-Email: Organization-Name: Library of Congress Organization-Address: Washington, DC Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN Keywords: Internet, Internet training, Internet tutorials, Commercial

    training

Description: A collection of links to Internet training documents and

    course material, including commercial courses.

Contact-Name: Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: August 95 Cost: Free

Access-Type: www URL: <URL:http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/internet/training.html>

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Isaacs, Margaret Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 104 Category: On-line collections Country: CA - Canada Title: Internet Resources Author-Name: Enns, Neil Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: Brandon University Organization-Address: Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN Keywords: Internet, Internet training, Internet guides, Resource lists,

    FTP archives, Gophers sites, USENET Newsgroups, Mailing lists,
    Internet drafts RFCs and FAQs, Search engines

Description: A collection of pointers to resources useful to Internet

    trainers and end-users.

Contact-Name: Enns, Neil Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: March 1995 Cost: Free

Access-Type: www URL: <URL:http://www.brandonu.ca/~ennsnr/Resources/>

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Isaacs, Margaret Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 105 Category: On-line collections Country: GB - Great Britain Title: Network Training Materials Gopher (trainmat) Author-Name: Author-Email: Organization-Name: University of Newcastle Organization-Address: University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1

    7RU, UK

Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN Keywords: Internet, Internet training, Internet guides, Resource lists,

    Internet bibliography, Network Training Pack, Internet trainers

Description: Links to a collection of training and training-related

    resources, including the Network Training Pack, and other
    material to support Internet training. Set up as part of the
    Network Training Materials Project (ended September 1995).

Contact-Name: Foster, Jill Contact-Address: Computing Service

    University of Newcastle
    Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
    UK

Contact-Phone: +44 191 222 8080 Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: July 1995 Cost: Free

Access-Type: gopher URL: <URL:gopher://trainmat.ncl.ac.uk:7070>

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Isaacs, Margaret Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 106 Category: On-line collections Country: US - United States Title: Computers: Internet: Beginner's Guides Author-Name: Author-Email: Organization-Name: Yahoo Organization-Address: Audience-Level: Beginner Language: EN Keywords: Internet, Internet guides, Beginners, Internet training,

    Configuration, E-mail, Netiquette, glossary, learning, newbie

Description: A collection of links to Internet guides for beginners Contact-Name: Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: Cost:

Access-Type: www URL: <URL:http://www.yahoo.com/yahoo/Computers/Internet/

    Beginner_s_Guides/>

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Isaacs, Margaret Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 107 Category: On-line collections Country: US - United States Title: Internet Web Text Author-Name: December, John Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Organization-Address: Audience-Level: Intermediate Language: EN Keywords: Internet, Internet guides, Internet training, Searching,

    Resource lists

Description: A collection of links to Internet guides, reference

    materials, browsing and exploring and searching tools, and
    information about connecting with people

Contact-Name: December, John Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: Cost: Free

Access-Type: www URL: <URL:http://www.rpi.edu/Internet/Guides/decemj/about.html>

Notes: December: "I created Internet Web Text for a course in

    Computer-Mediated Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic
    Institute that I helped teach in the spring of 1994. My goal was
    to create an interface students could use to familiarize
    themselves with the Internet, how to use it, how to find
    information, and how to connect with people."

Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Isaacs, Margaret Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 108 Category: User Guides Country: BE - Belgium Title: Using KULeuvenNet and Internet Author-Name: Van Uytven, Herman Author-Email: [email protected] Organization-Name: Computing Centre K.U.Leuven Organization-Address: De Croylaan 52a B-3001 Heverlee-Leuven Belgium Audience-Level: Advanced Language: EN - English Keywords: KULeuvenNet network usage, Internet guides, resources Description: Guide describing how to use the Internet. Available via

    PostScript and HTTP. Contains a lot of key links, links are
    regularly checked using a web robot. Contains a lot of search
    tools behind the course

Contact-Name: Van Uytven, Herman Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: +32 16 322225 Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: Tue 20 Jul 1995 Cost: Free for non commercial use

Access-Type: email Access-Email: [email protected] Email-Command: subscribe kulnetgd FirstName LastName

Access-Type: ftp URL: <URL:ftp://cc5.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/cursus/ic.ps> File-Size: 472K

Access-Type: www URL: <URL:http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/~systhvu/ic/ic.html>

Notes: Mailing list only used to advise interested parties of updates. Record-Last-Verified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: January 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Van Uytven, Herman Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: 109 Category: Self-paced Material Country: GB - Great Britain Title: TONIC: The Online Netskills Interactive Tutorial Author-Name: Isaacs, Margaret; Netskills Author-Email: Organization-Name: Netskills, University of Newcastle Organization-Address: University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1

    7RU, UK

Audience-Level: Beginner Language: EN - English Keywords: Description: TONIC is an easy to understand, World Wide Web-based

    structured course, offering  step-by-step, practical guidance on
    major Internet topics. The course as a whole is intended for
    beginners to networking who have some familiarity with
    computers.

Contact-Name: Foster, Jill Contact-Address: Computing Service

    University of Newcastle
    Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
    UK

Contact-Phone: +44 191 222 5000 Contact-Email: [email protected] Latest-Revision-Date: April 1996 Cost: Free for non commercial use

Access-Type: WWW URL: <URL:http://www.netskills.ac.uk/TONIC>

Notes: This tutorial was originally produced as "Internet for Everyone"

    as part of the UK Network Training Materials Project. It has
    been revised and updated as part of the UK Netskills programme.

Record-Last-Verified-Date: April 96 Record-Last-Modified-Date: April 96 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Foster, Jill Record-Last-Modified-Email: [email protected]

Acknowledgements

This document was very much a collaborative effort of the members of the Trainmat WG and was initially based on the catalogue of network training resources put together by Margaret Isaacs in December 1992 as part of an initial study for the UK Mailbase ITTI Network Training Materials Project.

Special thanks are due to the following contributors who took the time to submit or update the templates contained in this document.

       Adams, Phil
       Anagnostelis, Betsy
       Brack, Verity
       Ciolek, T. Matthew
       Dunlop, Angela
       Foster, Jill
       Hamilton, Deborah
       Hiom, Debra
       Isaacs, Margaret
       Kessler, Gary
       Kramer, Stefan
       Mann, Dawn
       Norman, Frank
       Prior, Mark
       Salamon, Andras
       Scales, Walter
       Sellers, Jennifer
       Shepstone, Jon
       Teskey, Patrick
       Van Uytven, Herman
       Ward, Carol
       Wright, Emma F.

Mark Prior made the catalogue available as a WWW document and made provision for updates to be submitted via a web form.

Prior to submission of the final draft version of this catalogue, each template was checked, standarised and updated by Margaret Isaacs. Emma Wright, Walter Scales and Jon Shepstone, of the Netskills Team, also contacted each Resource's Contact or Author (where possible).

Security Considerations

Security issues are not discussed in this document.

Authors' Addresses

Jill Foster Mailbase and Netskills University Computing Service University of Newcastle Claremont Road Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU UK

Phone: +44 191 222 8250 Fax: +44 191 222 5001 EMail: [email protected]

Margaret Isaacs Network Training Materials Project Department of Computing Science University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ UK

Phone: +44 141 330 5314 Fax: +44 141 330 4913 EMail: [email protected]

Mark Prior connect.com.au pty ltd c/o AAP Telecommunications Level 1, 45 Pirie Street Adelaide SA 5000 AUSTRALIA

Phone: +61 8 8203 2088 EMail: [email protected]

Appendix A: Catalogue of Network Training Material Template

Template-Type: Trainmat Handle: Category: Country: Title: Author-Name: Author-Email: Organization-Name: Organization-Address: Audience-Level: Language: Keywords: Description: Contact-Name: Contact-Address: Contact-Phone: Contact-Email: Latest-Revision-Date: Cost:

Additional information for document accessible via E-Mail

Access-Type: [email] Access-Email: File-Size: Content-Type: Email-Command:

Additional information for network accessible document

Access-Type: [ftp, gopher, WWW, etc.] URL: LoginID: Password: File-Size: Content-Type: Requirements:

Additional information for document available off-line

Access-Type: [book, article, video, disk] Publisher-Name: Publisher-Address: Publisher-Phone: Publisher-Email: Size:

Reference:

Entry verification information

Notes: Record-Last-Verified-Date: Record-Last-Modified-Date: Record-Last-Modified-Name: Record-Last-Modified-Email:

In the additional information sections omit any data elements where no data exists.

Appendix B: Notes on completing the TrainMat template

Selecting a new resource for inclusion

When considering a new resource for inclusion in the Trainmat Catalogue, you will need to ask a few questions to decide whether or not it should be included.

Does the item belong in a Training Materials Catalogue?

This catalogue covers network training materials, including self teaching materials, and other resources which facilitate and support training.

A generous interpretation of what constitutes 'training materials' is appropriate. (See also the note 3.2 on 'Category'.) Training can be thought of as 'seeking to change behaviour', and if a document does try to do that, then it can be considered for inclusion in this catalogue. A document that leads the reader through sample exercises may come into this category, but a reference card listing the commands to use does not. Appropriate resource lists to include are lists assembled for training purposes and lists frequently used or referred to in training.

As this is an international catalogue it is generally not appropriate to include material for specific services or networks. That said, some national or regional network training material is of sufficient generality to be considered for inclusion.

Is the content reasonably up-to-date and worth including?

It is intended that the catalogue contains a selection of quality training materials, not a comprehensive list of everything available. Some degree of 'quality control' is needed on the entries. You will need to decide whether the item is still relevant and reasonably up-

to-date. Anything which is two or more years old requires careful scrutiny.

Is it easily available?

Is there an established mechanism for obtaining it? This doesn't mean it has to be free.

Submitting a new or revised template

The template for inputting new entries to the catalogue is given in Appendix A. The prefered method of inputting new or updated information is via an HTML form accessible via the following URL:

       http://www.trainmat.ietf.org/form.html

You will need to use a Web browser with forms capability. Input should be quite straightforward. There are drop-down menus to help with input to some fields.

Alternatively, completed templates may be emailed to:

       [email protected]

This mailing list is a small closed 'review' group for deciding whether or not an item should be included in the catalogue.

Please note that when you enter a new template you will be listed as the person responsible for the entry.

The same procedures may be used by the person responsible for an entry, to update an existing entry.

Notes on completing the various fields of the template

The intention is to keep each entry reasonably short (and preferably not more than one page in length). Descriptions and other long fields should therefore be kept to a reasonable length. Note that fields continued on the next line should be indented by at least one white space

Each completed template is auto-allocated a "handle" to uniquely identify it.

Handle

A unique identifier for the material at this source. This field is usually automatically generated and need not be entered when creating a new entry from the template.

Category

"Category" should be selected from the following set:

       User Guides
       Resource Guides
       Trainer Guides
       Presentation material
       Workshop Exercises
       Self-Paced material
       On-Line Collections

Only user guides that are particularly useful in training should be included.

Appropriate resource lists to include are lists assembled for training purposes and lists frequently used or referred to in training.

Presentation material would include OHP masters, speaker's hand-outs and speaker's notes.

Workshop exercises would include workshop hand-outs as well as detailed instructions for undertaking hands-on exercises.

Self-Paced material would include online tutorials.

Online Collections are useful lists of training materials.

Country

The ISO two letter country code followed by the English words should be used. For example:

       US      - United States
       AU      - Australia

A full list of these codes is available from:

       ftp://mcsun.eu.net/documents/iso/ISO-3166

Title

This should be a short title for the item (90 characters or less). Longer titles may be included in the "Description" field.

Author-Name

The name of the Author of the item should be ordered with the significant portion (for searching/sorting) first. For example:

       Isaacs, Margaret M.

Author-Email

The email address of the author (if available) in RFC 822 format. For example:

       [email protected]

       [email protected]

Organization-Name

The name of the organization to which the author belongs.

Organization-Address

The address of the organization to which the author belongs. In general, this is the full postal address of the organization.

Audience-Level

This is the level of the intended "audience" for the materials. This is one of:

       Beginner|Intermediate|Advanced

3.10 Language

The language in which the item is written. This is the ISO 639 two letter code, followed by the english word for the language. For example:

       EN - English

       EO - Esperanto

A full list of these codes is available from:

       ftp://mcsun.eu.net/documents/iso/ISO-639

3.11 Keywords

A small set of keywords for the item.

3.12 Description

A description of the item giving, where possible, its scope and intended audience. This could be an abstract. If a short form of the title was entered under "Title:", the long form of the title should be included here. Fields continued on the next line should be indented by at least one white space.

3.13 Contact-Name

Name of the person who is the contact person for this item. (See also note 3.5)

3.14 Contact-Address

Full postal address of the contact person.

3.15 Contact-Phone

Telephone number of the contact person. This should be given in international format (ITU-T Recommendation E.123), for example:

       +44 171 732 8011

3.16 Contact-Email

The email address of the contact person (if available) in RFC 822 format. (See note 3.6)

3.17 Latest-Revision-Date

The date the item's content was last revised. This should be in the form: Month year, for example:

       September 1993

3.18 Cost

This should be one of the following:

       Free
       Free for non-commercial use
       Cost Recovery
       Commercial
       Unknown

3.19 Access Type

Access type is one of:

       email
       ftp
       gopher
       WWW
       book
       article
       video
       disk
       other (specify)

One or more of the access type sub-sections should be completed giving details of how to access the item.

3.20 Access-Email

Additional information for a document accessible via Email. This is the email address of the mail server serving the item. It must be in RFC 822 format, for example:

       [email protected]

3.21 Email-Command

This is the command sent via email to retrieve the item. For example:

       SENDME BITNET INTRO

3.22 URL

Additional information for a network accessible document. A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a standard way of describing its location and access method. This has been defined by the IETF. The easiest way of describing a URL is by a few examples:

       http://www.trainmat.ietf.org/Catalogue

       gopher://trainmat.ncl.ac.uk/99/NetGuides/GuidesInfoServ/ap-zz3

Note that when a URL spans more than one line, a space should be used as the continuation character.

3.23 LoginID

For ftp access, this is the Login ID required if not anonymous.

3.24 Password

The password required for non anonymous ftp access to the item.

3.25 File-Size

The size of the item in kilobytes or pages. For example:

       24k
       6pp

3.26 Content-Type

The type or format of the item. The appropriate MIME content type should be used, for example:

       text/plain
       text/richtext
       application/msword
       application/postscript
       application/zip

A full list of these types is available from:

       ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types

3.27 Requirements

Short description of the additional requirements for using/viewing this item. For example, a CBL learning package might run only on a PC with a specific configuration.

3.28 Publisher-Name

Additional information for a document available off-line. The name of the publisher. (See also note 3.5)

3.29 Publisher-Address

The full postal address of the publisher.

3.30 Publisher-Phone

The telephone number of the publisher. (See also note 3.15)

3.31 Publisher-Email

The email address of the publisher (if available) in RFC 822 format. (See note 3.6)

3.32 Size

Size of the publication in pages. For example, 230pp.

3.33 Reference

The bibilographic reference of the publication, i.e. the ISBN for books or ISSN for serials.

3.34 Notes

This is additional information related to the entry and the verification information.

3.35 Record-Last-Verified-Date

The date the item's contents were last verified. See note 3.16 on the date format.

3.36 Record-Last-Modified-Date

The date this catalogue entry was last changed or modified. (See note 3.17 on the date format.) This item is added automatically when using the form on the World Wide Web.

3.37 Record-Last-Modified-Name

Name of the person last modifying the entry. (See also note 3.5)

3.38 Record-Last-Modified-Email

The email address of the person last modifying the entry (if available) in RFC 822 format. (See note 3.6)

3.39 Additional information sections

In the additional information sections above, omit any data elements where no data exists.

Appendix C: A Summary of Related Mailing Lists

Mailinglist-Name: NETTRAIN Address: [email protected] Administration: Auto subscriptions to:

       [email protected]
       "subscribe NETTRAIN firstname lastname"

       Human Admin to:
       [email protected]

Description: Discussion list for librarians, computer support personnel,

       and all those who are involved in teaching others how to use
       Bitnet and Internet. Topics for discussion include such areas
       as: how to divide responsibility for teaching internetwork use;
       methods of teaching and resources used; and policies on access
       (faculty, student, staff) to the networks. NETTRAIN will also
       serve as a clearinghouse for Bitnet and Internet training
       materials developed in a variety of contexts and for a variety
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