Finding, Saving and Using Resources from the Web:

• Bookmarks--saving locations:
• Sorting and organizing bookmarks into folders
• Saving a bookmark file on a separate disk
• Opening a bookmark file as an html document
• Example of interesting sites
• Saving Content:
• Downloading files
• Saving a page to disk. Save graphics separately and check links.
• Copying partial text to a WORD document  through copy and paste.
• This also works for source HTML
• A caution on copyrights

• Major Search Engines
• Team Exercise:
• Working as teams: each team pick a topic and find information on:
1. Desktop Videoconferencing equipment and sites (try CU-SeeMe)
2. Assurances from secure sites accepting credit cards
3. Document Imaging systems (especially short demo's)
4. Computer Virus information databases, and detection software
5. "Urban legends" on computer viruses
6. Government small business grants and opportunities to sell to the government
7. Sites offering free advertising
8. How much does a website cost?
9. Sites offering free web page space
• Save interesting bookmarks, then after 20-30 minutes of searching, save your bookmark file on a floppy disk to share with others in the class.  I will make these files available for downloading from this site.
• Teams can volunteer to take their bookmark files to the front station and give a review of findings
• Interesting places to search See my bookmarks
• Product demo's & Shareware, WinZip
• Virus Protection--sites and procedures
• New Information Resources
• patent searches
• medical research
• Government Sources:
• USPS
• OSHA
• EEOC
• DOL
• IRS
• Libraries and books--online stores
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