Your Name:________________________________________

Flex week, Janurary 19, 2000
Instructor: Johanna Bowen

Reading, making choices, and selecting a file or site to view are regular activities in the online world.

Interacting with the online world takes place whenever you fill out a dialog box with your own words and then examine the results of your search.

You will learn what to do when you see a dialog box. You will learn to read and select the next step to take: either typing information into a dialog box or, selecting the next file to download and display.

As soon as you are looking at a dialog box in any environment
STOP and THINK about the words you are about to type.

Today we will examine using dialog boxes and checkboxes by:

• Finding a book in the Cabrillo library catalog
• Finding a Fulltext Magazine Article
• Learning how to open an Internet address
• Opening a free email account on the web

1. Use the Library catalog to identify books and videos in the library

• select Library catalog from the Library Homepage
• select keyword search
• type in two or three words that describe a topic of interest to you
• select one title from the results list

  Author's name_______________________________________________

  Title_______________________________________________________

2. Find a fulltext magazine article

• select Magazines, Newspapers and Encyclopedias from the Library Homepage
• click on Fulltext Magazine Articles
• click on
• Select EBSCOhost web
• select Advanced search from the center of the green bar menu near the top of the NEXT page
• Type in at least two search terms using two of the dialog boxes

example:
infant in one dialog box and,
safety in the second dialog box

example:
travel in one dialog box and,
Chicago in the second dialog box

click in the Full Text box (Under: Limit your search) to selectfulltext articles.

click in the Cabrillo College Library journals box to include magazineswhich are not available online in fulltext , but are owned by Cabrillo library.

Click on SEARCH

Select one article to look at (click on the picture of a page to the leftof the title)


Author name____________________________________________________________

Article title____________________________________________________________

Name of the Magazine in which the article was published (listedas the SOURCE)

____________________________________________________________________

What can you do besides read this on your screen?

• Print the article  You can have a printout of the article if you click on the PRINT button at the top of the screen. It costs ten cents per page and you pick them up at the Circulation Desk. You should fill out a "Pay for Print" form.  
• Email the article to yourself or a friend: Click on Check the option box for via e-mail; type in the email address; click on the submit button. 
• Save the article to your disk Click on  Check the option box for display to save; click on the submit button.  select File/Save asand use .txt as the extension.

3. Using an Internet Address

• Pull down the File Menu, select "Open page"
• type in any address you have been interested in seeing
  or,
  
• Highlight the current address in the location box at the top of the page
• type in any address you have been interested in seeing

4. Open an email account on the Internet

If you do not have your own email address you can get free email in return for your reading advertising every time you sign on. Not a bad deal.

Each free email site has its own sign-on procedures.

You have to answer all the questions, but you dont have to tell the absolute truth. I like to say that my income is really large -- even if it is only for a moment!

When you are done you will have an instant email account, check your mail

Send me your first message at:
jobowen@cabrillo.edu

Write your email address here:___________________________________________

Don't forget:

• write down and do not loose the username and password you select.

Note: The internet stations in the library are primarily for Information Resources use and for support of instruction at Cabrillo. If students have to use email for their classes they may be asked to use the Open Access lab for this purpose.

When they are done they will have an instant email account and can begin to communicate with their instructor or with their classmates.

Remind students to write down and keep the username and password selected.

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Revised January 05, 2000

Johanna Bowenjobowen@cabrillo.edu