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What you need to know about Evergreen's technology resources

• my.evergreen.edu
  • account settings
  • adding personal file space
  • forwarding your email
  • personal web space
  • creating an academic blog at evergreen
• academic.evergreen.edu - to find your program webpage
• Computer Labs and Classrooms
• where do I get help with technology stuff?
  • computing wiki
  • Computer Center

Must have computing skills:

• Manipulating digital images
• Basic Word processing
• Comfort w/ both Mac and Windows OS, Linux is up and coming
• File management skills
  • Creating folders for organization
  • Moving files, renaming files
  • Accessing networked computers
• Ability to create a spreadsheet

What are some additional technology tools that you should know about?

• Questions about iGoogle demo?
  • Calendar
  • Notebook
  • Google Docs
• Delicious - everybody sign up for an account
  • Firefox tools for making adding bookmarks to delicious even easier
• RSS - what is this, how can I read RSS feeds?

Technology fundamentals

How does the internet work

All these tools are on the web. Do you really know how the internet works?

• What does a web browser actually do.
• Anatomy of a URL
  • protocol > domain > directory > filename
  • deep links, how do I navigate a website when there's no navigation?

How do search engines work?

• html tags of interest: <title>, <meta>, <h1>, <h2>
  • what ever happened to the meta tag?
  • Check a page using SEOmoz
• Why do you care? Google yourself and marvel at the results.