Theme: DNA and
the Human Genome Project
By the end of this three-day workshop, you will have learned:
- Effective ways of searching for information on the Internet
- How to download images off the Internet and insert them into your reports
- Ways of assessing the reliability of sources on the Internet
- How to create presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint
- E-Mail Ettiquette and attachments/virus myths
If Time
- An Introduction to Microsoft Excel.
Links we will make reference to during the workshop:
Searching Tools:
- AltaVista- http://www.altavista.com
- Yahoo- http://www.yahoo.com
- Google- http://www.google.com
Assessing Reliability: Holocaust Denial Article - http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~abutz/index.html
Image Resources:
- Yahoo/Corbis Picture Gallery- http://gallery.yahoo.com
- Lycos Picture Gallery- http://multimedia.lycos.com
Tutorials:
E-Mail- http://www.mediaworkshop.org/humanities/gateway/email.html
MS Excel- http://www.mediaworkshop.org/humanities/gateway/excel.html