1. Tutorial: Information Search Tools

2. Internet Functions Email Usenet File Transfer Protocol Telnet Listservs World Wide Web Chat Videoconferencing

3. Information Retrieval Search Engines –How they Work Spiders Indexing Retrieval Engine HTML Interface –Examples www.altavista.com www.lycos.com www.aj.com (Natural Language Interface)www.aj.com Meta Search Engines –www.dogpile.comwww.dogpile.com –www.metacrawler.comwww.metacrawler.com

4. Information Retrieval (ctd.) Newsgroups –www.google.com (deja.com)www.google.com Online Databases –Bison:http://bison2.umanitoba.cahttp://bison2.umanitoba.ca –ABI/Proquest: (start at: http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/ ) http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/ –Technical support sites (eg. http://Support.microsoft.com )http://Support.microsoft.com Other –Discussion Forums (http://finance.lycos.com )http://finance.lycos.com –Regular ole Web Surfing www.mapblast.com

5. Off-Campus Logon For info on how to log in from home: http://www.umanitoba.ca/campus/computing_and_network/remote For U/M site-licensed software: http://www.umanitoba.ca/software ACN at 474-8600 for computer support.

6. Internet Explorer News Groups Directions assume IE 5.5 and Outlook Express –Tools, Mail & News, Read News –Select a newsgroup & click on subscribe button –Click on Okay –Double click on the group you added to download messages (you may want to download only 100 messages) –You can pick the message you want to read from the headers at the top –You can reply to the group by clicking “Reply Group” –To save a message, just highlight & save it to a file

7. Your account If you have questions concerning your account, please contact: –Shirley Hares, Accounts Administrator, 474-9788, –Room 629 Engineering Bldg, Fort Garry campus, –e-mail: operacc@cc.umanitoba.caoperacc@cc.umanitoba.ca For assistance, please contact: –ACN Support Desk, 474-8600, –Room 629 Engineering Bldg, Fort Garry campus, –e-mail: support@cc.umanitoba.casupport@cc.umanitoba.ca

8. Claim Your Accounts Accessing Computer Accounts –LAN: ID is student #, password is date of birth (yymmdd) If in doubt, ask Lab Supervisor If not enrolled in Asper School of Business, see Lab Assistant –UNIX: CLAIMID on Umanitoba Web site http://www.umanitoba.ca/campus/acn/docs/claimid.html If you have problems, ask Lab Supervisor or someone at Academic Computing & Networking (629 Engineering) More details can be found at: http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/accounts http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/accounts You may use a non-University account for your e-mail and Web page if you wish

9. Next Class Tutorial on Web Page Creation Bring Assignment #1 with you