Calgary Community-Net Courses (1999 ?)

Currently, we are not offering courses right now. But if you are interested in taking a course please put your name on a waiting list and when we have enough people we will start it up again. Please phone us at 263-8080 or email at: cfn@calcna.ab.ca to put yourself on a waiting list. Thanks.

Community-Net - Highway to the Internet

Overview

This course cuts through the techno-babble and lets you find out in practical terms how to use the Internet using the Calagry Community-Net service.

Even if you are a total novice, you will be amazed at how easy we will make the Internet for you.

This is hands-on course and lots of fun.

Who should attend

This starts as a "beginner's tour" but you should be reasonable familiar with the use of a computer and a keyboarding skills.

How Long

This is a two-session course, each one 3-4 hours long. Normally the course is taught on two successive Saturdays.

Where

The course is taught at University of Calgary

Who teaches

The course is taught by volunteers of the Calgary Community-Net Association. Depending on class size, other volunteers are also present to assist the students.

Topics Covered

• What the Internet is, and how it is being used
• Step by step how to get connected using the Calgary Community-Net service
• Look for something specific on the Internet ... or just browse
• E-Mail - how to have an electronic "conversation"
• Get in touch with groups - electronically
• Use of the on-line Help for various Internet questions
• Become familiar with Internet terms and how they are used:

  
  Gopher, Usenet, FTP, Lynx, Pine, Uploading, Downloading, World Wide Web, Webcrawler, FAQ and many more

Cost

1. For non-members of Calgary Community-Net Association: $125.00.

   
   This cost includes membership ($60.00)

2. For members: $65.00

Students will be given hardcopy handouts during the course, but are expected to take their own notes as well, so please bring a pen and notebook. The Calgary Community Network Association will be making shareware/freeware telecommunications, compression and encode/decode software available for a nominal charge (1-800k disc - IBM or Mac format).

Information Providers Course

Overview

This course cuts through the techno-babble and lets you find out in practical terms how to write and code your home page on the Calgary Community-Net. To be an Information Provider you must be a member of the Calgary Community-Net Association.

Even if you are a total novice, you will be amazed at how easy it actually is to design and write the code.

This is hands-on course and lots of fun.

Who should attend

This starts as a "beginner's tour" but you should be reasonable familiar with the use of a computer and a keyboarding skills.

How Long

This is a one-session course, about 5 hours long. Normally the course is taught on Saturdays.

Where

The course is taught at University of Calgary

Who teaches

The course is taught by volunteers of the Calgary Community-Net Association. Depending on class size, other volunteers are also present to assist the students.

Topics Covered

• How to design a good page and what not to do, good and bad examples are shown
• What the basic code means and how to use it
• How to upload or transfer your home page
• How to check and publish your home page
• Maintaining your home page whilst on-line
• Hands on code writing and checking your page using Netscape
• Practical uploading, checking your code and publishing your home page

Cost

1. For non-members of Calgary Community-Net Association: $125.00.

   
   This cost includes membership ($60.00)

2. For members: $65.00

Students will be given hardcopy handouts during the course, but are expected to take their own notes as well, so please bring a pen and notebook. The Calgary Community-Net Association will be making shareware/freeware telecommunications, Community-Net template and Windows based HTML Writing programs disks available.(IBM and MAC)

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