Transcript Internet Searching - University of Manitoba

Tutorial:
Information Search
Tools
9.200 - Information Systems
for Management
Claim Your Accounts
Accessing Computer Accounts
– LAN: ID is student #, password is BD (yymmdd)
• If in doubt, ask Lab Supervisor
• If not in Asper School of Business, see Lab Assistant
– UNIX: See “CLAIMID” on Web
• If you have problems, ask Lab Supervisor or someone at Academic
Computing & Networking
To use claimid, students must login to Unix using:
– login: claimid
– password: claimid
 More details can be found at:
– http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/accounts
– or by entering the Unix command: special
You may use a non-University account for your email and Web page if you wish
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Internet Functions
Email -- mailto: (ListServs, too; push technology)
News Groups -- from browser
File Transfer Protocol -- FTP://
Telnet -- TELNET:// (logon from remote site)
Gopher -- GOPHER:// (menu-based info.
retrieval)
– Veronica, Archie, & WAIS (search mechanisms for Gopher, FTP)
World Wide Web (WWW) -- HTTP://
– HTML (hypertext links)
– Web browsers
– Information retrieval (search engines)
Chat -- interactive discussions
Videoconferencing -- desktop v/c with
camera/videocam
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Sending E-mail Using Internet
Explorer
 On the Menu Options, Select Tools, then either Read Mail
or New Message. Internet Explorer should bring up
whatever mail program has been chosen in its “Options”
(under Tools)
 Learn how to use a mail program other than Pine (you may
choose to learn Pegasus, Eudora, MS Outlook, or MS
Outlook Express)
 Play with the mail program until you can send, receive,
reply, forward, attach, etc. with ease
 Email to marker: subject line:
– Name, Student ID#, Section#, Time
 Fill in Mail Server & Groups preferences, too
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Information Retrieval
Surfing & Searching the World Wide Web
– Intuitive addressing (e.g., “www.IBM.com”)
– Search engines (multi-search example aj.com)
– Bookmarks
Other searches
– AltaVista news groups
What search engines have you found useful?
– Try google.com
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Local Searches & Misc.
Searching Bison and ABI Powerpages
– Bison: http://bison.umanitoba.ca
– ABI/Proquest: from Library
Other topics you might wish to explore:
– FTP data transfer; interactive chat; videoconferencing;
electronic banking; …
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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.
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Internet Explorer News Groups
Will bring up your chosen News Reader program
Or you can choose View/GoTo/News in MS
Outlook 2000
Example: MS Outlook 2000 News Reader
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You may need to set up a “New Account”
news.ms.umanitoba.ca is the UM News (NNTP) server
Subscribe to Newsgroups
Use Search for keyword search for news groups
Use GoTo to go into a news group’s messages
Then Print, Reply, Reply Group, Forward, or New
Message
– You can follow “threads” of conversations as well
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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: [email protected]
For assistance, please contact:
– ACN Support Desk, 474-8600,
– Room 629 Engineering Bldg, Fort Garry campus,
– e-mail: [email protected]
Next Class: Web Page Tutorial
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