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The Horn Players' Guide to the
Internet
Version 2.0 - June 3, 1998
Ron Boerger
30th Annual I.H.S. Summit - Banff, Alberta, Canada
Welcome!
• Feel free to ask questions at any time
• We’ll take time to perform live demos
The Horn? The Internet?
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What is the internet?
What is the “World Wide Web?”
What do you need to get started?
How can it relate to the horn?
The I.H.S. and the internet
Some other recommended sites
What does the future hold?
What is the Internet?
• Basically, a way of connecting computers
• Created in 60s as a way for U.S. military
computers to connect to each other
• You don’t worry about how to go from
Point ‘A’ to Point ‘B’
• A ‘co-operative anarchy’
• If you’ve got a computer (or WebTV, etc.)
and a ‘modem’, you can access the ‘net
What is the “World Wide Web?”
• Protocols to exhange and display
information via some ‘network’
• Uses relatively new “HTML” protocol
• Allows anyone, anywhere, to become a
publisher of information
• No ‘standards’ means information ranges
from useful to useless
What do you need to get started?
• Terminal/computer and modem or LAN
connection
• Most often a PC and a modem; also
technologies such as cable modems, ISDN,
ADSL
• A ‘service provider’ provides the connection to
the internet, for a fee
• National service providers best for beginners,
those who travel frequently; however, may not
be best in terms of performance or cost
• Remote locations may make use of satellite
modems!
How does this relate to the horn?
• The web allows anyone to publish info
• Thousands of students looking for
information on the horn
• Many people have already started to
provide horn pages
• It’s free (so to speak)
• A topic you want not out there yet? Do it
yourself!
The I.H.S. and the internet
• A relative newcomer to the internet, with
a formal presence in late 1997
• Site created by Bruce Hembd, under
editorial supervision of Johnny Pherigo
• One of the best sites of the international
instrumental societies with a wide variety
of information
• Enough talking; let’s visit the site:
http://www.wmich.edu/horn
Some other recommended sites
• An increasingly diverse set of sites
available
• Some of the ‘old’ sites still the best
• Newcomers add variety, some a different
focus
– The URLs for these sites will be available at
http://www.io.com/~rboerger/IHS98conf
after the conclusion of the conference
Can the web help teachers?
• Yes - plenty of information already there to
be used for research by teachers and
students
• Weeding out the trash sometimes a problem
• Teachers can put their own content on the
web - students are used to the technology
• Great example - Tom Bacon’s site
How do I create a site?
• Need an account with a service provider that
includes web space, or use a ‘free’ provider such as
Geocities
• Many free tools help create web pages for you;
both Netscape and Internet Explorer include
‘WYSIWIG’ page creation tools; BBEDIT a good
Mac alternative
• Two-step process: edit page, ‘publish’ it
• For finer control, learn HTML, the page markup
language which controls page layout
• Many commercial office software products also
include web publishing converters/tools
How do I find other sites?
• ‘Search Engines’ can help you
• some of the more popular:
– www.yahoo.com - ‘Yahoo’
– www.altavista.digital.com - ‘Altavista’
– www.excite.com - ‘Excite’
• You can look for sites that might interest you in
any topic, not just on horn
• Some search engines even include reviews
• Many existing horn sites also include links to
additional sites
What does the future hold?
• More interaction using technologies such
as Java, ActiveX
• active, two way communication as opposed
to passive ‘download’
• increasing bandwidth will allow use of
video and sound - lessons on line
• probably more advertising and
commercial sites vs. those run by
volunteers
Questions?
• Slides and links will be available at:
http://www.io.com/~rboerger/IHS98conf
• Feel free to send e-mail to me at
[email protected]
or grab me during the rest of the week
Thanks to ..
• Judy Anderson-Hansen and the Banff Centre
for setting all this up
• April Kintzel of the Centre for getting the
laptop registered on the internet
• Our hosts - Froydis Ree Werke, David Hoyt,
and Isabel Rolston - for allowing me to give
this talk
• Compaq, for letting me use their laptop
• Customs, for not giving me any grief
• And, of course, you for being here!