Communicating on the 'Web': E-mail, Discussion, Blogs  (Textbook Chapters 5, 8)

and Specialized Search Tools  (chapter 6)

 Communication tools

• e-mail: 1 to 1 or 1 to many
  
• groups: discussion groups and forums, bulletin boards
• participatory, allow users to communicate with others who share interests or provide advice.
• participants must go to the website to view and contribute. 
• Google Groups , http://groups.yahoo.com/  
  
• Lists: discussion lists and mailing lists 
• Allow participants to communicate by e-mail with all other members of the list to share ideas, ask and answer questions and announce programs.  Messages are delivered to your e-mail box.
• http://lists.topica.com/ , http://lists.ala.org/sympa  
  
• groups/forums and lists can be moderated (filtered) or unmoderated (open)
  
• social networking sites 
• What is Social Networking? Social networking sites allow you to represent yourself on the Web, to share your news, thoughts, photos with your network of 'friends' and 'friends of friends'
• Social Networking in Plain English by Commoncraft (view on YouTube)
  
• Blogs 
• Blogs (short for Weblogs) - self-authored websites with chronological postings.  
• Finding Blogs: Search tools (technorati, Google Blogsearch)
• Keeping up with Blogs: Readers: 
• RSS feed - allows you to subscribe to blogs
  (RSS = Really Simple Syndication)  RSS in Plain English 
• Google Reader and iGoogle
  
• forums vs blogs: group discussion vs personal opinion 
• What are Blogs? Blogs in Plain English by Commoncraft (view on YouTube) 
• "What are the differences between message boards and blogs" (Commoncraft) 
• Blogs, Wikis and RSS (ALA Tech guide) 

Netiquette

threads - series of discussion messages on a topic, original message with follow up replies (p. 139)

Sepcialized Search tools

• News: (many examples textbook chapter 8)
• networks (CNN, BBC), 
• aggregation (google news), 
• newspaper (NYT), 
• radio (NPR)

            Characteristics and limitations (p227)

Other types of specialized search tools textbook chapter 6

• maps (google maps, google Earth, mapquest) 

        (Google - more options - even more options)

• people locators
  
• "yellow pages" (business directories/locators)

Making links - hyperlinks

html code <a href="http://www.websiteaddress.dom">  hyperlink text </a>

example <a href="http://www.pasadena.edu">  Pasadena City College </a>

or use the "add link" button on the menu