After
completing this workshop unit, you will gain the skills and knowledge
necessary to accomplish the following:
- List
three forms of electronic communications and describe how they are
used in the U.Va. computing environment
- Identify
different electronic mail programs available to members of the U.Va
community
- Describe
the purpose of majordomo mailing lists and explain how they are
created
- Define
acceptable use of electronic communication and identify misbehavior
- Define
terms and acronyms related to the World Wide Web
- Describe
the basic steps involved in creating a web page
- Identify
web design resources available at the University
Review
Questions
Instructions:
After completing this unit of instruction, please answer the following
questions based on what you have learned. You may refer to your notes,
the Web and other resources from the manual. Your answers will help
determine how much you learned from this workshop and what ares you
still need to study.
- What are the 3 commonly available types of electronic communications
at U.Va.?
- What
electronic mail programs are available at U.Va.?
- Is
email private?
- Why
would one want to use an electronic mail mailing list?
- How
do you create an electronic mailing list at U.Va.?
- What
is mass mail and how does it differ from a mailing list?
- What
is the difference between a system wide email alias and a registered
email address?
- Explain
why there are size limitations for email messages coming into U.Va.
- Describe
when you would use a majordomo list, rather than a personal email
list.
- Who
"owns" the content of an email message once it has been
sent -- the sender or the receiver?
- Describe
a possible misuse of U.Va. computing systems.
- Which
email protocol (POP or IMAP) often has a default configuration to
download all messages to your local machine and delete them from
the server?
- What
is the World Wide Web and how does it differ from the Internet?
- How
do you create a web page?
- List
three sources for information on designing and creating web pages.
- Can
you put a copy of a copyrighted poem on your web page?
- What
is a URL and What is the ITCWeb URL?
- How
do you handle unacceptable behavior by someone else in the electronic
community?
- Can
viruses be transmitted via email and, if they can, how?
- List
four common Internet search engines.
- What
is the difference between a web browser and a web editor?
- What
is the acronym for the language commonly used to create electronic
documents that can be published to the web?
- List
one resource you can use to learn more about future directions in
the realm of electronic communications here at U.Va.
