CAPC Workshop Outline

Using the Internet for Health Related Work

Day 1: Communicating and Finding Information

Welcome
  1. Goal of the workshop:
  2. Teaching philosophy of the trainers:
  3. Introductions:
  4. Exploring the possibilities:
  5. Hardware and software:
    Do you want graphic (shows pictures, but costs more) or text only (just writing, but cheap) access?
  6. Today we will use Windows, and we'll navigate the Internet with Netscape.
    The connection is _____________
    and the Internet Service Provider is ___________________
  7. Windows review:
Break - 15 minutes
  1. Internet:
  2. Email:
Lunch - an hour
  1. Listservs and electronic mailing lists
  2. Newsgroups, discussion groups and conferences: overview of this powerful tool
  3. Introduction to the World Wide Web
Break - 15 minutes
  1. Word Wide Web: Internet module - review concepts and learn about the World Wide Web.
  2. Health resources online: using the workshop web page as a base
  3. Search tools with web guides and search engines for BC, Canada or the World
  4. Search engine: www.altavista.ca
  5. Understanding Health Resources
  6. How to contextualise what you've found
  7. Racism, keywords, & search engines
  8. Why you might happen across a porn site when searching for information on women's health?
  9. Search module - read about search techniques and simple commands to use
  10. Closure: What did you like best about today's instruction?
End of day 1

Day 2: Creating and Publishing

Welcome to day 2
  1. From individual use to community use.
    Yesterday: primarily individual focus, today more from an organizational perspective
  2. Questions that arose from yesterday? areas needing explanation or practice?
  3. Exploring the possibilities: Issues generating exercise (ideals and barriers)
  4. FreeNets and CommunityNets - a public resource for the community
  5. Principles and Vision - from where we are now to the internet as "public space"
  6. Government Policies and Tools - programs and resources that relate to developing non-profit community resources online
Break - 15 minutes
  1. Applications for communication, research and publishing
  2. Internet as a community building tool
  3. Working together online:
Lunch - an hour
  1. Brainstorm: What do you want to see when you use a health related web site?
  2. Looking at other health Web sites critically
    Score 2 or 3 sites from the related links file according to the criteria we developed
  3. Non-profits and web sites - costs, benefits and time - sustainability
  4. Essential elements of a web page: Content, Form
  5. FTP: moving files ("publish" in Netscape)
  6. Web page templates: Rendered version and source HTML code
Break - 15 minutes
  1. Construct a simple web page:
  2. Web publishing resources
  3. Workshop Conclusion:
End of Day 2

* Modules are learning tools that include a paper self-assessment, simply written online introduction to the topic with examples and a review of the key concepts covered.

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