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- These Minutes were submitted after the cut-off for inclusion in the
- Proceedings.
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- CURRENT MEETING REPORT
- Reported by Ellen Hoffman/Merit
-
- Minutes of the Training Materials BOF (TRAINMAT)
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- Introduction of BOF attendees and discussion of training activities.
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- The attendees introduced themselves and discussed their interest in
- training with a focus on what they expect from a working group. Most
- attendees were directly involved in training development, primarily
- for end users and some for system administrators and network
- operators. Very few did hands-on training. Jill Foster described the
- United Kingdom NISP/ITTI Training Materials project at the University
- of Newcastle to collect and develop training materials (available
- through anonymous ftp to mailbase.ac.uk in directory pub/itti-networks).
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- Review of Charter and formation of joint RARE/IETF Working Group
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- Jill Foster noted the intent of the BOF was to develop a joint RARE/IETF
- Training Materials Working Group, which was accepted by the Group. The
- draft IETF Charter was distributed for comments, and the Group agreed
- that this should move forward. The Charter was reviewed, The initial
- focus was viewed to be towards training people to use the networks and
- how to use services on the network. In addition, the first step was
- determined to be collecting and disseminating information on training
- materials as well as training materials themselves, with an evaluation
- component to be considered in the future. Some discussion of the
- differences between training materials and documentation led to
- agreement to focus on materials meant for group or individual
- training, either on-line or in classroom situations rather than on
- materials about the Internet which were more likely to be included in
- the User-Doc Working Group bibliographies. The Group agreed to the focus of the
- Charter in developing a training catalog and to provide a
- comprehensive package of "mix and match" training materials. It was
- also agreed that discussion for this Group would take place on the
- general User Services mailing list with the provision that if
- required, a new list would be created in the future.
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- The Group's goals to produce a catalog was discussed, with the materials
- produced at Newcastle as a potential model. The Group agreed to work
- on an on-line catalog, and the Clearinghouse for Networked
- Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR) volunteered to host the
- database. The data elements developed for the Coalition for Networked
- Information (CNI) Top Node project will be used as a model for
- producing the fields.
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- Useful training materials
-
- Some time was spent discussing training materials that were currently
- available. This included a review of materials produced by the
- project at Newcastle. Other sources included:
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- the Internet/BITNET Network trainers list:
- nettrain@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu (to subscribe: mail to
- listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu with the text of the message:
- subscribe nettrain yourfirstname yourlastname.
-
- Merit's "Cruise of the Internet," a disk based tutorial for
- Macintosh and Windows (available for anonymous ftp at
- nic.merit.edu in the directory /resources) as well as their
- regular seminars --now translated into Spanish (El Cruso!) as
- well--which are held throughout the U.S. as open programs and
- on request by organizations (for information, send to
- seminar@merit.edu).
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- the monthly "Internet Scavenger Hunt," which challenges
- interested users to locate information available through the
- Internet using Internet tools and techniques, with answers
- provided the following month (information available through the
- nettrain mailing list).
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- the UC-Davis developed "Mining the Internet," a hands-on
- workshop, available through anonymous FTP from ucdavis.edu in the
- directory ucd.netdocs/mining.
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- the online course, "Navigating the Internet," which is available
- over the network and has had 15,000 registrants.
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- the book, "Crossing the Internet Threshold: an Instructional
- Handbook," by Roy Tennant, Anne Lipow and John Ober from Library
- Solutions Press.
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- Other activities discussed
-
- The Group discussed mailing lists to make information available on
- upcoming training events open to others, improving network access to
- online training, and the need for demo sites that can be used by
- classes who are doing hands-on training.
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- Attendees
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- "Jodi-Ann Chu" <jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
- "Henry Clark" <henryc@oar.net>
- "Naomi Courter" <naomi@concert.net>
- "Jill Foster" <jill.foster@newcastle.ac.uk>
- "Alisa Hata" <hata@cac.washington.edu>
- "Ellen Hoffman" <ellen_hoffman@um.cc.umich.edu>
- "Lenore Jackson" <jackson@nsipo.nasa.gov>
- "Laura Kelleher" <lak@merit.edu>
- "Janet Marcisak" <jlm@ftp.com>
- "Marsha Perrott" <mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- "Joyce K. Reynolds" <jkrey@isi.edu>
- "Jennifer Sellers" <sellers@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov>
- "Patricia Smith" <psmith@merit.edu>
- "Simon Spero" <simon_spero@unc.edu>
- "Tang Tang" <tt@virginia.edu>
- "Moira West" <mjw@cert.org>
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