TheseWorld Wide Web sites  have been prepared for graduate students enrolled in several of the TSLP courses I offer at GSU (e.g., TSLP 845 Approaches to Teaching ESL/EFL to Adults; TSLP 832 Sound System of English, etc.).  The purposes of the sites are to make class materials and resources more easily available and to encourage students to use modern communications to find and share information.  Here are two handy links for those new to using the internet.  The first is titled, "An Internet Tutorial in Web Walking" and the second is a Primer on how to use (e.g., surf) the internet provided by the Franklin Institute in  Philadelphia.  Before taking a short excursion to, for example, Philadelphia however, you may want to read on . . .

A World Wide Web site/page is an example of a hypertext document. This means that the document is linked with other documents not in sequential order, as with pages in a book, but through a web of built-in interconnections. When you come across a highlighted word or title, or sometimes an image, a link with another document is indicated. By selecting the highlight, or image, you will be taken immediately to the document concerned. Sometimes the link will be to another web page, sometimes to a plain text document, sometimes to a picture, and sometimes to an Internet service such as gopher, telnet and so forth.  The sites I have construction are fairly simple web documents (since I am relatively new to the WWW document creation process).  The links provided will take you to text documents and other web pages. It does not matter where in the world the link is to, you will be taken there with a simple "left click" of the mouse. In fact, within the field of AL/ESL many of the best links are in other parts of the world!

"Selecting" a link is most easily done with a mouse.  My sites assume that you are using a "web browser" which allows a mouse to be used. Most of GSU's computer labs are equipped with a common web browser, called "Netscape", though other browses may be used.  Text-based browsers such as "Lynx" are capable of making the same internet connections as any fancier browser, they just will not look as impressive.  Good luck, and welcome to the course.