Robert Kern Curtis Hackensack High School Hackensack, New Jersey Early Childhood Supervision: Using Computer Resources and the Internet. Summary The internet provides both a rich source of information and a new means of communication for teachers and school supervisors. In addition to sending electronic messages (e-mail), browsing a library's resources from your desk at home and perhaps actually downloading and printing out a desired article or whole book by transferring it to your own computer by using internet's file transfer protocol (ftp) and your own printer, or searching on-line computers all over the world for files of needed information or for computer programs using searching programs such as "archie," and "veronica," or even "gofer," a presence of your own can be established on the World Wide Web. Even now, some teachers and some schools use such a presence or site, usually called a "Home Page" on the Web to tell the public about their school and its features, and to tell parents and students about everything from special meetings, school functions, home work assignments, student activities, and on and on. A number of schools even have their students set up their own autobiographical "home pages." With a little practice even young children can communicate over the internet and visit such pages, and yes, even set up their own. Access NJ LINK Access to the internet is supposed to be available free to students and teachers in New Jersey via NJ LINK which is a joint effort of the State Department of Education and New Jersey Network (NJN). It has not been working very well lately, but it does provide e-mail, ftp, telnet, and lynx WWW access (text only - no graphics), when it works. There is a toll-free 800 number for computer access: 1-800-624-3372. (The local number for computer access is 1-609-984-5605.) The NJ LINK voice number is 1-609-777-5087. The two people in charge of running NJ LINK are Stephanie (NJN) and Ted (DOE). Their office phones are voice: 1-609-777-0877 and fax: 1-609-633-2959. Their e-mail addresses are steph@njlink.pppl.gov and ted@njlink.pppl.gov. The telnet address for the NJ LINK computer is njlink.pppl.gov. NY LINK This is a member of the same consortium of public television stations as NJ LINK and provides similar services but it works. They do charge a fee to school districts. Hackensack has a single account for all my students which the reader could use. The computer can be reached toll free outside of New York at 1-800-720-9638 or in New York City 1-212-233-2252 (Manhattan) 1-718-875-2252 (Brooklyn) or 1-212-977-8150. They have a voice line at 1-212-560-6606. My students' login is cr2curts and the password is **hhs**1 (the last digit of the password is the number one). In theory a person in Brooklyn could call this service and then telnet to a JCSC account thus saving the phone bill. JERSEY CITY STATE COLLEGE The college has two computers on-line. One is the VAX machine which has our student accounts, and provides ftp, telnet, and lynx access to the WWW. This can be reached by phone at 1-201-200-3175. On the internet, the computer's address is jcs1.jcstate.edu (this is also 204.117.72.52). The school's WWW home page is on a different computer whose internet address is 204.117.77.144 (on the WWW the address should be entered as follows http://204.117.77.144/). The Computer Lab at JCSC provides graphical access to the WWW via Netscape. PILOT The New Jersey Intercollegiate Network (NJIN) makes accounts available to faculty members at member institutions. Presently they provide e-mail, ftp, telnet, and lynx access to the WWW. They are beginning to provide PPP access from New Brunswick. Pilot does provide access to the UNIX shell and so some graphical browsers (viz. slipknot) can be used. AOL PRODIGY COMPUSERVE DELPHI These services provide easy (but expensive) access to the internet and the WWW. They might make a good beginning for exploration. They seem to provide access to the WWW with browsers that include graphics. INTERNET PROVIDERS I attach a supplemental list of internet providers which I have downloaded from Karen's Kitchen. A PPP account access is usually required to use graphical web browsers such as Netscape and Mosaic. OUR HOME PAGE The primary purpose of this paper and project is to provide a home page for Early Childhood Education and Supervision where a collection of links to resources can be made available. I have established this page and am maintaining it at two internet locations. Our home page is at the JCSC computer (very slow) at http://204.117.77.144/student/curtis/ECE.HTM and on my own personal IDT internet account at http://village.ios.com/~rkc1/ece.html Our home page contains direct links to Early Childhood resources and to WWW search engines (such as YAHOO and Web Crawler) which will enable you to explore and find other resources. The remainder of this paper is our home page! You might like to visit Hackensack High School's home page at http://village.ios.com/~rkc1/hhs.html Hackensack HS Students' home pages at http://village.ios.com/~rkc1/students.html and my own home page at http://village.ios.com/~rkc1/ __________ My e-mail address is rkc1@village.ios.com YOUR HOME PAGE As time goes on, you will want to publish on the WWW. A home page is written in a tag language called hypertext markup language (HTML). I also attach two resources on using this language. At first this seems like a formitable obstacle, but in reality just regard them as another style sheet (like the APA one) and blaze away. You do not have to use all the tags, and using most becomes pretty obvious. It is also possible to view the source HTML documents on the WWW by using the browser view source option, and you can see how others have written the page you are viewing.