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Feb 18, 2001

Your Personal Webpage Does the school offer you space on their servers so you can put up a personal webpage? How much space? These pages are useful ways for family and friends to keep up with what is going on in your life and for you to show off your creative side. They can also serve to exhibit your skills to employers, and you can post an electronic version of your resume.

Research What educational materials can you access via the school's computing services. Common, and often useful, are online databases of article abstracts, full-text journals, encyclopedias, subscription reference sources, and an electronic card catalogue through which you can renew your books. Other resources that are sometimes available are electronic versions of the reserve holdings, streaming audio and video for coursework, and news/chat groups for students.

Skill-Building Are their classes available to help you hone your computing skills? Most of the time, these will be non-credit. Check if they are taught by trained students or by professionals. Look for basic computing skills, word processing, spreadsheet use, presentations, graphic design and desk-top publishing, html, web design, programming languages, and JavaScript.

Computer-Aided Instruction How do professors use computers in their work? Will your entire computer use be researching and typing your paper, or do you have to build websites for class? Do professors give lectures using technology and expect you to give oral presentations in the same manner? Are course notes, syllabi, and discussion boards available online?

Finally, check out how up-to-date the school is: check a bunch of random pages off of its website and find out when they were last updated. Unless it is something that does not change much (like directions to the campus), you want to see that it has been updated within the last year (preferably sooner).

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