alphabet soup of Internet acronyms or cryptic UNIX commands. However, on its own, Mosaic is only a navigational tool. The Internet is still vast and wide, growing every minute. For faculty, Mosaic can provide a means to construct for students a more guided entrance to the Internet.

Hotlists

Mosaic can be used to find Internet resources in your discipline and then assemble them into a list for students to quickly find them. You can create an electronic bookmark that is stored as a "Hotlist." When you choose an item from the "Hotlist", Mosaic takes you instantly to the site you had previously marked. Table 1 lists the steps for using "Hotlists."

"Hotlists" can be saved and opened as files in a later Mosaic session. Copies may also be given to students. You could create different "Hotlists," organized by subject, i.e. for Biology, Political Science, Humor, Graphics, Science Fiction, etc.

Table 1: Using Hotlists

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I              I      Macintosh      I        Windows        I
I              I                     I                       I
I Add item to  I   Select Add This   I    Select Add Current I
I Hotlist      I   Document from     I    To Hotlist from    I
I              I   Hotlist menu      I    Navigate menue     I
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I Access item  I   Select item from  I    Select Open URL... I
I from         I   Hotlist menu      I    from File menu.    I
I Hotlist      I                     I    Select item from   I
I              I                     I    drop-down list.    I
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Creating Mosaic Documents

Mosaic uses the addressing scheme of the World Wide Web to display information that may originate anywhere from a computer file server in France to a floppy disk sitting in your computer.

You can create your own documents that have the features of what you can find by browsing the Internet with Mosaic. A Mosaic document is just a plain text file with special codes enclosed in "<" and ">" characters. These codes, known as HyperText MarkUp Language (HTML), tell Mosaic to display text as different size headings or various type-styles, to show a graphic, or to mark certain text as hypertext links to other files on the Internet. These files may be created with any text editor, such as TeachText for Macintosh or the Windows NotePad.

There are several on-line guides for creating Mosaic documents. At MCLI, we have developed a tutorial to help you get started. To access the tutorial in Mosaic, select Open URL... from the File menu and then enter:

    http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/

In June 1994, MCLI presented this tutorial at a workshop for faculty at South Mountain Community College. By the end of the session, our participants Mary Long, LynnAnn Wojciechowicz, Debbie Anderson, Lara Collins, Jackie Jaap, and Mary Ellen Smith, were creating Mosaic pages that linked to exhibits at the Louvre in Paris, images of Mars from NASA, the Library of Congress, an art collection in Australia, and Philosophy resources from the University of Liverpool.

Applications at the Maricopa Community Colleges

The following is a list of several Maricopa staff and faculty that are already using Mosaic for instructional purposes. To find them in Mosaic, select Open URL... from the File menu and then enter the address listed at the end of each item.

Students in David Weaver's (CGCC) Physics course worked in teams to research and assemble resource guides for Modern Physics. http://140.198.129.30/
After completing the MCLI tutorial on Creating Mosaic Documents, Mary Long (SMCC) developed an impressive compendium called "The Source" which offers guides in the areas of Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Psychology, plus general Internet resources, course and syllabus information for her students, and tips for "Rookies" of the World Wide Web. http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/smc/ml/source.html
A team from MCC and EMCCC are working on a District-funded grant to produce Internet "Tryptics. " These will be a series of travel guides to the Principality of English Literature, the Commonwealth of Psychology, the Republic of Reading, the Federal State of Nursing, the United States of Psychology, and the Federation of Social Issues and Information Technology. http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/
At GCC, users of the Electronic Forum can now browse the World Wide Web via the "WWW" forum. While graphics cannot be seen, forum members can access all of the text-based information and use the hypertext links to the World Wide Web, Gopher, and FTP sites.

Applications Elsewhere on the Internet

The following is a short list of instructional applications and resources from outside of the Maricopa Community Colleges. To find them in Mosaic, select Open URL... from the File menu and then enter the address listed with each item

The AskERIC Virtual Library: http://eryx.syr.edu/Main.html
ArtSpace, a gallery of art work by high school students: http://superdec.uni.uiuc.edu/departments/finearts/art/artspace/
The Periodic Table of the Elements: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/elements/periodic-table
The complete works of William Shakespeare, with glossary: http://the-tech.mit.edu/
Multimedia Textbooks from the Virtual Hospital: http://indy.radiology.uiowa.edu/MultimediaTextbooks.html
An index from the University of Texas of on-line instruction in many disciplines: http://wwwhost.cc.utexas.edu/world/instruction/index.html
Surfing the Internet, summer projects by faculty at Florida State University: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/surfing.html
A course in Computer-Mediated Communications from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: http://www.rpi.edu/Internet/Guides/decemj/course/cmc.html
The United States Department of Education: http://www.ed.gov/
IKE, the IBM Kiosk for Education: http://ike.engr.washington.edu/ike.html

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