Welcome to Evaluation of Educational Technology

For all students registered by August 30th, e-mail accounts and web space have been established.
The default password for those needing new accounts is ******* (you must contact me by E-mail to obtain the default password) . Upon activating the sparky account (that's what it's called), you will be asked to change that password. Once your E-mail account is activated you should also change the directory (put a www folder in your account). I know you are scratching your head wondering what this means but for now just follow the directions and do it. (See below).
If you enrolled in the course after August 30th, you should contact me asap requesting an account.

Inserting a www folder in your account

For those of you who are lazy (like me) and don't want to have to change directory each time you ftp to sparky using : /usr/www/Stu/username every time, here's a short cut.

Telnet to sparky.
How?
I'm assuming that you are using a Windows Machine (95/98/NT/2000).
Go to your Start Button (once you've connected to the Internet)
Choose Run
Type: telnet sparky.ic.sunysb.edu
Login to your account using your username and password.

Once you log in, you're going to see a lot of information, this is the message of the day, I suggest you read this since it tells you if and when the system is scheduled to be down and you won't be able to do your assignments. Once you read this, hit enter, keep pressing enter until you see this:

sparky%
Type this: cd (enter or return)
Then at the next sparky% type: ln -s /usr/www/Stu/userid www

Replace userid with your username. If your username is jjones, it would look like this:

ln -s /usr/www/Stu/jjones www.

That's a small L(l)n, a space, -s, a space /usr/www/Stu/userid a space and www.

Now, when you start FTP, you should see a www folder on the right side of the screen. This is the folder you will transfer your files to.

For dial up access information see: Dial Up - Remote Access
Requesting a web page can be found at Requesting A Web Page

Upload From A PC Using FTP (For Mac uploading - contact me)

This is one way of uploading. I'm sure there are many ways of skinning this animal but this one works.......I Think. I welcome any suggestions or clarifications

If you need to obtain an ftp program you may download one from this site.

If you need help configuring your ftp program you can access information from this site.

This also assumes that all your files have been created using either a Word processor, i.e. Microsoft Word and saved the files as HTML documents, or an HTML editor. Keep the file names short but recognizable. Do not add spaces or capitals in your files names. These confuse the computer. The first file you upload should be index.html to override the index.html file already there ( for the PC). For PC users only - all future files will have .htm attached to fies names. Mac user files will have html. In either case, index.html will be the first file for everyone.

If you are creating a web page and your user-id is jjones, your url will be:
http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Stu/jjones