(Summer B Semester 1998)

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Course URL: http://www.fiu.edu/~pitzert

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1. Your grade will consist of scores from three of four one-hour exams (100 points each) for a total of 300 points. We will take the three best scores.
2. All students are required to get an account on the University's computer system and use Email and the World Wide Web in this lecture. Everyone doing so by the end of the first week of class, and proving so by sending pitzert@fiu.edu an Email will get 5 extra credit points added to their overall points before dividing by 3 to get the average at the end of the semester. Emails must be personal address--not your friends, siblings, parents, etc. You must Email me from YOUR account to get credit.

Exams will have multiple choice questions..

Exam four is non-comprehensive.

Please note--THERE ARE NO MAKEUP EXAMS IN BSC 1011. If you miss an exam, for reasons illegitimate or legitimate, that will be the low grade we will drop.

Raven, P. H., and G. B. Johnson. 1996. Biology. 4^th Ed. Wm. C. Brown Communications, Inc.

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III. General Biology Lecture Schedule - syllabus subject to change

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1. Turn terminal on and press Enter a few times.

2. At the "Enter Username>" prompt type any character and press Enter.

3. At the "Local>" prompt type C SERVAX and press Enter.

4. At the "USERNAME:" prompt type NEWSTUDENT and press Enter.

5. Follow the instructions given on the screen. See Sample Login, below.

Login to your Unix account. (You will have to go to a terminal where you can select Serss1, ask the assistant in the computer lab to show you these terminals). Type your username (given to you when you got your account) which is usually your first initial, the first five letters of your last name, and a number. (For example Mary Smith's would be: msmith01) Then type in your password.

Type pine at your % prompt.

for example in my screen it looks like this:

........pitzert@serss1:~ 1% pine

To send an e-mail type the letter C, for "compose message" this will take you to a screen where you can type in your message, it will look like this:

To :
Cc :
Attchmnt:
Subject :
----- Message Text -----

^G Get Help ^X Send ^R Rich Hdr ^Y PrvPg/Top ^K Cut Line ^O Postpone
^C Cancel ^D Del Char ^J Attach ^V NxtPg/End ^U UnDel Line^T To AddrBk

Then write an e-mail address where it says To:, and a subject where it says Subject:, and then type your message underneath where it says Message Text. Use the arrow keys to move the cursor around. The commands are all on a menu at the botto m of the screen. As you can see the command to send the e-mail is ^X which means you press the control key and the letter x key at the same time. Then type y for "yes", to send message.

To read e-mail someone may have sent you, press L, for "list folders", and then select INBOX with the arrow keys and press enter. You will then see a list of e-mails sent to you. To read one, select it with your arrow key, and then press enter. To delete a message press D for "delete". You may also save a message to another folder by typing S for "save", and then create a name for the folder to save it in.

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Third: Learn how to find the Biology webpage on the World Wide Web.

To get on the web you need to use a browser. This is a software program that "views" web documents. There are two kinds of browsers in general use today, text based browsers, and graphics based browsers. With text browsers you can only s ee the text of a web document, with graphics browsers you can see pictures, and sometimes hear sounds. The text based browser we use at FIU is called lynx, and is available on all FIU terminals. A popular graphics based browser is Netscap e.

The instructions below show you how to get to the web page directly.

To use lynx to the page, login to your Unix account. At your % prompt type lynx http://www.fiu.edu/~pitzert/

Lynx is not a Windows based program, you cannot use a mouse to move the cursor. To get to the different sections on the page, you will have to use the arrow keys to move to highlighted areas of text, and then press enter. This will take you to t he "links" I have placed on the page. A link is a way of going from one webpage to another.

To use Netscape you must first ask to be shown the terminals that have Netscape available. Ask the computer assistant how to open the Netscape program, if the terminal you are shown does not have it opened already. Netscape is a Windows d riven program. You will need to use a mouse to move around the page.

To get to the webpage in Netscape, use the mouse to move the little arrow up to a button on the Netscape menu bar labeled "Open". Click the left mouse button while holding the arrow over that button.

A box will appear that says "Open location:" with an empty space underneath it. In this space type: http://www.fiu.edu/~pitzert and then point the arrow with the mouse to the "Open" button and then click the left mouse button.

To get to the different sections on the page, take the mouse and point the arrow over the highlighted text and click on the left mouse button. This will take you to the "links" I have placed on the page.

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Logging on to FIU from home or work from Home:

For those of you who have a PC at home, you can log on to the FIU system by following the following directions:

• Set your communications program to the following specifications:
• 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, full duplex, VT100 terminal emulation
• Dial 348-3282
• When the computer connects:
• At LOGIN: type: "username.telnet"
• At PASSWORD: type: your password
• At HOST: type one of these: serss1 or solix
• You will then see the normal FIU Unix login where you type your username and your own password to log on to your account.

If you are signed up with another online Internet provider than FIU, you can still check your FIU e-mail and the FIU web pages. You would do this by checking your e-mail in Netscape. Be careful when you do this, since you need to change some set tings in Netscape. Remember to change them back each time you want to return to using your other e-mail. To read your FIU e-mail, log in to your Internet service, open Netscape, change the mail settings for FIU, and then read your FIU e-mail. When you are finished, change the settings back to your Internet provider's original settings. You need to do this each time you wish to read your FIU e-mail. To change settings in Netscape:

• Go to the Options menu in Netscape
• Select Mail and News Preferences
• Select the servers tab
• For Outgoing mail (SMTP) server, in the box write: mailhost@fiu.edu
• For incoming mail (POP) server, in the box write: mailhost@fiu.edu
• For POP3 Username, in the box write: your FIU username, (mine for example is pitzert)
• *Be sure to select the radio button that Mail Messages are left on server as well
• Then hit OK
• Next go to the Windows tab in Netscape
• Select Netscape mail
• Type in Your FIU password
• Hit ok
• Netscape will then retrieve your FIU e-mail.

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