2001 Tasks
Track A: The "A" track is for experienced internet users. Track B: The "B" track is for those of you who are still in the process of learning Internet Literacy Skills.
Track A Task 1: Every class member should subscribe to at least one LISTSERV list dealing with anarchism. Follow this link to a list of discussion groups. I recommend that you subscribe to "Research on Anarchism" for this course. RA-L also has a useful website. Information about LISTSERV can be found in the email section of Internet Literacy Skills Track B Task 1: Every class member should subscribe to at least one LISTSERV list. Follow this link to a list of discussion groups. I recommend that you subscribe to "Research on Anarchism" for this course. RA-L also has a useful website. Information about LISTSERV can be found in the email section of Internet Literacy Skills
Track A Task 2: The second task is to find new citations to add to any of the bibliographies in the archive. The main bibliography contains links to several other more specific bibliographies and the archive for each anarchist also has a bibliography, so you have to do some double checking to make sure the citation is not yet part of Anarchy Archives. To find new material, telnet into any of the major library sites (Hytelnet's library list is huge) such as the Library of Congress (locis.loc.gov) or the University of California at Berkeley (melvyl.ucop.edu), and search their catalog. Once you have a new citation, go to the bibliography in the archive where it will be added, "View Document Source" for the page, make the additions, and attach the file with your revisions to an email to dward@pitzer.edu. In the body of the email message be sure to indicate what citation you have added. All that is necessary to complete this task is to find one additional citation (more, of course, are welcome), but be sure the citation is not included in ANY of the Archive bibliographies. Be sure the citation is in proper APA style. Track B Task 2: The second task is to find new citations to add to any of the bibliographies in the archive. The main bibliography contains links to several other more specific bibliographies and the archive for each anarchist also has a bibliography, so you have to do some double checking to make sure the citation is not yet part of Anarchy Archives. To find new material, telnet into any of the major library sites (Hytelnet's library list is huge) such as the Library of Congress (Either paste "telnet://locis.loc.gov" (without the quotation marks) into your browser's "Go To" bar, or, better yet, directly telenet with telnet software to locis.loc.gov) or the University of California at Berkeley (melvyl.ucop.edu), and search their catalog. Once you have a citation, paste it into a MSWord, Word Perfect, or ClarisWorks document. Save the bibliographic additions in Rich Text Format (RTF), and attach the document to an email to dward@pitzer.edu. In the body of the email message be sure to indicate where the citation is to be added (i.e., give the url) All that is necessary to complete this task is to find one additional citation (more, of course, are welcome), but be sure the citation is not included in ANY of the Archive bibliographies. Be sure the citation is in proper APA style.

Track A Task 3: This week's task is to update the Internet Literacy Skills modules. Go through the various sections of ILS modules and pick a section you would like to work on. Make your choice by September 11 and send me an email message indicating which section (WWW, Telnet, FTP, etc.) you would like to work on. Teams will be formed during the lab sessions and you will begin work then. The idea is to to locate sources for the most recent versions of software, update the tutorials or create tutorials, fix broken links, and do whatever you can to make the modules useful.

Track B Task 3: Using either telnet or a web browser, locate a pre-1920 publication by or about one of the "cynosures" in Anarchy Archives and using Honnold's Inter-library Loan service request a copy of the publication. When you receive the publication, make a digital copy of the text and use that copy to produce an html "contribution" later in the semester. In addition, locate a publication by or about one of the "cynosures" in Anarchy Archives which is still in copyright, and request permission from the copyright holder to make a digital version of the article or book for posting in Anarchy Archives. If permission is granted, later in the semester make a digital copy of the publication and use that copy to produce an html "contribution."

Track A Task 4: Continue Task 3.

Track B Task 4: This week's task is to go through the FTP section of ILS. Read the definition, go through the "Roadmap" lessons 13-17B, make sure you have ftp software on your personal computer, then use one of the FTP search engines to see if you can find any anarchist material to download and add to Anarchy Archives.

Track A Task 5: Select one of the works in a "collected works" sections of any "cynosure" and find a book or article that is not formated with the new common format. Check that no one else has chosen that work in "Works in Progress" and if someone else is not working on that work, "claim" it and post all the reformated pages in your web directory on dogbert and send me the url for all new pages. Turning pages into the new format is relatively easy. Determine how many directories deep the particular work is. Select a template from the index, make a duplicate file and in the duplicate, insert the title of the page in the title tag, insert the content of the page on or about line 195, re-write the anchors on lines 178-183 to conform to the particular directory you are working in and then post the new page in your web directory on dogbert.

Track B Task 5: Select one archive from the "Bright but lesser lights" section of the archive with pages that are not formated with the new common format. Check that no one else has chosen that section of "Bright, but lesser lights" in "Works in Progress" and if someone else is not working on that archive, "claim" it and post all the reformated pages in your web directory on dogbert and send me the url for all new pages. Turning pages into the new format is relatively easy. Determine how many directories deep the particular work is. Select a template from the index, make a duplicate file and in the duplicate, insert the title of the page in the title tag, insert the content of the page on or about line 195, re-write the anchors on lines 178-183 to conform to the particular directory you are working in and then post the new page in your web directory on dogbert.

Track A Task 6: Continue tracking down pages in the archives which need to be reformated, paying particular attention to the Anarchist History section.

Track B Task 6: Continue tracking down pages in the archives which need to be reformated.

Track A Task 7: Select one of the countries from theWorldwide Movements page and find new links and new bibliographic citations, develop timelines and brief summaries of the movement in the chosen country, make sure all pages are in the new format, and develop the site as much as possible.

Track B Task 7: The first time Anarchy and the Internet was offered, this task opened a new section in the Anarchy Archives: "Bright, But Lesser Lights". That section is now a large part of the archive. For this task there are several options. One option is to choose any anarchist from the 19th and early 20th century who is not in the "Cynosure" section. If that person is not already in the Bright but Lesser Lights section, set up an html page following the same template as for each anarchist in the Archives (i.e., biography, collected works, bibliography, commentary, and graphics). Use various search engines to build links to material on your chosen anarchist. Once you find material, "lay claim" to that anarchist by posting your choice of a "lesser star" on the "Works in Progess" page. Post the new files in your class directory and send me the url. If you add material over the semester, be sure to send "updated" files to the Archives. Another option is to develop one of the "Lesser Stars" that has already been started. If you choose this path, then you must be sure that there is material available that you will be able to add. I also have a few files that were begun but not adequately developed in past semesters that you might want to work on. Come by my office to talk about possible choices, or have a look at these suggestions.

Track A Task 8: Continue work begun in task 6.

Track B Task 8: Go through the remaining sections of Internet Literacy Skills and make sure you are comfortable using each skill.