Workshop Resources Assignments Job Search Tips Home  Credits		Workshop 4: Establishing a Professional Identity Online Pre-workshop Assignment: The first part of your assignment is to look at some professional pages of other graduate students that are currently online.  Analyze which features would be useful to you professionally and what you might change.  Then, post to the newsgroup one aspect you find effective about a page and one aspect you find less effective (don't forget to include the URL so others can quickly find the page).  The next part of your assignment is to create a rough draft of your own professional page.  Feel free to follow along with the tutorial below in Section II.  However, you should have the skills now to create your professional page without detailed directions, so you don't have to follow the tutorial.  We will spend some time in class looking over your pages and answering any questions you have. What You Should Bring: A cv in MSWord on a 3 1/2" pc formatted diskette. Workshop Goals: In this workshop, participants will consider ways in which the internet may be of use to academic professionals outside the classroom, including the advantages of an online cv and teaching portfolio.  Participants will also work through a tutorial which will enable them to identify currently available grant opportunities specific to their academic field.  Participants will create a "professional" web page with links to their cv and a list of field specific grant opportunities.     Workshop Outline: I.  Your Professional Identity and the Web     A. Teaching, Technology, and the Job Market       B. Integrating Your Instructional Technology into your Teaching Portfolio     C. Review of some Grad Student Professional Pages II.  Setting Up Your Professional Page      A.  Getting Started: Creating the Title and Page Colors      B.  Inserting Tables and Text      C.  Creating a Mailto Link      D.  Creating a Hypertext Link      E.   Saving Your Professional Page      F.   Publishing Your Professional Page III.  Converting Your CV into HTML Format      A.  Editing Your CV      B.  Publishing Your CV      C.  Linking Your CV to Your Professional Page IV.  Grants      A. Commercial Databases      B. General Search Engines      C. Grant Writing Tips V. Homework

I.    Your Professional Identity and the Web
 

II.  Setting Up Your Professional Page

A.  Getting Started: Creating the Page Titles and Colors

To get started, you will open up a blank screen in Netscape Composer:

1. Insert your disk into the disk drive and clear off all running applications.
2. Open up "Netscape Communicator" off of your desktop by double clicking on its icon.
3. From the drop-down menus select "Communicator", "Composer". You should now see a blank  "Composer" window.

1. From the drop-down menus select "Format", "Page Colors and Properties".
2. Choose the tab marked "General" by clicking on it.
3. **Type in the information where needed.  For example, in the "Description" field type This is a first draft of my professional page.
4. All this does is let your reader know what the page will be about, and who wrote it.
5. When you are done, click on "OK".

1. From the drop-down menus select "Format", "Page Colors and Properties".
2. Chose the tab marked "Colors and Background" by clicking on it.
3. This menu allows you to change the colors of the text and the background.
4. Change the background color of your page by clicking on the square next to the label "Background (Background image overrides this color )".
5. You can experiment with this later to put the finishing touches on your professional page.

A table is the most effective way to format a page, because it can present a great deal of  information in an organized fashion.

1. Make sure your cursor is at the top left of your screen.
2. From the drop-down menus select "Insert", "Table", and "Table...".
3. This will pull up the "New Table Properties" menu.
4. **Insert a table with 1 row and 2 columns, so in the field "Number of rows" enter 1 and in the field "Number of columns" enter 2.
5. If you have a check next to "Equal Column Widths", click on it to get rid of it.
6. Now click on "OK".

1. Make sure your cursor is in the left cell of your table.
2. From the drop-down menus select "Format", "Table Properties".
3. Choose the tab marked "Cell" by clicking on it.
4. **In the "Cell width" field, change the 100 to 20
5. Now click on "OK".  This should make the left cell smaller than the right cell.
6. We will use this smaller left cell to place links in and the larger right cell to place the body of your professional page in.

1. Place the cursor in the left cell of your table.
2. **Now type in the link title curriculum vitae
3. **Below that type in the link title Wash U main page
4. **Enter any other link titles you want on your professional page in the left cell of your table.
5. You may want links to your department, to the course page you designed in workshop 2, or to your teaching portfolio.

1. Place the cursor in the right cell of your table.
2. If your cursor is stuck in the left cell, hit the "Tab" button on your keyboard to move the cursor.
3. **Enter your name, Doctoral Student, Washington University,  and your Department name on separate lines.
4. **Under this text type e-mail me:  Artsci-login@artsci.wustl.edu
5. Make sure to enter your own artsci-login in step 3.
6. **Finally at the bottom of the right cell you may want to enter a paragraph explaining who you are, what you study, what your research interests are, and what your teaching interests are.

1. Use the formatting toolbar to center things in each cell and to adjust the size of the text.
2. You may also want to insert some spacing between the text you have entered if you have not.
3. Make sure your cursor is in the left cell, the from the drop-down menus, select "Format", "Table Properties".
4. Choose the tab marked "Cell" and change the color of this cell by clicking on the square next to "Use Color".
5. Click on "OK".
6. Now you will get rid of the table borders.
7. Select "Format", "Table Properties" and under the tab marked "Table" set the "Border line width", "Cell spacing" equal to 0 and set the "Cell Padding" equal to 5.
8. Click on "OK".

Here you will create a mailto link, which will allow browsers to send you email from your professional page:

1. Highlight "email me: Artsci-login@artsci.wustl.edu" on your professional page.
2. From the drop-down menus select "Insert", "Link".
3. **In the "Link to a page location or local file:" field, you must type mailto:your_artsci_login@artsci.wustl.edu
4. Click on "OK".

Next you will create a hypertext link from your professional page to the Wash U main page:

1. Highlight "Wash U main page" on your professional page.
2. From the drop-down menus select "Insert", "Link".
3. **In the "Link to a page location of local file:" field, you must type http://www.wustl.edu
4. Click on "OK".

E. Saving Your Professional Page

1. Now you must save this file locally before publishing it, so select "File", "Save" from the drop-down menus.
2. Once again, make sure it says "3 1/2 Floppy (A:)" in the "Save in" field.
3. **In the "File name" field, type index.html (Naming a page index.html will make it the default page for your artsci account.  People will see this page when the type in http://artsci.wustl.edu/~your_artsci_login/index.html, or when they simply type http://artsci.wustl.edu/~your_artsci_login/)
4. Now click on "Save".
5. The computer will ask you if you want to save any images on your page, click on "Yes to All".

1.  Using Netscape

Finally,  you can publish your professional page onto the internet the same way you published your course site:

1. You should be looking at the draft of your professional page you just created in the Composer.
2. From the drop_down menus select "File", "Publish".
3. In the "Page Title" field you title your entered earlier should appear.
4. The file which should appear in the "HTML Filename:" field should be "index.html".
5. In the "HTTP or FTP Location to publish to:" field the same string should appear as before.
6. Insert your artsci username and password, select "Files associated with this page", click on "Select All" and click on "OK".
7. Again the computer should return a prompt saying your files were uploaded successfully, click on "OK".

Under location, type http://artsci.wustl.edu/~your_artsci_login/  Your professional page should appear.  You can now test the link you created to the Wash U home page and to your email.

2.   Using FTP

Because Netscape publishing sometimes alters the spacing or formatting, you may want to use FTP or Fetch to get your page on the web.  FTP can be downloaded to your home computer the same way you downloaded Netscape from the school, and it is available on all the computers on campus.

1. You should be looking at the draft of your professional page you just created in the Composer.
2. Close the Composer window by clicking on the "X" in the upper right hand corner.
3. Now minimize the Netscape Navigator window, and open the WS_ftp program if it is on your desktop.
4. If not, open Program Files on the C:/ drive, and and open the WS_ftp program folder, then Click on the "WS_Ftp" icon with the blue letters.
5. A "Session Properties" Screen will appear.  Log in using your artsci login name and password.
6. The Profile Name should be artsci, or whatever server you use for email.
7. The User ID is your telnet login name.
8. The Password is the same one you use for email.
9. Enter this information and click on "OK".

FTP now has opened your artsci account on the right side, with the hard drive of the computer you are working on on the left.  Under your artsci account on the right there should be a folder labeled "public_html".

10. Open your "public_html" on the right hand side by double clicking on it.

 
Inside you should see the pages you created earlier this week.  Anything you want to publish on the web must be saved in the "public_html" folder under your name, including images on your pages.

You can now move files back and forth between your account and the computer you are working on by highlighting the file you want to move and using the arrow keys.  Your account can hold files of all types, even papers you are working on if you don't have a disk handy. Click here for specific directions on how to move pages from your account to any campus hard drive.

11. Scroll down the list of drives on the left hand side and double click on the A-drive where you saved your professional page.
12. Click on index.html from the list on the left once to select it.
13. Use the right arrow key between the lists to transfer it to your public_html account.
14. If you used any images or icons, be sure to place them into public_html by selecting all of them and transferring them.
15. Remember:  An image will NOT appear on your web page unless it is saved in your public_html folder.
16. Close FTP by clicking on the "Exit" button on the lower right.

Under location, type http://artsci.wustl.edu/~your_artsci_login/  Your professional page should appear.  You can now test the link you created to the Wash U home page and to your email.

III.  Converting Your CV into HTML Format

A.  Editing Your CV

You should not have any windows open at this point.  You are going to pull up your cv in "Microsoft Word" and save it as an HTML document..

1. Go to "Start" and select "Programs".
2. Under "Programs", open "Microsoft Word".
3. Once in Word, you should open your cv off of your disk. (if you do not have a disk with a cv, one will be provided here)
4. From the drop-down menus select "File", "Open".
5. Make sure the "Look in" field says 3 1/2 Floppy (A:).
6. Double click on the icon next to your cv.
7. Your cv should now appear in the "Microsoft Word" window.
8. From the drop-down menus, select "File", "Save as HTML..".
9. In the "Save as HTML.." menu that appears, make sure it says "3 1/2 Floppy (A:)" in the "Save in" field.
10. **In the "File name" field type my_cv.htm
11. Click on "Save".
12. Now Close the "Microsoft Word" window by clicking on the "X" in the upper right hand corner.
13. Open up "Netscape Communicator" off of the desktop by double clicking on its icon.
14. From the drop-down menus select "File", "Open Page".
15. When the "Open Page" window appears, make sure "Open location or file in Composer" is checked.
16. Click on "Choose File" and make sure it says "3 1/2 Floppy (A:)" in the "Look in " field.
17. Double click on the icon next to "my_cv.htm"., this should pull up your cv in the "Composer" window.

1. Using Netscape

1. You should be looking at your cv in the Composer.
2. From the drop-down menus select  "File", "Publish".
3. In the "Page Title:" field type in a different title if you don' t like what appears.
4. In the "HTML Filename:" field it should say "my_cv.htm".
5. In the "HTTP or FTP Location to publish to:" field your path should still be there.
6. Insert your artsci username and password and click on "OK".
7. Again the computer should return a prompt saying your files were uploaded successfully, click on "OK".

Now you can open a "Netscape Navigator" window and use it to examine your cv online.

Under location, type http://artsci.wustl.edu/~your_artsci_login/my_cv.htm  Your cv should appear.

2. Using FTP

1. You should be looking at your cv in the Composer.
2. Close the Composer window by clicking on the "X" in the upper right hand corner.
3. Open WS_ftp from the Program Files Folder on your C:/ drive. (Note: if you don't have WS_ftp on your computer, go here to download it)
4. Log in using your telnet login and password, so your account appears in the column on the right.
5. FTP will automatically have open the Program Files/WS_ftp folder (where you saved your professional page) on left.
6. You can open any folder on the hard drive by clicking on "Change Directory" and typing in the address.
7. Since your CV is saved on a floppy disk, open the -a:/- drive by double clicking on the blue a:/ icon on the local drive list on the left.
8. Click on my_cv.htm from the list on the left once to select it.
9. Use the arrow key between the lists to transfer it to your public_html account.
10. Now be sure to transfer any images or icons you want on your page into public_html by selecting and transferring them.
11. Remember:  An image will NOT appear on your web page unless it is saved in your public_html folder.
12. Close FTP by clicking on the "Exit" button on the lower right.

Under location, type http://artsci.wustl.edu/~your_artsci_login/my_cv.htm  Your cv should appear.

C.  Linking Your CV to Your Professional Page

Now you will create a hypertext link from your professional page to your cv:

1. You should be in the "Netscape Navigator" window.
2. **Under location type http://artsci.wustl.edu/~your_artsci_login/  Your page should appear.
3. From the drop-down menus select "File", "Edit Page".
4. Now you are ready to add a link from your professional page to your cv, just like in part E in the previous section.
5. **When creating the link, you must enter the URL for your cv which is "http://artsci.wustl.edu/~your_artsci_login/my_cv.htm"
6. When you are done, you should once again "Save" your professional page to the desktop and the "Publish" it to the WWW.

Under location, type in "http://artsci.wustl.edu/~your_artsci_login/"  Your professional page should appear.  Click on "Reload" to see the change that you made.  Now you can  test the link you created to your cv.
 

IV. Grants
 

V. Homework

Prior to the workshop you should visit the website for the Washington University Graduate Online Lecture Project.  Once there you should view the online multimedia presentation "Graduate Online Lecture Overview" produced by Liberman Fellow David Callon.  David Callon's presentation will give you a brief overview of the project.

Next you should view either view the Graduate Online lecture, "Politics and Paradise Lost", produced by Liberman Fellow Gavin Foster (which lasts less than 10 minutes) or the Graduate Online Lecture, "A Question of Conscience" produced by David Reed, PhD candidate from the department of English and American Literatures (which lasts less than 10 minutes).  As you watch the lecture think about how you would go about communicating your specialized research to a broad audience.

Click here for directions on viewing the Graduate Online Lectures.