Workshops at AusWeb96
With just one exception, the workshops and special interest group meetings
will be held on the Saturday and Sunday prior to AusWeb96.
Workshops are either half- or full-day structured sessions on particular
aspects of the Web. They will have formal handouts and training materials
but in all cases will provide opportunities to discuss the issues raised
in the workshop. The workshops cover a wide array of issues from high level
technical issues to the impact of the Web on the media and will be lead
by faculty from within Australia and overseas.
Workshop Details
The following workshops are presented by Bond University:
For most workshops there are full details on the workshop and the presenters:
Michael Lean, copyright officer for the Queensland University of Technology
will be running a workshop on that vexing issue: copyright and the Web.
This half-day session will be of interest for a wide cross-section of the
Web community.
Half Day, Saturday Afternoon, 6 July.
Bill Taylor and his team at Somerset College on the Gold Coast, will present
a one-day workshop on the use of the Web for K12 education. The workshop
will draw on Somerset's experience in establishing a significant Web presence
and in incorporating the Web into the K12 experience as well as the experience
of other teachers and administrators and planners.
Full Day Saturday and Half Day Sunday - but charged at the full day hands
on rate only.
Bebo White, Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center, Stanford University,
CA USA will be running a workshop workshop which addresses the application
of hypertext and on-line documentation authoring research and experience
to the design of Web pages and documents. Specific subject areas include
hypertext document design engineering, the impact of human factors on page
size and organization, and designing for reader navigation within a hypertext
document. Bebo White's background is in experimental physics. He first became
involved with the Web in 1991 while at CERN (where WWW was invented). As
a staff member at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), he was
instrumental in establishing what is believed to be the first Web site in
the United States. He has lectured internationally and authored two books
including "HTML and the Art of Authoring for the World Wide Web,"
Kluwer, 1995.
Full Day Saturday, 6 July
Hermann Maurer, from the University of Graz in Austria and the University
of Auckland and well known for his contributions to hypertext theory and
for Hyper-G will present a workshop on advanced web site management.
Half Day Sunday Morning, 7 July
Alan Taylor from John Moores University in the UK and Greg Smith from Envision
Communications Pty Ltd in Melbourne will present a workshop on ISDN and
the Web. Issues that they will cover include:
- What is ISDN?
- The Point to Point Protocol and ISDN
- ISDN and the Web demo
Full Day Saturday, 6 July
Adrian Vanzyl will present a workshop on the interfacing of full-scale databases
and the Web including a close look at security and performance.
Half Day, Saturday Morning, 6 July
Are you sick of surfing and mousing around - wasting your valuable time?
Knowing where to look is half the battle, making effective use of search
tools is the other. You can then use bookmarks to easily locate your favorite
sites again and again. In this workshop, presented by Linda Rouse of Housely
Communications, you will get to know the main search tools; learn to design
search strategies, discover what indexes are available and become a proficient
searcher.
Half Day, Sunday Morning, 7 July. Hands on.
As a post-conference event, the TiLT
unit at Southern Cross University will be offering a one-day staff development
seminar for university teachers. The seminar will focus specifically on
the impact of the Web on teaching and learning in higher education. It is
particularly designed for staff who are relatively new to this technology
and wish to learn how the Web can be integrated into their courses. Contact
Gordon MacLeod, Director of the TiLT for further information at gmacleod@scu.edu.au.
Full day, Wednesday 10 July.
Meagan Smith of InfoWeb Pty Ltd and a trained architect, will be running
a workshop on the Virtual Reality Markup Language.
Half day, Saturday afternoon, 6 July
Chris McGovern of Griffith University
(C.McGovern@its.gu.edu.au)
and Gene Kraybill (g.kraybill@cosmos.curtin.edu.au)
of Curtin University of Technology
will be running a workshop on using the Web for administrative purposes.
While aimed primarily at Universities, the workshop will be of interest
to all organisations with a relatively "public" community who
wish to lever the Web and interface with their administrative systems.
Full day, Saturday, 6 July
All of the five training workshops at AusWeb96 are prepared and conducted
by our friends at Bond University in their Pentium and Power Macintosh equipped
computer laboratories. This is a half day, hands on workshop by Peter Stewart,
Senior Teaching Fellow at Bond University.
Half day, Saturday morning, 6 July and
Half day, Saturday afternoon, 6 July Hands on.
In this workshop, learn how to publish documents on the World Wide Web.
This is a full day, hands on workshop by Bond University. The workshop is
run by Steve Gregory, a Research Scientist with the Cooperative Research
Centre for Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC) based at the University
of Queensland
Full day, Saturday 6 July. Hands on.
The power of the Web comes from interaction and in most cases that interaction
comes from computer scripts which interact with the user. This course introduces
fundamentals of programming for the Common Gateway Interface. Form handling,
Database access, and scripting methods are all covered in a practical, down
to earth fashion. It will be presented by Ashley Roll (BInfTech (Hons))
who is a Research Scientist with the Cooperative Research Centre for Distributed
Systems Technology.
Half day, Sunday morning, 7 July. Hands on.
Java, from Sun
Microsystems, is shaping up to be a very major influence in bringing
"applets" to the user's desktop. This workshop will provide an
overview of the Java programming environment. This is a half day, hands
on workshop by Bond University. As the first offering has sold out, an Extra
Session has now been organised to be presented by Adrian Vanzyl, President
of the Australian Java Users Group.
Half day, Sunday morning, 7 July. Hands on.
The workshop will introduce the full details of the Java
language and the tools of the Java Development Kit for the Windows95 platform.
Attendees will be able to write simple Java applets and test them with the
Netscape browser. The range of Java information and support groups on the
Web will be discussed.
Full day, Saturday 6 July. Hands on.
Maintained by ausweb96@scu.edu.au
AusWeb96 - The Second Australian World Wide Web Conference, 7th
to 9th of July 1996, at the Conrad Jupiters Hotel, Gold Coast, Australia.
Contact: Ms Julie Burton, Norsearch Conference Services at Southern Cross
University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia. Phone (066) 20 3000
(From outside Australia +61 66 20 3000) Fax: (066) 22 1954 (From outside
Australia +61 66 22 1954). Email: ausweb96@scu.edu.au.
Updated on
25 June 1996 by ausweb96@scu.edu.au