The purpose of these experimental electronic Freshmen Interest Groups is to engage students and teachers in electronic dialogues and in general to foster communication. To do effectively do this requires knowledge of the tools at your disposal. The resources on this page serve as links to information that you may find useful.

Internet Tools

• A Brief History of the Internet and its Tools

  Some Search Engines
  

  The Engine	The Link	Comments
  InfoSeek	Go There	A Very Good Service
  Yahoo	Go There	The First One; Well Organized by Topic
  WebCrawler	Go There	Very good but updated only once a month
  Local Navigation	Go to Zebu	Some topically organized info
  SavvySearch	Go There	A Search of Search Engines
  The Galaxy	Go There	Organized by Topic

Some Organized Bookmark Lists

• Try the Nuts Hot List
• Try this Huge Hot list
• Comprehensive list of Educational Services in relation to computing networks
• A list of Oregon Web Servers
• A Big list of On Line Museums

EMAIL:

• Send Email to a FIG Leader
• Send Email to a FIG Professor (Greg Bothun)
• Send Email to a FIG Professor (John Baldwin)
• Send Email to a FIG Professor (Jim Crosswhite)
• Send Email to a FIG Professor (Eric Heroux)
• Using Eudora on a MAC for EMAIL

NEWSGROUPS:

• Read the FIG 23 Newsgroup
• Post to the FIG 23 Newsgroup
• Read the FIG 25 Newsgroup
• Post to the FIG 25 Newsgroup

Web Page Resources:

• Physics 161: Physics of Energy and the Environment
• Eric Heroux's Stuff
• John Baldwin
• Jim Crosswhite's Stuff