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Taking notes during lectures in the classroom is something most students do during their studies. However, studying online requires a different set of skills. If you are reading course materials or information you have found on the Internet and wish to take notes, use your word processor or special note-taking software to record your ideas. If you want to copy a section of text that you are reading, use your mouse to highlight the text and do a copy and paste from the Web page into your word processor.

Finally, lecture materials may contain a number of Web sites and their links. To help manage these multiple pages, it is useful to keep track of them through a process called “bookmarking.” When you wish to do this, select “Bookmarks” and “Add” from the drop down menu (in Netscape). The title of that Web page is recorded as a bookmark and choosing its bookmark name from that same menu can then access the page in the future. (In Internet Explorer bookmarks are called “Favorites”.) If you collect a lot of bookmarks, start grouping them into folders containing Websites with similar information.

Most homework assignments will be sent to your instructor as attachments to email. However, some instructors are beginning to request that you put your homework assignments into a Web page (particularly research papers and design work). Making your completed assignments available to the Web enhances student learning and collaboration. You will have the opportunity to see how other students approached a particular problem or what additional research they did to answer a question. This may prove useful in your next assignment. Chapter 4 addresses how to easily design web pages.