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Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1993 14:24:31 GMT
From: VMCCOY@NUACVM.ACNS.NWU.EDU (Vince McCoy)

>Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 23:11:45 CST
>From: flanagan%sp.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu (Jim Flanagan)
>
>>>
>>> But I do also have one specific problem.  I'll be in a room with 20
>>> users at 20 machines.  If everyone tries to FTP to the same place, we'll
>>> have problems.  How have trainers dealt with this?  Every approach I
>>> can think of seems to present its own difficulties.  I could give each
>>> person a different place to go.  I could use a projector and just have
>>> them watch me do it.  I could try to find a place that would accept
>>> 20 simultaneous logins (!).  Or I could cancel class.  :-)
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
I always begin by having my class ftp to local campus systems.  This way
I'm not tying up resources at a remote site.  Students learn the same
thing from doing an FTP to one of our campus systems as they do using a
remote system about the mechanics of ftp.  Then at the end of the session
we have a lab period where each student practices doing an ftp to a site
of their choice from a list I provide them.  Usually people select a
variety of sites so everyone is not using the same site at the same time.
Teaching classes at night is not an option for me.  Each session has a
maximum of six people in it so I don't think we are an undue burden on
any site.  I ftp common internet documents that I think a lot of staff
would be interested in and keep a copy on my local system.  I advise all
staff to check first on our local system before they do an ftp for a
document, we may already have it. I have found that most of our staff
are not ftping just for fun but to get a specific document. They are
delighted if I already have the document and can save them the trouble
of getting it themselves.

Vincent McCoy
User Services Specialist
Northwestern University Library
Evanston, IL 60208-2300
INTERNET: VMCCOY@NWU.EDU