NetDay96 Story, October 12, 1996

After the first national event of NetDay96 on March 9, I have been wondering whether there will be follow-up work for Toyon Elementary School. One day in September I received an e-mail message from Mr. Mark Waters to join his team. Mr. Waters is a parent in the Berryessa Union School District and has actually gathered a team of employees from Sun Microsystems, Inc. I accepted his invitation and also let Mr. Jack Owens, Principal of Toyon, know I will be helping there again. Mr. Owens and Mr. Waters later asked me to train their teachers on how to develop a home page while the Sun team will be wiring the remaining 12 classrooms. It was then when I found Toyon's home page has not been updated since March 1996 because the authoring staff has left the School District. Toyon has either IBM-compatible PC's running MS/Windows3.1 or Apple Macintoshes.

On October 12, 1996, I worked on the PC in the Library with following tasks:

Updated Cirrus Logic Windows 3.1X drivers for CL-GD5428 from v1.20 to v1.50
Installed Netscape Gold v3.0 (Windows 3.1X, 16-bit)
Installed animation files (Credit goes to Sylvain Meunier) E-Mail: smeunier@total.net Animation Page: http://www.total.net/~smeunier/animation.htm
Created a directory structure for Toyon school faculties and students

Mr. Pope is a teacher for 4^th and 5^th grade. After every software was installed and running, I show Mr. Pope how to quickly develop a simple home page with links, images and animation. Mr. Pope used a camcorder to document our training session. He captured about 15 minutes of video footage for future reference. The system administrator from the school district still needs to show Mr. Pope how to upload a home page to the district web server.

Note: Netscape software is free for all public educational use and available from their web site. Cirrus Logic drivers are free for existent customers and available from their web site.