To orient you to the WebCT interactive tools that you'll be using to communicate with me and with each other in this course, and to post your discussions and assignments, read the following documentation:

• Orientation to WebCT and to Online Learning

• Read Student's Guide to Succeeding with Online Courses

• If you're new to the Net, make use the Internet tutorial. (Bookmark this one: it is a very long web page of resources from the UC Berkeley library on how to use the Internet. It is way too much to go through in one sitting. Go back to it at your leisure from time to time over the course of the semester. By the end of the semester, you should be fairly skilled at using the Internet to search for the information you need or want.)