Reading
The reading assignments (from the text and online articles) for the Teled Seminar series are indicated on the Sessions page.
Click on this link to order (online, by phone, or mail) Strategic Networking - the book used for this seminar series. This text is the core of the reading assignments. Anyone who is interested in reading it can order it through this exclusive arrangement with the NYU Book Center.
"Smart, comprehensive yet concise overview to computer networking, from the LAN to WAN to the Internet. Perfect for the non-technical manager who needs to grasp the high-level concepts, as well as the computer professional who needs to keep abreast of state-of-the-art technology." - Computer Book Review
Strategic Networking - this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the strategic use of networks and the Internet for communications, commerce, and learning. Topics range from the technology infrastructure to popular Internet applications, security, and organizational issues.
Includes annotated links to Internet-based resources as references in every chapter for further learning. Online, phone, and mail ordering information available.
Internet Resources
Program House uses the following affordable and reliable hosting service. Click on the banner below to learn more about this service and sign up online. If you sign up for an account at a later time, please indicate to bluehost that Program House affiliate member referred you (so that we can receive credit).
Your new or existing domain name is included free and you can host up to 6 domains on one account. There are many free software packages that you can easily and quickly add to your site (blog, discussion, e-commerce, and more). We chose it after extensive comparative research of many hosting services.
There are many sites on the Web that describe and provide links for downloading freeware, shareware, and beta or evals of commercial software. Here are just a few:
Sites like download.com and tucows.com provide user reviews and rating scales:
Newsgroups
For a Web-based access to USENET newsgroups: http://groups.google.com/
http://www.ipswitch.com/products/file-transfer.html. Browse information about the commercial version of the WS_FTP program (client and server versions) or use a Web-based search engine to search for freeware and shareware versions of WS_FTP or from other providers of this file transfer utility. For FTP services that require a secure connection (i.e., the entire session is encrypted and no passwords are sent in cleartext form), you can use the following secure ftp software: (PC) WinSCP http://winscp.vse.cz/eng or (Mac OSX) Fugu http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu
Audio and Video Streaming
http://www.RealAudio.com/then browse the Progressive Networks, Inc. RealAudio home page for information about the RealAudio Player, Encoder, and several types of servers.
Multimedia Conferencing
There are peer-to-peer conferencing clients you can download and use, including:
CNET reviews Reviews of netconferencing or videoconferencing H/W and S/W. Find out who CNET recommends.
Yahoo Chat allows more than two particpants for text and audio chat: http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/yahoo/
Windows Live Messenger supports text and audio chat and file transfer: http://messenger.msn.com/
AOL Instant Messenger supports text and audio chat and file transfer: http://www.aim.com
Back to Top | Reading | Internet Resources