RE: [Air-l] advice requested regarding web archiving programs
Nicky, For my dissertation research I used WebCopier, and was quite pleased with it. You can download it for free at www.maximumsoft.com, and you get a trial period of a month or so. After that, some of the functions cease working. I never bought it, just downloaded what I needed within that time. But even if you have to buy it, it's very cheap. If I remember correctly it costs less than $50. Someone else in our department bought it based on my recommendation and is happy with it. The nice thing about WebCopier is that you can tell it how "deep" you want to download. So, for example, if you have a website that is part of a larger domain (i.e., a student website on the university server) you can choose whether you want to download the entire domain, or just the student website. You can also choose to download only a certain limit of memory size, or a certain number of pages, whatever you want. The program is very easy to use, and conveniently saves everything in one folder. Of course, it automatically downloads all images, links (including external links), libraries, etc. Once the sites/pages are downloaded, you can upload them on your own server or just keep them on your harddrive. They are now static and won't change anymore. So, yes, it served my purposes well, and I recommend it. Check it out and see if it works for you. Best of luck, ulla ************************* Ulla K. Bunz University of Kansas 102 Bailey Lawrence, KS 66045 785-864-1160 ulla@ukans.edu ************************* -----Original Message----- From: ] I'm looking for a good program in order to download and archive the sites. WebRecord Research Pro Version 2.0 had been recommended to me, but it is no longer available.
similar tools have been around for ages, but I guess it depends to a great extent on your platform. another possibility for windows is httrack. I used to use that for some time, pretty simple saves a complete local copy. I usually suggest to people on campus adobe acrobat 4.0+'s webcapture facility, which does similar things to what Ulla describes below. It works on windows and apple products. for unixlike systems apple osx/linux/bsd etc. there are a wide variety of tools that can do just about anything one can imagine, from the simplest tools like wget and mirror.pl that just make copies to systems that store the material in databases that can nearly anything one desires. To start, I'd suggest wget though the wget -m command will mirror the precise url you give it to whatever directory you want combined with a shell script and cron you can take a period of snapshots of the website at times when the sites are less likely to have traffic and have them for a historical comparison or similar minded study. you could do just about anything in the end though. On Saturday, March 9, 2002, at 08:32 PM, Bunz, Ulla K wrote:
Nicky, For my dissertation research I used WebCopier, and was quite pleased with it. You can download it for free at www.maximumsoft.com, and you get a trial period of a month or so. After that, some of the functions cease working. I never bought it, just downloaded what I needed within that time. But even if you have to buy it, it's very cheap. If I remember correctly it costs less than $50. Someone else in our department bought it based on my recommendation and is happy with it. jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.dromocracy.com
hi, I am working on a paper looking at some aspects of online behavior. Does anyone have leads in terms of papers, books, articles etc. for me in the following areas: 1. Online group problem solving 2. Interpersonal dynamics in online groups 3. Cases of online community building that provided tangible results in the respective communities. Thanks in advance and I look forward to hearing you all. Girija Kaimal Harvard Graduate School of Education --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email!
Girija, The Internet and the Large Group http://www.bendavidson.co.uk/professional_pages/publications/articles/lrgegr... This addresses 2. and 3. to an extent. It includes a case study discourse around a professional issue of interest to an online community of health professionals, which offered tangible benefits in terms of dissemination of best practice, and it looks at interpersonal dynamics in online groups in some detail. Interpersonal dynamics are also addressed extensively in this paper: Community Unconscious on the Internet http://www.groupintervisual.net/hosting/ga-special-issue/papers/haim.htm and here: Technological Possibilities in a New Age http://www.groupintervisual.net/hosting/ga-special-issue/papers/aldon.htm Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: girija kaimal To: air-l@aoir.org Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 6:43 PM Subject: [Air-l] request for leads on online behavior hi, I am working on a paper looking at some aspects of online behavior. Does anyone have leads in terms of papers, books, articles etc. for me in the following areas: 1. Online group problem solving 2. Interpersonal dynamics in online groups 3. Cases of online community building that provided tangible results in the respective communities. Thanks in advance and I look forward to hearing you all. Girija Kaimal Harvard Graduate School of Education ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email!
Here are some references: Beckwith, D. (1987). Group Problem-Solving via Computer Conferencing: The Realizable Potential. Canadian Journal of Educational Communication, 16(2), 89 - 106. Bell, B., & Meyer, R. R. (1998). Distributed Learning by Distributed Doing, [WWW document]. Center for Intelligent Tools in Education, Teacher's College, Columbia University. Available: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/~academic/cite/papers/distdo/Distlrn.htm [2000, Jan. 18, 2000]. Black, P. (1995). Successful Electronic Distance Collaboration: The Importance of Social Negotiation. Canadian Journal of Educational Communication, 24(2), 133-148. Fernback, J. T., B. (1995). Virtual Communities: Abort, Retry, Failure?, [WWW]. Available: http://www.well.com/user/hlr/texts/VCcivil.html [2001, Aug. 17]. Frank, C. & Davie, L. (2001). Creating Online Communities for Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing, [WWW]. Available: http://edu.georgianc.on.ca/faculty/cfrank/FrankDaviePaper.htm [2001, Nov. 11]. Harasim, L., Hiltz, S. R., Teles, L., & Turoff, M. (1995). Learning Networks: A Field Guide to Teaching and Learning Online. Cabridge: MA: MIT Press. Hiltz, S. R., & Turoff, M. (1993). The Network Nation: Human Communication via Computer , Revised Ed. Kiesler, S., Siegel, J., & McGuire, T. W. (1984). Social Psychological Aspects of Computer-Mediated Communication. American Psychologist, 39(10), 1123-1134. Kim, A.J. (2000). Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press. Kollock, P. (1996). Design Principles for Online Communities, [WWW]. Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society. Available: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/kollock/papers/design.htm [2001, . May, S. (1993). Collaborative Learning: More Is Not Necessarily Better. The American Journal of Distance Education, 7(3), 39-49. Moller. L. (1998). Designing Communities of Learners for Asynchronous Distance Education. Educational Technology Research and Development, 46(4), 115-122. Moore, M. (1989). Three Types of Interaction. The American Journal of Distance Education, 3(2), 1-6. Palloff, R.M. & Pratt, K. (1999). Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Roper, A. (2001). Building the Virtual Community in Online Education: A Hermeneutic of Time and Space. Dissertation Abstracts international. (UMI No. 3005130). Salmon, G. (2000). E-Moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning Online. London: Kogan Page. Schrum, L., & Berge, Z. L. (1997). Creating Student Interaction within the Educational Experience: A Challenge for Online Teachers. Canadian Journal of Educational Communication, 26(3), 133-144. Smith, B. L., & MacGregor, J. T. (1998). What is Collaborative Learning?, Collaborative Learning: A Sourcebook for Higher Education (pp. 9-22): Pennsylvania State University Press. Swan, K., Shea, P., Fredericksen, E., Pickett, A., Pelz, W. & Maher, G. (2000). Building Knowledge Building Communities: Consistency, Contact and Communication in the Virtual Classroom. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 23(4), 359-383. Wegerif, R. (1998). The Social Dimensions of Asynchronous Learning Networks, [WWW]. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2(1) Available: http://www.aln.org/alnweb/journal/vol2_issue1/wegerif.htm . [2001, Dec. 6]. Woodruff, E. (1999, December 10 - 15, 1999). Concerning the Cohesive Nature of CSCL Communities. Paper presented at the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Palo Alto, CA. These should busy you for awhile..................Alex ====================================== Alex Kuskis PhD Candidate OISE/University of Toronto e-Learning Consultant, e-Scholars.ca Assoc. Faculty, Royal Roads University http://www.royalroads.ca/oll/madl/information.htm akuskis@ican.net - Alex.Kuskis@utoronto.ca "Learning a living" - Marshall McLuhan ----- Original Message ----- From: girija kaimal To: air-l@aoir.org Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 1:43 PM Subject: [Air-l] request for leads on online behavior hi, I am working on a paper looking at some aspects of online behavior. Does anyone have leads in terms of papers, books, articles etc. for me in the following areas: 1. Online group problem solving 2. Interpersonal dynamics in online groups 3. Cases of online community building that provided tangible results in the respective communities. Thanks in advance and I look forward to hearing you all. Girija Kaimal Harvard Graduate School of Education
<http://chronicle.com/weekly/v48/i27/27a03801.htm> this one's by subscription or in hard copy LOGGING IN WITH ... LAURA J. GURAK Professor Takes a Critical Look at Online-Privacy Issues By DAN CARNEVALE Laura J. Gurak is director of the Internet Studies Center and associate professor of rhetoric at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She is the author of Cyberliteracy: Navigating the Internet with Awareness (Yale University Press). In it, she discusses a number of issues, including the erosion of privacy and what state and federal governments should be doing to protect personal information in the digital age. Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Associate Professor, Speech Communication and Multimedia Editor, Journal of Communication and Religion Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 ell@bradley.edu http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~ell Fax: 309-677-3446
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