Teaching how to operate the online tools is only part of your job.

• Although a beginning internet course may seem to be about teaching students to operate an e-mail program, USENET news reader, telnet client, web and gopher browsers, it's actually a course in Internet efficacy: how to be a cyberspace participant instead of just an observer.
  
  
• The software instruction part of the job is steadily dwindling as Internet tools get easier to use.
  
  
• I use Netscape for practically everything: e-mail, gopher, FTP and USENET news along with the world wide web; I use a separate application only for telnet (and only because I have to).
  

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