Real World Mozilla IRC Lab

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Overview

This lab is designed to give you first-hand experience using IRC to work on a collaborative project. You will work as a group in competition with other groups in order to write a document that describes:

• What is a Firefox Extension?
• What is a Firefox Theme?
• How to get and install Firefox add-ons.
• List and describe as many extensions/themes as you can

Instructions

1. Use the #seneca channel for general questions only
2. We will break into smaller groups and use #seneca1, #seneca2, ... senecaN for group work. Form a group of no more than 5 using the following steps:
   1. Join #seneca1 (use /join #seneca1)
   2. If #seneca1 has fewer than 5 people, you are done.
   3. If #seneca1 has 5 or more people, leave #seneca1 and join #seneca2
   4. Repeat step 2 until you find a #senecaN channel that has fewer than 5 people
3. You may only use IRC to communicate with your group members (no in-person communication or physical passing of information)
4. You must install and test any extensions or themes that you write about.
5. You cannot copy-paste any text from the web.
6. Use any method you wish to create your document. Some ideas are:
   • a Wiki page (you can use this wiki)
   • Google Docs
   • a regular word processor document

Resources

IRC Help

• IRC Help
• Mozilla IRC information

On-line Collaboration Tools

• Pastebin for sharing text
• [1] for sharing long URLs
• Google Docs
• Wiki editing help

Useful Mozilla Links

• Firefox Add-ons
• ChatZilla IRC Client