Internet Course Guide

Exercises 1 to 5 | Exercises 6 to 8 | Exercises 9 to 10 | Exercises 11 to 15 | Exercises 16 to 22

Exercises 16 to 22

Exercise 16 related to Lesson 8B -- Taking Notes from Web sites

Using the two-window technique described in Lesson 8B, view this University of Alabama site that explains how to use the Internet Explorer browser. http://library.albany.edu/internet/ie5.html
Use Copy/Paste to get text from your Explorer window into your Word document. Try selecting only text that explains aspects of Explorer that you did not already know. To give you lots of practice with this technique, don't copy and paste more than one paragraph at a time.
Include your name and the URL of the site in your Word document
Save your work to a diskette.
Print your notes to give to your instructor.

Exercise 17 related to Lesson 9A -- E-mail

As you begin sending e-mails, you should know basic e-mail etiquette. Read this article on e-mail etiquette by Peggy Post. Then write a sentence summary for each of her ten tips.
http://promotions.yahoo.com/promotions/netiquette/tips.html

Exericse 18 related to Lesson 9A -- E-mail

Read Yahoo's terms of service at http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/. Using Wordpad or Notepad, make a half a page of notes on what you consider the most important details in Yahoo's service terms. Apply the notetaking technique you learned in Lessons 8A and 8B.

Exercise 19 related to Lesson 9B -- E-mail

Using your Yahoo e-mail account, address a single message to yourself and to two other students in the class. Be sure to separate each address with a comma and a space (williams23@aol.com, harrisbill@ij.net). Send a bcc of this same message to three other students in the class. Then wait a few minutes, log in again to your Yahoo e-mail, and view and print the copy of the message you sent to yourself. (Sending yourself a message is a good way to make sure your e-mail is working properly.)

Exercise 20 related to Lesson 9C-- E-mail

Using your Yahoo account, send this graphic as an attachment to another student in the class. Ask the receiver to print the message and the attached graphic.

Mallard with wings spread wide.

Then go to this site and copy the graphic, sending it as an attachment to another student, again asking the receiver to print your message and the attachment. The graphic is a painting by Jack Pollock. In your message, comment about the painting. http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.male-female.jpg

Exercise 21 related to Lesson 10A -- Newsgroups

1. Use Google to view at least three Newsgroup posts related to a movie you have seen or plan to see. The Google Newsgroups search address is http://groups.google.com/. Use the Advanced Groups Search option.

Google newsgroup search window.

2. Print out one of your message hits -- the one that seems most thoughtful and well written. Remember that you may have no way of telling the real identity or expertise of the Newsgroup poster.

3. If you have trouble coming up with your own movie title, try one of these, again using the Advanced Groups Search option. If you prefer, you can substitute a book title, car model, or actor.

movie Enemy at the Gate

movie Ali

movie Harry Potter

Here is what the Advanced Groups Search option would look like for the Enemy at the Gate. You will note that I chose the option "Find messages with all of the words." I might have done as well if I had left out the word movie and put the title in the exact phrase box.

Exercise 22 related to Lesson 10B -- Newsgroups

You have to feel pretty secure about yourself to take part in Newsgroups. Often you may find yourself bombarded by insults -- flames in Newsgroup jargon. To get some ideas on how to cut down your chances of being flamed, do an Advanced Google search on avoid flames. Read several message-hits giving suggestions. Write down notes on at least three of these suggestions and be prepared to share them with the class. Again, the Google's Newsgroup search site is http://groups.google.com/