September 30, 2003
September 21, 2003
Monday 22 Homework
Help! Animated images don’t animate in my Netscape browser. What preference or setting would
you change to fix this? (2 points)
Ans: You go to Edit, then prefreneces, then Privacy&Security, then change it to “as many as image specifies”.
What is the full file path where the netscape preferences get stored for your own username? Paste
this into your blog. Hint: do a search for prefs.js. (4 points)
Ans:Go to Start, Search in folders and files for prefs.js and then
right click on the resutl that comes up, right click on it and choose
open containin folder, then right click on that, go to Properties and
then copy and past the location:
C:\Documents and Settings\moussma\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\ktb2rx7x.slt
| How do you: | in Netscape v7 | Internet Explorer v6 |
| set the home page | Go to Edit, then Prefrence and then choose set the homepage_ | Go to Tools, and then Internet Options and it should be in General section and you can set the homepage you want_ |
| set the default font | Go do Edit, then Prefrences, then Apperance and then Fonts_ | Go to Tools, then Internet Options and then Tools_ |
| change text size (does this work all the time) | Go to View, then Text and then Zoom(it does not happen all the time). _ | Go to View and then Text Size(it does not happen all the time)_ |
| save bookmark | Go to Bookmark and then choose Bookmark this page or Ctrl+D_ | Go to Favorites and then Add to Favorites_ |
| create folder for bookmarks | Go to Bookmarks, and then File Bookmark, and then giveit a name and put it in an old foler to create a new folder for it_ | You can just click Ctrl+B_ |
| view page source | Go to View and choose Page Source_ | Go to View and choose Source_ |
| start a browser tab | Go to File then New Navigator and then Navigator Tab (or you can just click Ctlr+T_ | Internet Explorer does not have this option_ |
| set printed page margins | Go to File, then Page Setup, and then just choose the margin size_ | Go to File, then Page Setup, then choose the margin size_ |
| place page # on right of footer | Go to File, then Page Setup, then go under Footer and choose # on right_ | Go to File, then Page Setup and then under footer type Page&pof&p_ |
| bring up the History window | Choose the GO and then click on History_ | On the control panel there should be an icon that looks like a clock, that is the History_ |
September 18, 2003
All About Rugby
Open two browser windows, one to do the web searching and the other
logged in to your blog with a new entry open. Type the answers to the
questions below into a blog entry with the subject line Rugby
Retrieval. Make sure that Text Formatting on your blog entry screen is
set to Textile.
Searching on the web
We want to find some photos of the dynamic New Zealand rugby winger, Joe Rokocoko.
Browse to the BBC site, in the “Search the Web” box, type in rokocoko and click BBC News radio button, then Search.
1. How many results do you find? 0
Click on Results from all of the BBC tab:
2. Now how many results? 0
But I was sure that the photos were somewhere on the BBC site!
Now go to the BBC sports page and search for rokocoko there:
3. How much effort did it take you to find the Search box, ie did you have look hard for it or was it intuitively obvious? It was intuitively obvious
4. Now how many results did you get? 5
Note that the results are ordered in “relevance” (what does this mean?) and by date UK style (day/month/year)!
5. Open the first story, “An Extraordinary Joe”, download the
graphic (like we did on Monday) and save the web address (URL) (which
you also know how to do). Now upload the graphic to appear as a popup
in the current blog entry. Paste the URL into the blog entry as well.
To make this “clickable” just add the text you want to click on and put it in quotes with a : directly in front of the URL.
Download file
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So An Extraordinary Joe……..
Open up a new tab on Netscape and do search for Joe Rokocoko on Google.
6. How many results do you find now (look carefully at the top of the results page).6,780
7. What google page does the BBC links appear on? Page 2, # 14
By following some links find out the following information about Joe Rokocoko. Type in your answer and the URL where you got it.
8 a) Where and when was Joe Rokocoko born? Born on 6/6/83 in Fiji
b) What local team and what national team does he play rugby for and in
what position? He plays on the New Zeland All Blacks as a wing and on
the Rugby Work Cup.
c) How many tries has he scored in international rugby in how many matches? 11 tries in 5 matches.
URL I have used are : http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/international/3099399.stm
http://allblacks.xtra.co.nz/team/0,,10458-2608860,00.html
Do a search for the phrase Rokocoko proves no ordinary Joe. Wow!
9. How many different sources use this phrase? Makes you wonder …
At least 4
Now let’s explore Advanced Google search. Click the “Advanced Seach” link, fill in joe rokocoko
10. How would you find all the UK references to Joe (use domain .uk) - give How many results are returned when you do this search? You go to Advanced search and in the Domain section you add .uk
11. How about New Zealand ? (use domain .nz) 1,610
Now set all the advanced stuff back to default and type in Joe Rokocoko as the search.
Click on the Directory tab
12. How many results? Highlight one of the Categories, copy it and
paste into the blog entry. Can you find out which country is hosting
this year’s rugby world cup?
6,780 result, and World Cup will be in Australia
Category Sports > Football > … > Regional > New Zealand > News and Media
click on the News tab
13. How many results? What are the different countries featured on the first page of results? 115, Australia, New Zeland, U.K., and South Africa
14. What is the qualitative difference between results from “Web”,
“Images”, “Directory” and “News” tabs? That is, what sort of web sites
do they bring up?
Searching full text Database The “Web” is just searching the web for
information, ”’Images” is finding pictures, the “Directory” files the
information into categories, and the “News” organizes the information
starting from the lastest news.
We’re going to try to find out what the game of Rugby Union is about.
We are going to look at Academic Search Elite which is accessible from Earlham Library home page.
From Library home page, select Find Articles —> In Databases : General and Reference : Academic Search Elite.
Find rugby union
In Refine Search select Earlham College and Full Text
15. How many results are found? Do the titles of any of these give you an idea of how to play the game? 22 results, and none of them give an idea about how to play the game.
Click the forward arrow to go to page 2. Open the article “Scrum as you are …”
16. What is the topic of this article? It is about a gay rugby team in Great Britain
Looking in an Encyclopędia
Let’s go look in Brittanica.
From Library home page, select Find Articles —> In Databases : General and Reference : Encyclopędia Britannica
Type in rugby union and Go.
17. Make a screenshot of the results window (not the full screen) and upload it into your blog as a popup graphic.
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(notice that the Video & Media refer to Labor Unions.
September 15, 2003
Class Work Sept. 15
C:\Documents and Settings\moussma\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\zrfb1mbg.slt
September 11, 2003
How to Upload Files and Textile formatting
1.LoginView image
2.Click on New Entry-THIS ALLOWS YOU TO CREATE A NEW LINE OR LINES OF INFORMATION ON YOUR BLOGView image
3.Upload file CLICK UPLOAD FILE ON THE LEFT SIDE UNDER POST
4.Choose file MAKE SURE YOU CHOOSE LOCAL SITE PATH, THEN CLICK ON
BROWSE AND CHOOSE WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO UPLOAD THEN CLICK ON UPLOAD
5.Image type,YOU CAN EITHER CHOOSE POPUP IMAGE WHICH CREATES A LINK TO
THE IMGAGE OR AND EMBEDDED WHICH THE IMAGE COMES UP RIGHT AWAYView image
6.AFTER YOU ARE DONE WITH THE IMAGE THEN CHOOSE HTML View image
7.AFTER CHOOSING HTML HIGHLIGHT EVERYTHING IN THE SMALL BOX AND COPY AND PASTE IT TO YOUR BLOG ENTRYView image
8.MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE PUBLISH SELECTED UNDER PRIMARY CATEGORY AND POST STATUSView image
9.SAVE EVERYTHING AND PREVIEW IT
September 08, 2003
Creating a blog site
Here are my answers to the Sept. 8,03 class work
Marianne
1. Marianne
2. The difference btw Entry body and Extended entry is that the exteneded entry takes you to more links.
3. You would want to use the Extended entry inorder to save space.
4. If it is set to draft it would save it but it would not rebuild.
5. A URl to the Coptic news