Learning Exercises
Revised 1/19/01
1. A WARM UP
Starting Your Search
Engines
1. What is the URL of the home page
for the Site which contains this course? _________________
What is the URL
for this page?___________________
2. Point your Browser to
the start page (home page) for this site. Edit the address box
such that it contains one of the following URLs.
For Academy Students use (http://www.deanchri.org/acd/acd.htm) or for
Senior Center students use (http://home.hiwaay.net/~clc1/old/).
Then scroll down and
locate the link to the proper site where your class picture will
be found. Watch this site for future pictures. What is the URL of the page where your class photo will be
found?
_______________________________________________________
3. Point your Browser to a commercial search engine... www.yahoo.com
; Scroll down and use the hyperlinks to visit a computer in some
US city, maybe the place of your birth. What is this computer's
name and the URL used to access it?
________________________________________________________
4. Use another search
engine... www.altavista.com
to find a stock quote... If you don't know a stock symbol try
"Alcoa". What stock did you check and what is it's
current selling price?
_________________________________________________________
5. Use one of the search
engines to use the "KEY WORDS" feature to find a
picture of a shark. Put the key word "shark" in the
search box and then click on the search button. How many URL
references did you receive from the search? What is the URL which
finally provided a picture of a shark?
_________________________________________________________
Can you find other information or pictures on your own. Just pick a topic of your interest and GO... Remember these exercises get increasing difficult.
Navigation Bar To
Class Exercises
Dean Christensen; February, 2000; This information has been gleaned from many sources on the Internet. It has been compiled and edited by the author for the free use of his students. It is available to all. Remember the Internet is "Shared" resources. Revised January 19, 2001.