Learning Exercises
Revised 1/19/01
7. A Trip Down Memory Lane
We learn by doing... Practice, Practice, Practice...
For extra practice I recommend that you take one Internet site with substantial content and explore it in depth. One that I found interesting was http://memory.loc.gov . What do you know about this site before you visit it? If you have the proper sound software you can listen to speeches out of the past. If your computer doesn't contain the needed software you can download it for free by following the instructions. If you would rather read the speeches you can do so as printed copies are provided. For example you can view or listen to a speech by Franklin Roosevelt when he was a candidate for Vice President. Is it possible view a photo map of Huntsville taken in 1871 from up on Huntsville mountain? Have patience with this file as it contains a lot of resolution and may require a couple of minutes to download.
Remember to practice, we keep what we have by using it. To expand our knowledge base we must try new things, explore. Most of all have fun and enjoy the vast amount of information contained on the Net.
Web Page Development
The Internet is Worldwide Shared Resources. Where do these shared resources originate? From people just like ourselves. When we begin to share with others the Internet takes on a whole different meaning. Maintaining a WEB Site is similar to attending to a garden. It requires constant attention to keeping the material current and the LINKS applicable. It can be very rewarding as followers start commenting on your site. Remember the world is your potential audience, always publish with that in mind. Consider what you would like to see and who your audience may be. Consider this carefully.
Remember you have an unending array of examples to follow, every page on the Internet can be used for ideas. You can also view the source document for mark-up language examples. Be daring, look at some of them, they will finally become familiar.
The Internet really becomes exciting when you start to share your resources with others. We all have things and experiences which will intrigue and benefit others. Normally these others will be family or acquaintances. If your shared information is of a broad nature it may be of interest to many and possibly you should inform Web Search Engines of your page. As you link your pages to others you will soon find that they are linking to you. This concept of shared resources is fantastic. The more you use it and understand it the more useful it becomes. Stay with it. HAVE FUN...
Last class we used a software package called "Microsoft FrontPage 2000" to create a class web page. Now we will use file transfer software called WS_FTP to upload our page and it's picture to the Internet site which is our host. These pages are at http://home.hiwaay.net/~hsvsrne1 for Senior Center participants and at http://huntsvilleal.com/~deanchri/acd/acd.htm for Academy participants.
TRY IT
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YOU MAY FIND IT EASIER THAN YOU IMAGINED.
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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.