September 29, 2003
List & Links
http://www.earlham.edu/~kurtisw/rugby_world_cup_groups.htm
September 22, 2003
Browser Settings
Animated images don’t animate in my Netscape browser. What preference or setting would you change to fix this?
Ans: In order to allow animated images to loop in Netscape, a user should go to Edit >> Preferences >> Privacy and Security >> Images. Under “Animated images should loop,” the user should select whether animations should loop once or the number of times specified by the animation’s code.
What is the full file path where the netscape preferences get stored for your own username?
Ans:
C:\Documents and Settings\kurtisw\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\b1y59fii.slt
C:\Documents and Settings\kurtisw\Recent
| How do you: | in Netscape v7 | Internet Explorer v6 |
| set the home page | Edit >> Preferences >> Navigator >> “Home Page” | Tools >> Interet Options >> “Home page” |
| set the default font | Edit >> Preferences >> Appearance >> “Fonts” | Tools >> Internet Options >> “General” >> “Fonts” |
| change text size | Edit >> Preferences >> Appearance >> “Fonts” >> “Size” | Font size cannot be changed in Internet Explorer |
| save bookmark | Bookmarks >> Bookmark this Page | Favorites >> Add to Favorites |
| create folder for bookmarks | Manage Bookmarks >> File >> New >> Folder | Favorites >> Organize Favorites >> “Create Folder” |
| view page source | Right click on mouse >> View Page Source | Right click on mouse >> View source |
| start a browser tab | File >> New >> Navigator Tab | A new browser tab cannot be created in Internet Explorer, only a new window |
| set printed page margins | File >> Page Setup >> “Margins & Header/Footer” | File >> Page Setup >> “Margins” |
| place page # on right of footer | File >> Page Setup >> “Margins & Header/Footer” >> “Headers and Footers” | This task cannot be performed |
| bring up the History window | Go >> History | Click the “History” button on the toolbar |
September 18, 2003
Rugby Retrieval
-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?
(A) There were 1,288 results.
Click on Results from all of the BBC tab:
2. Now how many results?
(A) There were no matches.
-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?
(A) The search box, located in the upper right corner, was easy to find.
4. Now how many results did you get?
(A) I received 5 results.
-Note that the results are ordered in “relevance” (what does this mean?) and by date UK style (day/month/year).
(A) The BBC search process has been designed to display the results by their date of publication. UK style of calendar dating states the day first, month next, and year last (20 September 2003). BBC also includes each result’s relevance, which means an article that is solely about Rokocoko will have a higher relevance than, say, an article that only briefly mentions Rokocoko.
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.
Amazing picture of Joe Rokocoko
Click here to read the BBC article on Joe: An Extraordinary Joe
6. How many results do you find now (look carefully at the top of the results page) using Google?
(A) There were approximately 6,700 results.
7. What Google page does the BBC links appear on?
(A) The BBC links for Joe appear on page two.
8A) Where and when was Joe Rokocoko born?
(A) Birth info: 6 June 1983, in Nadi, Fiji
8B) What local team and what national team does he play rugby for and in what position?
(A) Joe is a winger and plays for Auckland Blues and the New Zealand All Blacks.
8C) How many tries has he scored in international rugby in how many matches?
(A) He has scored 11 tries in 6 tests.
-Do a search for the phrase Rokocoko proves no ordinary Joe. Wow!
9. How many different sources use this phrase?
(A) Using Google, I found five different sources.
-Now let’s explore Advanced Google search. Click the “Advanced Search” 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?
(A) In order to search only in a specific domain, type the domain name where requested in the advanced search. Under “.uk” there were 624 results for “Joe Rokocoko.”
11. How about New Zealand ? (use domain .nz)
(A) 1,660
-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?
(A) There were 6,370 results when I typed “Joe Rokocoko” into Google and clicked the “search” button. When I typed in “Joe Rokocoko” into Google and pressed the “Directory” tab, there were 0 results, but 16 categories, which included “Sports”, “Health”, “Reference”, etc. This year’s rugby world cup is being held in Australia.
-Click on the News tab
13. How many results? What are the different countries featured on the first page of results?
(A) There were 55 results. The countries featured were New Zealand, U.K., Australia, South Africa, United States, and Malaysia.
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?
(A) A “Web” search will bring up all material related to the keyword, “Images” will bring up graphics related to the keyword, and “Directory” will allow a user to search the keyword under a variety of different categories.
-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 and 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?
(A) There were 22 results found, and none of these titles indicate that their articles introduce the basics of how to play rugby.
-Click the forward arrow to go to page two. Open the article “Scrum as you are.”
16. What is the topic of this article?
(A) “Scrum as You Are” is about a team in Great Britain that was the first Rugby team to declare themselves as gay.
-Looking in an Encyclopedia Let’s go look in Britannica. From Library home page, select Find Articles > In Databases : General and Reference : Encyclopedia 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.
September 15, 2003
Bookmark
C:\Documents and Settings\kurtisw\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\zcajceyo.slt
September 11, 2003
Instructions for Uploading Images
1. Login to your blog. View Image
2. Click on your blog’s title.
3. Click on “Upload File,” which is located on the left side of the screen.
View Image
4. Use “Browse” to find the image file. Select “Local Site Path” and click “Upload.” View Image
5. A dialogue box should appear prompting you to create a new entry using the graphic or use an HTML code that contains the graphic. You will also be asked to select a “Popup” or “Embedded” image type.
If you have already created an entry for the graphic to be placed, you can select HTML and copy the code into your edit entry. “Popup” will create a popup image but selecting the embedded option will allow the image file to be placed directly into your entry. View Image
This is an example of a popup image: Click Here
An embedded file will look something like this:
6. Always save your entry.
Blogwork
1. Bold text uses the html code, "b" and "/b." Italic uses "i" and "/i."
2/3. Entry Body text is used when a reasonably short amount of type is going to be used and will be placed on the index page. Extended entry would be used if the entry is going to be too long for it all to be on the index page. An html link could then be added to take the user to the additional text.
4. If Post Status is set to Draft, the entry will not be published. In order to post, this will have to be accessed later and published.
5. http://www.cocteautwins.com/
September 10, 2003
cin >>
just over three weeks ago: a 17-hour drive from my old apartment in boston. lousily, i still haven't unpacked everything because i have too many darn boxes. thank goodness for ikea and their space efficient products. thank goodness.