September 22, 2003
home work for sept. 22
Help! Animated images don’t animate in my Netscape browser. What preference or setting would
you change to fix this? (2 points)
Ans:You should change open your preferences and then go to privacy and security, then click in
images and then select the radio that says Animated images should loop as many time as the 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:C:\Documents and Settings\smithti\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\ajvgdsu7.slt
| How do you: | in Netscape v7 | Internet Explorer v6 |
| set the home page | i have no idea | go to tools, then to internet options, then change it under home page |
| set the default font | go to preferences and then to apperance then to fonts | go to internet options the on the general tab click font on the bottom of the page |
| change text size (does this work all the time) | go to preferences and then to apperance then to fonts | go to internet options the on the general tab click font on the bottom of the page |
| save bookmark | go to bookmark on the top toolbar, then you select bookmark this page | go to Favorites and select Add to Favorites create folder for bookmarks |
| view page source | go to view and select page source. | go to view and select Source |
| create folder for bookmarks | go to bookmarks then to organize bookmarks then to new folder | go to favorites then organize favorites then create folder |
| start a browser tab | click open new tab on the left hand side of the old tab | You can not have tabs |
| set printed page margins | go file then print setup then click on the Margins and header/footer tab | you can not change margins set up |
| place page # on right of footer | no clue | no clue |
| bring up the History window | open the sidebar and click the history tab | click the history icon in the toolbar |
September 18, 2003
Rugby Retrieval
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 easy, in title bar of menu.
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)! Relevance is how much the site found applies to the seach.
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.
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). About 6,540
7. What google page does the BBC links appear on? Page 2
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-6/6/83 in Nadi, Fiji
b) What local team and what national team does he play rugby for and in what position? His nation team is New Zealand and his local team is Auckland
c) How many tries has he scored in international rugby in how many matches? 11 tries in 7 games
Do a search for the phrase Rokocoko proves no ordinary Joe. Wow!
9. How many different sources use this phrase? Makes you wonder … 30
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 have to tpye .uk ni the doman box in the advanced seach window and you find about 549 matches
11. How about New Zealand ? (use domain .nz) about 1520
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? There are 3 results RUGBY NEWS - Welcome to Rugby News The 2003 Rugby World Cup will b in Australia
click on the News tab
13. How many results? What are the different countries featured on the first page of results? 115 results from a lot of countries
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? They all bring up different web sites sort depending on what tab you click on
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 No, there are no results that give me any type of idea about rugby
Click the forward arrow to go to page 2. Open the article “Scrum as you are …”
16. What is the topic of this article? The article is about a gay rugby peaple and how him being gay has changed things
Let’s go look in Brittanica.
From Library home page, select Find Articles —> In Databases : General and Reference : Encyclopædia 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.
(notice that the Video & Media refer to Labor Unions.
September 15, 2003
C:\Documents and Settings\smithti\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\ajvgdsu7.slt
September 11, 2003
How to upload a graphic file
1. Open a new entry
2. Click on upload file under on the left tool bar.
3. Browse for the image you want to post.
4. Open the image.
5. Click the Local site path option.
6. Then click upload.
7. Then choose if you would like image to be a popup image or embedded image.
8. Save and publish entry
