I. URLS (Web Address/Location)

Type in the following web addresses and give the information requested:

A. http://www2.una.edu/mjohnson/glossary.htm
... Find an example of a domain name.

B. www.theawfultruth.com
... Whose website is this?

C. http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Products_and_Publications/Periodicals/American_Libraries/Selected_articles/10_Reasons_Why_the_Internet_Is_No_Substitute_for_a_Library.htm
... List one of the 10 reasons.

D. www.shibumi.org/eotl.htm
... What result do you get when you type in this URL? Why?

 

II. SUBJECT DIRECTORIES

On the Palo Alto College Learning Resources Center homepage, click on the Web Subject INDEX.

A. Click on CIA World Factbook and then on a country.
... Describe the flag of the country you selected.

B. Click on Dictionaries and Thesauri
... Find the meaning of the word "kerfuffle".
... What dictionary did you use?

C. Click on E-books, then click on Books Online, then on Online Children's Stories (Calgary), then on Writings by Children, and then on Stone Soup, then on Art Section, then on International Collection, then on Russia and Lithuania.
... Who painted "Running for the Bus"? Where is the artist from? How old is the artist? What is the art medium used?

D. Click on Live Cam, then on Offenberg, Bavarian Forest, Germany.
... What is the 360 degree panorama?

E. Click on Physics, then on Powers of Ten
... What does this website tell you about the World Wide Web?

F. Use the Yahoo subject directory and click through the menu until you find a website about hybrid electric cars.
... What path did you follow to get to this subject?

 

III. SEARCH ENGINES

From the PAC Learning Resources Center homepage, click on Web Search Engines.

A. Click on Google and type in a topic.
... How many "hits" did you get? (Look at the blue bar near the top of the page). What is the first website listed?

B. Click on another Keyword Search Engine and type in the same topic.
... How many "hits" did you get? What is the first website listed?

C. Contrast and compare the search engines you used in A and B.
... Which one is better? Why?

D. Click on one of the Specialized Search Engines.
... What kind of information does this search engine retrieve?

E. Perform an Internet search using one of the techniques listed on the To Google handout.
... What results did you get?

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