ENG 21 INTERNET ACTIVITY #1: AN OVERVIEW Renee Gaskill

Your Name:____________________________________

Skills practiced: 1) Reading 2) Following written instructions 3) Navigating the Net 4) Using a search engine to search for a topic 5) Exploring the Reading Lab Home Page 6) Using an URL address to find a particular site.

1. What does the term World Wide Web currently mean to you? ______________________

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2. Sit down at any computer that is connected to the Internet. Click on the Internet folder and the icon marked Netscape or Internet Explorer. (Don’t worry if your screen looks different from your neighbor’s.) If there is a shortage of computers, you may work with a partner. (If you are an experienced Internet user, choose a partner to help who is not.) Click on the SEARCH icon and list the names of the search engines that you see on the screen.

3. Experiment with one of these search engines View the contents page and click on one of the topics. Surf the web until you locate a subheading or a link from the original topic that you are interested in reading.

Which search engine did you use? __________________________________________

Which topic and subheadings or links did you click on? __________________________

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What did you learn about this topic _________________________________________

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4. Find the Hawaii Community College Reading Lab Home Page by either:

a) Using bookmarks at the top of your computer screen or by

b) Typing the following address into the Internet Address Bar at the top of the screen:

http://tlc.uhh.hawaii.edu/wwwreading (This address is called the URL or uniform resource locator).

List the links you find on the Reading Lab Home Page:

5. Click on the Reading Lab Online Dictionary. Click on the box and type in either swashbuckler, haberdasher, or whippersnapper. Click on Search to read the definition and write it below:

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6. Click on the Reading Lab Read Collection. Read the information here. Then click on Biography. Select a work that you would enjoy reading. Select something you feel will help you discover more about your own cultural roots. Write the author, title, and date of publication below:

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7. Click on the Reading Lab Orientation. What did you find here?

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8. Click on the Reading Lab’s Other Links to UH System. Then click on Mookini Library. Now click on one of the six subheadings found on the library home page. What did you find?

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9. Experiment by clicking on the following at the top of the screen ad write about what happened:

• Net Search or Search ___________________________________
• Bookmarks or Favorites _________________________________
• Go _________________________________________________
• Back _______________________________________________
• Reload or Refresh ______________________________________

10. To find information about a subject on the World Wide Web, we can either:

a) Use a search engine and search for a topic or

b) Type in a URL address.

Below you will find the URLs of three very interesting Internet sites. Type one of them into the URL address bar at the top of the screen and press ENTER.

www.nationalgeographic.com Scientific and cultural adventures from around the globe.

www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html An online books page which lists the full text of more than 7,000 books.

www.encyclopedia.com Free online encyclopedia with more than 17,000 articles

On separate paper, write a paragraph about your exploration of this web site.

11. After doing this assignment, has your definition of the World Wide Web changed in any way? Write your new definition on a separate piece of paper.