Computer Scavenger Hunt 2 1. List the 4 NETS for better Internet searching. 1.
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2. List 3 synonyms for the Internet. A thesaurus is a good place to look.
3. Why is bandwidth important to Internet users?
4. Search engines maintain massive databases of the WWW.
5. Give three examples of common paper databases.
What does it do?
How does a computer user often get it in their computer?
7. A specialized search engine is a great asset when hunting
for a particular thing on the web. List two engines for finding images:
List one for finding info on states or counties.
Which would locate an online version of a book written by Dickens or Franklin?
Which would be best for finding out who won the recent election?
Suppose you are making a website about your school or hobby. Write a domain name for it. 9. Suppose you are doing a research project about NFL
football. You harness a search engine.
10. In a building, a firewall prevents the spread of fire
within the structure.
11. You want to connect to a site you have bookmarked.
But instead you get a 404 message. 1.
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12. What can you try, before leaving the site, to try to relocate your page?
13. FYI - Do you have a computer acronym you would like
to understand? Find it at The
Acronym Finder
14. Look into this powerful idea: How Much Juice Is Your Computer Using at Night? | Greening your computer usage “PCs are not hurt by turning them on and off a few times a day,” said Jonathan Koomey, a project scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “Economic obsolescence is much more dangerous to PCs than turning them on and off.” What do you conclude should be done? Leave it on / turn it off Estimate the number of computers your school has.
Explore further Consider the Power of Possibilities through Andreessen's eye "Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months." Clifford Stoll Extensions: Boolean Searching Exercise | Keywords | Information Literacy Thinking it through - writing a process Small Pieces, Loosely Joined activity Cyberinfrastructure - examines the convergence of three realities -- the spread of Food for thought - Did You Know 2.0? Are you 21st Century Literate? Harness the TerraServer to find your school or home from space. Check out The Computer Comes Home at the Computer Museum Listen to - a Technology article at NPR review From sand to hand: How a CPU is made Rich Tennant can put a smile to the greatest computer frustrations. See his funny cartoons . Nanotechnology @ NGS - Never underestimate the little guy.
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