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Computer Themes Internet Hunt Activities created by Cindy O'Hora The Internet is an enormous collection of answers. The challenge is to find them. Completing an internet hunt will develop your web browsing skills. You will learn lots of interesting stuff. You will harness powerful web site tools like databases to obtain fresh information. You will use this data to answer challenging, thinking required questions. Oh, what fun! Before you begin, broaden your web browsing skills by checking out my tips on Getting Back. |
| How to Use: Create a link from your class/school web page to this index page or to the individual hunt page. OR Bookmark this site. OR You can type the address of a hunt page in the browser location
bar. Answer forms: Do the Digital Answer Format OR Print the hunt for an answer sheet. OR Use the printer
friendly worksheets. OR Have the students number down a lined sheet
of paper. OR Consult the Make your own answer form how to.
Goldilocks Web tip: You can easily adjust your view of the text on a page. If you think the words are too small: Safari - Go: View .. Make Text bigger or Mac - hold down the command key | |
Save a tree - use a Digital Answer Format - Highlight the text. Copy it. Paste it in a word processing document. Save the document in your folder. Answer on the word processing document in a contrasting color (not yellow) or font (avoid Symbol, 
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or other ornate artistic fonts). Save frequently as you work. Enter your name and the date in the header, of the document. 
and press the + key (plus sign) or Windows use Ctrl & + key. Firefox - Go: View .. Text Size. Conversely, if you think it is too big do the same, but choose smaller or Mac | Index: | Science - 60 |
Computer -50 |
Social
Studies -100 |
Months &
Holidays - 40 |
Computer Scavenger Hunt - terms, history, facts. revised 11/2011
Are you 21st Century Literate?
Basics of the Internet - 4th up
About the Internet ms/hs
Balancing Privacy and Security - Datamining
Bloggez- vous? Should you build a blog?
Cars - Individual Privacy, Public Safety and Justice
Collaborations online & Networking power (wiki)
Collaborations & Networking working with these tools utd 9/09 (wiki)
Computer Peripherals utd 3/09
Consider the Power of Possibilities through Andreessen's eyes
Considering Systems and Controls
Constitution - Privacy and the Digital Age
Database = Power
Boolean Searching - Information literacy
Digital - Discerning Fake and Real Photos - Why does it matter to you?
Digital Science Journal Activity
Copyright Issues Hunt food for thought and action
eGovernment - Expectations & Evaluations
Google Books a virtual library - explore issues 
Google Search - try the special features
GPS - harnessing new technology
Information Literacy - web & print resources
Information Literacy - Keyword searching
Information Literacy - Boolean Searching
Internet - Actions can have lasting consequences
Lunar Society and the Homebrew Computer Club
Make your own Literature based Internet Hunt
Make your own Country or State Fact Hunt
MP3 - the good and the ugly
Net Neutrality - What is it? Why does it matter?
Podcasts - getting information via the Internet Activity utd 1/09
Problem/Project based activities
Thinking Process through - writing a process
Small Pieces, Loosely Joined activity - explores an ebook about the web
Spreadsheet tips and tricks hunt
Transparency Essay ms/hs
Web 2.0 and You - digital lifestyle discussion
Word Processing Hunt new and improved.
100,000 Computers a Day hands on math
Tech info with a touch of humor come on laugh about it!
Artificial Intelligence - Manufactured Minds
*Beyond Bullet Points approach to multimedia slides
Best Practices of Tech Integration
CyberSmart - Free K-8 lessons on safety and use of the Internet
CyberWar - computer intrusions on Frontline
Digital Future at CSPAN
Digital Photo essays - Digital Edge Learning Interchange
Finding a Needle - worksheet activity
Get Your Web License from PBS - interactive safety and use activity
Social Networking: Don't Give Yourself Away
What Was That Again? Internet vocabulary - worksheet activity
Probing Ponds - Digital Edge Learning Interchange
National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS)
Politics and Web Video presentation
RSS in Plain English from Common Craft
Hunts: Arts / Social Studies / Months & Holidays / Literature / Science / Civics Projects and Essays / Problem Based Learning
Frequently Asked Questions
about these hunts. I do not provide answer keys.
As I work on the web, I come across hundreds
of remarkable web sites. I
have collected a few of them in these links.
Preparing Your Daughter or Son for the Next Century
Terms of Use: I am providing some of the hunts in PDF. You'll need a free pdf program to use them like Adobe Acrobat Reader. You may print the pdf copy for an answer sheet. Using Mac OSX.
Alternative answer forms: Or Print the hunt web page(s) for an answer sheet or use the printer friendly worksheets, or have the students number down a lined sheet of paper.
Make your own answer form how to
Tech Tip: Working in a group or in two different places like the library & home? You do not have to be physically together to work together.
Watch Google Docs video TAI - How could you use free, Google Docs to do a project? How would this facilitate group projects?
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Updated September 12, 2011, posted 3/1999 Cynthia O'Hora
Copyright ©1999 Cynthia J. O'Hora. Feel free to link to any individual web page. Educators and individuals may print a hunt, for use in a classroom setting. January 7th, 2007 - I have decided to release some of my works to public domain. Others are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Look at the bottom of a page to find the notice of copyright. I continue to retain a full copyright protection on the majority of my work. That is noted on the individual works. Use of the materials here constitutes an agreement with these Terms of Use. Frequently Asked Questions