Get the news

·        In the address bar type www.alltheweb.com

·        What is the new information for bird flu for last two months?

·        ____________________________________

·        In the address bar type www.google.com

·        What is the new information for Toyota promotion for last six months?

·        ____________________________________

Weather report

·        Find the weather report for Las Vegas. The temperature will be next week

·        __________________________________________

• Obtain maps and city guides
• Obtain a map on map quest from Los Angeles City College to Cal State Los Angeles. Write down the directions

_________________________________________________________________________

• Get a map of Seattle
• Do a city guide of Seattle  what are some things to do?

·        ____________________________________

·        ____________________________________

·        ____________________________________

·        ____________________________________

Search exercise

·        Perform a web search using the yahoo directory

·        select the health link

·        scroll down to diseases 

·        Select the heart link

·        Write down one of the types ___________________________________________

·        Search the web

·        Use  the keyword  “birthstones”

·        Find the birthstone for your birth month

·        Birth month _________________   birth stone __________________________

·        Select a search engine to find united states presidents

·        Search for the president Lincoln’s Gettysburg address"

·         Write down the first two lines

·        Perform a web search  on “Salvador Dali”

·        Open the documents until you can answer the following questions 

·        What are two of Dalis’s most famous paintings?

·        When was Dali born?    ___________________________________________

·        Search engines recognize search term differently but it is difficult to memorize the difference between search engines.  After some practice you will develop skill to maximize your results by using the most coming searching proceeds using difference search engines

·        Open www.go.com  is there is a difference if you capitalize the words?

·        What can you conclude about the use of case when using the go search engine?

·        Select a search engine to find United States Presidents

·        Search for the President Kennedy’s inaugural address"

Write down the first two lines

Use several search engines to find this information

Use yahoo, Lycos, go, Alta vista, WebCrawler

Search international travel

·        The WWW has made international travel less worrisome. One of your first questions might be how is my money converted.

·        Find a currency conversion site , then Select travel

·        Click currency converted under travel essentials

·        Choose American dollars in the convert from column,

·        Choose Euros in the convert to column

·        What is the conversion for $16.00 USD (US dollars)?

___________________________________________________

·        What is the conversion for $5,000 USD?

______________________________________________

Jackie Kennedy

·        Go to a search engine  http://www.yahoo.com or www.excite.com  

·        In the search text box select Jackie Kennedy and click search

·        Find a link

·        Point to a picture of Mrs. Kennedy and click the right mouse button. 

·        Click save picture as

·        Save in the C drive in the My documents folder

·        Open Microsoft Word

·        Type your name

·        Press enter

·        Type the title Jackie Kennedy

·        Press enter

·        Pull down the Insert menu click picture

·        Click from file

·        Select the drive and folder on which you saved the picture

·        Click insert

·        Save the document as Jackie Kennedy

·        Move and size the picture

·        Print the file