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Intro to the 21st Century, Tuesday, Second Period
They were back in the computer lab today. "So, several classes ago, we discussed the internet as a venue for communication, with email and instant messaging clients. However, the internet is so much more than that as well. Whether you want to find out who that familiar looking actor is in the TV show you're watching, buy clothing, check the scores to the sport's game, find out what the Defenestration of Prague was, or watch a music video, these are all things you can do on the internet."
Her monitor was hooked up to the projector, so she brought her mouse over and clicked on the Firefox icon on the desktop. "Web browsers let users navigate from one page to the next on the web via links. These links are the specific addresses of the pages you would like to access; they can be as simple as typing in google.com or can be incredibly complex, spanning many numbers, letters, and characters."
She continued in this vein for awhile, explaining search engines, wikis, and blogs, as well as giving historical information on the founding of the internet. That segued into a discussion of safety online, both to protect their machines from viruses, trojans, and spyware and to keep themselves and their information safe and secure.
"It doesn't matter what your email tells you," she said, grinning a little. "There are no Nigerian princes who want to give you a million dollars. The biggest problem with the internet is anonimity; the person you're talking to might be the nineteen year old girl from Cleveland like she's claiming, but she could just as easily be a forty-four year old man from Denver. Be very careful about what kind of information you give to others and if you come across anything that makes you uncomfortable, tell someone, okay? Since the inception of the internet as a commercial tool, an entire new kind of crime called cybercrime has flourished. Be safe, be careful, be smart, okay?"
[OCD up]
Her monitor was hooked up to the projector, so she brought her mouse over and clicked on the Firefox icon on the desktop. "Web browsers let users navigate from one page to the next on the web via links. These links are the specific addresses of the pages you would like to access; they can be as simple as typing in google.com or can be incredibly complex, spanning many numbers, letters, and characters."
She continued in this vein for awhile, explaining search engines, wikis, and blogs, as well as giving historical information on the founding of the internet. That segued into a discussion of safety online, both to protect their machines from viruses, trojans, and spyware and to keep themselves and their information safe and secure.
"It doesn't matter what your email tells you," she said, grinning a little. "There are no Nigerian princes who want to give you a million dollars. The biggest problem with the internet is anonimity; the person you're talking to might be the nineteen year old girl from Cleveland like she's claiming, but she could just as easily be a forty-four year old man from Denver. Be very careful about what kind of information you give to others and if you come across anything that makes you uncomfortable, tell someone, okay? Since the inception of the internet as a commercial tool, an entire new kind of crime called cybercrime has flourished. Be safe, be careful, be smart, okay?"
[OCD up]
Sign in (Week 7)
Listen to the Lecture
Class Activity: Internet Scavenger Hunt!
1. Find a romance novel at www.amazon.com
Book Title: ____________________________________________
Price: _________________
2. List one of the top news stories at www.cnn.com
News story: ___________________________________________
3. Go to imdb.com. Search for the movie Left With the Breeze Gone with the Wind. List three actors or actresses that appeared in the film.
Names: _________________________________
4. How far is it from Sioux Falls to Branson, Missouri? Use
www.mapquest.com or maps.google.com - driving directions
Distance: _____________________________
5. Go to weather.com and do a 10 day forecast. Which day will be the warmest?
Day: ______________
6. Go to ebay.com and pick out a product you might like to purchase at an auction site.
Item: _______________ Cost: __________
7. Go to wikipedia.com and look up the Defenestration of Prague. Pick a hyperlink to a new page. Do this twice more. What page are you on?
New page: _____________________________
8. Check the stockmarket. What stock is GENZ? What's it trading at today? Name:____________ Cost:___________
9. Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ What's their top news story?
News story: _______________________________________
__________________________________________________________
10. Go to www.lowestfare.com and find the cost of a vacation you would like to go on.
Site: ____________________________ Cost: ____________________
11. Translate “How are you?” in French using Google Translate
French translation: ___________________________________________
12. Go to movies.yahoo.com and name the number one movie for the week and what it grossed on the weekend.
Movie: ________________________________________Grossed: ________________________
13. Do a websearch to find a recipe for a meal you'd like to eat.
Name of recipe: _____________________________________________
14. Go to youtube.com and search for "Otters Holding Hands." Aww appropriately.
15. Go to http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html. See how far you can get before class ends. Good luck!
Talk to the TA
Talk to "Professor Perrault"
OOC
Re: Sign in (Week 7)
Re: Listen to the Lecture
Okay, so maybe he had a bit of an unfair advantage, in this class. A tiny bit.
Re: Class Activity: Internet Scavenger Hunt!
1. Title: Legacy, by Danielle Steel. Price: $15.72
2. Sun has biggest solar flare of the year.
3. Vivien Leigh, Ann Rutherford, George Reeves
4. 568 miles
5. Friday
6. Item: Black Rolex Submariner Steel Men's Watch Price: US $3,350.00
7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29
8. Name: Genzyme Corporation Cost: 74.17 +2.40 (3.34%)
9. Sex charge trial for Berlusconi
10. Site: Hawaiian Airlines Cost: $3050 before service fees, $3119 after, for a round trip from here to Hawaii, flying on weekends.
11. Comment vous?
12. Movie: Just Go With It
Whatever meta yayGrossed: $30,514,73213. Pineapple Chicken Curry
14. Awww.
15. ... Hey, I beat my last high score.
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