Once you have secured your e-mail account from the basement of the administration building, you will be ready to go. Follow the directions and answer the questions below and e-mail the answers to Dr. Good at dangood@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu
"Getting Started"
Go to Netscape, click on open and type http://geocities.datacellar.net/rainforest/1894/index.html
This will take you to Good's homepage. Click on weather and climate. Click on Real Time weather from GSU and click.
Click on Full Observation. Answer Questions:
What is the:
1. time and date?
2. current temperature?
3. Minimum/Maximum temperature and when?
4. wind direction and speed?
5. rainfall for the month?
Hit back and go to Weather Channel.
Click on Maps. Choose a U.S. weather map.
6. Click on News Center (top right) and click on La Nina or any of those items there. Explain what you found there. (i.e. good, bad, ugly, etc.) Also, look at maps.
Click on Back several times until you reach Good's page. Click on Maps and then click on Maps On Us.
7. Plan Route from your hometown to Denver, Colorado, by setting a beginning address (hometown, state) and the ending address (Denver, CO). Don't worry about setting an intermediate address. What is your hometown?
8. How long will it take?
9. How many turns?
10. How many miles?
11. Try out other features of Maps On Us. Write paragraph telling what you think about site and how site might help students learn geographic locations, etc.
12. Click on Netsearch in the middle of the Netscape page. Choose a search engine by clicking on one. Then, type in a place that you'd like to know more about or see if it has a homepage like Georgia, news, weather, your hometown, a caribbean cruise, your favorite movie, etc. Click on Go get it or search. Look over sites and pick one and do the following:
A. Give address and title
B. Summarize site
C. Relate site to importance of knowing geographic places. Use imagination here.
D. Opinion of site? Good, bad, cool, etc.?
13. Check out sites like www.cnn.com and www.usatoday.com by clicking on OPEN at the top of the screen and typing in the address. Write brief paragraph about what you found there, how you liked it, etc.
14. What do you think about all of this internet stuff so far? Write paragraph and let me know.
EXIT NETSCAPE---
Send all answers and comments to dangood@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu