Overview

This project will give you practice searching library catalogs, and a wide variety of web sites. You may need a browser capable of running Java, Flash, and/or JavaScript (e.g., Internet Explorer 5+, Firefox).

For this project you will complete a set of search tasks and provide the results of those tasks in a copy of the following answer form: P4AnswerForm.txt. Once the form has been completed, you will create a zip file that includes this form and then you will submit it using the submit server(http://submit.cs.umd.edu). The deadline to submit this form is Wed April 12, 2006 (6:00 pm).

Specifications

Heron

In the following description, Heron refers to the library catalog you can reach by using telnet (e.g., telnet heron.wico.lib.md.us). Use library as user name if one is requested.

Tasks

Complete each of the following tasks and type your answers in a copy of the provided answer form (P4AnswerForm.txt).

Search 1

Using Heron, find the name of the author that would be immediately before "Koffman, Elliot" in this catalog if that name appeared.

Search 2

Using Heron, find two subjects under which the book "Managing the Internet Controversy" edited by Mark Smith is listed according to this catalog.

Search 3

Using Heron, find a book under the general call number "629.26 CHI" and tell us the title.

Search 4

Find each of the following and give the URL for it.

1. The homepage for "Desperate Housewives" which is on ABC.
2. The homepage for "Scrubs" on NBC.

Try to do this just by guessing at host names. For example, to get to ABC's home page, you could try http://www.abc.com first.

Search 5

Go to http://terraserver.microsoft.com and enter the following address:

		1321 E 12th Street
		Brooklyn, NY 11230

When presented with the search results, select "Topo Map" and then find the number of the public school (PS ___ ) just a block south of this address. Using this number (PS ___) and your favorite search engine, find the actual name of this Brooklyn school.

Search 6

Use the whois program at the UNIX command line on solaris.grace.umd.edu to find out:

1. The name and address of the registrant for the site www.math.com. This information appears underneath the "Registrant:" header.
2. The name of the whois server for the registrar in charge of the site www.math.com.

Search 7

Go to www.internic.net to look for the following information:

• The names of two Internet registrars in India.
• A web page with a non-technical explanation of how domain names work on the Internet.

Search 8

Find an audio clip of a Ferrari race car and give the URL for that sound file. You must give the URL of the sound file itself not the URL of the page that linked to the sound file.

Search 9

Go to the site www.addictinggames.com, find the link for the game "Ping Pong 3D", go to that page and find out the game's author."

Search 10

Go to http://groups.google.com and find three newsgroups that have had articles about homeschooling.

Search 11

Go to http://www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator to find out how to use Google to find out how many inches are in a mile. Give the exact URL for the page displaying the answer.

Search 12

Find an image with only Jody Powell and Jimmy Carter (Ex-President), and give the URL for that image.

Search 13

Use the University of Maryland Library catalog at http://www.lib.umd.edu to find the book that in the title says is about building a learning environment and from the title you can also tell that it deals with online teaching. The book is written by Moore, Winograd, and Lange. Find out the Call Number and whether the book is currently available at UMCP (McKeldin Library).

Search 14

Use the University of Maryland Library catalog at http://www.lib.umd.edu to find a book titled "Technology Literacy Applications in Learning Environments" which is edited by David D. Carbonara. Give the location of a library that currently has the book available. If the book is not available at any of the libraries (this campus or other), give the location and date when the next one to be returned is due.

Search 15

Use the University of Maryland Library pages at http://www.lib.umd.edu to get into the "Research Port" to do a "Cross Search" in all areas related to education. Find an article that has been published whose title includes "Designing and Supporting Technology Classrooms". Tell what university it was written about, and how you would be able to see a copy of this article.

Search 16

Use the International Children's Digital Library at http://icdlbooks.org to find a children's book written in italian. Give the title, author, and publication date of the book.

Search 17

Use the lynx web browser to visit http://www.grace.umd.edu/~nelsonp/cmsc102Search.html to get the code phrase for this search.

Search 18

Pretend you have been assigned a research paper in a class in your major. You will now do some research for that paper. You will not write the paper itself. You should create a well-defined academic research topic for your paper.

1. You need to find four (4) books and two (2) journal articles which relate to your topic in a library and copy down the name of the book or journal, the library branch, the catalog/indexing/etc. number, the author, the date of publication, and the summary if given.
2. Choose two (2) newsgroups which you think might be good to read to gather opinions relating to your topic. You can do a search of articles and keywords at http://groups.google.com to get ideas of newsgroups that might be good to read. Be sure to give the name of the group and to be sure that it is a USENET newsgroup.
3. Find four (4) non-newspaper/magazine Web pages that have information related to your topic and give the URLs of these pages in your document. The pages must all be from different domains as indicated by their URL.
4. Find two (2) newspaper or magazine articles from different sources online that have information related to your topic and give the URLs of these pages.

What to Turn In

Once you have completed the answer form (P4AnswerForm.txt) and are ready to submit, create a zip file with the P4AnswerForm.txt file, and then go to http://submit.cs.umd.edu and submit the zip file under the project submission area named "Project 4". The submit server only accepts zip files, therefore you must place your answer form in a zip file.

You will need your University of Maryland DirectoryID and password to log onto the submit server. When you log in, you will see a list of projects, one named "Project 4". When you click on submit for this project, you will be taken to a web page where you can Browse... for the file on your hard drive that you need to submit and then click the Submit project button to have it uploaded. It will take a few minutes to complete the upload (the exact time will vary based on your Internet connection) so be sure to wait and see that it has completed before going off to do something else. There is no automated grading for projects in this class, so please disregard the comments at the top of the screen related to automated testing of submissions. Keep in mind we will only grade the last answer form you submit.