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Exercise
5
After reading Lesson 5, answer the following questions in your own words.
Please include your full name and the answers in the body of an e-mail message
with the Lesson number in the subject line
of an email addressed to me at JJohnson@fccj.org.
Exercise 5 is worth a total of 7 points.
- (2 points) Read the "Browsing
Yahoo!" tutorial before answering this question. When you have
read the tutorial, navigate the subject categories in Yahoo! (do not use the search engine) to
find information about a NASA observatory in Hawaii.
How did you find
it? Please outline your steps and list each heading and subheading along your
path. Provide the complete URL for the observatory's home page.
- (2 points) Use AltaVista
Multimedia Search to locate a video of the Dalai Lama's speech at a
press conference with Richard Gere in 1999.
Provide a URL of
the page that provides the video link. How long is the speech?
- (1 point) Use ERIC to
find an article written by me (Judith J. Johnson) about the OCLC Data
Base. (Remember to use the Advanced Search mode and to put last name and
then first name in an author search.) What is the title and "EJ"
number of the articles you found?
- (1 point) Use FindLaw to
search for a Web site on "censorship." What is the name and URL
of one Web site you found?
- (1 point) Use the Combined Health
Information Database to search for a government pamphlet on sports
nutrition. What is the title of one document you found, and how can it be
obtained?
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