Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Assignment #7

Go to Wikipedia http://wikipedia.org/

Type YIGO into the Search

Click on Andersen Air Force Base in the body of the article.

Click on Andersen AFB homepage at the bottom of the article.

Hit your Back button.

Click on the ball at the top of the article to get to the Wikipedia Main Page.

Play!!

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Assignment #6

Go to the Internet Movie DataBase http://imdb.com

Type Casablanca into the search function.

Click on the Casablanca under Popular Titles

Click on cast member Curt Bois.

Click on Biography in the left hand column.

That 80 years is a Guinness Record!!

Play!!

Monday, January 29, 2007

Assignment #5

Ok, time to create your own Blog.

Goto Google-More-Even More

Click on Blogger (A good one because then you’ll be on Google)

Follow the instructions.

What to put on your blog??

How about making up some assignments for this email? Or what happened while you were doing my assignment?

Then email me at ralph.meyer@andersen.af.mil to tell me your blog name so I can steal your stuff.

Play!!

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Assignment #4

Blogs

A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.—Wikipedia

Political Blogs

A political blog is a common type of blog that comments on politics.--ibid

Here are 3 Liberal Blogs

http://www.crooksandliars.com/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

http://rawstory.com/

And 3 Conservative Blogs

http://www.michellemalkin.com/

http://volokh.com/

http://www.instapundit.com/

Instapundit is a blog produced by Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee. Reynolds is sometimes called the BlogFather. See Instapundit at Wikipedia.

My blog, which I’ll use to archive all the old assignments, is found here.

http://rameyerguam.blogspot.com/

Play!!

Assignment #3

Learning about Stocks and Bonds

Go to http://morningstar.com/

Near the bottom of the page is a column called Learning. Click on STOCKS CURRICULUM

Take course 101 Stocks Versus Other Investments. It’ll only take 5 minutes.

Take the Quiz.

Play!!

…to be continued

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Assignment #2

A Podcast on podcasting

Go to http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/archive.php

Go down the page until you see the article A Beginner's Guide to Podcasting: Part 1 - A Consumer's Guide. It’s the 13th one down.

Right click on the Listen Now link and Save Target As… to your desktop

After it downloads listen to the presentation-it’s about an hour. You can view the slides by clicking on the Supplemental Material link.

Play!! The 25 Technologies in 50 Minutes presentation is also very good.

Monday, January 22, 2007

Assignment #1

Go to http://www.flickr.com and create an account.

Type “tumon” into the search engine and look at some great photos.

Upload a picture or two into your account.