Scavenger+Hunt

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**Internet Training Questions**

Go to [|http://ajkids.com] and enter the question “What is the internet?” Follow the Tutorial and answer the questions below as you go through the Tutorial.
 * 1) Define the Internet:
 * 2) Is the World Wide Web (www) the same as the Internet?
 * 3) What is the World Wide Web?
 * 4) What 2 things are considered browsers?

Now go to http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet-infrastructure.htm And answer the following questions.
 * 1) Who owns the Internet?
 * 2) What determines our path between our computer and Internet servers?
 * 3) What 2 jobs does a router have?
 * 4) When did the Internet begin?
 * 5) Who oversees the formation of the policies and protocols that define how we use and interact with the Internet? oversees the formation of the policies and protocols that define how we use and interact with the Internet?
 * 6) When was this group established?
 * 7)    Who created the first high-speed backbone?
 * 8) When was it created?
 * 9) What 3 companies worked with the NSF to create a backbone in 1988?
 * 10) What does IP stand for and what is it?
 * 11) How were connections made when the Internet was in its infancy?
 * 12) Why did this method of connecting change?
 * 13) What is a DNS?
 * 14) How are connections made today?
 * 15) Where do you see domain names?
 * 16) What are 3 examples of top-level domain names?
 * 17) What is an example of a host name?
 * 18) Roughly how many ‘requests’ does a DNS server handle daily?
 * 19) All machines on the Internet are one of two types. Name the 2 types.
 * 20) What is a server?
 * 21) Name a type of server.
 * 22) What are clients (in reference to machines on the Internet)?
 * 23) How often is your IP address assigned or changed?

Go to http://www.learnthenet.com/english/animate/animate.htm to answer the following questions:
 * 1) What does "URL" stand for and how is it used?
 * 2) What does "http" stand for and how is it used?
 * 3) How are spiders used in internet searching?
 * 4) Where is streaming media stored?
 * 5) What is a newsgroup used for?

Go to http://www.piercelaw.edu/tfield/copynet.htm to answer the following questions:
 * 1) What is protected under the law? Personal expression or facts?
 * 2) Describe fair use?
 * 3) What are some conditions beyond fair use that allows someone to use someone elses idea?
 * 4) How are private lists described under copyright law?

After you have finished all of these questions go to the following site and view the Interactive Timeline of Computer History. Add this site to your favorites as we will refer to this very often. http://www.scsite.com/tdc3/index.cfm?action=home&chapter=2

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Discussion
Learning how to search the internet while at the same time learning how the internet works was one of the good things that came out of using this scavenger hunt in my class. Before this assignment we had a separate project on internet searching, but, with the scavenger hunt, internet searching just became an intrinsic part of the assignment.

One bad thing that came out of using a scavenger hunt was the good old copy/paste. Since scavenger hunts are factual based and don't require original work, many students simply copied and pasted their answers rather than critically read the entries. I think this took away from some of their comprehension of how the internet worked.

I recall mixed feedback my scavenger hunt. Kids that were in the spirit of the hunt had a very enjoyable time. Others simply viewed it as an online worksheet. Perhaps next time I will play up the "Hunt" or "Safari" aspect of this assignment.