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- Subject: work sheet 2
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- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 23:48:14 PDT
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- (c) 1992, Helen Sternheim
- SpaceMet/5C5E Project
- PO Box 740
- Five Colleges, Inc.
- Amherst, MA 01003
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- Telecomm Activities - 2
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- 9. Go to the national Educator message area (message area 26). Find a
- message that is interesting to you. List the number of the message, where it
- was from (BBS Origin) and the date it was sent.
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- _______________________________________________________________________
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- ______________________________________________________________________
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- 10. Go to K12 Teacher Chat (message area H4). Read some of the messages
- there. __________Check.
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- 11. Go to one of the K12 subject matter areas. Read some messages. Reply if
- appropriate. __________Check
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- 12. Go to one of the national Ecology or Environmental message areas. (There
- are 4 of them). Read at least 5 messages in the area you choose. Note an
- interesting message. What are its number and subject line?
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- _______________________________________________________
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- 13. Go to Message Area 18, the national Latino echo. Read some of the
- messages. If you are able to read Spanish, please translate a message and
- tell us what it says. Please enter a message in this area if you feel
- comfortable doing this.
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- __________________________________________________________________
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- __________________________________________________________________
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- __________________________________________________________________
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- 14. Go to Message Area D1 (K12 Elementary Chat) or D2 (K12 Jr High Chat).
- Read the last 10 messages. Would your class enjoy using this area?
- ____________.
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- This completes Part I. We have covered most but not all the options in the
- Message Areas; we will cover uploading messages in Part II. At some point you
- may want to explore the Q)uote, F)orward, and B)rowse commands. You may also
- want to use the + and - keys to follow an ongoing discussion in a conference.
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- Part II - File Section Activities
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- 15. Go to the Main Menu and from there to the Files area. Go to file area 1.
- Enter an F followed by two returns to see a listing of all the files in the
- area. Make a note of a text file of interest. (Most text files end in .DOC
- or .TXT; files with extensions of .ARC or .ZIP are usually programs or
- compressed text files.) Write its name, number of bytes (characters), and
- date.
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- ______________________________________________
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- 16. Using the V)iew command start displaying the file you made note of above
- __________Check.
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- 17. Use the L)ocate command to find files relating to a topic of interest.
- (Enter a "string" of a few letters, e.g., math, water, climate ...). Note the
- string you used and how many files the system found.
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- _________________________________
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- 18. Select a text file from the list produced with the L)ocate command. Go
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