EDTD 3011 Scavenger Hunt
Fall 2006
Use a search engine such as Google or Yahoo to find the following 25 items. Type your
answers
in Word and save to your www folder.
1. Identify one antivirus program: This may be commercially available or freeware.
NortonAntivirus
2. Identify at least one program for detecting/removing Spyware. ZeroSpyware
3. What is a Blog. a blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an
individual.
4. Describe how you would filter Google searches to prevent “adult websites” – include
URL http://www.google.com/preferences
5. Describe how you would filter Yahoo searches to prevent “adult websites” – include
URL http://search.yahoo.com/web/advanced?ei=UTF-8
6. Bernie Dodge was a key player in the development of the concept of the WebQuest.
Find the URL to his WebQuest site at San Diego State University
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/Professional.html
7. Bernie Dodge was a member of the graduating class of what high school? Kennedy
High School
8. Bernie Dodge lists several classes on his web site. Which one of these classes involves
the design of educational games and simulations? EDTEC 670
9. Define WebQuest? A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most
or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web.
10. What is the URL for downloading updates for Windows XP?
http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en-us
11. Define Pico Cricket. Hint: MIT A PicoCricket is a tiny computer that can make
things spin, light up, and play music.
12. What is a cookie? A cookie is information that a Web site puts on your hard disk
so that it can remember something about you at a later time. (More technically, it is
information for future use that is stored by the server on the client side of a
client/server communication.)
13. The internet has its roots in a US Department of Defense computer network. What is
the 7 letter acronym for this early network? ARPANET
14. What are the names of two image formats commonly used in web design? in-line
image and external image
15. Seymour Papert’s work influenced the creation of programmable LEGO blocks and
robotics kits. What is the name of this LEGO product? Include the URL to the site.
Mindstorms; http://mindstorms.lego.com/
16. Computer-Assisted Instruction or Computer-Based Instruction was influenced by
what famous Behaviorist? B.F. Skinner. He was a strong advocate for Programmed
Instruction and the implementation of Teaching Machines during the 1950s and 60s.
17. Name 3 web browsers that are currently available. Mozilla
Avant Browser, Netscape 7.1
18. What is the name of the first popular Web browser? NCSA Mosaic.
19. What does the acronym HTML stand for?
Hyper Text Markup
HTML
Language
20. During which war did the US Military first actively engage in research and
development WWII
of instructional materials (films, filmstrips, manuals, etc.)? Hint: This research laid the
ground work for current Instructional Design.
21. What is the name of the 19th century inventor who inspired the use of punched cards
to program early computers and tabulating machines? Hint: Loom Charles Babbage.
Herman Hollerith
22. The “first computer bug” was literally a bug. What kind of bug was it? A moth
23. What is a Wiki? a type of website that allows anyone visiting the site to add, to
remove, or otherwise to edit all content, very quickly and easily, sometimes without the
need for registration.
24. What educational institution is responsible for the “One Laptop Per Child” project
which aims to provide the most impoverished children globally with $100 laptops? Mass.
Institute of Technology
25. Define Podcast. podcast is an audio broadcast that is often listened to on a
computer or downloaded to a MP3 player such as an iPod, hence the name.