Assignments Section One

Health

• Information Overload - Barry Smith Column
  • Who is Barry Smith a weekly columnist for?
  • How does irrelativity relate to information age overdose? In other words, why were you asked to read this article and how do you think this will relate to the class?
• Learn2 Avoid Repetitive Stress
  • What is RSI?
  • What features should you look for in a desk, chair, monitor and keyboard?
  • Name several (more than three) ways to stay healthy at your PC
  • What habits or hardware changes have you made now that you have read this document?

History

• Cerf Page
  • Who is Cerf and why is it really called "Cerfing" the Internet?
• Yahoos Internet ~ History
  • Pick a link, any link. Go there, explore, write down what you learned about the history of the Internet.

Terminology

• What Is?
  • Write five new terms you have learned and what they mean in your words.
  • Give an example of a LAN.
  • What does Telecommunications mean?
  • Compare an Intranet to an Internet to an Extranet

email your answers to: The Facilitator
ecpatt@ptialaska.net