Week #2 Report: Using Netscape for the Second Time
Section 2. Self Assessment Ratings:
How difficult was this week's task (lumping all the sub-tasks together)?
Very easy 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very hard
This week's rating=1
How much negative emotions did it cost you, all in all?
Very little 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very much
This week's rating=1
How valuable for later use is this knowledge or skill going to be for
you?
Not useful 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very useful
This week's rating=10
How likely is it that you'll be getting good at this week's tasks?
Not likely 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Quite likely
This week's rating=10
How satisfied are you with the computer and Internet systems?
Not satisfied 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very satisfied
This week's rating=10
How hard did you try to get through this week's tasks?
Gave up easily 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Refused to give
up
This week's rating=10
The overall tasks for this week were not very difficult. Because I am still familiarizing myself with the use of Netscape, basic commands are not hard to use. There were no specific errors that I kept doing over and over. I actually feel quite comfortable doing this week's tasks. I think that the knowledge I gain from using the internet will be very handy in the future. I hope to become quite proficient at it.
The first task that I set out to accomplish was to save an image to a temp directory in the hard drive. When I first read what we were supposed to do, I thought that it would be very difficult and would require many different steps. In order to save and image all you need to do is, in Netscape, put the arrow on the image that you want saved. Next, click the right mouse button. Scroll down to the save this image as. The next thing that needs to be done is to type in c:\temp and hit enter. That's it. Now the image is saved into the temp directory in the hard drive of the computer. It is so easy to save an image.
Another assignment for this week was to send a document to yourself by e-mail. While in the document you want to be sent to yourself, go to File on the top of the screen. Scroll down to mail document. You will then need to type in the e-mail address you want it sent to. Next, click the mouse on attach, then document source, then attach again. That is all that needs to be done. The document then should be sent to the specified e-mail address. I was not sure whether this is the procedure that we were supposed to learn. I tried to interpret the instructions on the assignment sheet to the best of my abilities. Sending a document by e-mail is also a simple task. I think that it could also come in handy when you want to save the information for future reference.
To view source files the first thing that needs to do is the go to View. Next, click on source files. The next thing that you will see is the text in the text editor. This process is good to know because in the event that you're making a file and you need ideas or help on something, you can view the source files and see what other people did. Right now the script that was displayed on the screen was like a foreign language, but I'm sure in the future it will become quite handy.
Under the option View, there are three main features. The first one is reload. This reloads the current document that's on the screen. I am not sure of its purpose at this time, but there must be a reason for it. Another feature is refresh. When I scrolled down to it and let go of the mouse button, it did nothing. I am not sure if it did anything, but the name seems to imply that it refreshes the current document on the screen. The third feature is the source. This will allow you to view the source files as I stated in the paragraph above.
Bookmark is another handy feature for Netscape. This allows the user to browse around the internet and "bookmark" areas of interest. This allows easy accessibility for future use. Under the option bookmark is add and view. These are self explanatory. You can either add another item to be "bookmarked" or view the items that have already been "bookmarked". After the view option, there is a solid line and a list of all the items "bookmarked". This way, all the user has to do is to scroll down to the specific item and click on it. I think that this is a very handy feature. This way, you don't have to type in the specific address to areas you always go into.
Under the feature Go to, there are several features under this bar. A few are back, forward, home, and stop. But these features have their own buttons you can click on without bringing down a menu so they are probably not used too often under the go to bar. There is also a view history choice. This gives you a brief history of the internet, in case you're interested. This is beneficial for those who are curious about how the internet got started. Go to also show you the areas that you've gone through. I find this feature the most convenient of all the features under go to. I like it because you can see exactly what route you took to get to a certain site, and you can go back to a specific location without going in the same order as you went forward.
All together, this week's assignment was not difficult at all. The only thing that it required was time. I only needed time to explore all of the features and to see what they do. After that, it was easy to figure out what I was supposed to do to execute each specific function. So far I am enjoying what we are learning. I think that these basic tools will be useful for our future work on the internet. I also think that this is an important part of learning the internet because it is like a pyramid where each function we are learning builds upon knowing how the previous function works.