Date: January 27, 1999 || Your Name: ______________________________

Lab Sheet #4 (Geog. 207, Winter '99):

Demonstration of Information Resource & Communications Skills

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/207/99/lab4.html)

Please, raise this form in your browser and follow it on the screen!

A. Internet Communication Skills

......CHECK

Are you aware that you have direct electronic access to members of this class (by Email & Web), and have you seen their tentative fields of interest inasmuch as they are available? Also, have you visited the 207 Message Board recently? (Yes)
Do you wish to correct your area of interest on the membership list:

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Do you foresee any difficulties in posting your assignment for Thursday (with a title and complete references) as a text file ("myfield") or as an HTML file ("myfield.html") in your public_html/207 subdirectory on the Web. If not, or you are not sure, ASK FOR HELP NOW, even if it means that your "L.Q. Exercise" (below) will be delayed. (I will be O.K.)
If your online review is based on a Web document, or if you are citing a Web document in your Thursday assignment, you will want to connect such Websites to your page(s). Here is a brief description how to do that || here may be more!. (3)

B. Syllabus Skills [ http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/207/]

I have at least skimmed all pages related to the project and am familiar with its objectives and the general nature of its protocol. I am also aware that I have the opportunity to link this project to a "practical setting". (Yes)

C. Location Quotient Exercise

(1) Use a "meta engine" such as "Metacrawler" or "Dogpile" for the keyword "Location Quotient" (1)
(b) Find an actual (already calculated) Location Quotient:
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(b)
(c) Give some details of this L.Q.:
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(c)
(d) URL for this site: (d)
(e) Apply the Location Quotient to your Field of Interests: Find appropriate data and calculate your own L.Q. Click here for this L.Q. Exercise! Post your results on your Web site (However, the regular assignment for Thursday has priority). Enjoy! (e)

D. Congratulations! It appears that you have survived Bootcamp.

(1) Click here and contribute your comments and Bootcamp - related suggestions. [Also: under what conditions would you consider getting involved in one of the suggested "Outreach Activities"? If you would like additional Web help in the Geography Collaboratory (415 Smith), what would be good times to schedule such (additional) sessions? What do you think of this new Geography Department Cover Page design which was presented to us yesterday afternoon? If you do or do not like it, you may also wish to send a message to Rick Roth (rroth@u)]. Thanks. (1)

Return to: Agenda for 4th Week || Geography 207
1999 [econgeog@u.washington.edu]