Digital Aerobics

Practice with E-mail, the Internet, and the Worldwide Web.

E-mail

1. E-mail a "howdy" message to Foote and one to your teaching assistant.

2. Send a "thank-you" message to the author or compiler of your favorite Web site and "CC" a copy of this message to your teaching assistant.

Internet and Worldwide Web

3. Download to disk a copy of first Atlas*GIS Metaponto exercise. Open the file in Word, type your name and the date at the top of the file, and then print. Put in assignment box in GRG 302.

4. Print a copy of this "Digital Aerobics" page directly from Netscape. Write your name and the date on it and put it in the assignment box.

5. Use ftp to download the datafiles you will need for the first Metaponto exercise. This are on texas.grg.utexas.edu. Once you have the files, unzip them using WinZip or other decompression utilities.. Write your name on the disk and leave it in the assignments box.

6. Prepare the following file on one blank, labeled diskette. This will be your first personal Web page. Also, on the same disk, create a gif image from a scanned photograph or slide. The photograph should be of you or of a scene reflecting one of your interests or hobbies. Both files should use the first eight characters of your last name, for example: foote.txt and foote.gif.

The ASCII file should be in the following form, substituting your name (and interests) for mine:

<HTML>
<TITLE>Ken Foote's Homepage</TITLE>
<BR>
<IMG SRC = "gif/foote.gif">
<H2> Kenneth E. Foote</H2>
<B>E-mail: <A HREF = "mailto:k.foote@mail.utexas.edu">k.foote@mail.utexas.edu</A></B><P>
I am an associate professor of geography at the University of Texas at 
Austin and the director of the Environmental Information Systems 
Laboratory.  I joined the faculty in 1983 after training at the 
University of Chicago (M.A., 1978; Ph.D., 1982) and University of  
Wisconsin-Madison (B.A., 1976).  In addition research in cultural 
geography, semiotics, and American landscape history, I teach computer 
methods and geographic information systems.  My most recent grants from 
the National Science Foundation--for <A HREF = 
"http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft/contents.html">The Geographer's Craft 
Project</A> and the <A HREF = 
"http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/virtdept/contents.html">Virtual Geography 
Department Project</A>--are for developing hypermedia course materials 
in the Worldwide Web.  My most recent book is <I>Re-reading Cultural 
Geography</I> (1994) which I co-edited with Peter Hugill, Kent Mathewson, 
and Jonathan Smith.  Another book manuscript will be published in early 1997, 
<I>Shadowed Ground: America's Landscape of Tragedy and Violence</I>. 
In my spare time I rehearse and perform baroque and modern flute, 
renaissance and baroque recorder, and viola da gamba with a variety of 
ensembles.<P>
<P>
<HR>
This is where I will add a link for my resources list.
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Created on 28 August 1996.  Last revised 13 January 1997.  KEF.
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Last Revised 13 January 1997. KEF.