The first 6 parts of this assignment must be completed before Wednesday’s class 1/5.  The balance must be completed before class on Monday 1/10. You are allowed to get help from UWired personnel, a friend, or read/skim through 'Getting Started' .

1. Do you have a computer account at UW known as a UWNetID? If yes, go to #2; if no, proceed as follows: Go to the Odegaard Undergraduate Library or the Suzzallo Library and locate the computer labs. At OUGL the lab is on the second floor; at Suzzallo it is inside the Red Square entrance to the left. You can either ask a Lab Consultant working at the desk to help you set up your UWNetID, or you can do so yourself. At OUGL, there are three computers by the pillar used for setting up new accounts (as you’re facing the desk, they are to your left and somewhat behind you). At Suzzallo there is a sign (rimmed in green) on the computer used to set up a new account.


To set up a new account you need to know your last name (pretty easy, so far, no?), birth date, student ID number and your STAR Private Access Code. (If you don't remember or don't have your STAR Code, use either the last 6 digits of your Social Security number, or your birth date as a 6-digit number, e.g. 03/05/78.) If you know that information, then follow the instructions, using the mouse to "click" on the start button. If at any point you get into trouble, a Lab Consultant can help you.
 

2. Proceed to a PC at one of the labs at OUGL or SUZZ and login. (Note, there are Macintoshes around, but you should use a PC for the following explanation. The computers all have a sign on top saying what they are.) To login is to tell the computer who you are. Your password is matched to verify your identity. (Don’t forget your password, but if you do, you can go to the same computer you used to get your UWNetID in the first place, and you can follow the procedure for getting a new one.)

 
3. Do you know what the Pine E-mail program is on Dante? If yes, go to #4; if no, proceed as follows: [A Lab Consultant can help you if you have any problems with any part of this process.] Telnet to Dante, which should be the computer on which your UWNetID account is stored. Teleneting to Dante is an operation that can be found by clicking on the Start button at the lower left hand corner of the screen; click on "Telnet to Dante". You will be prompted for your login name and password again. (If you are using a new account there may be announcements about your new account that you should read.) After the announcements have been shown, there is a menu of options. Type E (for email) to access the Pine Email program. When the Pine program starts for the first time for your account, there is a welcoming message and a request that you be "counted as a Pine user." It is helpful if you type "return" to be counted, but it is not required. The next thing you will see is the Pine menu. Typing "c" in the main menu allows you to compose a message. Other operations that you will need are given at the bottom of the screen. (Notice that commands like ^x are read "control x" and require that you hold down the "ctrl" key at the lower left of the keyboard while typing "x". The "^" character symbolizes the key "ctrl" here, and in this situation is NOT the caret character, uppercase "6".)

 
4. Using the Pine Email Program, send an email message to jwholmes@u.washington.edu. [If the mail "bounces," that is, it either refuses to send the mail or it is returned undelivered, check the spelling -- lots of people mess up "washington".] The Subject line of your email message to "jwholmes" should be "Book" and in the body of the message, i.e. the message itself, please give your name and the title of a book you've recently read and enjoyed.

 
5. While you are using Pine, locate your "sent mail" folder, and find the mail you just sent. Determine how many characters long the message to "jwholmes" is. The number of characters is shown in parentheses.   Move this message to a new folder you create for messages about this class which we'll call IMT220.  To move a message to another folder press S (Save) while you are reading the message.  At the bottom of the screen you will be prompted to SAVE msg # to folder:  Type the folder name, in this case IMT220, and press Enter (the big key).  If this is the first message you are saving to the folder, i.e. you are creating a new folder, you will see the response Folder 'IMT220' doesn't exist. Create?  Press Y for Yes.  Moving messages automatically deletes them from the original folder.  Press L (List) to see the list of folders in your Dante account.  To open a folder, use the arrow keys to position the highlight over the folder name and press Enter.

 
6. Send an email message to the class mailing list, imt220a@u.washington.edu. The Subject line should be Movie and the body should give (a) a famous quotation from a movie, (b) the name of the movie the quote is from. Exit Pine by typing the letter "q" and reply to the queries.  Now you all have some ideas of videos to rent on a slow rainy day (and maybe that slow day will come, oh say next interim?)

 
7. Are you familiar with the Netscape or Internet Explorer web browser? If yes, go to #8; if no, proceed as follows: [A Lab Consultant can help you if you have any problems with any part of this process.] Find the Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer program by clicking on the Start button at the lower left corner of your window, and double click on the appropriate icon. After a few moments, the Netscape (or IE) window will be loaded, showing an initial web page, which should be the UW home page (as requested in step #8). To go to a new web page, you type the address of the web page (called a URL for universal resource locator) in the field towards the top of the window labeled "Go To" or "Location". To go to a site, type in the URL (check your typing because the browser is very fussy that you get the URL exactly right), and hit "enter" (the biggest key). To "follow" a link – links are shown in highlighted color, usually blue – just move the cursor over the link (the cursor will change to a little hand), and click the left mouse button.

 
8. Go to the UW’s main web page, whose URL is: http://www.washington.edu. You may already be there. Follow the "Almost Live" link and then the "UW Images" link. Look at the Red Square images from the day before by following the link with yesterday’s date. The "player" for the movie works just like a VCR with a start, pause and a stop. Repeat the movie. Find something interesting in the movie. If the day you are watching for this assignment is especially boring, you can use one of the six archived movies. (When you are next in Red Square, find the camera – it’s on the west side of Kane Hall – and wave.)  Return to the UW's main page, find the Libraries' homepage and make a note of the address.

 
9. "Click up" is a slang term for going to a web site. Click up http://www.hamsterdance.com. What is this? Click on the Restore/Maximize button – it is the middle button of the three at the upper right corner of the window. The window will shrink somewhat. Resize the window using the resizer control at the lower right corner of the window, making it smaller. What happens to the hamsters?

 
10. Send email to me and (a) include the address (URL) for the Libraries' main web page that you found for #8, (b) describe the images you found in step #8, and (c) describe what was displayed in step #9. A couple of sentences each is sufficient.

 
11. Read Knowing the rules and complete the Ethical & proper use quiz.  E-mail your quiz results to jwholmes@u.washington.edu before class on Monday 1/10.  To copy from a web page and paste into an email message have both programs open on your computer simultaneously.  You may want to experiment with resizing each program window so you can easily move between them.  To use an open program you can click anywhere in its open window on your monitor OR click on the program's icon on the task bar at the bottom of your monitor (to the right of the Start button).  Using the mouse, click and drag to highlight the text you wish to copy. Select copy from the Edit menu (if copying text on a web page, use the Edit menu on the Netscape or Internet Explorer menu bar).  Select the program window into which you wish to paste the text.  Position the cursor where you want the text to appear (in Dante you cannot use the mouse to position the cursor, you must use the arrow keys which can be annoying) and then select Paste from the Edit menu (if pasting into an e-mail message use the Edit menu on the Dante menu bar).

 
12. Wrap up your session by logging out as follows: Go to the Start button and click on the logout choice. (Strange to go to Start to stop, right?)