Welcome to the ten cent inside tour of the International Global Village---absolutely free!

This web page illustrates some of the things you can find, set up, and show to the world.

• How do you locate web-based information on, say, your favorite subject?  You might work with the search programs on your browser, or you might just go directly to your favorite search engine.  My favorite engine is Google, but others may prefer different ones, such as Lycos or AltaVista.
  

• Check out the search engines; you'll be surprised to find out how much you can locate.
  

• The world is literally at your fingertips [or mouse-tips, as the case may be].

HERE WE GO!

The creature sitting here is definitely smarter than the average bear:

S/he has learned these lessons:

• nobody can ever know everything
• you learn more by working steadily
• knowledge is power

And, besides, it's fun to read your favorite book.

	Have you ever wondered what happens if you're just reading a book, when the world suddenly turns inside out? How would you know? What if you could really go to the world behind  the looking-glass? ...  ... What then, Alice?

Alice who?  To find out, click here but definitely, under no circumstances, should you click here!
If you don't like that picture for some peculiar reason, find a favorite by clicking here.
Or, perhaps we can just fix the one we have.  Let's try.  Click me, Please.

Does it work?  (Hey; I'm talking to you!)  ... Please put in your final answer!

You can write things directly in HTML and do very well, but many people find it convenient to use software for composition.  We will use Microsoft FRONTPAGE2000™, a component available in more advanced versions of the Microsoft Office™ Program Package, to make web pages.

• The Normal view is a "menu-driven" program very similar in layout and operation to Microsoft WORD™, where you compose web in this "high level" language. [Just point, click, and type!].  In this view, your activities are strictly local to your page, and you cannot communicate with any other pages or sites.
  
• The HTML view shows the HTML code that constitutes the program.  You may occasionally wish to alter that code directly, rather than being "stuck" with an inappropriate format in the Normal view.
  
• The Preview view is a "web browser", like the various versions of Netscape™ or Microsoft Internet Explorer™.  You can't change anything in that view, but you can check to see if internal and external web links are "active" by clicking on them, and without going out of the Frontpage program.

You should make your own web page on some technology-based topic of personal interest, such as the following, for example:

Sports:

• For example, if you're interested in baseball, you might enjoy looking at a page on the Physics of Baseball.
  

• What if you're only interested in skateboarding? Check out this website by clicking on the line below: http://www.can-do.com/uci/lessons99/skateboard.html.
  

• How about soccer?  Also, here's what one guy says about the Physics of Virtual Soccer.
  

• Tiddly-winks?  Now, there's a competitive sport!  Check out the North American Tiddly-Winks Association.

Famous Scientists or Technologists:

• The sky's not the limit; see this story about Mae Jemison.
  
• Or, find out about the famous Dr Einstein.
  
• Or, get a biography on virtually any well-known Mathematician, or perhaps only of the Female Mathematicians.
  
• Biographies of famous Chemists.  [For example, what about Lavoisier and the French Revolution?]
  
• You know the Drill; Seek and Ye Shall Find.

Science Topics of All Sorts:

Here is one well-tested set of web links, and there are many others.

Classic Works of Science Fiction.

Again, the sky is not the limit.

These are but a few of an endless variety of topics on which you might prepare a web page.  Pick something you like, and then you can show others what you know and think.  Don't be interested just in cartoons!