September 21, 2004
Scavenger Hunt
My Scavenger Hunt Results 1. Skipped this one after searching on google and yahoo without success 2. The poem is Evolution by Alice Duer Miller, found on google by searching the phrase, when all the women wanted it. Alice Duer... More
Posted by Anne Mason at 09:46 AM
September 15, 2004
Scavenger Hunt
1. Googled “Trotsky sound recording”, and was directed to NPR Radio. From that site, I was directed to WebCorp Multimedia that had an entry in their Real Audio archive entitled "Leon Trotsky speaks in English to American Socialists, 1938.” This... More
Posted by Kristin at 08:56 PM
September 13, 2004
Scavenger Hunt Results
Well, we have a tie: Jim Safley and Robert Russell both had an impressive 7 correct answers. Olivia Ryan also got 7 (but she admitted that went over the time limit). There were also very impressive entries from Steve Sledge,... More
Posted by Roy R. at 06:13 PM
September 11, 2004
Scavenger Hunt
I was not surprised that I was unable to finish the searches within 1/2 hour because often when I am searching for on thing I get side tracked onto reading something fascinating that I come across unexpectedly. Although I deliberately... More
Posted by Debbie S-J at 11:55 PM
September 07, 2004
Scavenger Hunt
This project took me over an hour. I found numbers 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 quite easily, but the others took me a little time. 1. Trotsky English recording: After searching around for a bit on a few search... More
Posted by Olivia at 04:17 PM
Savenger Hunt Results
I made this assignment much more difficult than it was, and after working on most of the questions, only found one of the answers within the time allowed. But after looking at the entries of others and the Tips on... More
Posted by sarah at 11:40 AM
Scavanger Hunt
This scavanger hunt wasn't nearly as easy as I thought it would be. Especially in just 30 minutes. I managed to find only four of the nine items. The first item, a .wav file of Trotsky speaking in English wasn't... More
Posted by Chris at 03:54 AM
September 06, 2004
Scavenger Hunt
My Scavenger Hunt Results 1. Skipped this one after searching on google and yahoo without success 2. The poem is Evolution by Alice Duer Miller, found on google by searching the phrase, when all the women wanted it. Alice Duer... More
Posted by Anne Mason at 10:10 AM
September 05, 2004
Scavenger Hunt
A partially successful hunt for information.... 1. Leon Trotsky speaking English was probably located on History Matters, Historic Audio Archives web, but came up "could not be displayed" on my screen. 4. Willie Lynch's speech was located on Google at... More
Posted by at 07:34 PM
Roger's Scavenger Hunt
Trotsky: Alta Vista search, under audio failed. Google, Trostky," mp3 and English came up with: From ResistanceMP3 at http://www.stlimc.org/~marks/fulllist.htm who they claim is Trotsky speaking in English: http://ito.gn.apc.org/trotskyPCM.mp3 Suffrage poem, simple Googled the quotation with quotes around it. LOC and... More
Posted by Roger at 02:47 PM
September 03, 2004
Scavenger Hunt Results
Results of my web scavenger hunt: 1. Trotsky recording in English Pass after fruitless search for 10 minutes. 2. Suffrage poem Poem is from Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times, by Alice Duer Miller Poem entitled... More
Posted by ben at 09:43 PM
Mary Scavenger Hunt
My experience with the Scavenger Hunt was an exercise in total frustration. It began when I tried to fix an annoying problem on my own computer where I was getting messages every 30 seconds from Symantec that I was sending... More
Posted by MaryL at 02:16 PM
September 02, 2004
Scavenger Hunt
Sorry, but this may be a little long winded. In all honesty, I went over the 30 minutes, but I learned a lot more about web searching and I had fun in the process! 1. Was a tricky one to... More
Posted by Jeff at 07:29 PM
Web History Scavenger Hunt
I was only able to find 8 of the 9 items on the list in almost exactly one half hour. I have them listed below in the order I found them. I went through first and tried to do all... More
Posted by Rob at 04:09 PM
Web Hunt
I went 7 for 9. I used Google as my search engine, and it worked well. As I found the sites by the numbers... 1) Piece of cake. Trotsky speaking in English... Difficulty: Easy - second hit. Found using "Trotsky"... More
Posted by Stephen B. Sledge at 04:04 PM
September 01, 2004
Matt Mc's Scavenger hunt
I found four (items 1,2,4, and 7) of the nine items in the scavenger hunt. I used google (unless otherwise stated) for the searches. 1. I first searched on the words “Leon Trotsky audio recording english”. However this brought up... More
Posted by Matt Mc at 01:09 PM