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Building Web Literacy 21 st Century Tools. Presented by: Mark A. DeBenedictis Bergen County ETTC Bergen County Special Services [email protected]. Building Web Literacy. Web Search Strategies in Plain English. A short video designed to help you get more from your web searches. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Presented by:Mark A. DeBenedictisBergen County ETTC
Bergen County Special Services
Building Web Literacy 21st
Century Tools
BUILDING WEB LITERACY
A short video designed to help you get more from your web searches.
WEB SEARCH STRATEGIES IN PLAIN ENGLISH
If you are going to use the web for research, don't be duped by what you find out there.
Authority Accuracy
Bias CurrencyCoverage
ABC’S OF WEB EVALUATION
The author is well-known and well-regarded in his/her field of study
Is the author: • Recommended• Trusted• Affiliated with reputable
institutions
AUTHORITYFINDING THE AUTHOR’S CREDENTIALS
• Verify the background and/or factual information
• Check for properly cited resources or peer reviews
• Evaluate the methodology or data collection
DETERMINE THE ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION
• Tries to sell/persuade
• Documents with references
• Presents multiple perspectives
ANALYZE WEB PAGE BIAS
• When was the data gathered?
• What dates are covered by the data?
• When was the document last updated?
LOOK FOR CURRENT DATA
Coverage is the sum total of all the other criteria
• Authority• Accuracy• Bias• Currency
DETERMINE THE LEVEL OF COVERAGE
Find the owner or publisher of a website here.
Find the owner of this site: www.martinlutherking.org
WWW.EASYWHOIS.COM
Do a link: command search
WHO IS LINKED TO YOUR WEBSITE?
Use the Way Back Machine at www.web.archive.org
A WEBSITE’S HISTORY
A Web crawler is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner or in an orderly fashion.
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LET’S VALIDATE!
GoogleBing
Yahoo! SearchAsk.com
“Kidcentric” Search
NoodleTools (NoodleQuest)
MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES (WIKIPEDIA FOR LIST OF SEARCH
ENGINES)
Blog is short for weblog – it is literally a log of the Web.
The November Learning BlogKinderplans Blog
The Connected Classroom
WHAT IS A BLOG?
Use “quotation marks” to ensure your keywords appear in your search results in
the order you have specified. Example: red fish vs “red fish”
47,500,000 results 613,000 results
QUOTATION MARKS AND SEARCH
Uniform Resource Locator
The URL is the address of a resource, or file, available on the Internet.
URL IS AN ACRONYM FOR…
AND narrows a search by combining terms
Example: Portland AND Oregon
OR broadens a search to include results that contain either of the words you type
Example: liberal OR democrat
NOT will narrow a search by excluding search terms
Example: Oregon NOT travel
BOOLEAN SEARCH OPERATORS AND, OR, NOT
URL EXTENSIONS
.org – organization .net – network
.com – commercial .mil – US military.sch – school (used
outside of US).edu – US higher ed
.k12 – most US school sites
.co – Company (if paired with a country code, example “.co.uk,” the state of Colorado or the country, Columbia)
.gov – US government (add country code for outside US)
.ac – higher ed outside of US usually used with country code, example, “.ac.uk”
A list of websites of all the academic institutions in South Africa
Google search, type in ac.za, search
For a full list of country codes: http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/text /web_country_codes.html
USING EXTENSIONS AND CODES
How would you conduct a search for the following: US higher education Web sites that contain the
word turtle.
Search for: edu + turtle
SPECIFIC SEARCHING USING CODES
This Internet scavenger hunt provides an additional opportunity to practice
your new Web search skills http://www.learnwebskills.com/search/hunt.html
SCAVENGER HUNT
21ST CENTURYPRODUCTIVITY
TOOLS
WORDLE.NETTAGZEDO.COM
43 Ways to Use Wordle!
GOOGLE DOCS
WWW.BLABBERIZE.COM
http://johnsonexitos.wikispaces.com/Blabberize
POLL EVERYWHERE
http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/NDcxNjY3MTc3
YOUTUBE - WWW.YOUTUBE.COMTEACHERTUBE – WWW.TEACHERTUBE.COM
TESTTUBE – WWW.TEST-TUBE.ORG.UKSCHOOLTUBE - WWW.SCHOOLTUBE.COM/
GLOGSTERWWW.GLOGSTER.COM
BLOGGERWWW.BLOGGER.COM
http://www.atsitesforyou.blogspot.com /
THANK YOUNOW LET’S PLAY
http://bcss-at.wikispaces.com/Mark
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