RESEARCHING ONLINE

Evaluating an online source

Checklist for evaluating online information

1. Can you verify it?2. Who published it?3. Who wrote it?4. When was it written?

5. Is it a “dead “site?6. Is it objective?7. Is it advertising?

Conducting Effective Online Research

How to approach online research?

•Use natural language•Keywords•Do a test search•Scan for keywords•Construct a new search query•Weed out the trash•Look for links•Repeat this process•Bookmark

Exercises

Exercise 1: Search for online videos on Youtube

Exercise 2: Search for images with Google Image Search

Exercise 3: Search for geographic info with “Google Maps

Exercise 4: Search for music on LastfM

Exercise 5: Search for people with Pipl

Exercise 6: Search a chronic illness with webmd

Group Activity Search for the following

Info:

1.What building is just across the road from the Double Tree

guesthouse on Times Square in New York City?

2.What are the symptoms of overdosing on vitamin C?

3.What was the most recent concert or event that Madonna

performed at?

4.Find a video of the very first moon landing in 1969.

Movie Reviews1.Rotten Tomatoes: www.rottentomatoes.com2.IMDB (the internet Movie Database): www.imdb.com

Weather1.Weather.com: www.weather.com

Blogs1.Google Blog Search: blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en2.Technorati: technorati.com3.Blogline: www.bloglines.com

Books1.Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org2.Google Book Search: books.google.com3.LibraryThing: www.librarything.com4.Amazon.com: www.amazon.com/books-used-books-textbooks/b?ie=UTF8&node=283155

Classifieds1.Craiglist: www.craiglist.org2.Gumtree: www.gumtree.co.za