The Internet (World Wide Web)

• HTML The language use to format documents on the web

• ISP (Internet Service Provider) A company that provides customer connections

– ex Frontier, Roadrunner

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Web Addresses

• URL (uniform resource locator) is an address for a website– Ex: www.nasa.gov

• Domain Names: the .xxx at the end of an URL– gov government– edu Education– net Network providers

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The Internet

• Web browser: A program that lets you find and view web pages– Internet Explorer– Firefox

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Searching for Information on a Website

• Search Engine: a program that performs keyword searches – Google, Yahoo! Windows Live, Ask, RedZee

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Searching Tips

• Sponsored Links: links may be shaded in color, on the side, or near top– Advertisers paid for these sites to be listed– May not be most relevant to your search

• Capitalization doesn’t matter• Boolean Search – use AND, OR, NOT

– Ex Dolphins not Miami Dolphins

• Use quotation marks: “big cottonwood canyon”– This forces a search for the EXACT sequence of words• “ski” brings up skiing, skis, skier, skied

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Personal Safety Online

1. Never give out private information– Name, address, phone #,

2. Never send your picture to someone you do not know personally

3. Never agree to meet in person someone you have met on the Internet

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Data Safety Online

• Make sure you are using a secure website– Lock icon

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Plagiarism

• Plagiarism: Claiming material created by someone else as your own

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