what is this? en.wikipedia /wiki/internet
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What is this? http:// en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Internet. The Internet. What is the Internet. A network of networks. How many users and where?. Ho much information?. How much information is available on the internet? 487 billion gigabytes How much is that???? If printed and bound into books - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
What is this?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
The Internet
What is the Internet
A network of networks
How many users and where?
Ho much information?
How much information is available on the internet?
487 billion gigabytes
How much is that????
If printed and bound into books
stretch from Earth to Pluto 10 times
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/may/18/digital-content-expansion
Wow, but so what????
What can language teachers do with the Internet?
Connect students with native speakers
Find images
Find lesson plans, PowerPoints, etc. from other teachers
Create webquests
Find authentic materials in the target language
Allow students to publish in the Target language
Etc., etc., etc., etc.
Search – Kick it up a notch
The internet is a database.
What are some examples of a database?
Searching your ward website for a last name.
Searching the library website for a book or everything related to Cheese or any other topic.
Let’s see how this works
Boolean Search – the basics
Refine search using ALL CAPS for connector words
Log on to your computers, open a browser
Go to www.google.com
Type in the word Cat
How many results do you get?
Boolean search cont.
Now try Cats AND Dogs
How many hits?
Now try Cats Dogs
How many hits?
Now try Cats OR Dogs
How many hits?
OR expands the number of possible results
Boolean search cont.
What’s the difference between searching for…?
A search for, Spanish Civil War
A search for, “Spanish Civil War”
Quotes = exact phrase, No quotes = some or all
Now more fun. . .
Try this. . .
Enter in the search box, “Costa Rica” filetype:ppt
What do you get?
You can also try filetype:doc, filetype:pdf, xls etc. etc.
Something besides Google????
Take two minutes and play around with these:
www.clusty.com(clusters results by topic)
www.newseum.com/todaysfrontpages(try searching by region)
http://odeo.com/ (find podcasts)
www.spezify.com(cloud results)
http://www.teachertube.com(videos for teachers)