Searching Internet

Dr. Khitam Shraim

Dr. Khitam Shraim

Contents

What is Information Literacy?1

Steps of searching Internet2

Helpful Terminology3

Searching Strategies4

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Information Literacy

What is Information Literacy?

How do you normally look for materials on the Internet ?

&

What tools and services do you use for searching the Internet for sites

and resources?

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STEPS of Searching Internet

Analyze your topic to decide where to begin

Select the right sources and the right tools for information needs

Evaluate general web search tools:which are best ?

Use More than one search tools

STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4

Combine internet searching strategies with helpful terminology

STEP 5

STEP 1: Analyze

Does your topic: have distinctive words or phrases? seek an overview of a broad topic? specify a narrow aspect of a broad or common

topic? have synonymous, equivalent terms, or variant

spellings or endings that need to be included? Don't really know much about the topic yet?

Need guidance?

 

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STEP 2 : Select

1

Subject directories

ipl2 Infomine Google Directory Yahoo!Open Directory WWW Virtual Library

Search engines Google Yahoo! AskAll the Web

2 3

Meta-search enginesMetaCrawler DogPile

What kind of search services should you use?

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STEP 3: Evaluate

Evaluation Criteria : What types of information will this search engine

retrieve? (e.g. webpages, images, newsgroups, etc) Are you able to connect your concepts using

Boolean Operators ? Are you able to conduct advanced search? What kind of help is provided? How useful is it? Are you able to limit your search? If so, how?

(Example, by date, language, domain)

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STEP 4: use multi-search tools

Not all search tools are alike. A search will produce radically different results depending upon the tool used.  Each tool has strengths and weaknesses. Take advantage of the strengths and use tools to your advantage.

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STEP 5: Combine

To narrow down your search combine internet searching strategies with any of the following terminologies.

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Helpful Terminology

Education Resources portals

Presentation PowerPoint ppt

Video clips Movies flowgrams

eClass eSchool eLectures

elearning online Blended

Mindmaps Visualization Graphs

Activities Demonstrations Demo

Quizzes Exams Assessment

Experiment Lab Interactive

Animation Flash flv

Media player Simulation Tutorial

eSiminars Conferencing e-Library

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Examples

Type a term related to your subject followed by one or more terms from the list above.

Using Google Engine : www.google.com Type : hardware if you are looking for explanation on computer

hardware the results you get are too general. However if you type : lecture+hardware+podcast you'll get links to video lectures on computer

hardware. Compare

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Examples

Compare searching for the first option with searching for the second option.

First option : Political science Second option : Political science video clips

First option : Grammar Second option : Grammar flash quiz

First option : Cash flow Second option : Cash flow simulation

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