Using the Web in the Classroom.Some Tips

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Using the Web in the Classroom.Some Tips

• A presentation
• by Cherie Dargan
• Revised January 22, 2001

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Why Use the Web?

• Its highly visual,colorful
• Its a great resource -- you can access a variety
  of sites, for many purposes
• You can find current information on almost any
  topic

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How can you use the web?

• Take a virtual field trip
• Find information on evaluating web sites
• Do research for a speech or paper
• Find information on the job market in preparation
  for doing a resume
• Find companies in your career field

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Where can you use the web?

• The public library
• Hawkeye librarythe internet computers are back
  in the video room
• Other computer labs around campus

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What are some easy ways to get started finding
information?

• Try a search engine like Ask Jeeves
• You type in a question and then Jeeves will
  generate a list of possible topics
• Example where can I find information about how
  to start a small business?

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Search engines--Ask Jeeves
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Type in some key words select a search item
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Example of typical search results
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Select one of the items check it out
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Okay, I found somethingnow what?

• You need to look over the site and decide if it
  is what you need/want.
• If so, bookmark it!
• Save it!
• Print it out!
• Read it!

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Save as -- to a disk, your desktop, or the W
drive
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Tips about saving Web sites

• Keep the file in html format to maintain graphics
  (.html extension)
• You may need to rename it so you can retrieve it
  more easily
• You could create a folder--or series of
  folders--on your desktop or w drive to organize
  web sites into categories

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Select (block) and copy the URL to a word document

• This is another easy trick use your mouse to
  block the URL in the window, copy, paste into
  word document. (Dont forget to save the
  documenthow about Cool Sites?)
• http//www.hcc.hawaii.edu (this is a URL)
• Remember that when you hit enter and then see a
  blue underline, it becomes a hot linkso double
  click on it, and you will go there

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Send it to yourself via e-mail
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Tips for Organizing URLS in your e-mail

• First, create several folders under your In-box
  (go to file on tool barnew)
• Either use topics, assignment titles, or course
  names to name the folders
• Click and drag email messages with the URLs into
  the appropriate categories

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Some sample assignments you may get using the web

• Find examples of good and poor web page design
• Find the best place to sell, buy stuff
• Find a certain number of web sites on an
  assigned topic
• Research a person, place, hobby, career, product,
  invention, country

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Check out professional organizations in your
career field
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Schoolsucks a source for (bad) papers (dont
bother!)
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How can I tell if a website is good or bad?

• See my web evaluation sheet.
• http//school.discovery.com/schrockguide/pdf/weval
  .pdf
• http//www.cyberbee.com/guide2.html
• http//www.uwec.edu/Admin/Library/Guides/tencs.htm
  l

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Web Pages that Suck--teaches about web design
with bad examples
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My Web Evaluation form
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Some of my web assignments

• A cover memo and annotated webliography --
  students find 10 to 12 web sites on a specific
  search question, summarize sources, and discuss
  what they learned
• Web evaluation worksheets
• Web sources as part of research for documented
  argumentative essays

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How do I document what I find on the Web?

• Internet sites come and go some get updated on a
  regular basis, while others do not.
• You need to record or save the web address, or
  URL (universal resource locator).

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Helpful sites --how to document electronic sources

• Gather as much information as possible name of
  author, title of document, sponsoring
  organization, date published, date accessed, URL
  (web address, or universal resource locater)
• http//www.westwords.com/guffey/mla.html
• http//www.wtamu.edu/library/webguides/citingweb.s
  html

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Kathy Schrocks sitelots of helpful stuff!
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Always cite your source!
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How to document electronic sources

• Dr. Mary Ellen Guffey's MLA Style Format
• http//www.westwords.com/guffey/mla.html
• http//www.uvm.edu/ncrane/estyles/mla.html
• http//www.apa.org/journals/webref.html

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Where can you get more information about
documenting sources?
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Dr. Guffeys website
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Dr. Guffeys textbook site (my applied writing
class text)
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Example of a student site
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In closing

• The Web is a great resource
• It doesnt do away with traditional print sources
  (newspaper, books, periodicals) but supplements
  them
• You need to develop search strategies, learn how
  to evaluate sources, and cite them (and you can
  find web sites to help you do that!)

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