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Title: Information Literacy


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Information Literacy
  • What is it?

2
Information Literacy
  • Ability to locate, organize, evaluate and use
    information
  • Combines computer and research skills
  • Sources of information Internet, databases,
    books, newspapers, television and radio

3
Internet
  • There is so much information on the internet.
    How do you tell whats good information and what
    is bad information?

4
Search Engine
  • Program on the internet to help users search for
    files and information
  • Top four search engines
  • Google - http//www.google.com
  • Yahoo - http//www.yahoo.com
  • Ask - http//www.ask.com
  • AlltheWeb - http//www.alltheweb.com

5
Other Search Engines
  • AltaVista was the Google of way back when (now
    owned by Yahoo).
  • http//www.altavista.com
  • AOL search - http//aolsearch.aol.com
  • Live Search (formally MSN Live)
  • http//www.live.com/
  • http//searchenginewatch.com/2156221

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Question 13 How do sites get to the top of a
result list in Google?
  • Popularity counts the number of links from
    sites all around the web. For example, if a
    large number of sites has a specific keyword
    somewhere on their web site along with a link to
    a particular site. The higher the number of
    links to a site, the higher Google will rank that
    site on a list result.

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Question 13 How do sites get to the top of a
result list in Google? (cont)
  • Other factors
  • Title of site,
  • Sites meta information
  • Actual content of the site

8
Major Directory
  • 0 knew Major Directory
  • Major Directory catalogs (indexes) the Web
  • Open Directory http//dmoz.org not
    recommended for searching
  • Use Google Directory - http//www.google.com/dirh
    p

9
Some answers for Question 1
  • Wikipedia NO! not a search engine
  • Wikipedia is a reference source
  • Free Online Encyclopedia
  • Articles are written collaboratively from
    volunteers around the world
  • Facts are checked.
  • Answer.com
  • Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia, reference source

10
Some answers for Question 1 not search engines
  • Thebostonchannel.com a website for WCVB TV
    Channel 5 Boston
  • Hotmail.com Microsofts free web-based e-mail
    service.

11
Boolean Operators(Question 5)
  • Terms used to narrow or expand your results of
    online searching
  • AND
  • OR
  • NOT
  • Named after George Boole who invented the logic
    in the 1800s

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AND, OR, NOT
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Boolean Search
  • Search Dolphins and Whales this will retrieve
    all records that have both keywords dolphins,
    whales
  • Search Dolphins or Whales this will retrieve
    all records that have dolphins, whales or both
    dolphins and whales.
  • Search Dolphins not Miami will retrieve all
    records with the keyword dolphins, but not the
    keyword Miami

14
Question 3 Why might you use quotation marks
when searching.
  • To ensure your keywords appear in the order you
    have specified
  • Search global warming no quotes
  • Search global warming
  • Note the differences in the results

15
Question 4 URL is an acronym for
  • 1 the brain wrong!
  • 1 United Rare Ladies wrong!
  • 4 Universal Router Link wrong!
  • 7 IDK
  • 2 Universal Resource Locator Correct! (web
    address)

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Question 6 How do you find the owner or
publisher of a site
  • 0 correct answers
  • Go to www.easywhois.com enter the URL of the site
    you would like to research
  • Try to find the owner or publisher of
    www.wakefieldlacrosse.com

17
Question 7 Extensions of URL
  • .org organization does not have to be
    non-profit
  • .com company
  • .sch school (used outside US)
  • .k12 most US school sites
  • .edu US higher education (colleges)

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(Cont) - Extensions
  • .gov US government (add country code for outside
    US)
  • .ac higher ed outside us usually with a country
    code ie .ac.uk
  • .net network
  • .mil military
  • .co company (if pared with country code, ie
    .co.uk) or state of Colorado, or the country
    Columbia

19
Question 8 How do you find out who is linked to
your schools website?
  • Go to Alta Vista wwwaltavista.com and do a
    link command search
  • Type linkwww.stjosephschoolwakefield.org

20
Question 9 What clues in a web address might
indicate that you are on a personal website?
  • Tilde in the domain name
  • http//comsewogue.org/ssilverman/litcircles/resou
    rces.htm
  • Percent sign in the domain name
  • Personal name john or the word user after the
    domain name and the first forward slash
  • http//kids-learn.org/litcircles/silverman/silverm
    an.htm

21
Question 10 How would you conduct a search for
the following a list of websites of all the
academic institutions in South Africa?
  • Go to Alta Vista www.altavista.com
  • Type host ac.za in the search box
  • For subject specific resources around the world
    using extensions and country codes. Full list of
    exentions and country codes
  • http//www.computeruser.com/resources/
  • dictionary/domains.html

22
Question 11 How do you find the history of any
given website?
  • Use the Wayback Machine
  • Go to www.archive.org and type the URL you are
    researching.

23
Question 12 How do you conduct a search for the
following US higher education websites that
contain the word turtle
  • Go to Alta Vista www.altavista.com
  • Type hostedu turtle

24
Question 2 What is a blog?
  • Short for weblog
  • A Web 2.0 tool
  • Online Journal
  • Can be about anything
  • Example http//weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/bees -
    Blog about the book The Secret Life of Bees
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