Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Effectively
Mrs. Kotsch
Librarian St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School c2004
Not all the information that exists in the world is on the Internet-Not all the information that is on the Internet is accurate.
Mrs. Kotsch
An hour on the Web may not answer a question that you could find within two minutes of picking up a reference book.
URLs
Uniform Resource Locator The web address that connects you with a website Goes in the address bar at the top of the screen Gives you information about the website
Parts of a URL
http://www.starwars.com/seminars.html
http://--hypertext transfer protocol:
the body of information connected by the cables and computers of the Internet
.starwarsdomain name:
the structured, alphabetic-based, unique name for a computer on a network
.comtop
level domain:
/seminarsfile
a folder within a website
name:
markup language:
.htmlhypertext
Prepare
What do you need to know about your topic? Make a list of all the terms connected with your topic. Include names, organizations, and phrases.
Organize
Make a list of the words that are critical to your search. Note terms that you dont want to see appear. Discard the rest.
For example
If you are looking for information about life on the planet Mars, you dont want sites popping up about the Roman god of war.
Put that in your list of words you dont want to see. What other words might be connected with your topic that will send you to useless sites?
Combine
Use Boolean operators to combine your most important terms.
Use Use Use Use Use AND to connect the terms you want to see. NOT to exclude terms you dont want. OR to include similar terms. quotation marks around names or phrases lower case for all proper nouns, except for acronyms
For example
But what if
you WERE looking for information about the Roman god of war? The Greeks referred to him as Ares, so now your search will look like this.
Search Engines
Are like the index in the back of a book Let you search for specific words and topics Use robots known as spiders to search for information.
Examples:
Alta Vista Excite Hotbot Infoseek
Examples:
Internet Public Library
Instead of looking through the categories in a search directory, you can put in your terms in their search bar, but it will only look through the sites that have been included within that directorynot the entire web, unless indicated.
Metasearchers- Sends your search terms to several other search engines at once. Gives an overview of a topic across the Internet.
Examples:
Profusion Dogpile Metacrawler
Remember.
Hits are returned and ranked according to- How How How How many times terms appear on the page often terms appear close terms are to each other near the top of the page the terms are found
The best results will appear on the first page or two of hits No two search engines are alike. Try another search engine, or rephrase your terms if you dont get good results.
Evaluating Websites
Let the buyer beware
Book publishers weed out inaccurate information. No one checks the Internet for accuracy.
EVALUATE!
Evaluation Website
Quality Information Checklist
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Copyright Issues
What can you copy? Give credit to what you have used.
Copyright
Is the legal right of an author or artist to control the copying and use of their creative works. Taking something without permission is theft, including text and pictures from the Internet. Using someone elses words without giving credit is called plagiarism. Fair Use concept lets teachers and students use portions of copyrighted works without permission.
A single , hard copy for personal or educational use. Limited amounts of websites. Copies cannot be used for public or commercial use. Students must cite the source of their information. For multi-media projects:
Video clips10% or three minutes Music10% but no more than 30 seconds. Text10% or 1000 words
Citing a website
Last name, first name of author.
If there is no author listed, begin with the title.
Name of website.
Underline the name
Example:
Adams, Joyce. How Vatican II changed the face of the
Catholic Church. Catholic News Service. 2 Sept. 2003. 13 Oct. 2003 <http://www.catholicnews.net/
vatican.html> .
Use Christian courtesy in e-mails and chat rooms. Dont arrange to meet with someone from online without telling your parents. Do tell your parents about inappropriate websites that you run across. Be careful what you post in a public forum. *
Remember:
You leave electronic footprints wherever you go on the web.
Works Cited
Books
Jones, Debra. Exploring the Internet. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 1999. Simpson, Carol, and McElmeel, Sharron L. Internet for Schools: A Practical Guide, 3rd ed. Worthington, Ohio: Linworth Publishing,Inc., 2000.
Websites
Adams, Helen, and Beyers, Catherine. Lesson 2: Finding Information on the Internet. American Library Association. Dec. 15, 2003. <http://www.ala.org/cfapps/archive.cfm?path=ICONNfclesson2. html>.
Dodge, Bernie. Seven Steps to Better Searching. San Diego State University College of Education. July 8, 1999. 15 Nov. 2001.<http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/searching/ sevensteps.htm.>