1. Doing research without leaving your classroom sounds great… How to make the web meet your expectation. Adapted from a workshop by Pat McDougall

2. The World Wide Web more than 1 billion publicly available documents. no one engine searches everything on the Web search their own database E.g. www.altavista.com www.thebighub.com…metasearch www.thebighub.com www.infoseek.com

3. Web-Words web site URL: Uniform Resource Locator HTML: Hypertext Markup Language Internet: an electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world (Merriam-Websters on the web)

4. Searching Be Specific in your keywords! If you want information on the 1998 Volkswagen Beetle Don't ask for cars Don’t ask for Volkswagens Ask for 1998 Volkswagen Beetles

5. Plus + and - Minus Using the + sign to add words translates as “must have” use the minus symbol to exclude words schools+Nova Scotia-elementary what if you want to search for information about Prince Edward Island? prince+edward+island

6. Phrase Searching You could get a site that talks about Prince Edward vacationing on an island anywhere Phrase search: terms appear in exactly the order you specify “Prince Edward Island” capitals vs. small case use the * to target multiple forms of the same word sun* = sun, sunlight, sunshine, sunny, etc

7. Advanced Searching Boolean AND, NOT, NEAR group terms within parentheses (database OR software) NEAR (engineer AND experience) target specific fields anchor: domain: image: title: url: camping NOT tents AND domain:ca

8. Scavenger hunt 1.Find the surface temperature of the sun. 2.Who is Bernie Dodge? 3.Is it too late for the Head- Smashed-In-Pow Wow this year? 4.How long do you boil a haggis? 5.What colour is a Polar Bear’s skin? 6.How many different kinds of microbes live on or in the human body?