WWW Search Strategies EDTC 3123 Applications of Educational Technology

Search Engines & Directories What’s the difference? – With an engine, a web crawler does the finding – With a directory, a human indexes Specialized – ml ml Kids and Search Strategies – NoodleTools – Tekmom

What’s a blog? Short for “weblog” November Learning Communities – Mrs. Trudeau’s classroom – t.aspx t.aspx “The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd –

Using Quotation Marks Go to Search for a phrase – Example: renewable resources Note the results Search for the same phrase in quotations – Example: “renewable resources” Note the differences in the results

Boolean Search Terms AND NOT OR

Who Really Owns a Website? Try a site: – Go to the URL of the group who owns this site

URL Extensions.org – organization.com – company.sch – school (outside of US).k12 – most US schools.edu – US higher ed.gov – US government.ac – non-US higher ed.net – network.mil – US military.co – company if paired with country code (.co.uk)

Who Links to Your Website? Go to Alta Vista search engine – Type in link: Who is this website important to?

Personal Website Clues Look for a tilde ~ or the % sign or a personal name “jdoe” or the word “user” after the domain name and forward slash

Narrowing a Search by Domain Go to Alta Vista ( Type host:ac.za Conduct a search that will result only in materials from academies in South Africa For country codes, see ionary/noframes/nf.domains.html ionary/noframes/nf.domains.html

Find the History of a Website Wayback Machine – Type in What has changed over the years?

Specific Search I want only US higher education web sites that contain the word turtle “host:edu + turtle”

How Do Websites Make it to the Top? A search engine ranks by how many time the keyword appears in the page (or meta data) – See the page source of a website Google ranks by popularity: how many others are linking to a site and how many clicks

Judging Site Content All About Explorers: California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge: ml ml Dihydrogen Monoxide: Dog Island Free Forever:

Judging Site Content Feline Reactions to Bearded Men: cat.html cat.html Martin Luther King: The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus: Victorian Robots:

Create Your Own Search Engine Google Customized Search Engine Ex:

Assignments Internet Scavenger Hunt Social Bookmarking Assignment – Ex: – Chapter 7 Quiz For NEXT class: BYOH (headphones)