1. Navigating the ‘Net Searching & Citing Mr. Dooley Lesson adapted from www.ReadWriteThink.orgwww.ReadWriteThink.org 010101010101010100101010101010101001010101010

2. Navigating the ‘Net Types of Search Engines Effective Internet Searching Citing Your Source(s) What will I be learning from this presentation?

3. Navigating the ‘Net Let’s first compare and contrast the use of books and the internet to perform research: Internet Fast and almost always accessible Searching is relatively easy Web sites can be created by anybody! Information can be incorrect Books Published by a Publishing company Information is reliable and is checked by editors Time consuming and you must have knowledge of Dewey Decimal System Library! Sources of information Used by millions of people every day Sources of information Used by millions of people every day

4. Navigating the ‘Net Continuing from our Internet vs. Book conversation, when would it be more beneficial to utilize the Internet than books for research? Topics: When researching current or controversial topics! You’ll be able to find a lot more information on current topics due to the ever changing internet. You’ll also be able to research many different perspectives on controversial topics. Time: Are you short on time? Using the internet is quicker than looking for a book! Convenience: Can’t get to a library? Hit the internet and you’ll have information at your fingertips!

5. TYPES OF SEARCH ENGINES NAVIGATING THE ‘NET

6. Types of Search Engines Now that we understand the pros and cons of using the Internet, let’s discuss Search Engines Search Engine defined: From wiktionary.org – “an application that searches for, and retrieves, data based on some criteria, especially one that searches the Internet for documents containing specified words.”

7. Types of Search Engines Most Popular: Google, Yahoo!, MSN Any others? You bet! New search engines are developed often The latest engine is cuil.com (pronounced COOL) developed from former Google Engineers

8. Types of Search Engines Regular Engine Searches based on a string of text that user inputs Google, Yahoo!, Cuil, and MSN are regular engines Get to Work! Open a browser, and go to Yahoo!, Cuil, and Google. Type “Career Batting Average Leader” Do both engines return the same results? Are some results different, or in a different order? Why? Because they use different search methods! Record your first two results for each engine

9. Types of Search Engines MetaSearch Engine Definition from wikipedia.com: “A meta-search engine is a search engine that sends user requests to several other search engines and/or databases and aggregates the results into a single list.” Why would a metasearch engine be useful? Record your answer Share with class

10. Types of Search Engines Metasearch Engine: Usefulness – view results from multiple “regular” search engines on the same page! Different Metasearch Engines:

11. Types of Search Engines Get to Work! Go to one of the following metasearch engines and search for “Career Batting Average Leader” www.surfwax.com www.mamma.com/ kids.ithaki.net/ Share results with the class Who found the career B.A. leader? Who is it? [TyCobb 0.3664] Image from wikimedia.org

12. Types of Search Engines There are other different types of search engines as well. www.Ask.com Ask a question and get an answer! www.KartOO.com Visualize your results, visually! www.Clusty.com Get results clustered by keywords!

13. Types of Search Engines Get to Work! Try out all three of the “other” search engines and see if you like the displayed results better. If you do, you just found your new favorite search engine!

14. EFFECTIVE INTERNET SEARCHING NAVIGATING THE ‘NET

15. Effective Internet Searching Armed with knowledge of various search engines, it’s time we learn how to search effectively. Don’t waste time entering “vague” search terms. Be specific! But how? A good place to start is the engine’s “Advanced Search” option Check out Google’s advanced search Enter “career batting average leader” in the “this exact wording or phrase” field

16. Effective Internet Searching What do you get for a result? Did anybody notice what appears around the search terms? Quotation marks: “career batting average leader” This is a shortcut. The quotation marks around search terms will return results where the terms show up together and in the same order! Are there other search shortcuts?

17. Effective Internet Searching Of course there are! AND use this word when you want to find two words together. Example: career AND batting average AND leader OR use this when you can accept a couple of words. Example: batting average OR b.a. - use the minus sign when you want to exclude a word. Example: career batting average leader –single-season Get to Work! Try using the various search tips above in your own browser

18. Effective Internet Searching What about the reliability of the information? Do you ever think about where the author got this information from? If not, you should now! Never, ever, EVER take information from a website and automatically think it is accurate and reliable. Always question everything on the Internet Why? ANYBODY can create a website and supply ANY information, whether they are experts or not!

19. Effective Internet Searching Get to Work! Visit the following website: http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ On your handout, list five things about this website that demonstrates the reliability of the information. Now, let’s discuss the Tree Octopus. Who thinks it is real? It’s fake!

20. Effective Internet Searching How can you verify the reliability of information from the Internet? Simple, by using a checklist! [pass out Internet Checklist] Let’s use this checklist to re-evaluate the Tree Octopus website. [as a class, review all of the questions from the checklist. It should be obvious that it’s fake!]

21. Effective Internet Searching I have placed a copy of this Internet Checklist onto the shared drive in my OUTBOX. The path to the file is X:/Students/ComputerScience/MrDooley/Outbox/InternetChecklist.doc Remember, ALWAYS question the reliability of information from the Internet!

22. CITING YOUR SOURCES NAVIGATING THE ‘NET

23. Citing Your Sources We all know that plagiarism is NOT allowed! As discussed at the beginning of the year, you should never attempt to pass somebody else’s work as your own. So, how do we go about giving credit where credit is due? That’s right, we cite our sources of information! Because we are only using digital sources in Computer Science courses, we will learn how to cite Internet sources. If you need to know how to cite additional sources, consult www.easybib.com

24. Citing Your Sources What do you need in order to cite your source? Author/Editor: if known - last name first Title of page: underlined Revision or copyright date, if available: in parentheses followed by colon Date you found or accessed it URL: the domain of the site Example: put it all together Lancashire, Ian. Home Page. 28 March 2002. 15 May 2002.

25. Citing Your Sources Don’t you think you need some practice? Pick TWO of the sites you visited when searching for the career batting average leader and cite them on your handout.

26. Navigating the ‘Net What did you learn today? Citing Your Sources Giving credit where credit is due! Formatting source information for inclusion in bibliography Effective Internet Searching Start with the Advanced Search option Using special characters to “focus” your search Types of Search Engines Regular vs. Metasearch Other engines that display results differently

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