1. Managing media literacy
Unit 11
3-5 days including project, review and test. Combined with unit 10 for test.

2. Objectives Use keywords to search for information
Use advanced features to refine a search
Search for specific types of media
Find content on a website
Evaluate the quality of web page content
Observe intellectual property laws
Cite Internet resources

3. Searching for Information
What might you find on Business websites?
What might you find on Government websites?
What might you find on Social Networking websites?
What might you find on Blogs?
About the company, its products or services, online purchasing
Govt departments, files or forms, elected officials
Share photos, games, videos, chat online, messages
Enter & share comments, info based on specific topics

4. Answer These…
Where can you find information about anything that anyone can add, edit or rearrange?
Wiki
What has videos that anyone can upload as well as audio in the form of podcasts?
YouTube
What allows you to subscribe to newsfeeds to get news delivered to your device via a newsreader or app?
RSS Feed

5. Wikipedia Is it reliable?
YES- good source of info; good starting point
NO- anyone can add or change info to it
CHECK OTHER SOURCES TOO!

6. What is a Search Engine?
Each search engine keeps a database of sites & keywords
Webcrawlers/spiders gather info
Each generates a list of results
Bing, Google, Yahoo, etc.
Results may vary between engines
Note that at the top of many results pages are ADS!

7. MAP IF SEARCH FOR BUSINESSES
Google Search
ADS
ADS
MAP IF SEARCH FOR BUSINESSES
SEARCH RESULTS

8. Google Search
When you type in the search words, the AUTOCOMPLETE option will show suggestions.

9. Narrowing Your Search Phrases & Quotations “The Dark Knight Rises”
Looks for those words next to each other
“Mike Trout baseball cards”
Looks for Mike Trout baseball cards

10. Boolean Search Use of AND, OR, NOT Use of + or –
In uppercase
Use of + or –
Use of Advanced Search
Recipes AND Chicken AND Spaghetti
Match ALL terms in a document
Tennis NOT Wimbledon
Excludes the 2nd term from the document
Dogs OR Cats
“global warming” or “greenhouse effects”
Looks for either or both on sites

11. Using Advanced Search

12. Google Search Tools
Includes how recent, images, image size

13. Google Fast Facts Cheat Sheet
Enter right into search box
Google Fast Facts Cheat Sheet

14. Searching a Web Site Some sites have search box on them
Searches that web site

15. Searching a Web Page
What keyboard shortcut allows you to find a word in a document?
CTRL + F
Use the same to find a word/phrase on a web page

16. Searching Social Media Websites
Hashtags help follow topics
#gcitcheetahs
Letters & numbers but no spaces or punctuation
Can be used for marketing too

17. Review- 3Q What are three common words used for Boolean searching?
AND, OR, NOT
If you wanted to search for an exact phrase of school lunch regulations, what would you do?
Add quotations around it
If you wanted to search for a low fat brownie recipe on recipes.com, what could you enter?
“low fat brownie recipe” site: recipes.com

18. Evaluating Web Page Content
You can find anything on the web
Anyone can publish anything on the web
DO NOT accept everything as true
Learn to evaluate its nature and source

19. Evaluating Website Info
Evaluate this Site
Evaluating Website Info
Is it RELEVANT?
Does it contain the info you’re looking for?
Does it cite sources?
What is the site’s PURPOSE?
Give info, sell product, humor, etc.
Is it BIASED?
Leaning one way/one opinion
Watch for biased ads
What is the DOMAIN?
.gov, .edu, .org, .com
May or may not be reliable
Is author RELIABLE?
What are their qualifications?
Is it CURRENT?
Does it have a good LAYOUT?
Organized info?
Does it have ERRORS?
Spelling/grammar?
RELEVANT- For example, if you're searching for information about the history of skateboards, a site that sells skateboards may not have what you're looking for.
ERRORS- shows little effort; was little effort put into researching the info?

20. Project Each row/group will get a website to evaluate
Review all pages of the site
Use the handout & your opinions to determine if the site is valid and tell why & why not

21. Intellectual Property Laws
What is intellectual property?
Copyright Law
Protects owners from having work copied
Automatic when created
Doesn’t have to display ©
Must give credit or be fined!
Public Domain
Available for public use; Should still cite
Any .gov, NASA, NOAA, Smithsonian
Fair Use
Copyrighted material used w/out paying royalties
Use for research, reporting, etc. with citing
Intellectual Property- any work created or invention by a person or group
Piracy is when “borrow” or use some or all of someone else’s intellectual property.
Plagiarism: Claiming someone else’s words
Legal Ramifications: if you receive a letter asking to remove content/delete files you must do so or you can be sued. The ISP may also terminate your Internet access.

22. Citing Internet Resources
Don’t Plagiarize
Include:
Author’s name
Web page title
URL
Date you accessed it

23. Software Licenses You buy the license to INSTALL & USE the software
Single-user
Volume or Network (specific #)
Site-license (unlimited at one location)
SaaS (over Internet with password)
Shareware/Freeware
Open Source (share code)
License is EULA
Outlines terms for legal use
License will tell you if you can copy the software as a backup or not; how many devices it can be installed on

24. Activity
Teknimedia
C1.28 RS- Finding & Evaluating Information

25. Managing media literacy
Unit 11
3-5 days including project, review and test. Combined with unit 10 for test.