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What is this? en.wikipedia /wiki/Internet

What is this? http:// en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Internet. The Internet. What is the Internet. A network of networks. How many users and where?. Ho much information?. How much information is available on the internet? 487 billion gigabytes How much is that???? If printed and bound into books

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What is this? en.wikipedia /wiki/Internet

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  1. What is this?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

  2. The Internet

  3. What is the Internet A network of networks

  4. How many users and where?

  5. Ho much information? How much information is available on the internet? 487 billion gigabytes How much is that???? If printed and bound into books stretch from Earth to Pluto 10 times http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/may/18/digital-content-expansion

  6. Wow, but so what???? What can language teachers do with the Internet? Connect students with native speakers Find images Find lesson plans, PowerPoints, etc. from other teachers Create webquests Find authentic materials in the target language Allow students to publish in the Target language Etc., etc., etc., etc.

  7. Search – Kick it up a notch The internet is a database. What are some examples of a database? Searching your ward website for a last name. Searching the library website for a book or everything related to Cheese or any other topic.

  8. Let’s see how this works Boolean Search – the basics Refine search using ALL CAPS for connector words Log on to your computers, open a browser Go to www.google.com Type in the word Cat How many results do you get?

  9. Boolean search cont. Now try Cats AND Dogs How many hits? Now try Cats Dogs How many hits? Now try Cats OR Dogs How many hits? OR expands the number of possible results

  10. Boolean search cont. What’s the difference between searching for…? A search for, Spanish Civil War A search for, “Spanish Civil War” Quotes = exact phrase, No quotes = some or all

  11. Now more fun. . . Try this. . . Enter in the search box, “Costa Rica” filetype:ppt What do you get? You can also try filetype:doc, filetype:pdf, xls etc. etc.

  12. Something besides Google???? Take two minutes and play around with these: www.clusty.com(clusters results by topic) www.newseum.com/todaysfrontpages(try searching by region) http://odeo.com/(find podcasts) www.spezify.com(cloud results) http://www.teachertube.com(videos for teachers)

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