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Do You Have the Tools to be a. Cyber Sleuth ?. Know the Lingo. www Internet Search engines URL. Know the Lingo. www www stands for the term: World Wide Web is: It is all the resources and users on the Internet that are using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
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Do You Have the Tools to be a Cyber Sleuth ?
Know the Lingo • www • Internet • Search engines • URL
Know the Lingo • www www stands for the term: World Wide Web is: It is all the resources and users on the Internet that are using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
Know the Lingo • Internet sometimes called simply "the Net," is a worldwide system of computer networks - a network of networks in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission, get information from any other computer (and sometimes talk directly to users at other computers). Beside websites it also includes email services.
Know the Lingo • Search engines "On the Internet, a search engine is a coordinated set of programs that includes: A spider (also called a "crawler" or a "bot") that goes to every page or representative pages on every Web site that wants to be searchable and reads it, using hypertext links on each page to discover and read a site's other pages A program that creates a huge index (sometimes called a "catalog") from the pages that have been read A program that receives your search request, compares it to the entries in the index, and returns results to you
Know the Lingo • URL (n.) An Internet address (for example,http://www.hmco.com/trade/), usually consisting of the access protocol (http), the domain name (www.hmco.com), and optionally the path to a file or resource residing on that server (trade).
Break the Code • .org • .gov • .edu • .com • .net Can you break these codes? .mil .ca .thi
Break the Code • .org A domain name and generally describes the entity owning the domain name as one that does not fit into other categories. In general, non-profit organizations and industry standard groups tend to use this generic name.
Break the Code • gov • A domain name that generally describes the entity owning the domain name as a branch or an agency of the U.S. Federal government. State and local governments also use this domain name.
Break the Code • .edu • A domain name that generally describes the entity owning the domain name as an educational institution such as colleges or universities.
Break the Code • .com A domain name that generally describes the entity owning the domain name as a company for profit or commercial site. Sites that are blogs or personal sites where people share their thoughts on various topics also are within this domain.
Break the Code • .net A domain name that generally describes the entity that is a network organization
Can you identify a valid site? • Just about anything information can be found of the Internet. Thousands of new sites are created everyday. With so much information available how can we tell if the information is correct?
Can you identify a valid site? • What criteria should we use to determine if a site is something that we should use when completing research or gathering information?
Identifying a valid site. Suspect # 1 a.k.a. “the gov” Directions: With your fellow detective complete a “Valid Site Report” comparing these two sites. http://www.mdkidspage.org/ http://www.maryland.gov/Pages/default.aspx
Identifying a valid site. Suspect # 2 a.k.a. “ I Got the 411” Directions: With your fellow detective complete a “Valid Site Report” comparing these two sites. http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/ http://www.history.com/
Identifying a valid site. Suspect # 3 a.k.a. “the Chosen One” Directions: With your fellow detective complete a “Valid Site Report” comparing these two sites. http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/ http://www.jkrowling.com/en/
Identifying a valid site. Suspect # 4 a.k.a. “scoop” Directions: With your fellow detective complete a “Valid Site Report” comparing these two sites. http://www.blog4history.com/2012/03/smithsonian-snapshot-amelia-earharts-transatlantic-record-airplane-a-lockheed-vega-5b-1932/ ( Read the article on Amelia Earhart) http://www.ameliaearhartmuseum.org/
Catching the Villain Given the excellent job that you and your partner did on solving this caper the Police Commissioner and the Mayor has ask that the two of you design a poster of the basic guidelines that should be use to evaluate websites. Who is your audience? Why it’s elementary my dear detective. All the elementary schools in the city will display your poster. So remember your audience.
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