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Search and Evaluate

Search and Evaluate. How would you conduct your search tasks if you would like to learn more about Educational standards Power point presentation of educational standards Research articles/books about educational standards Educational standards but NOT for Ohio

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Search and Evaluate

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  1. Search and Evaluate

  2. How would you conduct your search tasks if you would like to learn more about • Educational standards • Power point presentation of educational standards • Research articles/books about educational standards • Educational standards but NOT for Ohio • Educational standards in Indiana • News about Indiana educational standards in the past year • Educational standards in Spanish

  3. Google search • Advanced search • Date • File format • Google scholar search

  4. Search engines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines http://search-engines-2.com/ Search a topic using multiple general search engines Search by media format

  5. “Kidcentric” search tools: See our wiki page

  6. Q: How do you find the owner or publisher of a web site?

  7. www.easywhois.com

  8. Q: Identify these extensions and what they represent. .org .sch .edu .ac .mil .com .k12 .gov .net .co

  9. .org – organization • .com – company • .sch – school (used outside of US) • .k12 – most US school sites • .edu – US higher ed • .gov – US government (add country code for outside US) • .ac – higher ed outside of US usually used with country code, example, “.ac.uk” • .net – network • .mil – US military • .co – Company (if paired with a country code, example “.co.uk,” the state of Colorado or the country, Columbia)

  10. Q: How do you find out who is linked to your school’s web site?

  11. Go to Alta Vista: www.altavista.com and do a link: command search. In the search box type link:your school’s address.

  12. Q: What clues in a web address might indicate you are on a personal web site?

  13. Look for a tilde “~” or the “%” sign or a personal name “jdoe” or the word “user” after the domain name and the first forward slash “/“

  14. Q: How do you find the history of any given web site?

  15. Wayback Machine: www.archive.org

  16. Evaluating Web Pages • What can the URL tell you? • Scan the permimeter of the page • Look for indicators of quality information • What do others say? • Does it all add up? Reference: Evaluating web pages: Techniques to apply & questions to ask, retrieved from http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html.

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