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Research. Search Engines and Web sites. By: Kat Goldin. Search Engine and Web Site Basics. How do Search Engines Work? Evaluating Search Engines Student Activity Get REAL Student Activity. How do Search Engines Work?. Search Engines’ URLs: Here are just a few search engines…
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Research Search Engines and Web sites By: Kat Goldin
Search Engine and Web Site Basics • How do Search Engines Work? • Evaluating Search Engines • Student Activity • GetREAL • Student Activity
How do Search Engines Work? Search Engines’ URLs: Here are just a few search engines… http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/informationn/51locate/adviceengine.html http://www.noodletools.com/noodlequest http://www.tekmom.com/search http://www.ivyjoy.com/rayne/kidsearch.html http://www.scholar.google.com http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov http://www.seaworld.org/search/query.htm
Evaluating Search Engines or For Sale • Who controls the information • Customized Searching/Censorship • Keyword for sale
Student Activity Evaluating the Search Engines: http://google.com http://scholar.google.com http://ask.com http://www.hotbot.com http://www.dogpile.com http://www.dogpile.com http://yahooligans.yahoo.com http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/informationn/51locate/adviceengine.html http://www.noodletools.com/noodlequest http://www.tekmom.com/search http://www.ivyjoy.com/rayne/kidsearch.html http://www.scholar.google.com http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov http://www.seaworld.org/search/query.htm
GetREAL • Read the URL • Exam the content • Ask about the author and/or owner • Links
Student Activity • R Find the extension and what does it mean? http://www.nike.com http://si.edu http://www.sandiegozoo.org http://newsbbc.co.uk http://www.cam.ac.uk http://www.upeg.edu/~user http://www.gcisd-k12.org/Page/10870 http://froggyville.com/index.php COMMON EXTENTIONS .k12 school .edueducational organizations .ac academic institution .com commercial .org organization .govgovernment .netnetwork .mil military
Student Activity • E Think about these questions. Is the information on the web site useful for your topic? Are additional resources and links provided and work? Is the site current? Look at the update. Do you think the information is accurate? Does the information contradict information you have found elsewhere? * There is a Examine the Content Worksheet form at the end of this presentation.
Student Activity • A Try this on the sites from the previous slide. http://www.easywhois.com http://www.domaintools.com http://www.archive.org
Student Activity • LUsing the following URLs see if all links are valid and look carefully at the incoming links.
I wonder? • if you use the site, Wayback Machine http://archive.org on a personal site will it work? • what good is it to allow misinformation? • how would you feel if wrong or old information was being used about you? • why do people trust Wikipedia if we all know it could be wrong? • what are the comparisons between the grammar and syntax of print with the Web?
Bibliography Resources November, Alan C. Web Literacy for Educators. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, 2008. Print.