You can learn it from the URL!

1. You can learn it from the URL!

2. Google Docs(includes presentations & spreadsheets) Parts of a URL from the Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington URL Basics from Open Office.org Learning the Web from Teachers First.com Evaluating Websites from UC Berkeley Searching the World Wide Web from Ivy Tech Fort Wayne, Library Helpful websites

3. Uniform Resource Locator The internet addressing structure Gives you information about the website URL’s

4. 1) http is the protocol (not the only one) by which files are transferred to the internet. 2) www is generally used to designate a web server 3) Starwars is the domain name of the URL above, it should be indicative of the origin of the information provider 4) .com is the top level domain, it is informative of the type of information contained at a site. 5) /seminars is referring to the pathname, the specific place in the site where a pg is located ***URL’s with a ~ in the address often indicate a personal homepage to be wary of! Source: http://www.teachersfirst.com/tutorial/webintro.htm#URL1 http://www.library.umw.edu/talon/internet7.html http://www.starwars.com/seminars.html 1 2 3 4 5 6 Parts of a URL

5. Top Level Domains 1) ____________________________________________ 2) ____________________________________________ 3) ____________________________________________ 4) ____________________________________________ 5) ____________________________________________ 6) ____________________________________________ • Source:

6. Into the Wild 1 Your text here-______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2 3 4 5 6

7. How Do You Find What You Need? Your text here… _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

8. Before you start using the information-- EVALUATE!

9. Is the Information Accurate? 1) ___________________________________ 2) ___________________________________ 3) ___________________________________ Is it Current? 1) ___________________________________ 2) ___________________________________ 3) ___________________________________

10. Remember… To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. Farmers' Almanac, 1978

11. Derived from “Preparing to search the internet” by Carol Kotsch http://www.libraryinstruction.com/SearchingtheInternet.ppt