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Adapted from a workshop by Pat McDougall

Doing research without leaving your classroom sounds great… How to make the web meet your expectation. Adapted from a workshop by Pat McDougall. The World Wide Web. more than 1 billion publicly available documents. no one engine searches everything on the Web search their own database

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Adapted from a workshop by Pat McDougall

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  1. Doing research without leavingyour classroom sounds great…How to make the web meet yourexpectation. Adapted from a workshop by Pat McDougall

  2. The World Wide Web • more than 1 billion publicly available documents. • no one engine searches everything on the Web • search their own database • E.g. • www.altavista.com • www.thebighub.com…metasearch • www.infoseek.com

  3. Web-Words • web site • URL: Uniform Resource Locator • HTML: Hypertext Markup Language • Internet: an electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world (Merriam-Websters on the web)

  4. Searching • Be Specific in your keywords! • If you want information on the 1998 Volkswagen Beetle • Don't ask forcars • Don’t ask forVolkswagens • Ask for1998 Volkswagen Beetles

  5. Plus + and - Minus • Using the + sign to add words • translates as “must have” • use the minus symbol to exclude words • schools+Nova Scotia-elementary • what if you want to search for information about Prince Edward Island? • prince+edward+island

  6. Phrase Searching • You could get a site that talks about Prince Edward vacationing on an island anywhere • Phrase search: terms appear in exactly the order you specify • “Prince Edward Island” • capitals vs. small case • use the * to target multiple forms of the same word • sun* = sun, sunlight, sunshine, sunny, etc

  7. Advanced Searching • Boolean • AND, NOT, NEAR • group terms within parentheses • (database OR software) NEAR (engineer AND experience) • target specific fields • anchor: • domain: • image: • title: • url: • camping NOT tents AND domain:ca

  8. Scavenger hunt • Find the surface temperature of the sun. • Who is Bernie Dodge? • Is it too late for the Head-Smashed-In-Pow Wow this year? • How long do you boil a haggis? • What colour is a Polar Bear’s skin? • How many different kinds of microbes live on or in the human body?

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