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21 st Century Tools and Building Web Literacy

21 st Century Tools and Building Web Literacy. Presented by: Mark A. DeBenedictis Bergen County ETTC Bergen County Special Services mardeb@bergen.org. Web Search Strategies in Plain English. A short video designed to help you get more from your web searches. ABC’s of Web Evaluation.

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21 st Century Tools and Building Web Literacy

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  1. 21st Century Tools andBuilding Web Literacy Presented by: Mark A. DeBenedictis Bergen County ETTC Bergen County Special Services mardeb@bergen.org

  2. Web Search Strategies in Plain English A short video designed to help you get more from your web searches.

  3. ABC’s of Web Evaluation If you are going to use the web for research, don't be duped by what you find out there. • Authority • Accuracy • Bias • Currency • Coverage

  4. AuthorityFinding the Author’s Credentials • The author is well-known and well-regarded in his/her field of study • Is the author: • Recommended • Trusted • Affiliated with reputable institutions

  5. Determine the Accuracyof the Information • Verify the background and/or factual information • Check for properly cited resources or peer reviews • Evaluate the methodology or data collection

  6. Analyze Web Page Bias • Tries to sell/persuade • Documents with references • Presents multiple perspectives

  7. Look for Current Data • When was the data gathered? • What dates are covered by the data? • When was the document last updated?

  8. Determine the Level of Coverage Coverage is the sum total of all the other criteria • Authority • Accuracy • Bias • Currency

  9. www.easywhois.com Find the owner or publisher of a website here. Find the owner of this site: www.martinlutherking.org

  10. Who is linked to your website? Do a link: command search

  11. A Website’s History Use the Way Back Machine at www.web.archive.org A Web crawler is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner or in an orderly fashion.

  12. Let’s Validate! • California 's Velcro Crop under Challenge • Dihydrogen Monoxide • Dog Island Free Forever • Feline reactions to bearded men  • Martin Luther King • The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus • Victorian Robots

  13. Major Search Engines (Wikipedia for list of search engines) • Google • Bing • Yahoo! Search • Ask.com “Kidcentric” Search • NoodleTools (NoodleQuest)

  14. What is a blog? Blog is short for weblog – it is literally a log of the Web. The November Learning Blog Kinderplans Blog The Connected Classroom

  15. Quotation Marks and Search Use “quotation marks” to ensure your keywords appear in your search results in the order you have specified. Example: red fish vs “red fish” 47,500,000 results 613,000 results

  16. URL is an acronym for… Uniform Resource Locator The URL is the address of a resource, or file, available on the Internet.

  17. Boolean Search Operators AND, OR, NOT ANDnarrows a search by combining terms Example: Portland AND Oregon OR broadens a search to include results that contain either of the words you type Example: liberal OR democrat NOT will narrow a search by excluding search terms Example: Oregon NOT travel

  18. URL Extensions

  19. Using Extensions and Codes A list of websites of all the academic institutions in South Africa Google search, type in ac.za, search For a full list of country codes: http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/text /web_country_codes.html

  20. Specific Searching using Codes How would you conduct a search for the following: US higher education Web sites that contain the word turtle. Search for: edu + turtle

  21. Scavenger Hunt This Internet scavenger hunt provides an additional opportunity to practice your new Web search skills http://www.learnwebskills.com/search/hunt.html

  22. 21st CenturyProductivity Tools

  23. Wordle.netTagzedo.com 43 Ways to Use Wordle!

  24. Google Docs

  25. http://bcss-at.wikispaces.com/Mark

  26. http://www.voki.com/ Voki

  27. Poll Everywhere http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/NDcxNjY3MTc3

  28. Survey Monkey

  29. TodaysMeet

  30. Twitter

  31. Zamzarwww.zamzar.com

  32. Youtube - www.youtube.comTeachertube – www.TeacherTube.comTestTube– www.test-tube.org.ukSchoolTube - www.schooltube.com/

  33. Glogsterwww.glogster.com

  34. Sketchfu

  35. Artpad

  36. Our Story

  37. Google Earth

  38. e-Pals

  39. Del.icio.us

  40. Thinkfinitywww.thinkfinity.org

  41. Skype

  42. Skype

  43. BlogGERwww.blogger.com http://www.atsitesforyou.blogspot.com /

  44. Thank Younow let’s play http://bcss-at.wikispaces.com/Mark To download today’s presentation and links.

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