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Living in the digital World: Got it Marked

Living in the digital World: Got it Marked. Image by: Shutterstock /Angela Waye. Living in the digital world. What have we covered so far? Mobile phones Personal digital devices Using the Internet to buy and pay for goods Internet enhanced home entertainment. x. My Space.

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Living in the digital World: Got it Marked

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  1. Living in the digital World: Got it Marked Image by: Shutterstock/Angela Waye

  2. Living in the digital world • What have we covered so far? • Mobile phones • Personal digital devices • Using the Internet to buy and pay for goods • Internet enhanced home entertainment

  3. x My Space • But what about ‘your space’ in the digital world? • What would you define as ‘your space’? • What do you do online? Image by: Shutterstock/Andresr Image by: Shutterstock/Toria

  4. Through the next ten sessions we will be covering these aspects in more detail, and some additional elements too. So far you have mentioned some of the elements of a digital world that you consider to be ‘Your Space’. Image by: Shutterstock/AnatolyM Image by: SSnowdon

  5. - New Year 7 Gump Gullible I would like to introduce you to Gump Gullible; he is new in Year 7. Gump is true to his name and is quite naive when it comes to living in a digital world. It is going to be your mission, over the next ten sessions, to produce a guide to help Gump to be not so gullible and to become a ‘savvy’ user of his space in the digital world: a My Space User Guide Image by: Shutterstock/3DProfi

  6. Objectives for the next 10 lessons • It is going to be your mission, over the next ten sessions, to produce a guide to help Gump to be not so gullible and to become a ‘savvy’ user of his space in the digital world: a My Space User Guide • We are going to cover aspects such as: • Social bookmarking • Search engines • Wikis • Blogging • Microblogging • Public social networking • Forums/message boards • Virtual worlds • Real-time information • Webmail • The impact of the Internet on ways of working, learning and socialising • E-safety • Data protection • Web conferencing • Web hosted data storage and software applications • Virtual learning environments

  7. In this lesson students are learning about: • reference sites that are user generated • social bookmarking as a way of creating knowledge • social bookmarking as a way of collaborating • searching techniques when using a search engine • the effective use of search engines

  8. Question: What is a user generated reference site? Explain how this is user generated

  9. Examples: • Discussion boards • Blogs • Wikis • Social networking sites • Advertising • News sites • Trip planners • Mobile photos and videos • Customer review sites • Audio/Video • Video games forum

  10. Now we are clear what ‘user generated content’ is, you are going to generate content that will become the My Space User Guide. ‘Savvy’ super hero Image by: Shutterstock/3DProfi Image by: Shutterstock/3DMask

  11. OK, you need to start to gather information. When you gather information from books, quite often you will mark the useful information you want to refer back to with a bookmark…. Image by: Shutterstock/hxdbzxy

  12. Digital bookmarks You can also do this digitally when you find websites that contain information you feel is helpful and you might want to refer back to….. How is this done? Show me…. Image by: Shutterstock/JaroslavMachacek Image by: Shutterstock/Laborant

  13. Josh Josh is getting frustrated and confused. What could help him? Let me introduce Josh… Josh spends time on the Web looking for information related to his school work and his hobbies. Josh gets his information from many sources: he receives email newsletters from various sports organisations and school friends from different classes, he subscribes to a few RSS newsfeeds, and he uses search engines to help find resources that may be of value to both his school work and his hobbies. When he finds something he likes he uses folders in his Web browser to organise bookmarks of online resources, but this practice has become inefficient. If a resource is relevant to several topic areas, he has to save that bookmark in multiple folders. Sometimes, he needs bookmarks at school that are saved on his home computer, and vice versa. Other times he is fairly confident that the bookmarked site is on the machine he’s using, but the process of finding one site out of hundreds of bookmarks is more difficult than re-finding it using a search engine. Often Josh needs to share bookmarks with school friends which means finding the reference and emailing it. Image by: Shutterstock/AirOne Image by: Shutterstock/CoraMax Image by: Shutterstock/Texelart

  14. Emily Now let me introduce you to Emily. Emily has all of the same needs as Josh but, uses del.icio.us to manage her bookmarks. When Emily finds a website to bookmark, she “right clicks” the site to add it to her del.icio.us account and “tags” it with a few relevant key words. Since her list is public, she can easily direct friends to it. Others can find the list through the key words. The method Emily uses has a few other advantages as well. When she bookmarks a site, del.icio.us tells her how many others bookmarked the same site. If she clicks on that number, she can see exactly who else bookmarked the site and when they found it. A further click shows her the bookmark collections of others interested in “her” site. Finally, if she chooses a common tag, Emily can see all of the other sites with that tag. This makes group collection and aggregation of bookmarks very easy. Emily has broken from the model of using private folders to organise information. Social bookmarking creates a true web of resources and connections, one that is not limited to individuals and their folders but represents the interests and judgments of a community of users. Image by: Shutterstock/Texelart + Richard Peterson Image by: Shutterstock/AnatolyM + Richard Peterson

  15. Social Bookmarking: What is it? How does it work? Why is it significant? What are the downsides? What are the implications for learning? HOMEWORK: READ THE DOCUMENT ENTITLED: “WhatIsSocialBookmarking” Image by: Shutterstock/kentoh

  16. Watch this!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcecBgRd3ig&feature=kp

  17. Now lets set up our own social bookmarking site… • Go to https://www.diigo.com/ • Sign up (preferably with your school email) • Bookmark your first page (please not youtube or google, don’t be BORING!)

  18. Social bookmarking is supposed to be useful! Here is a reminder of effective search techniques…..

  19. An example of social bookmarking Starting with an effective search(Remember skills builder lesson video?) • Be specific School Science Projects Chemistry Image by: Shutterstock/wwwebmeister

  20. By using search engines. You think of a question, you type it in and press ‘Enter’ for it to go off and search… the problem with search engines isn't that they don't find the information you want but that they find too much information. That is because there are over 1 billion Web pages on the Internet. These pages are neither numbered nor organised. So you must learn to more effectively use search engines to find your way through the maze. It's easy to improve your search results. All you need to know are some basics. Some search engines have menus to do this but for others you have to enter the right commands. Let’s look at some basic commands that should bring in plenty of information that is appropriate and valid. They should work in most of the major search engines too. Image by: Shutterstock/iQoncept

  21. Search engines Only pages that have both words will be on the list. • The + symbol + David +Victoria Image by: Shutterstock/wwwebmeister

  22. Search engines If you're looking for something specific but don't want tons of other information that's not related to your topic, use the - symbol. For example, if you're looking for information on Tony Hawk but don't want to read about his games, enter • The - symbol Tony Hawk -Playst -Pro -Skater -game Image by: Shutterstock/wwwebmeister

  23. Search engines When you put your search terms in quotation marks, it's called a “phrase search”. The search engine will give you pages that have the terms in the exact order of the words in quotation marks. For example, if you're looking specifically for a biography on Sarah Michelle Gellar, enter • Using quotation marks “Sarah Michelle Gellar Biography" Image by: Shutterstock/wwwebmeister

  24. Search engines Once you know how the symbols work, try combining them to narrow down your search. A better search, than using a bunch of subtractions, might be to do the following: • Combining symbols “Kylie Minogue” -Fever -“CD Review" Image by: Shutterstock/wwwebmeister

  25. Search engines Booleans can be used in most major search engines when they allow some kind of advanced searching. Booleans are a lot like the + and - symbols. AND means “include all of the words” OR means “include any of the words” NOT means “exclude” • Booleans • AND • OR • NOT music AND dancing Image by: Shutterstock/wwwebmeister

  26. Homework There are three basic types of search engine. Find (and learn) a definition for each: • Spiders • Directories • Metasearch engines Image by: Shutterstock/AnatolyM

  27. Homework There are three basic types of search engine. Find (and learn) a definition for each: • Three basic types: • Spiders • Directories • Metasearch engines

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