Managing Information – Web Based Information

1. FdA Business and Management Introduction to Management Managing Information – Web Based Information

2. Learning Outcomes At the end of this session learners will be able to: • Evaluate various information sources on the web • Use the CARS system to evaluate information • Summarise research findings • Work as part of a team to present a research topic

3. Do you have a Student Information System?

4. Student Information System • A system that supplies all the answers, with the minimal of effort, or, at the touch of a button, via: • A PC • The World Wide Web (www) • A search word • AND, of course

5. What defines a search engine: a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)

6. How easy would it be to locate anything on the web without a search engine?

7. 1990 - Archie First Search EngineIt allowed people to find specific files. The original implementation was written in 1990 by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and J. Peter Deutsch, then students at McGill University in Montreal

8. Google a search engine? It works via: Crawlers Indexing Searching

9. Are there any other search engines out there?

10. Yahoo http://m.uk.yahoo.com/ Ask http://uk.ask.com/?o=312&l=dir MSN http://uk.msn.com/ Bing http://www.bing.com/ Other Search Engines

11. How can we make a search even better?

12. Check your spelling Use more than 1 word Include a qualifier/modifier Be more specific to reduce ‘hits’ Be more general to increase ‘hits’ Use “” to enclose exact quotes Boolean (+, -) can include or exclude words ‘And’, ‘or’ & ‘not’ can be very powerful too Search Strategies

13. Is there such a thing as an advanced search?

14. Advanced Searches • Do search engines have advanced search options • Can you limit hits to a specific country? • And a specific language? • Can you look for certain file types? • Google Advanced

16. Which country do these Google addresses pertain to? • http://www.google.ie/ • http://www.google.it/ • http://www.google.co.in/ • http://www.google.is/ • http://www.google.co.id/

19. Part of the internet Access not open to all Access to private information For FdA B&M this includes: Yeovil college & BPC – Moodle Bournemouth University – MYBU Your Employer? Intranets

20. What is an intranet?

21. Fact or Opinion? • “Anyone can put information on the internet”: • Some is factual – Interest Base Rate is currently 0.5% • Some is fiction – Pre-historic credit crunch • Some is opinion – Fox hunting is not cruel It is not always easy to distinguish between them!!!

22. What is validity and reliability all about?

23. consistency of measurement repeatability of measurement Evaluating Internet information • Does it measure or examine what it claims to? • were we right? • Relationship between variables? • well-founded and corresponds accurately to the real world?

24. Reliability consistency of measurement repeatability of measurement Evaluating Internet information Validity • Does it measure or examine what it claims to? • were we right? • Relationship between variables? • well-founded and corresponds accurately to the real world?

25. Look at WWW.DHMO.ORG Should we ban Dihydrogen Monoxide ?

26. What is a CARS system?

27. CARS? • Credible Accurate Reasonable Supported • Creative Accessible Rational System • Collective Accessible Rating System • Concise Auditable Reasonable Simple

28. CARS? • Credible Accurate Reasonable Supported • Creative Accessible Rational System • Collective Accessible Rating System • Concise Auditable Reasonable Simple

29. CARS System • C – redibility • A – ccurate • R – easonableness • S - upported A simple system that will help you evaluate ANY information

30. Outcomes met? The End