1 / 16

SEARCH ENGINES

SEARCH ENGINES. “ On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog ”. Evaluate your Information Find quality: Check for Authority (creator’s status) Recency Accuracy Bias. Peter Steiner (1993). The New Yorker, 69 (20) p. 61. TOP TEN SEARCH ENGINES . Top Search Engines for 2010

yair
Download Presentation

SEARCH ENGINES

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. SEARCH ENGINES

  2. “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” • Evaluate your Information • Find quality: • Check for • Authority (creator’s status) • Recency • Accuracy • Bias Peter Steiner (1993). The New Yorker, 69 (20) p. 61

  3. TOP TEN SEARCH ENGINES • Top Search Engines for 2010 Google:71.6% Yahoo!: 14.76% : 9.13% 2.66% Total: 98.16%

  4. Site for CHOOSING BEST SEARCH

  5. SMART SEARCHING • Look at URL • Use site:.edu to get education sites • Beware of .com sites- they are selling you something

  6. BEYOND GOOGLE Other good search engines: Subject Directories built by people • PROQUEST (use public library card) • EDNAeg/www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.htmlhttp:/ . • WORLD BOOK ONLINE w.learner.org/teacherslab/science/light/color/dots/index.html

  7. International Directory of Search Engines • www.searchenginecolossus.com/ Search within specific countries Eg Australian content only use: • Australian Crawler & Web Wombat

  8. Advanced Search • If you must Google use advanced search & choose .edu for domain to avoid .com sites Wikipedia “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge “Jimmy Wales Be sceptical of this resource, anyone can be an editor. Use it as a starting point and analyse each resource you use. CMIS/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_Wikipedia_is_not_so_great

  9. SUMMARY • Select domain .edu in Advanced Search or use site:.edu in normal search • Search phrases using “quotation marks” • Allintitle: “global warming” Australia Kyoto • Select filetype:ppt “global warming” or xls for excel, pdf for pdf document • Information is summarised for the web- search for pdfs- not as easy to change

  10. PLAGIARISM The simplest definition of plagiarism: The act of presenting another person’s work or ideas as your own Did You Know? The word plagiarismcomes from the Latin plagiarius meaning "kidnapper" San Jose State University, Plagiarism Tutorial, http://130.65.109.143/plagiarism/tutorial/introduction.php

  11. WHO CARES ? • Plagiarism is theft of intellectual property. • Plagiarism is cheating. • Plagiarism may result in receiving a zero grade

  12. The following types of sources do not need to be acknowledged:from HSC: All My Own Work, accessed 4/3/07 http://amow.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/module5/module5s3.html • Your own experiences • Your own experimental results • Common knowledge • Common knowledge includes: • Facts that are commonly known (eg there are twelve months in a year) • Facts that are so well known that they are easily available in a number of different kinds of sources (eg World War II began in 1939) • Commonsense observations (eg interest rates going up will affect mortgage payments).

  13. All the following need to be acknowledged:from HSC: All My Own Work viewed 28 February 2007 Board of Studies NSW<http://amow.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/module5/module5s3.html >

  14. Referencing See your Student Diary • Books • Include the information in this order: • Author’s surname, (comma) initials. (full stop) • 2. Year, (comma) • 3. Title of book, (italics) (comma) • 4. Publisher, (comma) • 5. Place of publication. (full stop) • EXAMPLE: Harvey,J.2002, Water pollution, • Penguin Books, Ringwood.

  15. In Text Referencing • *TASK 2 • Also set out the In Text references for the following paragraph taken from Al Gore’s book written in 2006: An Inconvenient Truth, page 146. You will have to make a summary of the information in your own words and acknowledge the author’s ideas at the end with brackets containing: (author surname, year, page number). • …. “The melting of the ice represents bad news for creatures like polar bears. A new scientific study shows that, for the first time, polar bears have been drowning in significant numbers. Such deaths have been rare in the past. But now, these bears find they have to swim much longer distances from floe to floe, in some places, the edge of the ice is 30 to 40 miles from shore. What does it mean to us to look at a vast expanse of open water, at the top of our world, that used to be- but is no longer- covered by ice? We ought to care about this a lot, because it has serious planetary effects.”…… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… (Gore, 2006, p.146)

  16. SUMMARY • Set goals • Collaborate with each other • Ask teachers & librarians for help • Use e resources efficiently egEbsco Host & Echo for Issues • Download exam papers from VCAA site • Google tips - site:.edu, “whole phrase search”, allintitle: “Global Warming” Australia Kyoto, filetype:ppt “global warming”

More Related