searching: the internet at your fingertips
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Searching: The Internet at your fingertips
edtech4k12
Donna Baratta
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Searching: The BasicsEffective Keyword Searches
• Develop a list of key words for your topic that you can use when conducting searches online (Only ask.com handles complete sentences known as semantic search.)
• Look for keywords related to your topic in textbooks, articles, videos, and online resources such as Wikipedia
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Effective Keyword Searches
• Start searching by using the most important keyword or synonyms
• Add additional keywords to refine search results.
• See the power of keywords in action! Let us examine a search using keywords that everyone can relate to, a search for dinner recipes.
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Example: What’s for dinner?
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Pasta + dinner
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Pasta + dinner+ fettucini
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Pasta + dinner+ fettucini + alfredo
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Pasta + dinner+ fettucini + alfredo + bacon
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Pasta + dinner+ fettucini + alfredo + bacon + low fat
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Key ideas!
• Using a combination of keywords can help refine search results.
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Evaluating Search Results
• Even after refining our search using combinations of keywords, we still have a tremendous amount of sites to look at.
• How do we decide which sites are worth our time?
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Examine the URL
• First, look at URL (Internet address) endings
• Typical URL endings:
– .com or .net = commercial sites
– .org = organization
– .edu = educational site
– .gov = US government site
– .ca signifies a Canadian site; countries have their own unique individual endings
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Be aware! The first few results (also known as “hits”) are often advertisements. Companies pay the search engine a fee for this placement.Sidebar “results” are not search results at all. They are paid advertising spots.
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Skim and Scan: URL endings
US Government
Commercial
United Kingdom
Organization
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Once you have evaluated URL endings, read the summaries. Use the information provided to decide if the site is worth your time.
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Questions & Answers for Each Site:
• Who posted the site? – The author or organization name should appear
on the site.
• What is their purpose in posting?– Information? Bias? Selling a product?
• How can you confirm authority of the author? – Google the author’s name and check results
• When was the site posted? Is it current?– The date should be posted on the site
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No Easy Answers
• There are no easy answers to which Internet sites are reliable and which are not.
• Each site must be examined carefully for authority, purpose, content, and currency.
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Happy Effective Searching!
• Now that you know the basics, you can save time and search more effectively!