Transcript - Educational Technology Policy, Research and Outreach

Survey of:
Internet Content in the Classroom
Beechfield Elementary School
Educational Technology Outreach
Director, Davina Pruitt-Mentle
December 1, 2001
Outline
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Internet Background and Terms
Search Engines & Strategies
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Search Activity
Web Resources
Web Site Evaluations
Issues
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Knowledge Objectives
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Describe the characteristics of the Internet, including its advantages, limitations, and
instructional applications.
Discuss the advantages and limitations of using the Internet for classroom-based
instruction.
Select a grade level you are interested in teaching. Discuss the pros and cons of the amount
of access and supervision students at this level should have when using the Internet.
Explain the advantages and limitations of offering instruction totally on the Internet.
Discuss appropriate etiquette when using the Internet.
Describe the characteristics of a wide are network (WAN).
Describe the characteristics of local area networks (LANs), including their advantages,
limitations, and applications.
Describe the characteristics of intranets, including their advantages, limitations, and
instructional applications.
Compare and contrast the characteristics, advantages, and limitations of local area
networks, wide area networks, intranets, and the Internet from an educational or training
perspective.
Select an example from a “Copyright Concerns” or create another example and prepare a
presentation for your class that reflects your opinion on the issue.
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Knowledge Objectives
• Describe the purpose of each of the following Internet resources: Web
Browsers, search engines, gophers, e-mail, listserv, bulletin boards, chat
rooms, FTP and streaming video/audio, Web authoring tools
• Identify an Internet resource that would meet a specific written or visual
communication need.
• Select and use an appropriate Web authoring tool to meet a specific need.
• Identify recent developments on each of several ethical issues related to
Internet use.
• Develop a plan for an Internet project designed according to a directed or a
constructivist model.
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Network
Electronic mail (email)
Listserve
Download
Chat room
Internet
Wide are network (WAN)
Local area network (LAN)
Intranet
Extranet
Internet service provider (ISP)
Information superhighway
Cyberspace
Modem
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Gateway
Portal
World Wide Web (WWW – the Web)
Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
Website
Uniform resource locator
(URL)Hypertext Markup Language
(HTML)
Search engine
WebQuest/Treasure /Scavenger Hunt
Computer platform
Firewall
Bulletin board
Newsgroup
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Definitions & Background
• Connected computers enable people to
communicate  network
– Exchange messages with one or more people through
electronic mail  e-mail
– Communicate with several people simultaneously (like a
meeting)  listserv
– Get or download material (text, files, video, images, audio)
– Can chat in real time through chat rooms
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Types of Connections
• Wide area network (WAN) –less complex than Internet; can connect
geographic locations or within school district
• Local area network (LAN) – a network within a school or lab; can even
connect computers between rooms at home. Allows you to share files and
other resources. Relies on a central file server that “serves” all the others
• Intranet is a proprietary or closed network that connects multiple sites
across the country-- usually private and accessible with passwords etc.
Allows different departments with different computer platforms (hardware
and/or operating system) to communicate. Sometimes a software package
called a firewall prevents external users from accessing the internal network
( sometimes makes it hard to get outside access)
• Extranets – networks of intranets
• These type of “connections” allow people to connect and communicate with
each other even if using different applications (word vs. works) or platforms
(Mac vs. PC)
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Connections
Intranet
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Firewall
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Internet History
• The U.S. DOD developed 1st version of Internet during the
1970’s for researchers to communicate
• Project(s) funded by DOD Advanced Research Projects Agency
(ARPA) – ARPAnet.
• Internet initially conceived :1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN
(European Particle Physics Lab in Switzerland)/NSF funded
project based on ARPAnet for universities to communicate
• Needed a wide variety of information to be shared and
distributed to many different computers and platforms
• “Universal readership”
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Internet History cont.
• Internet made up of thousands of networks
worldwide
• No one in charge of Internet - No governing
body
• Internet backbone owned by private companies
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Internet Providers:
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Research and Educational Institutions
Government and Military Entities
Businesses
Private Organizations
Commercial Providers
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Looking at the Net
Taken from: http://www.cio.com/WebMaster/sem2_net.html
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Understanding the Map
• Computers use TCP/IP to communicate
(Transmission Control Protocol/Internet
Protocol)
• Computers use client/server architecture
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Web vs. Internet
• The Internet connects thousands of computers
across the world, but it is the web that allows
communication to occur
• Web - abstraction and common set of services
on top of the Internet
• Web - set of protocols and tools that let us
share information with each other
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WWW
• System of Internet servers that support
hypertext to access several Internet protocols
on a single interface
• Almost all protocols accessible on Internet are
accessible on web (email - FTP - Telnet - etc)
• In addition, WWW own protocol: HyperText
Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
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HTTP
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Hypertext - means of information retrieval
Contains links that connect to other documents
Links selected by user
Virtual “web” of connections
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HTTP (cont)
• Produce HTTP through HTML
• HyperText Markup Language
• Way of writing or creating with “tags” added to
tell information
– i.e. <b> Bold </b> yields Bold
See Handout
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WWW cont.
• WWW or Web or W3 includes all information,
text, images, audio, video, and computational
services that are accessible from the internet
• July 8, 1999 Nature - approximately 800 million
pages of publicly accessible information(1)
• Web continues to grow, tripling in size over the
past two years(2)
(1) Steve Lawrence & C. Lee Giles, “Accessibility of Information
on the Web,” Nature 400 (July 8, 1999), 107
(2) OCLC Office of Research, “June 1999 Web Statistics” Web
Characterization Project
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Web Popular Because:
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Easy to use
Easy to navigate
Combines words, graphics, sound, video
Easy to Publish
Plethora of information
Reach larger audience
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Summary: Web vs. Internet
• What is the relationship between the web and
the Internet?
• The Internet contains physical components
– computers
– networks
– services
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The Internet
Student
University
LAN
ISP
Internet
Corporate
LAN
Government
LAN
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Internet Connections
• Any person on the Internet can communicate with any other person on
Internet regardless of type of computers because of the standard protocols
that allow computers to communicate with each other
• Internet is free, except access fee charged by Internet service provider
(ISP) who starts and maintains your account (AOL, Prodigy, BCPSS,
UMCP)
• Internet superhighway = Internet but also the network of cables, fibers,
telephone and satellites that go with it. This is sometimes referred to as the
electronic “universe” or cyberspace
• Connecting to other computers requires a modem, a device that changes
computer data into audio signals for transmission across telephone lines.
Communication software connects the computers to a telecommunication
service.
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To Connect to the Internet
You Need:
• your computer (the client)
• the ISP
• the server (host computer)
• telecommunication network (communication
software, modem and phone or cable modem)
– your computer runs the communication software  modem
with software provides a path between your computer and
your ISP
– ISP provides you a link to the Internet
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Internet Services
• E-mail
• Bulletin boards & listservs
• Information search capabilities (including database of
pictures, texts etc.)
• Access to highly specialized computer programs not
readily available to individuals
• Live chats (Tappedin, WebCT)
• Audio
• Video-based communication (CU-seeMe or NetMeeting)
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IP Addresses: Internet Protocol
• Assigns “a code” to each Internet address
• contains three parts
– person’s name or user name (pseudonym)
– computer network they go through
– type of organization
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• name
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computer network type of organization
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Organization Abbreviations
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Commercial
Educational
Government (U.S.)
Military (U.S.)
Service networks
Nonprofit organization
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edu
gov
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International Abbreviations
Usually a 2 letter abbreviation
• Australia
au
• Canada
ca
• Italy
it
• Mexico
mx
• Netherlands
nl
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Internet Usage
• Users can communicate with one another through discussion groups
– Newsgroup (chat groups or news groups)
– Mailing lists (listserv)
• Students and teachers can access information from a variety of sources
(databases, libraries, educational sites)
• Distance Learning or hybrid models (F2F w/ web enhancement)
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WebCT
Blackboard
TeacherWeb
Tappedin
• Educational and commercial networks are developing ways to connect to
the Internet to get a variety of services through gateways or portals
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Internet Language
• Go to: http://www.whatis.com/
• check out chat acronyms
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WWW: Access to the Internet
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WWW (the Web) is not separate from the Internet, but it is not equal to it
It rides on to of the Internet like PowerPoint runs on top of Windows
The Web is a communication “tool” or series of protocols between the client and
server
Web protocol = hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) ensures compatibility before
transferring the information
The Web consists of web pages or documents that are written or coded through a
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). An individual collection of pages = website
(book vs. pages in book). The Web is basically a file formatting standard and a set
of programs (browsers and helpers) that can read this HTML.
Users access a site by entering its address or URL (uniform resource locator)
You enter this in your browser -software like Internet Explorer or Netscape
Navigator that is needed to search and access multimedia information. These often
have to be upgraded since newer and fancier websites with more bells and whistlers
are being added (audio and video)
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How Do I Find
Information on the Internet?
• Join an email discussion or USENET
newsgroup
• Go directly to a site if you have the address
• Browse
• Explore subject directory
• Conduct Search
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Browsers
• Netscape Navigator (Communicator)
– Product of Netscape (Now owned by AOL)
– Originally was dominant
– Multi-platform (all operating systems)
• Internet Explorer
– Product of Microsoft
– Current Dominant Browser
– Not available for all operating systems
• Browser compatibility problems can cause web page
problems
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Netscape Search
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Netscape Search
• 1: Access to different
search engines
• 2. Type words or
phrases into text entry
box
• 3. Click Button
• 4. Preserve favorite
search engine
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Internet Explorer Search
•Separate Panel In Browser
•Uses MicroSoft Network
search
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Internet Explorer Search
• Direct access to only Microsoft Network’s
search engines
• Allows easy access to different types of search
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People
Businesses
Maps
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Internet Keywords
• Type straight in location bar of
Netscape/Explorer
• Simple words instead of URL (uniform
resource location)
• “Words” tie to websites
• Can be tied to language preference
• Example: Typing in maryland converts to
http://www.state.md.us/
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Know the URL Address:
Uniform Resource Locator
• “Address” of a file on the Internet
• Contains type of protocol followed by the
computer name, directory and file name
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http://www.capecod.net/Wixon/wixon.htm
gopher://gopher.boombox.micro/
ftp:// wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/windows/psp3.zip
mailto:[email protected]
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Anatomy of a Web Address
• protocol://host/path/filename
See handout “Anatomy of a Web Address”
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Do a Search
• With A Search Engine
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Two Basic Approaches to Searching
(although not really “basic”)
• Search Engines
• Subject Directories
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How Does Information Get
Indexed by the Search Tools
• A publisher of a web page can register the site
with the search engine or directory
• Database collects data autonomously
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Search Engines vs.
Directories
Search Engines
Directories
• Computer built index of
information on web
• More inclusive
• Used to find specific resources
• Searchable by keyword
• Excessive “hits”
• Every page of a Website is
indexed
• Better for general searches, but
can be used to find specific
information
• Human aided, organized list
• May be general or subject-specific
• May be able to “search” directory
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– Google - general
– NetTech Educational Technology
Coordinator Website - subject
specific
• User has control of browsing
• Fixed vocabulary
• Links go to Website home pages
only
• Better at general searches
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What are Search Engines?
• Designed to assist you in searching through the
enormous amount of information on the Web
• No single search tool has everything
• Each engine is a large database which utilizes
different search techniques and tools (spiders or
robots) to build indexes to the Internet (some also
utilize submissions and administration)
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Which Search Engine?
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Yahoo
Altavista
Excite
Google
NorthernLights
Hotbot
Infoseek
See Handout - “The Little Search Engine that Could”
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How to Choose
Consider
• Size of the database (# of URLs)
• Currency of the database (updates)
• Search interface
• Help screens
• Search features
• Results listed (# of documents retrieved)
• Relevance of results
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More About Search Engines
• Searches for matching terms (keywords or
several keywords)
• Results “ranked” by relevancy (for some)
• Can search by
– subject or category
– keyword
• Learn about each search engine’s
description, options, and rules and
restrictions
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GO TO
http://www.google.com/help.html
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 Searches for exact matches
 Try different versions of your search term
 Example: “Boston hotel” vs. “Boston hotels”
 Rephrase query
 Example: “cheap plane tickets” vs. “cheap airplane
tickets”
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• Automatically places “and” between words (expands search)
• To reduce search –
– add more terms in original search
– refine search within the current search results. (adding terms
to first words will return a subset of the original query)
• Exclude a word by using a – sign
– Example: to search bass but not speaker  bass –speaker
• Does not support “or” operator
• Does not support “stemming” or “wildcard” searches
• Not case sensitive
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• Finds street maps
– Just enter a U.S. street address, including zip code
or city/state into the search box
– Google recognizes query as a map request
Try your address
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Phrase Searches and Connectors
• Phrase Searches are useful when searching for famous
sayings or specific names “Gone with the Wind”
• Phrase Connectors are recognized
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Slashes
Periods
Equal signs
Apostrophes
• Example: mother-in-law
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Stop Words
• Stop words are ignored
• These rarely help narrow and slow down search
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certain single digits
certain single letters
• to include stop words use [space]+
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– Star Wars, Episode 1  Star wars episode +1
– OS/2  OS/ +2
• ***don’t forget the space before the + - signs
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How to Interpret Results
See Handout
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 Combines in one search a very large full-text
Web-page database (~160 million pages) with
over 5,400 searchable full-text published
(print) journals and an array of online news
resources
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• You may access both relevant web-pages and
relevant journals and news releases
• Tagged
– WWW like other search tools or
– Special Collection (published, fee-for-viewing
journal articles or other publication)
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GO TO:
http://www.northernlight.com/docs/specoll_help_
overview.html
• To obtain an item from the Special Collection:
 Click on link
 Decide if you are willing to pay fee
• Page provides citation so you can locate
publication in library
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Unique Folders Approach
• Results grouped in folders listed at left
• Folders dynamically generated by search
results
– From a controlled vocabulary
– Similar to library cataloging
– Not fixed like subject directories
• Click on any folder to refine or further focus
search
• Sub-folders allow you to further “zero in”
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Four Types of Folders
• Subjects (baseball, desserts)
• Source descriptors (commercial, personal,
magazines, databases)
• Types of documents (press releases, product
review, maps)
• Languages (major Romanized languages only)
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Approaches to Searching
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Basic Search
Power Search
Industry Search
Investext Search
News
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Basic Search
• http://www.northernlight.com
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From Home Page
Allows Boolean logic
Phrase in “ ”
Truncation (*for many characters or % for 1
character)
• + requires, - excludes
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Power Search
• http://www.northernlight.com/power.html
• Combines ALL basic search features in one
search
• Limits to major language or country
• Can select subject or document in advance
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Industry Search
• http://www.northernlight.com/business.html
• All features of basic search
• Can limit by date range or industry-based
subject category
• Default is ALL industries
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Investext Search
• http://www.northernlight.com/investext.html
• Search or browse thousands of investment
research reports written by expert analysts.
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News Search
• http://www.northernlight.com/news.html
• Allows on-line news searches
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“Meta” Search Tools
• Multi-threaded search engines
• Allows access to multiple databases simultaneously or
via a single interface
• (-) Do not offer the same level of control over search
interface and logic as individual engines
• (+) Fast
• (+) Improvements
– Results sorted by site used for search, or location of Website
– Able to select search engines to include
– ability to modify results
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Popular Meta-Search Engines
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Dogpile
Metacrawler
Profusion
SavvySearch
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Subject-Specific Search Engines
• Do not index entire web
• Focus within specific Websites/pages within
defined subject area, geographical area, type of
resource
• Specialized search - depth rather than breath
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Selected Subject-Specific Engines
Companies
• Companies Online (http://www.companiesonline.com/)
• Hoover's Online (http://www.hoovers.com/)
• Wall Street Research Net (http://www.wsrn.com/)
People (E-mail and Phone)
• Bigfoot (http://bigfoot.com/)
• WhoWhere? (http://www.whowhere.lycos.com)
• Yahoo! People Search (http://people.yahoo.com/)
• Switchboard.Com (http://www.switchboard.com)
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Selected Subject-Specific Engines
Images
• The Amazing Picture Machine
(http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm)
• Lycos Image Gallery
(http://www.lycos.com/picturethis/)
• WebSeek
(http://disney.ctr.columbia.edu/webseek/)
• Yahoo! Image Surfer (http://ipix.yahoo.com/)
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Selected Subject-Specific Engines
Jobs
• Hotjobs.com (http://www.hotjobs.com/)
• Monster.com (http://www.monster.com/)
• The Riley Guide (http://www.rileyguide.com/)
Games
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CNET Gamecenter.com (http://www.gamecenter.com/)
Games Domain (http://www.gamesdomain.com/)
Gamesmania (http://www.gamesmania.com/)
GameSpot (http://www.gamespot.com/)
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Selected Subject-Specific Engines
Software
• Jumbo (http://www.jumbo.com)
• Shareware.com (http://www.shareware.com)
• ZDNet Downloads (http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/)
Health/Medicine
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Achoo (http://www.achoo.com/)
BioMedNet (http://www.bmn.com/)
Combined Health Information Database (http://chid.nih.gov/)
Mayo Clinic Health Oasis (http://www.mayohealth.org/)
Medical World Search (http://www.mwsearch.com/)
OnHealth (http://www.onhealth.com)
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Selected Subject-Specific Engines
Education/Children's Sites
• AOL NetFind Kids Only
(http://www.aol.com/netfind/kids/)
• Blue Web'n
(http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/)
• Education World (http://www.education-world.com/)
• Kid Info (http://www.kidinfo.com/)
• Kids Domain (http://www.kidsdomain.com)
• KidsClick! (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/)
• Yahooligans! (http://www.yahooligans.com)
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Subject Directories
• Hierarchically organized indexes of subject
categories
• User can browse through lists of Websites by
subject in search of relevant information
• Maintained by human
• May include a search engine for searching their
own database
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Examples of Subject Directories
• INFOMINE (Academic Scholarly Subject
Directory - http://infomine.ucr.edu/)
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LookSmart
Lycos
Magellan (http://www.magellan.excite.com/)
Open Directory (http://www.dmoz.org/)
Yahoo
Many of these have aspects of both search and directory
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Specialized Subject Directory
• Guide complied by subject specialist
• List important resources in his/her area of
expertise
• More comprehensive than general guide
• Examples
– Film: Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/)
• Includes Clearinghouses
– Argus Clearinghouse (http://clearinghouse.net/)
– About.com
– WWW.Virtual Library (http://www.vlib.org/)
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Summary
• Search Engines
• The Big Guys
– Altavista
– Google
– Yahoo
• Meta-Search Tools
– Dogpile
– MetaCrawler
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• Subject-Specific
– The BigHub.com
– Search Engine Colossus
• Subject Directory
– LookSmart
– Lycos
• Specialized Subject
Directory
– WWW.Virtual Library
– About.com
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Preparing to Search
• What’s the topic, question, area of interest?
• Identify search terms to describe your topic of
interest
• Consider synonyms (echinoderm OR
echinoidea OR "sea urchin")
• Consider variations of terms (restaurants,
dining, gourmet)
See Handouts:
Practical Steps/Searching worksheet with answers and Advanced Search Activity
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Search tips
• Enclosing a multiword phrase in quotation
marks tells the search engine to list only sites
that contain that exact phrase
– Example: “heart disease”
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Boolean Logic
• Combines search terms in many databases
• AND, OR, and NOT or (+) and (-)
• Must check to see if search engines use
Boolean logic
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Boolean Logic : AND
Limits your search
“Oral History”
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Women
Only returns pages with both of
these terms on them
Boolean Logic : OR
Broadens your search
“Oral
History”
OR
Women
Returns every page with either of
these terms on them
Boolean Logic : NOT
Limits your search
“Oral
History”
NOT
Women
Only returns pages that contain
one but not the other term on them
Wildcards
• Special Character that can be appended to the root
of a word so you can search for all possible
endings to that root
• Good for variant spellings and common root
words
• Example
– rocket* will yield rocket, rockets, rocketry psycholog*
= psychology, psychological, psychologist
– colo*r = color and colour
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Ctrl-F
• Follow a link to a document retrieved by a
search engine and don’t know how relevant
• Ctrl-F finds the relevant words in current
document
• Example: women +“El Salvador” +“Oral
History”
– Pick one link, then Ctrl-F
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The Web for Delivery of
Instruction
Web pages are designed and written and a host
computer identified to house them
• Limitations:
• Advantages:
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Variety of media
Up-to-date information access
Navigation
Idea exchange
Convenient communication
Low cost
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Age inappropriate material
Copyright
Growth
Support
Access and access speed
Digital divide
Lack of quality control
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Other Educational Sites
• Classroom Connect (www.classroom.net) web applications in
k-12setting
• http://k12.cnidr.org The Center for Networked Information
Discovery and Retrieval – deals with technology for school
reform
• Often there are so many resources and one is trying to present
material in a specified period of time a method of delivery is
through development of a WebQuest see:
– (http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html)
• Or Scavenger Hunts
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Lesson Plan Databases
• Kathy Schrock
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/
• AskEric Lesson Plans
http://www.askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/
• The Lesson Plans Page
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/
• EdHelper
http://www.edhelper.com/
• TeachersNet
http://teachers.net/lessons/
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Selected Internet Activities
• WebQuests
(http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html)
• Scavenger Hunts
(http://lserver.aea14.k12.ia.us/Scavenger.html)
• Treasure Hunts
(http://www.cybersurfari.org/)
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Can Use Internet for Online
Assessments
Try…
• Integrating Educational Technology into
Teaching:
http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/roblyer/
• Go to Try This! Tutorial
• Select Step 1
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Integration Application
• Science experiments that involve
sharing data
– National Geographic at
magma.nationalgeographic.com
– NOAA at www.NOAA.gov
– NASA www.nasa.gov
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Research using databases
On-line resources
Mentor partnerships
Projects between schools, classes,
internationally
• Monitoring current events and
news
– http://www.weather.com/
– http://www.census.gov/
– http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/i
ndex.html
– MSDEsite:
http://www.msde.state.md.us/
– K12 site: www.mdk12.org
– MapQuest http://mapquest.com/
• History activites
– www.ancestry.com
• Sharing instructional lesson plans
– Kathy Schrock’s Guide at
school.discovery.com/schrockguide
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Applications (continued)
• Databases of teaching materials, methods, instructional
strategies, and lesson plans
– http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp
• Teacher training workshops, tutorials, and courses available
online
– http://www.edtechoutreach.umd.edu/
• Teacher exchanges
– http://www.educationamerica.net/
– http://www.teachersteachers.com/index2.cfm
• Teacher education journals
– http://coe.asu.edu/edrev/
– http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm.html
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Lots of Sites: Now What?
• Overall Evaluation
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Accuracy
Presentation/Objectivity
Currency
Design and Style
Navigability
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Authority and Accuracy
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Where was the resource created?
Author listed? Dated?
Legitimate source of information?
Accurate, objective, and impartial?
– Or opinion or propaganda?
• Have you “explored” this site in depth?
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Visual and Spatial Design:
Look and Feel
• Design Should be Consistent
• Color
– Light background with dark text (easiest to read)
– Pale or subtle colors (larger areas)
– Bright and saturated colors (smaller areas)
• good for emphasis, accent
• use sparingly
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Visual and Spatial Design:
Look and Feel
• Graphics, Banners
– should be relevant to site and/or content
– small as possible to reduce download time
– optimum size: 30-60K
• Images (graphics, photos, etc)
– can provide a thumbnail to larger image
• Banner
– unobtrusive (shouldn’t have to scroll to get past it)
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Visual and Spatial Design: Look
and Feel
• Text
– Common font
• Arial, Times, Comic Sans, Helvetica, Courier, Verana
– Text size
• 2-4 for body text (3 is default)
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Little underlining (indicates hyperlink)
Titles, headings, slide/sub-headings
Includes white space
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Other Evaluations
• Readability see handout
• Using Bobby http://www.cast.org/bobby/
• Gender and Cultural issues
– Language converters
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Issues
• CERIAS The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security. Concerned with issues of
privacy, ethics, and management of information.
http://www.cerias.org/ or www.cerias.purdue.edu/
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Monitoring
Bookmark
School filters
Activities such as WebQuest
LAN system so can monitor all from your computer
Physical arrangement
“Wack” sites
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More Issues
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Acceptable Use Policies (AUP’s)
Copyright Issues– Teach Act See Handout
Online Safety Kit
– http://www.getnetwise.org/
– www.nasro.com
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Plagiarism
– http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm
– http://www.schoolsucks.com/
– http://www.turnitin.com/
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Limit message to one screen – short and to the point
Identify yourself
Double check URL before sending
If replying include only important parts of the message
Do not write unless you want it read
Use lower case
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In Summary:
• Know a little about the “Internet” and how it
operates
– in order to answer student questions
– solve small problems
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Be able to Search efficiently and effectively
Be able to evaluate the material you find
Use Integration and effective use strategies
Be aware of copyright and other ethical issues
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Standards Online
• ISTE Draft:
http://cnets.iste.org/review/ectlitreview2.html
• NCATE Standards:
http://www.ncate.org/standard/m_stds.htm
• Joint ISTE/NCATE:
http://www.iste.org/standards/ncate/
• TSSA:
http://cnets.iste.org/tssa/
• NETS for Students:
http://cnets.iste.org/index2.html
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Rubrics
• Go to:
– http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/
• That will get you to the WebQuest page.
• Click on Search, type in Rubric
• Navigate to item # 8.
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For More Information
Contact
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[email protected]
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