searching the web know what you are doing. which computer type? are you using a pc or a mac? this is...
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Searching the Web
Know what you are doing
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Which computer type?
• Are you using
a PC
or
a Mac?
This is a Mac or Apple computer
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PC Computers
• PC used to mean Personal Computer but it has come to mean NOT a Mac
• So:Dell, HP, etc
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Browsers
• A web browser is a software application for retrieving information on the World Wide Web.
Safari Firefox Internet Explorer
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Search Engines
• Google• Yahoo• AOL• Bing
• Different tools looking for stuff on the Web -robots called spiders do the looking
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DirectoriesWeb sites selected by people
and sorted by subject
• http://directory.google.com/• http://www.ipl.org/• http://dir.yahoo.com• http://www.dmoz.org/
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http://dir.yahoo.com/
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http://www.ipl.org/
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Search box is where you enter your query
Navigation bar has a space for web address or URL of web site
Make sure you know how to bookmark web sites so you can easily get back to them
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Almost 13 million hits in quarter of a second
•.com sites are commercial but can be very good
•.edu sites could belong to a university but may be by students
•.org sites are usually great but may have a bias
•.gov is from the government
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In a long article, use ctrl+F or Find under edit
Enter word you are looking for, it will be highlighted
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Evaluating a web page
• Here are some things to consider when selecting web pages, the who, what, when, where and why.
• From kathyschrock.net
• See here to think about evaluating all sources of information
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Some sites to look at
• Dog Island: Free Forever
• Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
• Haggis Hunt
• Sellafield Zoo
• The World’s First Transgenic Mouse