Presented by: Mark A. DeBenedictis Bergen County ETTC Bergen County Special Services Presented by: Mark A. DeBenedictis Bergen County ETTC Bergen County Special Services

A short video designed to help you get more from your web searches. WEB SEARCH STRATEGIES IN PLAIN ENGLISH

If you are going to use the web for research, don't be duped by what you find out there. Authority Accuracy Bias Currency Coverage ABC’S OF WEB EVALUATION

The author is well-known and well- regarded in his/her field of study Is the author: Recommended Trusted Affiliated with reputable institutions AUTHORITY FINDING THE AUTHOR’S CREDENTIALS

Verify the background and/or factual information Check for properly cited resources or peer reviews Evaluate the methodology or data collection DETERMINE THE ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION

Tries to sell/persuade Documents with references Presents multiple perspectives ANALYZE WEB PAGE BIAS

When was the data gathered? What dates are covered by the data? When was the document last updated? LOOK FOR CURRENT DATA

Coverage is the sum total of all the other criteria Authority Accuracy Bias Currency DETERMINE THE LEVEL OF COVERAGE

Find the owner or publisher of a website here. Find the owner of this site:

Do a link: command search WHO IS LINKED TO YOUR WEBSITE?

Use the Way Back Machine at A WEBSITE’S HISTORY A Web crawler is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner or in an orderly fashion.

California 's Velcro Crop under Challenge Dihydrogen Monoxide Dog Island Free Forever Feline reactions to bearded men Martin Luther King The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus Victorian Robots LET’S VALIDATE!

Google Bing Yahoo! Search Ask.com “Kidcentric” Search NoodleTools (NoodleQuest) MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES (WIKIPEDIA FOR LIST OF SEARCH ENGINES)

Blog is short for weblog – it is literally a log of the Web. The November Learning Blog Kinderplans Blog The Connected Classroom WHAT IS A BLOG?

Use “quotation marks” to ensure your keywords appear in your search results in the order you have specified. Example: red fish vs “red fish” 47,500,000 results 613,000 results QUOTATION MARKS AND SEARCH

Uniform Resource Locator The URL is the address of a resource, or file, available on the Internet. URL IS AN ACRONYM FOR…

AND narrows a search by combining terms Example: Portland AND Oregon OR broadens a search to include results that contain either of the words you type Example: liberal OR democrat NOT will narrow a search by excluding search terms Example: Oregon NOT travel BOOLEAN SEARCH OPERATORS AND, OR, NOT

URL EXTENSIONS.org – organization.net – network.com – commercial.mil – US military.sch – school (used outside of US).edu – US higher ed.k12 – most US school sites.co – Company (if paired with a country code, example “.co.uk,” the state of Colorado or the country, Columbia).gov – US government (add country code for outside US).ac – higher ed outside of US usually used with country code, example, “.ac.uk”

A list of websites of all the academic institutions in South Africa Google search, type in ac.za, search For a full list of country codes: /web_country_codes.htmlhttp://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/text /web_country_codes.html USING EXTENSIONS AND CODES

How would you conduct a search for the following: US higher education Web sites that contain the word turtle. Search for: edu + turtle SPECIFIC SEARCHING USING CODES

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WORDLE.NET TAGZEDO.COM 43 Ways to Use Wordle!

GOOGLE DOCS

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