1. Unit 12 Searching the Internet & Safety
Living Online
Unit 12
Searching the Internet & Safety

2. Objectives Use keywords to search for information
Use advanced features to refine a search
Search for specific types of media
Find content on a web page
Evaluate the quality of web content
Observe intellectual property laws

3. Search Engines Has databases of sites & keywords
Each generates a list of results
Webcrawlers or spiders
Results may vary between engines
Go to yahoo.com & search for great wall of china
Notice 1st result
How many total hits?
Go to google.com & do same search
Different result for #1
Note that at the top of many results pages are ADS!

4. Metasearch Engine
Sends query to other search engines & shows you results from all in one place
Dogpile & Kayak
Go to
Search for Batman
Tells where it searched & found on

5. Refining Your Search Phrases & Quotations “The Dark Knight Rises”
Looks for those words next to each other
“Mike Trout” , ”baseball cards”
Looks for Mike Trout baseball cards

6. Boolean Searching AND, OR, NOT searches…
You can use math symbols + or -
Recipes AND Chicken AND Spaghetti
Recipes +Chicken +Spaghetti
Match ALL terms in a document
Tennis NOT Wimbledon
Tennis –Wimbledon
Excludes the 2nd term from the document
Dogs OR Cats
“global warming” OR “greenhouse effects”
Typically broadens your search
Looks for either or both on sites

7. + & - Searching
Include/Exclude

8. Using Advanced Search

9. Searching a Web Site Some sites have search box on them
Searches that web site

10. Searching a Web Page
What keyboard shortcut allows you to find a word in a document?
CTRL + F
Use the same to find a word/phrase on a web page

11. E-Learning
Teknimedia C C

12. Evaluating Web Sites Relevance & Reliability Page Layout/Design
Evaluate this Site
Relevance & Reliability
Does it fit your research?
Is it accurate?
Up to date?
Does it come from a trusted source?
Page Layout/Design
Is site organized?
Spelling/grammar correct?
Info might not be reliable
Validity & Bias
Are they trying to sell you something?
Change your opinion?
Check other sources to see if it’s valid info
Authority
Author’s credentials
Can you contact/ them?
Evaluate the Quality
of the Information

13. Project Each row/group will get a website to evaluate
Review all pages of the site
Use the handout & your opinions to determine if the site is valid and tell why & why not

14. Intellectual Property Laws
Copyright
Doesn’t have to be displayed or registered
Must give credit
Public Domain
Available for public use
No credit needed
Plagiarism
Claiming someone else’s words

15. Your Web Page Once you post something of your own, it is copyrighted
Be careful what you post
Libel
Written word/picture that gives someone a negative image
Slander
Spoken word that gives someone a negative image

16. Injuries Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) Repeated motions of joints
Game players, constant users
Take breaks, stretch
Use ergonomic furniture
Eye strain (lighting, breaks)

17. Living Online Review What is e-commerce?
What does the cashier do with your food at Shop Rite?
When you go to the ATM, what does the machine read on your card?
What do you call people who work from home?
Shopping online
Scan it with an Optical Laser
Magnetic Strip
Telecommuters

18. Questions What domain would each site MOST LIKELY have? Girl Scouts
Sears
Rowan University
U.S. Marines

19. Unit 12 Searching the Internet & Safety
Living Online
Unit 12
Searching the Internet & Safety