1. Digital Information Fluency
Cameron McKinley

2. Topics
Power Searching
Evaluating
Safety

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4. 47Q93F

5. 8J3, D67, NVB, WS4, 2W9A, 101OL

6. N214, NFBC, ZYTV, GFM, 85UY, 9KIL, 4590, IL1, 77H, 84CV, DWS3, AEB4, EBRK,

7. Bernajean Porter…from Digitales presentation at AETC
By 2010 information will double every 72 hours.
75 % of what we know was not there 25 years ago

8. How Big is an Exabyte? 5 Exabytes = 37,000 new libraries
Table 1.1: How Big is an Exabyte?
Kilobyte (KB)
1,000 bytes OR 103bytes 2 Kilobytes: A Typewritten page Kilobytes: A low-resolution photograph.
Megabyte (MB)
1,000,000 bytes OR 106 bytes 1 Megabyte: A small novel OR a 3.5 inch floppy disk. 2 Megabytes: A high-resolution photograph. 5 Megabytes: The complete works of Shakespeare. 10 Megabytes: A minute of high-fidelity sound. 100 Megabytes: 1 meter of shelved books Megabytes: A CD-ROM.
Gigabyte (GB)
1,000,000,000 bytes OR 109 bytes 1 Gigabyte: a pickup truck filled with books. 20 Gigabytes: A good collection of the works of Beethoven Gigabytes: A library floor of academic journals.
Terabyte (TB)
1,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 1012 bytes 1 Terabyte: trees made into paper and printed. 2 Terabytes: An academic research library. 10 Terabytes: The print collections of the U.S. Library of Congress Terabytes: National Climactic Data Center (NOAA) database.
Petabyte (PB)
1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 1015 bytes 1 Petabyte: 3 years of EOS data (2001). 2 Petabytes: All U.S. academic research libraries. 20 Petabytes: Production of hard-disk drives in Petabytes: All printed material.
Exabyte (EB)
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 1018 bytes 2 Exabytes: Total volume of information generated in Exabytes: All words ever spoken by human beings.
5 Exabytes =
37,000 new libraries
the size of the
Library of
Congress
collections!
Source: Many of these examples were taken from Roy Williams ?Data Powers of Ten? web page at Caltech.

9. Searching

10. Information Literacy Distinguish fact from fiction Do targeted searches

12. Who owns site? http://www.easywhois.com/

13. Who owns site?
Site Owner
Date Modified

16. Use Country Codes

17. Keyword Challenge http://21cif. imsa

18. Digital Investigator Training http://21cif. imsa

19. Kermit the Frog Search Challenge http://21cif. imsa

20. Kermit the Frog Answer http://www. southampton. liu

21. Learn Effective Searching

22. Using Databases

23. AVL http://www.avl.lib.al.us/
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24. Original Documents Online http://www. ourdocuments. gov/content. php

25. Tools to help you

26. Evaluating

27. Research Findings (gifted, second-semester high school sophomores)
36% recognized the optimal query from a list of three queries (about the same as guessing). By contrast, 14% of incoming freshmen at a local high school were able to select the optimal query.
31% grasped that search engines perform literal matching.
17% regularly use natural language queries.
12% misinterpreted the research question by substituting different search concepts.

28. Photo Filter-Free Program

29. Anyone can speak on the web

30. Hoaxes

31. Photos http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/photos/photos.html

32. Lincoln Photo Hoax http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/photos/02calhoun.html

33. Hoax Photo Test http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/tests/hoaxphototest.html

36. Martin Luther King-Google Search

37. Wikipedia
Editing disabled except for registered users

38. More Reliable Wikipedia-Citizendium http://en. citizendium

39. Nobel Prize.org http://nobelprize.org/

41. Links all point to this site

42. Stormfront

43. Web Eval Form http://www.cyberbee.com/content.pdf

45. Evaluation Wizard-Author http://21cif.imsa.edu/tools/evaluate/

46. Site

47. Links From

48. Links To

49. Print Sources

50. Date

51. Accuracy

52. Bias

53. Evidence

54. Expert Reviews

55. Evaluating Digital Resources http://21cif. imsa

56. 21st Century Information Fluency Project http://21cif.imsa.edu/tools/

57. More Resources http://21cif.imsa.edu/resources/

58. Safety http://www. netsmartz. org/media/julie-300k. asx http://www

59. What have you learned? Get your clickers ready…
All information on the web is true.
I should use a variety of sources in my research.
The link command shows me who is linking TO a site.
I need to practice searching to become more effective.
There are lots of online tutorials I can use to help me.
Subscription Databases can provide more accurate data than web searches.
The AVL is expensive to join.
Photos on the Internet are always accurate.
Anyone can add to Wikipedia
It is dangerous to share personal information on the web-even a little bit.