1. Using Web Search Methods Refining Results

2. Objectives MUST SHOULD COULD
Carry out effective searches using good keywords
SHOULD
Refine searches using phrases
Consider the appropriateness of web sites
COULD
Carry out searches using Boolean logic and phrases
Explain how logical operators improve the quality of results

3. Search Methods Keyword search “Exact phrase search” Site: search
Boolean searches + -
WHY ARE WE DOING THIS...?
Find what you’re looking for quickly
Get more relevant search results

4. Search Methods Keyword Search Just type in a few keywords...
Imagine HOW the words will appear on the web page you are looking for...

5. Search Methods Exact Phrase
Type the words around quotation marks in the order that you want them to appear.
Why is
This useful?

6. Search Methods
Site:
Use site: to define which site(s) should be searched
Why would this
be useful?

7. Search Methods Boolean Logic
Use + and – symbols to define which words MUST or MUST NOT be included in the search results.
What do you think
the brackets do?

8. Web Quest The name of a local youth football club The origin of tea is?
The origin of tea is
The colour of the cable in the bottom-left side of a plug is...
Collective noun for a group of lions...
Names given to the two bones in your forearm
The Gherkin building is in...

9. Web Quest Answers The name of a local youth football club
Aylesbury United Juniors FC (one of many answers)
The origin of tea is
China
The colour of the cable in the bottom-left side of a plug is...
Blue
Collective noun for a group of lions...
Pride
Names given to the two bones in your forearm
Ulna, radius
The Gherkin building is in...
London, opened 2004

10. Identifying Appropriate Sources
“It’s on Wikipedia... It MUST be true!”
Whilst it is a ‘perfectly acceptable source of knowledge’, one must be aware that it can be edited by dishonest folk.

11. Are these appropriate sources?
Fact or opinion?
Is it backed up elsewhere?
Linked to other web sites?
Backed up by other sources?
Clues in the URL (official looking?)
Reputable author?
Endorsed by others?
Generally known fact?
Lots of adverts?
Updated recently?
Sources of information acknowledged?
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