Google Searching - Brian Mull
http://brianmull.wikispaces.com/Information+Literacy+-+Search+and+Validation
Advanced search - use the gear button to start at advanced search
Filter Bubble - Eli Pariser http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html
Way to connect with students from different countries - could center around a topic
ePals.com
REAL - way to decide if the website is trustworthy
R - read the webaddress
domain name is the first part of a webaddress - does the domain seem to show that it would be an appropriate resource?
.net - says anyone could make this website
filecabinet is the domain and each slash is a new folder we open the last item is the final piece of paper
if you start with the filecabinet - and add net (the domain) you get to the main page of the website
E - Evaluate - skim and scan - look for red flags
All About Explorers - great fake site!
another one DHMO.org
A - Author or owner of website - google the name of the person who may have created the site
check out the links from the google information
look at the URL also
easywhois.com - provides contact info for websites
use google maps to find where that place is
could call the phone number
L - Links
If all links only connect to the same website - that will be like an author only quoting themselves on a research project
for google type in link: and the entire address to see what all the things are that link from this site
CUSTOM SEARCH
Website Shortners
- first ? - who is going to have the best source?
- what kind of info do we want to get back?
Advanced search - use the gear button to start at advanced search
- domain or site is a great place to start searching
- all these words put the exact phrase in
- file type -limits by the kind of file
- google the country codes and then you can search by that code for google hits outside the US
- when you search site:nasa.gov - it is really indexing the entire site
- other countries use .ac for academic not .edu for their domain
- no way to search all K12 schools in the US through a domain name - instead target individual states that might have the information you are looking for
- * is the google search wild card
- Reading level - sort of groups the hits by general age areas
Filter Bubble - Eli Pariser http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html
Way to connect with students from different countries - could center around a topic
ePals.com
REAL - way to decide if the website is trustworthy
R - read the webaddress
domain name is the first part of a webaddress - does the domain seem to show that it would be an appropriate resource?
.net - says anyone could make this website
filecabinet is the domain and each slash is a new folder we open the last item is the final piece of paper
if you start with the filecabinet - and add net (the domain) you get to the main page of the website
E - Evaluate - skim and scan - look for red flags
All About Explorers - great fake site!
another one DHMO.org
A - Author or owner of website - google the name of the person who may have created the site
check out the links from the google information
look at the URL also
easywhois.com - provides contact info for websites
use google maps to find where that place is
could call the phone number
L - Links
If all links only connect to the same website - that will be like an author only quoting themselves on a research project
for google type in link: and the entire address to see what all the things are that link from this site
CUSTOM SEARCH
- Sign in to google
- more -even more - custom search
- name your search engine
Website Shortners
- highlight the long url
- edit
- copy
- open new window
- tinyurl.com
- Can also embed the search bar to your website