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Building Web Literacy 21 st Century Tools

Building Web Literacy 21 st Century Tools. Presented by: Mark A. DeBenedictis Bergen County ETTC Bergen County Special Services mardeb@bergen.org. Building Web Literacy. Web Search Strategies in Plain English. A short video designed to help you get more from your web searches.

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Building Web Literacy 21 st Century Tools

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  1. Building Web Literacy 21st Century Tools Presented by: Mark A. DeBenedictis Bergen County ETTC Bergen County Special Services mardeb@bergen.org

  2. Building Web Literacy

  3. Web Search Strategies in Plain English A short video designed to help you get more from your web searches.

  4. ABC’s of Web Evaluation 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

  5. AuthorityFinding the Author’s Credentials • The author is well-known and well-regarded in his/her field of study • Is the author: • Recommended • Trusted • Affiliated with reputable institutions

  6. Determine the Accuracyof the Information • Verify the background and/or factual information • Check for properly cited resources or peer reviews • Evaluate the methodology or data collection

  7. Analyze Web Page Bias • Tries to sell/persuade • Documents with references • Presents multiple perspectives

  8. Look for Current Data • When was the data gathered? • What dates are covered by the data? • When was the document last updated?

  9. Determine the Level of Coverage Coverage is the sum total of all the other criteria • Authority • Accuracy • Bias • Currency

  10. www.easywhois.com Find the owner or publisher of a website here. Find the owner of this site: www.martinlutherking.org

  11. Who is linked to your website? Do a link: command search

  12. A Website’s History Use the Way Back Machine at www.web.archive.org A Web crawler is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner or in an orderly fashion.

  13. Let’s Validate! • 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

  14. Major Search Engines (Wikipedia for list of search engines) • Google • Bing • Yahoo! Search • Ask.com “Kidcentric” Search • NoodleTools (NoodleQuest)

  15. What is a blog? Blog is short for weblog – it is literally a log of the Web. • The November Learning Blog • Kinderplans Blog • The Connected Classroom

  16. Quotation Marks and Search 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

  17. URL is an acronym for… Uniform Resource Locator The URL is the address of a resource, or file, available on the Internet.

  18. Boolean Search Operators AND, OR, NOT 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

  19. URL Extensions

  20. Using Extensions and Codes 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: http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/text /web_country_codes.html

  21. Specific Searching using Codes How would you conduct a search for the following: US higher education Web sites that contain the word turtle. Search for: edu + turtle

  22. Scavenger Hunt This Internet scavenger hunt provides an additional opportunity to practice your new Web search skills http://www.learnwebskills.com/search/hunt.html

  23. 21st CenturyProductivity Tools

  24. Wordle.netTagzedo.com 43 Ways to Use Wordle!

  25. Google Docs

  26. http://bcss-at.wikispaces.com/Mark

  27. www.Blabberize.com http://johnsonexitos.wikispaces.com/Blabberize

  28. http://www.voki.com/ Voki

  29. Poll Everywhere http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/NDcxNjY3MTc3

  30. Survey Monkey

  31. TodaysMeet

  32. Twitter

  33. Zamzarwww.zamzar.com

  34. Youtube - www.youtube.comTeachertube – www.TeacherTube.comTestTube– www.test-tube.org.ukSchoolTube - www.schooltube.com/

  35. Glogsterwww.glogster.com

  36. Sketchfu

  37. Artpad

  38. Edmodo

  39. Our Story

  40. Google Earth

  41. e-Pals

  42. www.Delicious.com

  43. Thinkfinitywww.thinkfinity.org

  44. Skype

  45. BlogGERwww.blogger.com http://www.atsitesforyou.blogspot.com /

  46. Thank Younow let’s play http://bcss-at.wikispaces.com/Mark To download today’s presentation and links.

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