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Internet Basics Survey

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Search Tools

The following six search tools belong to three different categories. Can you group them?

* Google
* Librarians' Index to the Internet
* Dogpile
* AltaVista
* Yahoo Directory
* Ixquick

Study the URLs

* http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html
* http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.htm


Do you know the function of these operators?

* Quoted Phrases
* The + Operator
* The – Operator
* The ~ Operator
* The OR and | Operators
* The .. Operator
* The * Operator


How much do you know about Google Search?

Suppose you are not using the operators above,

* Will Google return only pages that match all your search terms?
* Will Google return pages that match your search terms exactly?
* Will Google return pages that match variants of your search terms?
* Is there any word Google will ignore during search?
* Is there a limit to the number of queries?
* Does the distance between the two queries matter? ( eg. [ snake in the grass ], [ snake grass ])
* Does the order of query matter?
* Is Google case sensitive?




Evaluating Web Pages

1. Read Evaluating Web Pages
2. Read Evaluating Website.doc by Nell Duke
3. Evaluate the following sites:

All the following sites are about Immigration.
Please evaluate these sites and think about how you decide whether the site is good or not.
a) http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/index2.html
b) http://www.aiisf.org/
c) http://www.msu.edu/course/mc/112/1920s/Immigration/Jamiespage.html
d) http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/introduction.html
e) http://www.ellisisland.com/ellis_home.html
f) http://immigration.about.com/
g) http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm


Lab Section

1. Set up an account with Google Page Creator, Weebly or another web creation site. You might want to draw on some of learning strategies we talked about during week 1. Note: if you use GPC, make sure that you use the page that has the home icon in it as your home page!
2. Create the main pages of your site. At the very least you should have the following sections:
1. An Autobiography/About Me page. Students want to know who you are as a person and so do administrators. Devote at least one section of your site to this purpose. You might consider it like a bulletin board you would put up in your room.
2. Resume Page: I'm rather specific about this part. Because your resume is the most common piece that will be printed out, you need to have a version on your site that is in .pdf form. If you don't know how to convert a document to a pdf, click here. You can either link directly to the .pdf from your home page as the resume section, or you could include it as a "printer friendly version" or ".pdf version on an html page."
3. Teaching Philosophy: Don't be concerned if you haven't written a teaching philosophy yet. Most students in the past have not. However, by the time your portfolio is evaluated, you ought to have a draft you can build on as you continue through the program.
4. Technology Integration Project: You will build this section later in the course, but you can create the page and set up the links now.
5. Other types of pages that have been popular in the past, but are not required have been coursework, web resources, and lesson/unit plans.
6. As far as navigation is concerned, a person should be able to get to any of your major pages from any page. That means each page should have links to About Me, Resume, Teaching Philosophy, Tech Int. Project, etc.
3. For this week's Wiki Gallery Project:
1. Create your home page and five major sections pages that are linked to from the home page
2. On the home page, insert a picture, add text, and a link to your blog.
3. Give each page a clear title, and set up the links to each of the other pages.
4. Choose one other major section besides the home page to develop for this week. The remaining sections only need a title and working navigation links. As you build these pages, think about balancing your use of written texts with visual ones. In later week's will learn some technologies that will help us with this.
5. Update your portfolio link on the Wiki Gallery so that it links to your homepage.



Assignments

1. Find a topic you are interested in. Use Google to search for related information. Don’t just use Wikipedia! Write about what you have learned about this topic and what you have learned about search.
2. Respond to your classmates’ posts.
3. Continue working on your web portfolio.