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How to find information on the Internet - Keyword Search |
1. Before you begin a search it helps to Know your Assignment.
List 3 of the things you should know about a research assignment BEFORE you start.
Read Brainstorm Keywords
a. Name some keywords for Internet.
Read: Start the process at Step 0
2. Practice using the 3M List of Search Terms:
a. You want to find your school's website. Write some effective keywords using the 3M List of Search Terms.
b. You are planning to move into an apartment when you graduate.
Write some keywords that would help you search for one in your community.
3. What is a keyword search?
What is essential when you do a keyword search?
Predict - You entered the keyword draft. What would you find?
Do it. What is an unexpected hit you get?
4. How does using a * wildcard help you find information online?
5. You may have found some facts, but are they current and accurate?
Credible Sources Count! - Click Next to move through this activity.
How can you verify information?
6. What effects can spelling have on your search?
Follow the Understanding Spelling & Search tutorial.
Identify 3 important considerations about spelling and searching.
7. Complete a Challenge from Question to Query. Which one did you do?
What is your efficiency rating?
"Increasingly, web publishing materials are seen as the most cost effective, timely, and appropriate way
to deliver information and insure effective communications for everyone, including individuals with disabilities. "
21st Century Information Fluency Project 2003 - Micromodule: Accessibility
Boolean search activity | Finding Info on the web activity | Database basics | Exploring Google Search Engine
Extensions:
How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory | Guide to Internet Sources from FactCheck.org
Web 2.0 and You | eGovernment evaluate a website
Consider the Power of Possibilities through Andreessen's eye
Food for thought - Did You Know 2.0? - Are you 21st Century Literate?
Understanding the World Wide Web | Four NETS for Better Searching
Small Pieces, Loosely Joined activity | Watch What is Digital? at Future Channels
The Invisible Web | Working in a group | The Revolutionaries | Online Collaborations & Social Networking
Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed created by a librarian invaluable resource!
Cyberinfrastructure - examines the convergence of three realities -- the spread of
the Internet, the shrinkage of computers, and the accumulation of databases
Bloggez- vous? Should you build a blog?
"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions,
including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
" Doug Larson
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Updated May 1, 2012,
Posted 3/27/2007
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Save a tree use a digital answer format - Highlight the text. Copy it. Paste it in a word processing document. Save the document in your folder. Answer on the word processing document in a contrasting color (not yellow) or font (avoid fancy fonts like Symbols, 
, 
) Perhaps you have the resources to record verbal answers. If you do, be sure to first read / record the question. Then record the answer immediately after it. Proof your responses. It is funny how speling errors and typeos sneak in to the bets work. 
Make your own printer paper answer sheet
Tech Tip: Working in a group or in two different places like the library & home? You do not have to be physically together to work together. You do not have to take paper based notes at the library and digitalize them at home.
Watch Google Docs video TAI - How could you use free, Google Docs to do a project? How would this facilitate group projects?