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Session 5 researching online
This document provides guidance on how to effectively conduct online research. It lists tips for evaluating online sources such as verifying information and checking for bias. It also outlines steps for performing searches such as using keywords, scanning results, and refining searches. Examples are given of specific online tools for finding videos, images, maps, music, people, weather reports, blogs, books, and classified listings. Exercises are included to have students practice different types of online searches.
Session 5 researching online
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- 8. Evaluating an onlinesource
- 10. Checklist for evaluatingonline information 1. Can you verify it? 2. Who published it? 3. Who wrote it? 4. When was it written? 5. Is it a “dead “site? 6. Is it objective? 7. Is it advertising?
- 12. Conducting Effective Online Research
- 13. How to approachonline research? •Use natural language •Keywords •Do a test search •Scan for keywords •Construct a new search query •Weed out the trash •Look for links •Repeat this process •Bookmark
- 14. Exercises Exercise 1: Searchfor online videos on Youtube Exercise 2: Search for images with Google Image Search Exercise 3: Search for geographic info with “Google Maps Exercise 4: Search for music on LastfM Exercise 5: Search for people with Pipl Exercise 6: Search a chronic illness
- 15. Group Activity Search forthe following Info: 1.What building is just across the road from the Double Tree guesthouse on Times Square in New York City? 2.What are the symptoms of overdosing on vitamin C? 3.What was the most recent concert or event that Madonna performed at? 4.Find a video of the very first moon landing in 1969.
- 16. Movie Reviews 1.Rotten Tomatoes:www.rottentomatoes.com 2.IMDB (the internet Movie Database): www.imdb.com Weather 1.Weather.com: www.weather.com Blogs 1.Google Blog Search: blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en 2.Technorati: technorati.com 3.Blogline: www.bloglines.com
- 17. Books 1.Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org 2.GoogleBook Search: books.google.com 3.LibraryThing: www.librarything.com 4.Amazon.com: www.amazon.com/books-used- books-textbooks/b?ie=UTF8&node=283155 Classifieds 1.Craiglist: www.craiglist.org 2.Gumtree: www.gumtree.co.za
Editor's Notes
- #3 YouTube is the most popular destination for finding, watching and sharing online videos. It is famous for hosting some of the funniest , most unusual, tragic and surprising videos on the web.
- #4 Justin Bieber became famous sby someone uploading a video of him. He instantly became famous
- #5 YouTube offers a search bar into which you can type your search query.it works exactly the same as a search engine like Google.