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1
 Search Engines

Visit-- http://www.mogadore.net/portal/search.html

Go to the two tables-
Popular Search Engines & Their Uses & Specialized Search Engines
and visit a variety of new sites to familiarize yourself with their "look & feel"

Visit "Help/Tips" sections of Google, Yahoo & Teoma
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2
 Google Advanced Search

A. Visit-- www.google.com
Search using the word- king, note the type of sites that appear on first two pages of results.

B. Then visit-  www.google.com/advanced_search
Repeat the search for king but this time use "without words"- burger stephen
to remove Burger King & Stephen King.

C. Repeat search using words- king england.

D. Try using exact phrase box for- kings of England

E. Try again using without word-  Richard, finally try with exact phrase- biographies of the monarchs of England

F. Visit http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html for more information and help on using Google's Advanced Search features.

If time permits try same exercises at Yahoo Advanced Search page
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3
 How Much Does That Word Cost ?

To find out how much a key word or phrase costs today visit-- www.overture.com, search for a word and then click on the link on right-top corner- "view advertiser's maximum bids".
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4
 Endings Sure Do Make a Difference!

A. Visit the following sites and briefly describe probable owner and purpose of each site

www.whitehouse.net

www.whitehouse.gov

www.whitehouse.com
 www.congress.gov/

www.congress.org
www.house.gov

www.house.com
www.senate.gov

www.senate.com		 www.uakron.edu

www.uakron.org

www.uakron.net
 www.parliament.uk

www.parliament.gr/

www.parliament.ru/

www.parliament.gov.za/

B. You can limit pages found in a search to specific domain ending by adding site:xyz (where xyz = a specific ending) to the end of your search text. Try it.
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5
 Danger Signs

Visit the following sites, making sure you type address exactly as below...


or if you are within the NEOnet Firewall-


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Additional Fake/Scam Sites (not listed in the printed version of the workbook)
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6
 Climbing Up The Tree

A. Visit-- http://history.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/research/rr/rrhistory.html

Remove URL text from the right of the last "/", press Enter on your keyboard, then note resulting page. Repeat process to next "/". Repeat steps until you have removed the "/" following .edu each time noting the resulting pages.

B. Visit link below, repeating steps as above http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/3367351.stm

C. Visit link below
http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/BFSpages/PRR/Rock.JPEG
Remove URL text from right of last "/", press Enter.
Note the listing of files, this is commonly referred to as a directory and results when no index.html or default.htm file is present in a folder or sub folder on a web server.
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7
 Recursive Searching  

Practice using the recursive searching techniques
  1. Climbing Up & Down the Trees
  2. Changing file type endings
  3. Substituing characters
  4. Using portion of URL in search
  5. Ctrl-F to find a word within a page
  6. Site Map- Visit ABC News.com and use their site map to browse site
  7. Authorative site on subject, then search within site or using terms found on the site in search engines
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8
 Teaching with Primary Source Materials

A. Visit-- http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/
Browse the resources there. Who sponsors this site?
 
B. Visit-- http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D
Browse the resources there. Who sponsors this site?

C. Visit-- http://www.geocities.com/garebel942/
Browse the resources there.
Who sponsors this site?
Who has links from this site?
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9
 Indexes & Databases

A. Visit-- http://www.infohio.org
Browse the resources there. Compare and contrast these resources vs. previous sites you have visited?

B. What are the trade off's of compiled Indexes & Databases vs. Search Engine indexed sites

C. Note this site is actually a collection of individual sites, most require InfOhio to pay a fee for use.
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10
 Who Owns It?

Visit-- http://www.networksolutions.com/

Perform a WhoIs search for following sites:

martinlutherking.org
neonetda.org
mogadore.org
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 Who Links to It?

A. First visit each site below.

B. Then perform a Link Search for each of the sites using-- www.altavista.com
     Use the format-- link:www.xyz.com (replacing xyz.com with name of actual site)
 
Site
 Link Search
www.martinlutherking.org link:www.martinlutherking.org
www.neonetda.org link:www.neonetda.org
www.geocities.com/garebel942 link:www.geocities.com/garebel942
www.zundelsite.org link:www.zundelsite.org
www.qsl.net/k8zt link:www.qsl.net/k8zt
 
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12
 Information Literacy

Visit-- http://www.mogadore.net/portal/search.html#asw

Visit the links to sites listed to get a general idea of resources presented at each for future use with your students
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13
 Gleaning

Visit ...
http://www.mogadore.net/gleaning.html
 
A. Create a Bookmark or Favorite for the site.

B. Copy just the body text (not the title) into a word processing (WP)  program

C. Remove all the extra paragraph returns* at the end of each line of text while maintaining valid returns at end of each paragraph (hint- find & replace)

D. Copy table to word processing program, repeat with spreadsheet program

E. Copy the large title text at the top of the page and paste into a WP.
Why will not copy? How can you copy it?


 * To view paragraph returns (they will not print) in your word processor:

Microsoft Word-- From top menu go to Tools...Options, select the "View" tab of the dialog box, check the box under "Formating marks" lableled "Paragraph returns"

Open Office Write-- From top menu go to Tools...Options, select the "Formatting Aids" under category "Text Document" on the left side of the dialog box, then on right side of dialog box, check the box lableled "Paragraph ends" under "Display"
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 Copyright

A. Visit and browse the following sites--
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
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http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm#top


B. Digital Milennium Copytright Act of 1998-

Summary from Copyright Office- http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

Ovierview by UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy-


C. Paper Mills- Find at least two sources of online research papers offered for sale or gratis to students.
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  Action Plan

Make a list of 7 key points or techniques you have learned today that you plan to incorporate in your teaching and/or share with your students

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Bonus
 Find an image of your instructor or a classmate on the web.


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