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Advanced internet searching to find Open Educational Resources
Nicole Southgate Education Development Unit Faculty of Health
Sciences University of Cape Town Image by shawe_ewahs
CC-BY-SA-2.0
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They focus on the content of web pages, the words Web spiders
crawl the web, build up a list of words that we key in when we
search for specific topics Search engines: how do they work? Spider
image by:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dvdmerwe/378660212/sizes/m/in/photostream/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dvdmerwe/378660212/sizes/m/in/photostream/
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Google dominates StatCounter Global Stats CC-BY-SA-3.0 Have you
ever heard someone say, Let me Yahoo it?
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Other popular search engines Bing
http://www.bing.com/http://www.bing.com/ Yahoo!
http://za.yahoo.com/?p=ushttp://za.yahoo.com/?p=us Ask Jeeves
http://www.ask.com/http://www.ask.com/ YANDEX
http://www.yandex.com/http://www.yandex.com/ AOL
http://www.aol.com/http://www.aol.com/
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Search Tips Keep it simple Use words most likely to be on that
page Instead of asking [how good is health care in South Africa?]
use the query [state health care south africa] Use descriptive
words For a definition type [define asthma] -> dictionary
definition will be displayed i
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Google Advanced Use advanced search to narrow down your search
Navigate to www.google.com and type in your search terms [asthma
treatment south africa]www.google.com
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Google Advanced But, you want to find the Physiotherapy unit at
Health Sciences, UCT To the right: click Options > Advanced
search Placing quotes around phrases narrows down the search as it
restricts results to that exact phrase
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Google Advanced Webpage found If you need more specifics, look
at the Advanced Search page More parameters with which to narrow
your search i
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The Google Advanced page
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Google Scholar www.scholar.google.com Find journal articles,
books on specific topics Your search may lead you to abstracts +
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OER| What is it? Open educational resources (OER) are materials
freely available to share, remix, repurpose through Creative
Commons Licences Example of OER -
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htmhttp://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm @ MIT All
their courses now freely available Reaching every corner of the
earth Earth image: CC-BY-2.0 Nasa Goddard Photo and Video
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Creative Commons Licensing Traditional Copyright Only two
options: Copyright and public domain licences All rights to author
Public domain was open CC licences Creative Commons now affords
alternative licensing options Some Rights Reserved CC
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http://youtu.be/_P-bQB8zUSo A video explaining Creative
Commons
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Source: Hodgkinson-Williams, CA, & Gray, E (2008) Degrees
of Openness: The Emergence of OER at UCT. Centre for Educational
Technology, University of Cape Town Creative commons licencing An
explanatory video
http://youtu.be/_P-bQB8zUSohttp://youtu.be/_P-bQB8zUSo
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The internet may have false or misguided information Use
articles produced by academic sources instead of the usual generic
information beware of Dr Google! Practicing caution
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Useful searches for open content
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htmhttp://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm - MIT Open
Courseware http://www.oercommons.org/ http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/
http://www.compfight.com/ http://www.ookaboo.com Shihaam Shaikhs
Slideshare presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/ShihaamD/finding-open-stuff
http://www.slideshare.net/ShihaamD/finding-open-stuff
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Example search Compfight http://www.compfight.com/ Search
engine for Creative Commons images Type search term, then Enter
Click on Creative Commons on the left
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Example search Compfight Choose an image Redirected to Flickr -
the source of the image On the right is licence information - Click
there
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Example search Compfight Licence information tells us we are
able to Use it with attribution to author Share with the same type
of licence to it Copy Remix Make commercial use of the work
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As students When using open images in your assignments, always
attribute the author and state the license type in your references
section, include the URL too:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88164721@N00/5768825292/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88164721@N00/5768825292/
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Open videos http://academicearth.org/ http://khanacademy.org/
http://www.open-video.org/ http://ted.com Not all the videos have
the same license. Please look at the permissions / terms of use
links for each resource Icons by DryIcons
http://dryicons.comhttp://dryicons.com
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Summary Creative Commons offers new opportunities for Finding
resources Sharing material Adapting resources from others
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Acknowledgements and Permissions Cursor image by shawe_ewahs.
License: CC-BY-SA-2.0 URL:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shawe/3486394638/sizes/t/in/photostream/http://www.flickr.com/photos/shawe/3486394638/sizes/t/in/photostream/
Spider image by DanieVDM CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0 URL:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dvdmerwe/378660212/sizes/m/in/photostream/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dvdmerwe/378660212/sizes/m/in/photostream/
Search Engine Graph by StatCounter Global Stats CC-BY-SA-3.0 URL:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-ww-monthly-201104-201204-barhttp://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-ww-monthly-201104-201204-bar
Slide background by specialized666 License: CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0 URL:
http://ipadwallpapergallery.com/grey-line-stripes-wallpaper-by-specialized666/http://ipadwallpapergallery.com/grey-line-stripes-wallpaper-by-specialized666/
Surgical glove image by miheco License: CC-BY-SA-2.0 URL:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88164721@N00/5768825292/http://www.flickr.com/photos/88164721@N00/5768825292/
Creative Commons licences image source: Hodgkinson-Williams, CA,
& Gray, E (2008) Degrees of Openness: The Emergence of OER at
UCT. Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town
Earth image by Nasa Goddard Photo and Video. License: CC-BY-2.0
URL:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6760135001/http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6760135001/
Icons by DryIcons http://dryicons.comhttp://dryicons.com Thanks to
Douglas Sias, Veronica Mitchell and Sarah Crawford-Browne for their
constructive input
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