A Few Details Before We Start It would be to your advantage to have an internet browser open so you can try some exercises yourself. If you are early you could try an Information Literacy Quiz @ http://novemberlearning.com/resources/i nformation-literacy-resources/i-informa tion-literacy-quiz / How much do you know about information literacy? Take the following quiz to see if you are Somewhat Savvy (0-5 points), Moderately Savvy (6-10 points) or Downright Nerdy (10+ points) Answer key to the Information Literacy Quiz Finally I would like to credit Alan November for the skills and
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A Few Details Before We Start It would be to your advantage to have an internet
browser open so you can try some exercises yourself.
If you are early you could try an Information Literacy Quiz @http://novemberlearning.com/resources/information-lit
eracy-resources/i-information-literacy-quiz/
How much do you know about information literacy? Take the following quiz to see if you are Somewhat Savvy (0-5 points), Moderately Savvy (6-10 points) or Downright Nerdy (10+ points)
Answer key to the Information Literacy Quiz
Finally I would like to credit Alan November for the skills and content presented.
Other Web Sites to Validate A short introduction to the study of Holocaust revisionism:
http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/di/intro.html Appropriate for use in middle/high school, this site is written by an engineering prof at
Northwestern University. It presents a version of the truth and is a clear example of why our kids need to think critically about information on the Internet.
All about explorers: http://www.allaboutexplorers.com If you teach anything about exploration, this site is a must. It's smart, slick and cleverly
done, plus has a host of great activities. California's Velcro Crop under Challenge http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
Did you know about the Velcro shortage in California? Use this fun site to help students separate fact from fiction on the web.
Dihydrogen Monoxide www.dhmo.org Who knew water could be so hazardous. A good site to use with middle school students.
Have them click through the forward links on the site. Does the web site reference any other authors?
Dog Island Free Forever www.thedogisland.com A puppy dog paradise. Great site for all ages.
Feline reactions to bearded men http://improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html
Martin Luther King www.martinlutherking.org This seemingly innocent web site address calls for the abolition of Martin Luther King Day
and promotes White Pride. Content is inappropriate for all ages. Storm Front: www.stormfront.org
The publishers of this site also host the Martin Luther King site. It may be blocked by an Internet filter.
The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html Does the Octopus really exist? A great site to use with all ages. Have students click through
the links and read web addresses carefully. Victorian Robots www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html
A great site to use with all ages. It has even stumped historians. Have students truncate the web address so they are just left with the domain name, www.bigredhair.com. This will give them some insight into the validity of this site.
Which of the following web sites is real? http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html http://www.firstgenetics.com/ http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/index.php http://www.golfcross.com/ http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/ http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html http://www.thedogisland.com/ http://www.bandersnatch.com/guide.htm http://www.wwwdotcom.com/ http://www.stephenswork.com/funkyshoes/index.html http://descy.50megs.com/NewHartford/newhtfd.html http://www.pomegranatephone.com/
A reference source that can be edited by anyone! How can that possibly work?
How do Wikipedia and other wiki sites work?
Paradigm shift:Going from being written by experts to being
edited by a group of knowledgeable people.Encourages multiple points of view.
Understanding Web Addresses - The Basics
http://www.k12connect.ca/~n_kaspar/The DomainThe Extension Indicators of a personal page
The presence of a name in the URL such as jdoe and a tilde ~ or % or the word users or people or members frequently means you are on a personal web site.
.edu = Educational organization (most US universities) .k12 = US school site (not all US schools use this) .ac = Academic institution (outside of US) .sch = School site (some schools outside of the US use this) .com = Company (usually .co in the UK) .org = Any organization .gov = Government agency .net = Network
How do you find out who is the author of this “book” (read Internet Site)?
Google Search it - a logical first stepSearch for “Martin Luther King”A way of looking up information in this library.Why would Google list this site as number 3 of
27800000 sites?What does the description in Google say?What are sites similar to this site about?
Now do the search again, but with a slight variation.Search “martinlutherking.org” (do not include the
quotation marks.)Check out the “extra” information Google can show you
about this site.Links in and out of this site.Check out a bit of history with a look at the cached site.Check out sites the are similar to this site or contain the
Pick a subject - any subjectPick three to five keywords for that subjectEnter those keywords in exactly the same
way in each of these search engineshttp://www.google.comhttp://www.ask.com/http://www.yahoo.comhttp://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/http://www.dogpile.com/
Google has now become a word in the English language. “I googled it.”
What does Google stand for? "We were thinking about very large numbers ... so we came up with the term "googol" which is the
mathematical term for 10 to the hundredth (power). The correct spelling was g-o-o-g-o-l and I'm not sure that we realized that we had made a spelling error. But that was taken, anyway. There was this guy who'd already registered Googol.com, and I tried to buy it from him, but he was fond of it. So we went with Google.”
BING – Because it is not Google???Depending of your definition of the WWW,
Google searches anywhere between 2% to 70% of it.
Web 2.0 – the Social Web
The web has evolved a long way past being simply a source of information. With the social web now in full swing, it is useful to be able to search and validate information there as well.
As an experiment, try Googling your own name.What comes up?
• Domain Search• Cache Search• Link Search• Number Range Search• Definition command
Google Advanced Search
Click on type:LinkPictureVideoNews
Then Click on Advanced Search.Note differences.
Going even further …
Google Operators: Google has include many different operators that you can put in a search string to help you find the information you are looking for.EG: Entering “Time Berlin” gives the current
time in Berlin Germany.
Many of them are listed and explained here:http://www.googleguide.com/
http://novemberlearning.com/This is where most of our information came from.
A shameless plug – There are a couple of course offered through Alan November’s organization that is well worth taking. They are called - Teaching Zack to Think / Web Literacy for Educators
Answer key to the Information Literacy Quiz
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