Objectives:

• Practice reading, skimming, and scanning skills
• Keyboarding practice
• Learn Internet search strategies
• Become familiar with the basic workings of the Internet

1. Do the online tutorial entitled "Searching on the Internet".
   
   
   • There are five chapters in this tutorial. Do the first four:
     • Ch 1: About searching
     • Ch 2: Searching strategies
     • Ch 3: Try it yourself
     • Ch 4: Metasearches, Web bibliographies
     
     
   • Note: After you get to the tutorial web site,
     click on the button that looks like in order to see the next step.
   
   
   
   • Now, click here Searching on the Internet
   (Thanks to Scott Vigallon of Las Positas College for allowing the use of this tutorial.)
   
   

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2. Now read the Web Research Tips page. Both the tutorial in #1 and the Research Tips page will help you to complete the questions below.[The Research Tips page is from Anne Van Gilst's Internet and Essay writing resource pages.]



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Quiz

Answer the questions below. (All the answers can be found in the tutorial you did in #1 above or on the Research Tips page you read in #2.)

Send your answers by Email

• to Derek at martinderek2@hotmail.com (King's)
• to Liz at ejohnson1217@yahoo.ca (Brescia).

Remember . . .

• Please send your assignment as an ATTACHMENT in Microsoft Word
• Please provide the following information in the "SUBJECT LINE" of your email:
  1. Class abbreviation
  2. Level number
  3. Assignment number
  4. Your name
  For example
  • HI 2 -1b (from Yao Ming)
  • Adv L3 #1 (from Celine Dion)

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Quiz Questions

1. Give two important differences between a search engine and a web directory? Give an example of each.
2. If you were to look for information about flight patterns of the Canada goose, what search tool would you use? Why?
3. If you were to look for information about various towns in Nova Scotia, what search tool would you use? Why?
4. What is a query?
5. What is unique about a hybrid search engine?
6. What is a Web Robot, Spider, or Bot?
7. What is a search string?
8. What is something that web site designers do to help Robots do their job?
9. How can Boolean operators help you in your Internet searching? Give an example.
10. What do quotation marks "" do to a search string?
11. How could the * symbol be used to improve a search?
12. What is a metasearch engine? Give an example.
13. What is a web bibliography? Give an example.




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