ONLINE SAFETY

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• ONLINE SAFETY

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Type in this URL

• http//www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/jocool
  _jofool/kids.cfm

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EMAIL CHAIN LETTERS

• Dont forward them without checking online first
  to see if they are legitimate!!!

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SPOOFING/PHISHING/ SCAMS

• What is it?
• Using email bait to fish (phish) for
  passwords, credit card, bank account or social
  security numbers, etc., by directing the user to
  a fake website. Can lead to identity theft.
• EBay Verify Account Information
• Citizens Bank
• Microsoft Security Update (malware)

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BEWARE OF

• SPYWARE
• Gathers info about your internet habits without
  your knowledge and sends it to advertisers or
  others who have access to the info. May come when
  you download freeware, shareware, toolbars, etc.
  Can record keystrokes, history, password,
  spending habits, etc.
• ADWARE
• A slightly less malicious form of spyware that
  displays unwanted pop-up advertisements or
  banners can track your internet usage and
  display pop-ups based on where you surf. Like
  spyware, usually comes with free downloads.
• VIRUSES
• A malicious software program capable of
  generating copies of itself, causing great harm
  to files or other programs and then spreading to
  other computers. Can get it from opening certain
  email attachments, downloading programs, using an
  infected disk, shareware programs (like music),
  etc.

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TOP 10 RULES TO KEEP INFORMATION PRIVATE
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On the internet, no one knows you're a dog
Source http//www.zope.org/Members/rossl
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FINDING INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET

• Search Engines
• Directories
• Invisible Web

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SEARCH ENGINES

• What are they?
• Are software programs that send out robots, or
  spiders, to search web pages for a word or words
  you specify, then returns a list of documents
  (hits) where those keywords were found.
• Can cover all areas or be limited to a certain
  subject
• EXGoogle
• Ex All the Web
• Ex Scirus (science topics only)
• Ex Clusty (clusters)
• What is a metasearch engine?
• Searches several engines at one time
• Ex Kartoo
• Ex Mamma
• Ex Vivisimo (clusters results)

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TIPS FOR BETTER RESULTS

• Use the advanced search options on most search
  engines
• Boolean (combine words with and, or, not such as
  michael jordan and baseball)
• Phrase Searching (searches for words together,
  like ruby slippers, or to be or not to be.
• Truncation (searches for plurals, various endings
  to a word (dog, child)
• Learn to re-word or tweak your search use
  synonyms. The order of words, spellings, etc.
  does make a difference. Put most important words
  first, as the search engine will give it more
  importance when it searches websites.
• Ex oreos history vs. history of oreos
• St. Pauls Cathedral vs. Saint Pauls
  Cathedral
• 30 minute ruleif you cant find what you want in
  30 minutes, ask a librarian for help

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Special Features of Search Engines

• For example, Google
• Calculator
• Book Search
• Currency conversion
• Weather
• Street maps
• Phonebook
• Define
• Showtimes
• Even mirrored Google!
• ETC., ETC., ETC.

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Why Not Just

• Google only carries a small portion of the Web.
• Do you rely on only one reference book?
• Other engines might have indexed what Google
  missed. Google, with an estimated 50 billion
  documents, still only indexes about 20 of the
  internet.
• Soalways try more than one search engine
• Actually not much overlapwide variety in results
• Compare with thumbshots
• There are differences experience helps you know
  which to use
• Helps to use choosing search engine on SHS
  library resource page

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SUBJECT DIRECTORIES

• What are they?
• Like a search engine, but they organize web sites
  by subject headings and subheadings usually done
  by humans, rather than bots or software.
• Ex Yahoo
• Ex Google Directory
• Ex LII

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INVISIBLE, OR DEEP, WEB

• What is it?
• The portion of the web that is not indexed by
  the major search engines.
• May require a subscription (paid or free),
  registration, or password to access.
• Actually much larger than the regular, surface
  web. More than ¾ of all information on the web is
  part of the invisible web.
• Ex Sharpsville Library Resource page databases
  like Electric Library, InfoTrac.
• Ex News engines like the New York Times
• Ex Medical databases like the American Medical
  Association
• There are some search engines that do access some
  parts of the invisible web.
• Ex Turbo10
• Ex CompletePlanet

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YOU MUST EVALUATE ANYTHING YOU USE, ESPECIALLY
WEBSITES

• There is much outdated, inaccurate, unreliable,
  and outright false information on the internet.
  You must try to find the best sites.
• WHO?
• Is the author given? What are his/her
  qualifications? Is it sponsored by an
  organization if so, what do you know about the
  group? How can you find out more info about the
  author or group? Look at the URL for the domain
  (.org, .edu, .mil, .com, etc.)
• WHAT?
• What is the purpose of the sitewhat kind of
  info is there? Is it trying to sell, inform, or
  persuade?

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• WHEN?
• When was the site created? When was it updated?
  Do the links still work?
• WHERE?
• Where did the information come from (such as
  a book, a magazine, written just for that
  website, etc.)? Did the author do his/own
  research? Is there a bibliography or list of
  sources at the end?
• WHY?
• Why is this information useful for my purpose?
  Why is this better than other sites or sources?
  Does it agree with what I have already read about
  my topic?
• Disney World Faked Moon Landings Vitamin D
  (a)
• Jacopo di Poggibonsi Whales
  Vitamin D (b)
• DHMO Vitamin D
  (c)

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WIKIPEDIA

• Has over 1.6 million articles, many not found in
  other encyclopedias (such as Buhl Farm Golf
  Course, City of Sharon, Grove City Outlets,
  twinkies, etc.) but it is NOT an authoritative
  source.
• Good starting point-global view of your topic
  good outlines.
• Cant tell who writer is.
• Anyone can edit anything, anytime.
• Some colleges will not allow it to be cited.

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• In The April 2 edition of Time, Jimmy Wales,
  co-founder of Wikipedia in response to a question
  about using Wikipedia for school assignments
  says
• "I would agree with your teachers that that isn't
  the right way to use Wikipedia. The site is a
  wonderful starting point for research. But it's
  only a starting point because there is a chance
  that there's something wrong and you should check
  your sources if you are writing a paper.

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THE INTERNET IS GREAT, BUT

• Sometimes other sources are better, more
  reliable, and/or faster
• Books
• Electronic Databases
• Magazines/Newspapers