Empowering Students With Technology

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Empowering Students With Technology

• Notes from a Talk and Book by Alan November

Glenview, Illinois Pearson Professional
Development, 2001 ISBN 1-57517-372-7 http//www.a
november.com Moore/Keith 8/04
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Who is manipulating me today?
Selling of search terms http//www.content.overtu
re.com/d/ Examples information literacy
science fair
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http//www.buydehydratedwater.com/http//www.thed
ogisland.com/http//bigredhair.com/boilerplate/h
ttp//www.improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/c
at.htmlhttp//home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.htm
lhttp//www.snopes.com/toxins/dhmo.htmhttp//www
.dhmo.org/
User Beware
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Which search engine was used?

• Google http//www.google.com ?
• Teoma http//www.teoma.com ?
• Dogpile http//www.dogpile.com ?
• How are sites ranked?

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What does the pattern of forward links tell us?
http//pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/abutz/
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What do external links (altavista.com link )
tell us?
http//www.dhmo.org/
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Who owns the site? www.easywhois.com
http//www.martinlutherking.org
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http//pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/abutz/http//pubweb.a
cns.nwu.edu/abutz/di/dc/camps.html pubweb
personal files acns any name for file
server nwu Northwestern owns domain tilde
another clue this is personal abutz name of
owner camps page
What does the web address tell us?
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Invent a domain name

• http//www.register.com Register.com

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altavista.com hostk12.va.usexample
decades
Altavista host command
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Archive.org The Wayback Machine
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nara.gov
Jackie Robinson/Nixonhttp//www.archives.gov/digi
tal_classroom/lessons/jackie_robinson/letter_1961.
html
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Choose a Search Engine
http//www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/info
rmation/5locate/adviceengine.html
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Final Example
http//www.shibumi.org/eoti/index.htm
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Addenda
http//www.license.shorturl.com/http//www.kevdo.
com/lipbalm/home.htmlhttp//funphone.com/old/try2
.html