simply using a search engine to surf the Web. Ala

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Becoming an INTERNET DETECTIVE
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Search Engines

• How do they work?
• How do they rank their results?
• How do websites show up in the top ten?

• Google by popularity
• Yahoo pre-assigned categories
• Others by number of keyword entries

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Search Engines

• Being first in a list of search results does not
  indicate importance or validity.

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Getting your Website Up Front!
METALINKS
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Zacks Story

• Home page of Arthur R. Butz.
• http//pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/abutz/di/intro.html

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Who owns this problem?
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Teaching students to use the Internet is much
more complex than simply using a search engine
to surf the Web.

• Alan November
• Empowering Students with Technology.

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MAPping

• MAP by examining
• Meta Web Information
• Authors
• Purpose

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MAPping

• Meta Web Information
• Authors
• Purpose

• The structure of information on the Internet,
  including URLs, links, and search engines.

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MAPping

• Meta Web Information
• Authors
• Purpose

• Anyone can post information on the net
  credentials such as professor or doctor should
  not be accepted without evaluation

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MAPping

• Meta Web Information
• Authors
• Purpose

• Most sites sell products or services, advocate
  ideas, entertain, and/or present information

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MAPping

• Meta Web Information
• Authors
• Purpose

• Web Address
• Links
• Search Engines

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What do these tell you?

• [phone]
• [phone]
• [phone]
• [phone]
• [phone]
• [phone]

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Can you identify theseweb domain names?

• .com
• .net
• .org
• .gov
• .k12
• .edu

• Commercial or profit
• A network
• Non-Profit organization
• Government agency
• Schools
• Universities

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Zacks Story

• Home page of Arthur R. Butz.
• http//pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/abutz/di/intro.html

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MAPping

• Meta Web Information
• Authors
• Purpose

• Web Address
• Links
• Search Engines

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Digital Threads The Structure of Linked
Information

• Forward Links
• Controlled by webmaster
• Revealed by pausing mouse over hyperlink
• Footnotes
• May reveal credibility

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Digital Threads The Structure of Linked
Information

• Backward Links
• More revealing than forward links
• Gives perspective in relation to other sites
• Emphasizes the power of the Internet as a true
  web
• Are revealed by Link Command

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Using the LINK comand

• Go to www.AltaVista.com
• Type in LINK
• Type in or copy and paste the site address
• Search

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17 Sites found who link to this site
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MAPping Part 2 - Author

• Investigate an authors credentials
• Ownership and authorship are not necessarily the
  same thing.
• Speaking with authority does not necessarily
  mean you are one.

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Who owns this site?

• www.alltheweb.com
• Find the owner of a website!

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Type in any site or copy and paste the URL and do
a search
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Click on who owns
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Now you have the complete owner information
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MAPping Part 3 -Purpose

• Advocacy vs. Objectivity
• Evaluate the sites purpose
• Look for the mission statement
• What is the site trying to do?
• Why was it created?
• May not be obvious

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Search Engine Tricks
Search www.AltaVista.com for Early Childhood
information
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622,942 sites found of all types
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Refine your search

• After Early Childhood type in HOSTK12
• and search

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27,551 sites and all are school sites
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Another search engine for refined searching
www.TEOMA.com
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Again, search for early childhood
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CHOICES
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1 More (last one)

• www.findspot.com

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Uses Popular Search Engines Opens all in the same
format NO ADS!!!
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DO YOUR RESEARCH!!
INVESTIGATE