N.C Wise Owl

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N.C Wise Owl

• Rubrics
• 1. Students will understand that search
  environment makes a difference in search results.
• 2. Students will use the design cycle to
  practice searching various topics.

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Search Environment

• Search engine on the Internet
• Versus
• Educational database with encyclopedias,
  magazines, atlases, and dictionaries.

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Search engines

• Websites that enables users to search for
  information on the internet based on the keywords
  searcher provide. Some of these websites gather
  information from all across the World Wide Web
  and furnish them to the user in the order of
  importance and relevance that it assigns each
  page based on the entered keyword.

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Educational DatabaseNC Wise Owl

• An educational database is a collection of online
  resources. The resources are verified to
  determine that content is true.
• NC WiseOwl provides free online resources for the
  public schools in North Carolina. The NC WiseOwl
  program ensures that all students have access to
  quality research tools and curriculum support
  materials.

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Pros and Cons of search engines on the internet

• Pros
• Fast
• Lots of different
• sources available in
• one place.
• Access

• Cons
• Authority who authored the website?
• Relevance are you really getting the
  information you need? How many hits?
• Content how current is the information?

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Pros and Cons of using N.C. Wise Owl

• Pros
• Authority sources are written by scholars.
• Relevance searches are only through educational
  databases which will eliminate non relevant
  search results. How many hits?
• Content content is specific to age groups

• Cons
• Sometimes very current information will not be
  available.
• Access is through a school computer or with a
  password from home

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Log into Novell using your password and login
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Open up NC Wise Owl(the icon that looks like a
brain)
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Minimize NC Wise Owl and open up Internet Explorer