Searching the Internet more Effectively

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Demonstration of teaching Large Groups using
Flexible Delivery Including Searching The
Internet presented by Sylvia Edwards Associate
Lecturer School of Info Systems, FIT
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Your Session Outcomes

• Observed one approach to teaching and learning
  using flexible delivery
• considered what might translate into your own
  teaching
• Learnt some tricks of Net Searching
• and where to get more tips later

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Sylvia Edwards

• Lecturer (Level A) 1995 to present
• School of Information Systems, FIT, QUT
• Unit Coordinator for
• ITB310 Information Management
• Core Foundation Year Unit
• (750 students)
• ITB322 Information Resources
• IM Major Stream (200 students)
• ITN355 Info Resources Services to
• Business Industry
• Masters Elective Unit (20 Students)
• ITB823 Web Design for Electronic Commerce
• Sem 1/2000 (New for Business IT students)

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You will notice I allowed a settling time

• 5 minutes to let them settle with music and vary
  it.
• Vary it according to age and gender
• Different types of music
• Pink Floyd, Mahotini and the Mahotela queens,
  Javanese flute music
• Allow another break time mid way!
• More music again!

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Other Main Issues

• Communication
• the lecturers body and body language
• Madonna Mike!
• walking, repeating students questions and
  comments
• Repeat Main concepts 3 to 6 times
• Work with diversity internationalization
• FIT has
• 85 male
• up to 5 students with a disability
• 1st year has only 45 students 17/18years old
• 35 international students .. etc.

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2 Hour Lecture Format

• 5 Minutes settling in
• 15 - 20 minutes teaching
• 5 minute pairs task
• 15 - 20 minutes teaching
• 10 minute break
• 15 minutes teaching
• 10 - 15 minute pairs task/video
• 15 minutes teaching
• Then 5 minutes summary and conclusion and into to
  next weeks tasks

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Demonstration I cant give the Lecture in 20
minutes

• Everything I would have said can be found by
  using my WebPage links at
• Information Resources NetSites
• Select the link to Search Engines and youll
  find links to searching tips and techniques
• http//www.fit.qut.edu.au/sylvia/teaching/resourc
  es.html
• At this point we are going to imagine I have
  been talking here introducing the Internet for
  about 20 minutes

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Your Turn .

• How Big is the Internet?
• Does the Internets size make it difficult to
  search the Net for information?
• Have you any examples?

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The Internet - size
an educated guess as to how many are online
worldwide as of September 1998 ... World Total
147 million Africa 800,000 Asia/Pacific 22
million Europe 33.25 million Middle East 0.75
million Canada USA 87 million South America
4.5 million Growth rate ..? Source NUA
Internet Surveys http//www.nua.ie/surveys
/index.cgi Worlds Total Population is est. 5,926
Million - 2.5 online (1998 World Population Data
Sheet http//www.prb.org/prb/info/98wpds.htm)

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Internet Domain Survey, July 1998 Est.

• Jul 98 36,739,000 Jan 98 29,670,000
• Jul 97 19,540,000 Jan 97 16,146,000
• Jul 96 12,881,000 Jan 96 9,472,000
• Jul 95 6,642,000 Jan 95 4,852,000
• Jul 94 3,212,000 Jan 94 2,217,000
  
• Jul 93 1,776,000 Jan 93 1,313,000
• Permission is granted to reproduce this survey
  data provided that you mention it was Produced by
  Network Wizards and that the data is available on
  the Internet at http//www.nw.com/

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This means problems when looking for information
on the Internet

• Search Engines
• Subject Directories
• Local Web Servers
• People on the Net
• Email, Chat, Talk
• Listservs
• Dont try to reinvent the wheel!
• We will now look in depth at how the search
  engines work

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Exercise HotBot or Alta Vista Search - Type
in and Search for sylvia
edwards Sylvia Edwards Sylvia Edwards
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Search Techniques
well skip a few slides here!

• Pick your search site carefully
• Use specialized search services
• Quotation marks for phrases or proper names
• Use capital Letters if you want an exact match
• Stay away from common words
• Use more than one word to narrow your search
• Exclude words you dont want
• Search for variations with an asterisk symbol
• READ the HELP sections

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So What ?

• We have now found my WebPage
• Id like to show you now how I use to enhance a
  flexible delivery style of teaching

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Flexible Delivery

• Notes - in Word PowerPoint
• UNITS Directory
• ILE
• Library Electronic Reserve
• FIT This is IT CD-Rom
• All have Lecture, Tutorials, Assessment
• Alternatives
• Print - bookshop, Library LAC
• Unit WebPages - Assignment FAQ

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To Recap my Lecture Format

• So they will continue to attend the lecture
• and why they do not fall asleep
• Ask the students questions
• Have Small Discussions
• One Large Break
• Music in the break
• If you dont like what
• I pick bring your own CD!
• Variety each Session

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Teaching Variety Ideas

• You can try any of the following
• Video, Music, Cartoons, etc.
• Comedy tape
• may not be directly relevant but could still be
  useful
• Role play - students as performers
• Guest lecturers
• get a register
• male/female/internationals etc.
• Live from the web
• Do YOU Have Any More Ideas?

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Questions anyone?
Thanks for listening If you have any questions,
please feel free to ask during the set question
time