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Week Six

Internet Searching, Evaluation and Subject Directories
Friday Classes

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Assignments Readings & Resources for the upcoming week
Class pack
  1. Evaluating Web Information (p. 44)
     
  2. Sample Web Evaluation (p. 45)
     
  3. Better Searches-->Better Results (Google) (p. 46)
     
  4. Google Advanced Search Made Easy (p. 47)
     
Helpful websites

Learning More About Search Engines and Subject Directories: FAQS
http://www.cln.org/searching_faqs.html

Subject Directories: the Best and MORE (UC Berkeley)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/SubjDirectories.html

Search Engine Showdown (Features Chart)
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/features/

ipl2
http://www.ipl.org

Infomine: Scholarly Internet Collections (UC Riverside)
http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Google
http://www.google.com

Glossary terms
domain name
home page
HTTP
hyperlink
Internet 
invisible web 
limits (or limiters)
 metasearch engines
nesting
 public domain
search engine
 subject directory
 URL (Uniform Resource Locater)
web page
web site
Due next week
  1. "Internet Searching and Website Evaluation" 
     
  2. Start working on Final Exam Part I (Final Take Home Exam).  It will be due at the beginning of class on the last day the class meets.
     
  3. Internet Evaluation Worksheet of this site: Bimbos and Rambos,  (Nancy Guidry's class)

     

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08/30/2011