Skills
If you didn't have a chance to respond to the e-mail question, you can still fill in a 4" x 6" index card and answer the question, "If there was just one more thing you could learn about technology for LNCs, what would it be?"
By the end of this session, participants will be able to perform the following tasks:
- Search the web with greater efficiency and improved analysis of web content.
- Evaluation exercise: Nobel winner says AIDS came from laboratory
- Evaluation exercise: Iraqis march against terror
- General research strategy: guidelines for evaluating sources
- The "deep web" directory: Complete Planet, a comprehensive listing of dynamic searchable databases. Find databases with highly relevant documents that cannot be crawled or indexed by surface web search engines.
- Specific research strategy: NoodleQuest search strategy wizard that connects the information need to the search strategy
- Review of basic search engine technigues
- Know the difference between a search box and the address box
- Use the most specific search terms possible in your query
- Place quotes at the beginning and end of phrases
- Use the plus sign to include an addtional term or phrase
- Use the minus sign to exclude an additional term or phrase
- Combine plus and minus signs to narrow your search results
- Basic Google search exercise
- Advanced search features
- Working around Google's ignored words (e.g., and, or, in, of, the...)
- Advanced Google search exercise
- Beyond Google: meta-search engines
- Meta-search exercise
- How Google technology operates so successfully
- "Always," "never," and "only" are always flags for questions a web site's truthfulness.
40 things that only happen in movies
- Editing skills practice
- Copyright considerations revisited.
- Downloading text, images, and PDF documents from the web.
- Downloading audio and video from the web.
- Citation styles for Internet resources.
- Copy and paste text across applications and images across devices
- Creating and formatting a table in Microsoft Word