- Oh the Place You'll Go!
Internet Ventures Awaiting
- The Foreign Language of Cyberspace
- URL Domain HTML XML
- Java Server Client IP
- Listserv BW Linux cookie
- vanilla bloatware FTP ADSL
- ISDN WAP gigabit E-
- Understanding URLs
- Transfer protocol://servername.domain/directory/subdirectory/filename/filetype
- Transfer Protocol: http,ftp,news
- Server name - name of the machine
- Domain=edu,gov,mil,org,net,com
- Information Literacy Standards
- Access information efficiently and effectively
- Evaluate information critically and completely
- Use information accurately and creatively
- Independent Learning
- Pursues information related to personal interests
- Appreciates creative expressions of information
- Strives for excellence in information seeking and knowledge generation
- Social Responsibility
- Contributes positively to learning community and recognizes the
importance of information to a democratic society.
- Participates effectively in groups to pursue and generate information
- Ethical Source:ALA
- Searching for Information
- Temperament - Personality
- Tolerance for Ambiguity
- What You Know
- Fluency with Information Technology (FIT)
- Information Retrieval Habits
- Search Engines
- Alta Vista Google Lycos
- Yahoo Infoseek Mama
- Excite Webcrawler
- Search engines are programs written to query and retrieve information
stored in a database. They vary in methods.
- Evaluating Internet information
- Authorship - Who
- Publishing Body - Server
- Context of Work/Knowledge of Literature
- Currency - Timeliness of Information
- Evaluate for authority, appropriateness and other personal criteria
for value
- Some Practical Steps
- Check out the author - other pages by same author
- E mail address finder
- Affiliation with a “real” organization
- Can you contact webmaster
- Source of statistics
- Last Updated date - cobwebs
- Fitness Factors
- Sustained reasoning-problem/issue
- Manage complexity
- Test solutions
- Manage problems in faulty solutions
- Organize and navigate information structures and evaluation information
- Collaborate - Communicate
- Fitness Factors (cont.)
- Expect the unexpected
- Anticipate changing technology
- Think about information technology abstractly
- Societal Impacts
- Privacy
- Intellectual property
- Ownership
- Security
- Weak/strong encryption
- Netiquette, spamming
- Free Speech
- The Four Ethical Issues
- Privacy
- Accuracy
- Property
- Accessibility
- Eyetracking Study of Web Readers 5/2000 useit.com
- Text attracts attention before graphics
- Keep headlines simple & direct
- Shallow reading combined with selected depth
- Interlaced browsing-multiple sites
- Trust is critical
- Lessons
- Users don’t focus on a single site
- Must accommodate people in and out-help users reorient themselves
- Keep things simple and standard
- Reduce marketese, slogans
- Ten minutes is a long visit
- Communities of Interest - portals?
- Comparing Search Engines
- Alta Vista - largest - most inclusive indices
- Case sensitivity…hotdog - HotDog
- Phrases use double quotes - “Abraham Lincoln”
- Required terms +
- Prohibited terms -
- Search Engines (cont.)
- Wildcards * for 5 additional lower case letters
- Confidence rankings
- With Alta Vista be precise - its indices are text based whole
words - and exclude things you are NOT looking for
- “Viet Nam” +Saigon-conflict -war
- Alta Vista Advanced Search
- Boolean and Proximity Searching - And, Or, Near
- Horses AND carriages
- “Abraham Lincoln” AND NOT “civil war”
- Web Audit Form
- Who is responsible for setting up and maintaining the website
- Are there style guidelines
- Who is responsible for legal issues-copyright, trademarks, libel
- Restrictions regarding plug-ins, helper applications, downloading-security,BW
- Limited server space-images,video
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