- Oh the Places You’ll Go!
Internet Ventures Awaiting
- Congratulations!
- Today is your day.
- You’re off to Great Places!
- You’re off and away!
- 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"
- You’re On Your Own.
- You have brains in your head.
- You have feet in your shoes.
- You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
- Opener there…
- Look over with care.
- With some - choose not to go there.
- Too smart to go down any not-so-good street.
- Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy
and footsy as you.
- How to Know How Info Literacy Standards
- Access information efficiently and effectively
- Evaluate information critically and competently
- Use information accurately and creatively
- Oh! The places you’ll go!
- E - Commerce
- Community Networks
- E - Learning
- World Wide Relationships
- Chats Meetings
- Cyberspace - ho!
- Independent Learning
- Pursues information related to personal interests
- Appreciates creative expressions of information
- Strives for excellence in information seeking and knowledge generations
- Dr. Seuss says:
- Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
- Except when you don’t. Because, sometimes you won’t.
- Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.
- You can get all hung up in a prickle-ly perch.
- 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
- The Lurch
- 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
- The Waiting Place
- Everyone is just waiting for:
- fish to bite, fly a kite, Friday night, pot to boil, a Better
Break, a string of pearls, or a pair of pants or a wig with curls
or Another Chance.
- Who Waits?
- Speed and Bandwidth
- Rural and Remote
- Off the Path and in a Mote
- Digital Divide - Pretty Clear
- Money Talks
- Suburbs Too
- Is That for You?
- Things to Scare You
- Dr. Seuss says:
- Hakken-Kraks howl
- Fightening creeks
- Sore arms
- Sneakers leak
- Life’s a great balancing act!
- WWW.netmom.com
- Family friendly sites
- Kids and the net
- Questions and answers
- Spam and junk mail
- Filters and ratings
- Personal Information must
- Be obtained fairly and lawfully
- Used only for specified purpose
- Adequate, relevant, purposeful
- Accurate and up to date
- Accessible to the subject
- Kept secure
- Destroyed after purpose complete
- 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 Enginest
- 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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