November 19, 2010

Bring your thumb drive today!

Bell-Ringer:  Crossword about Internet Terms

Computer Lab 223

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Today we will learn about searching the Internet using an interactive tutorial at  http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/course
Go to the above web address (URL) and then  
click on START
then click on 06 Searching 

Searching -- Quiz -- Advanced -- Quiz then do the Weakest Link quiz,

and if you have time play with the other games.

4. Internet project: Celebrity Webquest   Link to our blog about the webquest: http://afcelebritywebquest.blogspot.com/
Look through the assignment to get acquainted with what you will need to do.


5.  To help you make a final selection of a celebrity --  Look through the following sources for famous people you might be interested in.

• Take notes on the organizer provided to you. 
• If you brought your thumbdrive, or have an email account, you could open the organizer here, type your notes on it (make sure you copy the URL where you found the information), and save the document onto your thumbdrive or mail it to yourself.  

Organizer for Selecting a Celebrity(2).docx

or  

Organizer for Selecting a Celebrity(2).doc

Important Note:  You will need to end up with 3 to 5 different sources about your famous person.

1. Click on the Resources Tab.
2. Click on Academy of Achievement  either here or there.   Consider possible celebrities/famous people you see there.
3. Check the list at  http://www.people.com/people/celebrities/0,,,00.html 
4. And http://www.rd.com/interviews-celebrity-actors-musicians-athletes/ 
5. And http://www.notablebiographies.com/ 
6. And Incredible People.com   

To select a celebrity, you will fill out this document: WebQuest Assignment Work-Sheet compatibleQ2.doc 
If you are here today, you should already have it.  If not, ask Ms. Dorsey.



Why this project?  Internet Literacy is  an important part of  our modern world.  We are practicing reading strategies while gathering knowledge and skills for doing research online and off.

6. ______________________________________If you have time, read the information below.
Internet and other computer vocabulary
Thanks to Oprah:  http://oprahgoesonline.blackhammer.com/glossary/glossary_pop.html

URL
Simply put, a Web page's address. In the alphabet soup that is Internet-ese, URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. Just as every person on the Net has a unique e-mail address, every file and page on the Web has a unique URL. You can see the URL for the Web page you're on in that thin white horizontal box at the top of your browser. The first part of the URL (http) tells the browser it's looking for a Web page written (most likely) in HTML. The rest gives the name of the computer, then the directory that holds the page, and last but not least, the name of the file that makes up that particular Web page. (The file name typically ends with the .html or .htm suffix, which tells you and your computer it's an HTML file.) You can instantly swing over to any page on the Web by typing the page's URL into the white box and hitting the "Return" key.

Domain
The last two parts of an Internet address. Just as file extensions (such as .gif for GIF files) give some indication of what kind of file it is, the suffix at the end of an Internet site's domain name tells what kind of site it is. For example, .com means it's a commercial site, while other common ones include .edu, for educational institutions, .gov for government, .org for organizations and .org, for non-profit sites. For sites based outside the U.S., there are many others; .ca means the site originates in Canada, .au means the server's in Australia, while .uk means it comes from, well, you know.

Search engine
Your tireless cyber bloodhounds are your guides to the Web. The term search engine is usually used to include three different types of guides: true search engines, directories, and search agents. A "true" search engine uses a program (sometimes called a spider) to search the Internet for information and collate it in a database. A directory (Yahoo, for example) uses a database too, but the information in the database is researched by people, not programs. And an agent (Metacrawler) searches existing databases. There are also specialist directories and agents that search only shopping sites, for example.

About Primary and Secondary Sources (These are lesson materials for teachers, but reading through them gives you a good understanding about the difference between primary and secondary sources.)
http://www.cgrove417.org/cghs/KASL/sources.html