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Internet Literacy & The Art of

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Internet Literacy• Knowing how to retrieve dependable

information from the Internet.• Knowing how to share information on the

internet.

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What’s in the box?

• Google is a Search Engine Database• With a partner, answer these two questions:– What do you use Google for? How does Google

work?

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Just combing the surface

• Surface web: Webpages that are with the database of search engines (They come up more often)

• Deep web: Undiscovered sites

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PageRank

• PageRank is part of what makes Google work. It determines which sites come up first in a search.

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Why Google Operators?

• Using Google Operators will help you conduct more accurate searches

• They will help you find the “Small Green Smiley Faces”!!

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Let’s Play With Operators

• Site:• Filetype:• Intitle:• Intext:• Inurl:

• Define:• Link:• -, ~, “ “

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Quotes

• Putting multiple words in quotes (“ ‘’) searches for them all in sequence– Information Technology – Searches for all sites

with both words in any place and order– “Information Technology” – Only searches for

pages with the two words together

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Tilde (~)

• Putting a Tilde (~) in front of a word will search for that word along with all of its synonyms– For example, searching for “~inexpensive” will also

search for cheap, low cost, etc.

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Site:yourURL.com

• Search Uvic.ca for pages related to Information Technology

• For example: site:uvic.ca “information technology”

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Filetype:XYZ

• HyperText Markup Language (html)• Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf)• Microsoft Word (doc)• Microsoft Powerpoint (PPT)• Microsoft Excel (xls)

– Search the web for a PPT file about Barack Obama

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Intitle:term

• Search for PDF files with “Canada” and “History” in their titles that mention Confederation

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Related:webpage

• Find webpages related to bcferries.com

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Exit Slip!

• Go to the class website (thelearningbank.weebly.com), go into our class section and download the Worksheet for today’s class.

• Complete the worksheet and put it in the dropbox.