The perfect page is out there somewhere. It's the page that has exactly the information you're looking for and you cannot find it.
An important 21st century skill is Information Literacy, the ability to find, evaluate, and use information effectively and ethically. Learn how teachers can help students search, read for information, how to guide students through the research process, and how to help students develop essential critical evaluation and thinking skills.
Attendees will be provided an overview of relevant Internet safety and responsible use issues, current research and statistics related to online behaviors.
Internet search sites can search enormous databases of Web pages, using titles, keywords or text. You can maximize the potential of search engines by learning how they work, and how to use them quickly and effectively. Participants will learn the effective use of 6 key command words to find the information they are searching for.
The challenge is to ask your question the right way, so that you don't end up overwhelmed with too many search results, underwhelmed with too few, or simply unable to locate the material that you need. More often the end result of the search is a range of thousand of pages that areoff-target web pages that must be combed through and in most instances the student does not find what they are really looking for. As with most skills, practice makes perfect!
We will learn how to become savvy web searchers and be web literate Internet users. Learn advanced searching techniques to find what you want & know what you have found. Powerful “Web Searching” technique allows you to find better sites, dig deeper into sites found and discover the specific information desired. Learn how to critically evaluate sites and the information found.
Upon completion of the session/workshop participants will be able to:
· Search the Internet Effectively
· Evaluate Internet information and web pages skillfully
· Determine fake information on the Web
· Read Web Addresses
· Determine Page Authorship
· Check Viral Information and the Content
· Use 5 key commands to search the Web
· Define why you're looking for it, and what you're not looking for.
· Learn to think critically, even suspiciously
· How search engines work with KEY words
· Learn why the most powerful keyword combination is the phrase.
· Learn why you MUST use quotation marks when you search for a document
· Why Boolean" searching is a powerful technique that can narrow your search to a reasonable number of results
By Request
$150
75 Minutes
Howie DiBlasi
howie@frontier.net
928 River Walk
Georgetown, TX 78633
United States
Phone: (970) 749-0760
Fax: (512) 819-0627
