ICT Communication Essentials L2

ICT Communications
Lesson 2:

Searching the Web

Objectives

• 2.2.1: Use various techniques with common search engines to locate
information on the Web, including basic vs. advanced searching,
keywords, Boolean operators.
• 2.2.2: Evaluate search results and online information for relevance,
credibility and quality using basic guidelines (e.g., authority,
affiliation, purpose, bias).

•What is your favorite search engine?

•Why do you prefer it?

Points to Ponder

• A computer program that indexes millions of sites on the Web
• Enables users to easily find Web sites with the information they want
• Indexes: large databases of Web sites based on titles, keywords, and the
text in the pages
• Keywords: locate relevant Web sites when users enter search terms or
phrases

Search Engines

•What’s the best way to enter information
into a search engine?

Points to Ponder

Types of Searches

Basic
• include a few words with no
symbols or modifiers
• Returns large number of pages

Advanced
• Use Boolean operators
• Refine search
• Limit pages returned
 And
 Or
 Not

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Multiple Choice

Improve your search results by using:

• advanced search options

• various search option

• various internet service providers

• advanced computers

Multiple Choice

Boolean is

• a search using logic based words

• a search history

• a trusted search

•Explain why information found online needs
verification from multiple sources

•Name some ways to determine whether
online information is reliable

Points to Ponder

How to evaluate web sites

Copyright & Fair Use Objectives

• 2.2.3: Identify and apply copyright and fair use guidelines, and
explain plagiarism as an ethical and legal violation.
• 2.2.4: Incorporate results from Internet searches into a research
project (e.g., report, summary).
• 2.2.5: Download images as needed to support a research project,
complying with copyright notices.
• 2.2.6: Properly cite Internet sources used to obtain information for a
research project.

•Define copyright in your own words

•Define fair use in your own words

•Compare copyright to fair use in your own
words

Points to Ponder

Copyright Tutorial

Fair Use

Public Domain

Copyright Frequently Asked Questions

Review the basic elements of copyright and view the video “Copyright Basics”.
How can you be responsible citizens with regard to copyrights?

The use of copyrighted material is sometimes permitted if the user asks
permission from the owner, pays a fee and/or follows fair-use guidelines.
Think about various copyright and fair-use questions related to school
projects. View the document “Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for School
Projects”

Review and reflect on these online tools, which pose critical-thinking
questions:
•Taking the Mystery of out copyright

Learn how to use advanced search options to find copyright-free images:
•Google Advanced Search Options

Links to Learn more - copyright

Copyright – Fair Use – Public Domain

Copyright
• the exclusive right to make copies,
license, and otherwise exploit a
literary, musical, or artistic work,
whether printed, audio, video, etc.
Fair use
• included in the Copyright Act.
• a limitation on copyright right.
• Fair use allows people other than
the copyright owner to copy part
or, in some circumstances, all of a
copyrighted work, even where the
copyright holder has not given
permission or objects.

Public domain
• Are not restricted by copyright
and do not require a license or
fee to use.
• Public domain status allows the
user unrestricted access and
unlimited creativity!
Copyright Infringement
• Using resources without
permission or payment is an
illegal.

Terminology
What’s Copyright videos

• Original work
• Copyright
• Fair use
• Public domain

• Plagiarism
• MLA / APA
• Bibliography

Copyright & Fair Use

Citing Sources

Copyright

Fair use

Match

Match the following media type of copyright protection

• Drawing

• cartoons

• novels / stories

visual arts

multimedia

printed materials

• visual arts

• multimedia

• printed materials

Match

Match the following media type of copyright protection

• words on an online page

• ringtones

• drawings

websites

music

visual arts

• websites

• music

• visual arts

Multiple Choice

copywrited materials can be used if you:

• include a reference to the author

• pay a fee, obtain permission or follow fair use guidelines

• are using the material for a school assignment

• do not see a copyright symbol

• Plagiarism: using someone else's
work and passing it off as your
own.
• Citations are formal ways of
giving credit to people for their
work.

• MLA (Modern Language
Association) style is most
commonly used to write papers
and cite sources within the liberal
arts and humanities.
• APA )American Psychological
Association) style is often used in
education and social sciences, as
well as businesses.
• Citing Internet sources: include the
name of the site, the title of the
article, the year it was written, the
date it was retrieved from the
Internet, and the URL

Citing Sources

Basic MLA Rules

• Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your
research paper. It should have the same one-inch margins and last
name, page number header as the rest of your paper.
• Label the page Works Cited (do not italicize the words Works Cited or
put them in quotation marks) and center the words Works Cited at
the top of the page.
• Double space all citations, but do not skip spaces between entries.
• Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations by 0.5 inches to
create a hanging indent.
• List page numbers of sources efficiently, when needed. If you refer to
a journal article that appeared on pages 225 through 250, list the
page numbers on your Works Cited page as 225-50. Note that MLA
style uses a hyphen in a span of pages.

Citing Web Research

Internet Website (Note: it is sometimes very difficult to find all of the
information you need to make a proper citation for a website. Try to
find as much information as possible.)

Author (if given). “Title of Web Page.” Title of Website. Date last
updated. Name of organization that sponsors the site. Date
accessed <URL link>.
Examples:
Flannery O’Connor Collection. 7 July 2006. Georgia College and State
University. 31 August 2006. <http://library.gcsu.edu/~sc/foc.html>.
Walker, Gary. "The Effects of Radiation." Hiroshima Atom Bomb. 15
Mar. 2000. Los Alamos Research Facility. 14 Oct. 2008.
<http://www.larf.org/hiroshima/radiationeffects.htm>.

Multiple Select

Which of the following are citation requirements for online articles?

• author name

• date last updated

• date originally published

• Title of article

Multiple Choice

Which of these acts violates copywrite?

• buying music and letting your friends have a copy

• buying a song and downloading it to your laptop, and then copying it to your SD card for your phone

• lip-syncing with your favorite song and uploading the video o fyou to YouTube

• quoting someone else's work with citation

Multiple Choice

What is public domain?

• copywrited works that are printed in publicly available books

• works that are not restricted by copyright and do not require a license or fee to use

• copywrited works that can be copied on a limited basis for educational and research purposes

• copywrited works that are posted on the internet

Multiple Choice

what does infringement mean?

• the act of breaking the law

• the act of copying

• the act of plagerism

• the act of pretending

•Describe two ways you can avoid plagiarism

•Why is it unfair to use other people’s work
without giving them credit?

Points to Ponder