1. What is "smart" searching?
Consists of knowing how to sift through the millions of accesible web pages in the fastest and most effective way to find what you and your learners need.
2. What are the most popular search engines?
The most popular search engines: Google, Yahoo MSN
3. The website that appear at the top of the results pages are there for several reasons. What are these reason?
They are a combination of the most popular ones covering this topic and those whose owners have paid to appear near the top of the list when certain words are searched for.
4. Is it better to put more or less words into the search engine?
The more words in your search criteria, the smaller the number of results
5. Should you include words such as the, in abd when searching?
No, Because the search engines ignore them.
6. What happens if I put a "+"/"-" before the information that I am searching for?
-Placing +symbol in front a word means that this word must be on the web page for it to be included in the results.
- Placing a - symbol in front of a word means that no web pages with this word must be included in the results.
8. If I type "Angelina Jolie is going to marry Brad Pitt", what will the search engine do?
Placing a phrase inside double quotation marks tells the search engine to look for this exac phrase.
7. If I type "OR" between two words that I am looking for, what will the search engine do?
Placing an OR between two words means the web pages must include either one of these words or a both.
9. How do you limit the search to only one website?Such as the BBC?
You search criteria should be followed by site.
10. If I go to http://news.google.com, what type of information do you think I am looking for?
Searches only websites of news-gatherering organizations such as newspapers and TV companies.
Sample treasure hurt
1. Robert Zoellick
2. Edinburgh
3. Argentina
4. John Steinbeck
5. Gaudi
6. Alfred Hitchcock
How to Find Materials
Reporting on a forum
1. What newsgroup is this?
Newsgroup: alt.alien.visitors
2. Who sent the first message?
rsony@hotmail.com
3. When did he send it?
06 March 1998
4. Where was flight KN162 going?
Fargo
5. What did the pilot see?
A UFO
6. Who sent the second message?
Ben & Thelma
7. What was the object?
An experimental military plane
8. Why do they think so?
There are no reports of alien ships with wings
9. What did the coastguard see?
Three winged craft over Cape Cod
10. What was he doing?
Searching for a missing fishing boat
An Online Course
To do this online course
- An email is needed to comunicate with your teacher and sends homework.
- A world wide web conection is needed to display tasks and texts.
- Access to video conferencing is needed to hova live lectures and discussions, so a webcam is needed and also a microphone an headphones.
- Flash and Java are also needed.
- A gmail account is needed to have access to google doc.
- Aregistration number is needed to enter the course.
So you will have to sign up (register) to sign in (enter).
A LAN in a School
There are two IT classrooms, a library, a staffroom, a Headmaster office and a Secretaries office.
IT classrooms.
Students use the computers for studying and for doing their works and sending them to the teachers, they look for information to complement the works that they do.
Secretaries office.
- A laser printer and a scanner.
- The students and the teachers.
- The teachers use the PC to preparate the exams and to look for information to complement the books.
- The director uses the PC to send mail to the department of education, to prepare circular letters for the teachers and the alumns.
- The alumns use the computers to make the works that send them teachers, look for information to complement the works that we do and to be able to send for mail the works to the teachers.
Secretaries office
- A laser printer
- The secretaries personal use a
New Town Health Centre LAN
There is a PC in each consulting room, another in the practice manager room and in the reception.There, there is also a server and two printer, a laser one and a dot-matrix.
The recepcionist uses the PC mainly for appoiments, the doctors use it to get drug information, and to write, check and save patient's records and for prescriptions.
All of them use yhe PC for navegate Internet, send mails to another hospitals.
Updating our storage devices
CD-ROM
CD-ROM disks are very common and conform to a standard. They are removable. They are also cheap to make.They used to be read-only but now there are different types of CD-ROM:
CD-ROM R (Read Only Memory) Capacity from 700 MB o 800MB
CD-ROM RW (ReWritable) Capacity from 700MB o 800MB
DVD-ROM R (Read Only Memory) Capacity from 4,7GB o 8GB
DVD-ROM RW (ReWritable) Capacity from 4,7GB o 8GB
Pendrive
We need a USB port. They have a different capacitites from 128MB to 4GB. The standard capacity is 1 or 2GB. So the have much more capacity than a floppy disk. They are faster and very easy to carry.You can store all kind of files and folders.Yoc can also store programs.So you can install them in another computer or in the pen drive itself.They are becoming cheaper amd cheaper day by day.Nowdays you can get a 2GB pen dirve for less than 20 euros.
We need a printer...
Claire: I need to print in colour, but I don’t mind if it is not fast. What kind of printer should I buy?
You should buy an inject printer, because it is cheaper than a laser printer.
Marshall: I need to print really fast. I'm not going to use colour or images. Shall I buy an inkjet printer?
You shouldn't buy a printer inject printer because is slowier. You shoul buy a laser printer it is faster.