How to Find Materials

jueves, 17 de abril de 2008

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

Reporting on a forum

jueves, 10 de abril de 2008

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