Chris Nolan - Searching the Internet

Topics from Mr. Nolan's Presentation

Finding Better Information on the Web

Searching the Internet using a Search Engine

• Information sought about hurricanes and global warming (how to)
• The use of advanced search in Google
• Use of +, -, and quotes ("   ")
• Google Scholar

Invisible Web

• What does it mean?
• What percentage of information on the Web is in the Invisible Web?

Directories (Subject Lists) for Academic Searches

• Librarians' Index to the Internet
• Infomine
• Trinity Library lists

Evaluating Web Pages

• Who can have a Web site? Why is that important?
• Click this link to read about website evaluation: http://lib.trinity.edu/research/evalweb.shtml
• Web sites from Mr. Nolan's presentation: 
  • Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
  • Martin Luther King
  • Development of Buddhism in Japan
• Make a judgment about the site. Be ready to discuss. (I added these)
  • Museum of Bad Art
  • Pop: The First Human Male Pregnancy
  • The White House
  • International Fainting Goat Association
  • Serenity Travel
  • Net Disasters
• Sites with a vested interest: prozac, botox, genetically engineered wheat (Monsanto)

What the url can tell you:

• Top level domain - .edu, .com, .org, .gov, etc.
• Optional country code at end of url: ..usa (most url's in the U.S. don't use this), .mx (Mexico), .nl (Netherlands), .ca (Canada), etc.
• Truncate

Structure of url:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
 

Practice truncating urls:

• Digital Photography - http://cel.colgate.edu/howto/digital-photo.htm

• Truncate class url - http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~psemmes/cs1300/Topics/Syllabus/syllabusSpring07.htm

Homework:

Blog. Part 1. Comment on They stole an image of my son and just had to pay $4000 . Discuss the legality of using the photo under US laws. Do you think the publisher should have had to pay? Why or why not?

Blog. Part 2.  Make a blog entry about what you learned from Chris Nolan's presentation - describe something new that you found out and something that surprised you.