Teaching Web search skills : techniques and strategies of top trainers /

Main Author: Notess, Greg R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Medford, N.J. : Information Today, Inc., ©2006.
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505 0 |a 6. Terminology -- Importance of terminology -- Definitions -- Search engine -- Directory -- Portal -- Metasearch engine -- Ad bidding engine -- Answer engine -- Metasite -- News search engine -- Opinion engine -- Site search engine -- Invisible Web -- Other terminology distinctions -- Final thoughts on terminology -- 7. Content : Web search features -- Search features -- Phrase searching -- Boolean searching -- Truncation -- Field searching -- Limits -- Stop words and case sensitivity -- Sorting -- The teaching choice -- 8. Content : primary concepts -- Research process -- Question analysis -- Using more than one search tool -- Search engines versus directories -- Evaluation -- Which primary concepts to teach -- Recent changes in teaching topics -- Additional concepts to consider -- Identifying ads -- Understanding Web addresses (or URLs) -- Understanding databases -- Teaching change -- 9. Additional content : image searching, news, Usenet, and more -- News -- Usenet newsgroups and opinions -- Pictures and images -- Multimedia -- Phone numbers -- Bibliographic databases -- Subject-specific sites -- Invisible Web -- The lost obvious. 
505 0 |a 10. The search engines -- The starting point -- Ask -- Exalead -- Gigablast -- Google -- MSN search -- Windows Live -- Yahoo! -- Directories -- 11. Creating a framed workshop Web page -- Advantages and disadvantages of frames -- Frames code and explanation -- Top page with frameset -- Left frame table of contents -- Content pages -- Exercise pages frame set -- Exercise one top frame : JavaScript and a form -- Other exercise pages -- Solutions for frame breakers -- 12. Presentation tips, tricks, and shortcuts -- Keyboard shortcuts -- General Windows shortcuts -- Browser shortcut keys -- Shortcuts for filling out forms -- Other shortcuts -- Quick links and the personal toolbar -- Bookmarklets -- Zapping images, animations, and more -- Bookmarklets for Web searching -- The pop-up presence -- The shortcut advantage -- 13. Tales from the trenches : anecdotes, examples, and exercises -- Analogies, sayings, and terminology tales -- Boolean examples -- Exercises -- Unexpected answers -- Limitations of search engines -- Failures -- Facilities failures -- The team teaching danger -- Web site instruction and the Web searching paradox -- Lost interest -- Formulas for success -- Afterword -- Appendix A. The trainers : introduction to the interviewees -- Appendix B. Sample handouts and other training material -- Appendix C. URL list. 
650 0 |a Internet searching  |x Study and teaching. 
650 6 |a Recherche sur Internet  |x Étude et enseignement. 
650 7 |a COMPUTERS  |x Online Services. 
650 7 |a COMPUTERS  |x System Administration  |x Storage & Retrieval. 
650 7 |a Internet searching  |x Study and teaching. 
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