Teaching Web search skills : techniques and strategies of top trainers /
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| Language: | English |
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Medford, N.J. :
Information Today, Inc.,
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=180368 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
- 10. The search engines
- The starting point
- Ask
- Exalead
- Gigablast
- 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.