8. SMART SEARCHING Look at URL Use site:.edu to get education sites Beware of .com sites- they are selling you something
9. BEYOND GOOGLE Other good search engines: Subject Directories built by people Gale Science Resource Centre(use public library card) EDNAeg/www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.htmlhttp:/ . WORLD BOOK ONLINE w.learner.org/teacherslab/science/light/color/dots/index.html
10. International Directory of Search Engines www.searchenginecolossus.com/ Search within specific countries Australian content only use: Australian Crawler & Web Wombat Victorian content use: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ergo/
11. Advanced Search If you must Google use .edu for domain to avoid .com sites Use only for finding definitions Wikipedia “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge “Jimmy Wales Be sceptical of this resource, anyone can be an editor. Use it as a starting point and analyse each resource you use. CMIS/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_Wikipedia_is_not_so_great
12. PLAGIARISM Definition of plagiarism: The act of presenting another person’s work or ideas as your own Did You Know? The word plagiarismcomes from the Latin plagiarius meaning "kidnapper" San Jose State University, Plagiarism Tutorial, http://130.65.109.143/plagiarism/tutorial/introduction.php
16. All the following need to be acknowledged:from HSC: All My Own Work viewed 28 February 2007 Board of Studies NSW<http://amow.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/module5/module5s3.html >
17. Referencing See your Student Diary Books - include the information in this order: Author’s surname, (comma) initials. (full stop) 2. Year, (comma) 3. Title of book, (italics) (comma) 4. Publisher, (comma) 5. Place of publication. (full stop) EXAMPLE: Harvey,J.2002, Water pollution, Penguin Books, Ringwood.
18. In Text Referencing *TASK 2 Also set out the In Text references for the following paragraph taken from Al Gore’s book written in 2006: An Inconvenient Truth, page 146. You will have to make a summary of the information in your own words and acknowledge the author’s ideas at the end with brackets containing: (author surname, year, page number). …. “The melting of the ice represents bad news for creatures like polar bears. A new scientific study shows that, for the first time, polar bears have been drowning in significant numbers. Such deaths have been rare in the past. But now, these bears find they have to swim much longer distances from floe to floe, in some places, the edge of the ice is 30 to 40 miles from shore. What does it mean to us to look at a vast expanse of open water, at the top of our world, that used to be- but is no longer- covered by ice? We ought to care about this a lot, because it has serious planetary effects.”…… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… (Gore, 2006, p.146)
19. SUMMARY Ask librarians for help Searching tips use: Narrow results by using: site:.edu ; .gov sites can also be trusted “whole phrase search” eg “global warming” not global warming allintitle: “Global Warming in Australia” choose file type:egfiletype:.pdf , (not so easily changed) cite your resource (ask for booklet) BE SCEPTICAL using INTERNET – don’t trust findings on one website unless backed up by another website
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