China's four ancient inventions of gunpowder, paper making, printing, and the compass made important contributions to the world economy and culture. They were also symbols of China's role as a great civilization. The document then provides examples of keyword searches on topics and records the number of search results or "hits" returned. It discusses internet addresses and domain names. Finally, it suggests websites to critically evaluate and provides a fact or opinion graphic organizer for analysis.

2. Google

3. http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

4. China's long history has
seen some extremely
important inventions
emerge, most noticeably
gunpowder, paper making,
printing and the compass.
China's four great ancient
inventions made
tremendous contributions
to the world's economy and
the culture of mankind.
They were also important
symbols of China's role as a
great world civilization.
keyword also key word ( ) n.
A word that serves as a key
to a code or cipher. A
significant or descriptive
word. (www.answers.com )
Is a word that is associated
with a site or contents of a
site. Keywords are used to
categorize and search for
specific web sites.
http://www.mantis.biz/glossary/#k

5. Keywords and Hits
• Dinosaur
• Dinosaur carnivore
• Dinosaur carnivore Triassic
• Tyrannosaurus
• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• Tyrannosaurus Rex prey
• 20,300,000
• 372,000
• 101,000
• 13,400,000
• 958,000
• 78,100

7. Keywords and Hits
• inventions
• Chinese inventions
• Ancient chinese
inventions
• Ancient chinese
invention paper
Do a search on a topic you are doing at the moment with one
keyword, record the hits, now try it with another keyword, record
and then one more time. Look at the quality of the hits!

8. Internet addresses and what they mean
URL: Universal Resource Location
The internet address
Top level Domain name
Second level domain name - brand
or company name

9. school
Australia
America
Business
New Zealand
Network or
internet
England
military
Government
Japan
Education
Organisation
Top level domain names
.com.au
.edu
.school.nz
.biz
.net
.mil
.gov
.jp
.co.uk
.co.nz
.org
.com

10. vodafone
asb
dse
bbc
wikipedia
clevedon
nationalgeographic
prehistory
wikispaces
Second level domain names
Can you think of some more?

11. What information do you think you might find at
these websites?
• www.prehistory.com/tyranrex.htm
• dinosaurs.about.com/od/carnivorousdinosaur
s/p/tyrannosaurus
• www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz/Fauna/LittleSpott
edKiwi
• www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/2437
69/great-spotted-kiwi

12. • Do you believe what
you see and what you
hear?
• House Hippo
• Dove Evolution
Ideas adapted from
http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/03/11/dont-
believe-everything-you-see-online/

13. All about Explorers
• Go to
http://allaboutexplor
ers.com/webquest/
• And click on the
name of an Explorer
• Complete the tasks
• What did you find out
• Put a comment on
your wiki page
Ideas adapted from
http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/03/11/dont-
believe-everything-you-see-online/

14. More sites to ‘critically evaluate’
• http://www.brookview.karoo.net/Sellafield_Z
oo/ a zoo with a difference
• http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html is this
dangerous?
• http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/ hunt the
haggis
• http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/
• http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Help save
the tree octopus

15. Choose one of the
sites on the
previous page and
fill in the Fact or
Opinion Graphic
Organiser

16. Use Ctrl – F
(- F for Mac)
Type in one of
the keywords,
press Enter on
Keyboard
First instance of
the word will be
highlighted