7. “Go onto Google and find out some information about the kiwi. Write 5 facts!”
8. Still 20 million hits… no facts at the end of the lab session! But somebodyfound a website with lots of cool games http://www.sandiegozoo.org/kids/games/index.html
9. “Go onto Google and find out some information about Kiwis inNew Zealand Write 5 facts!”
13. The technology behind Google’s great results http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
14. Keywords 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 ) What are keywords?
15. Keywords The more keywords you have (most of the time) the less the ‘hits’ Try these examples and record the number of hits Kiwi Kiwi New Zealand Kiwi brown spotted New Zealand Hits 17,400,000 Click on pages from New Zealand 3,150,000 7,120
16. Keywords Dinosaur Dinosaur carnivore Dinosaur carnivore Triassic Tyrannosaurus Tyrannosaurus prey Hits 17,600,000 142,000 9,970 1,590,000 1,640,000 Do a search on a topic you are doing at the moment with one keyword, record the hits, now try it with another keyword, recordand then one more time. Look at the quality of the hits
23. But where do the Keywords come from? Knowledge Question Keywords
24. Developing questions & keywords for research Writing the Question What do we know about? See Example
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26. Internet Explorer 8 Sifting Use Ctrl – F (- F for Mac) Type in one of the keywords, press Enter on Keyboard First instance of the word will be highlighted Firefox 3 Explorer 7
27. Skimming & Scanning through the information Tsunamis are unlike wind-generated waves, which many of us may have observed on a local lake or at a coastal beach, in that they are characterized as shallow-water waves, with long periods and wave lengths. If yes, then copyand paste that sentence only intoyour notes page
