This document discusses online safety, ethics, security, and etiquette. It emphasizes the importance of keeping personal information like Social Security numbers and credit card details safe from theft. Users should create strong, memorable passwords to protect their identity and accounts. The document also outlines different online search tools like search engines, web dictionaries, and database engines that can help users efficiently research topics. These include tools like Google Scholar, JSTOR, and Ebscohost. It provides strategies for effective online searching, such as Boolean searching using operators, phrase and proximity searching with quotation marks, and truncation or wildcard functions.
2. • Cybersafety-is the safe and responsible use of information and
communication technology.
-keeping information safe and secure,but also about being
responsible,with that information ,being respecful of other people online
and using good netiquette.
Social Security number
Credit card information
Bank account number
Personal Identification
Stolen passwords
3. Password
your password should seem complicated to others but simple to
you.
Saving your identity
You can create an identity theft report
Internet security
a process to create rules and actions .
4. • Web Search tools
Search Engines – search websites
Web Dictionaries- compilation of site that helps a user to move in
another area of topic.
-hyperlink
Data Base Engines
Google scholar JSTOR
Ebscohot
Springer
LISA
6. • Web Search tools
Search Engines-consists of software that crowls the internet storing
information about websites based on keywords and other.
Web Dictionaries
compilations of site by listed by tropical categories can help a user
move from a general area of interest to more specific topic and
eventually website best of the web dictionaries list websites
categorized both by topic and by region.
7. • Database Engines
-a respiratory of reviewed journals and literature allows plain text
searching and advanced Searching.
Strategies
Bodean Searching –uses commands (operators)such as AND or NOT
Phrase and proximity Searching-Using qoutation mark allows you to
search for a exact phrase.
Truncation or wildcard functions
truncation ,place a symbol at the end of the word so you search
for variant endings for that word .Wildeard ,place a symbol within a
word to find variatons on it.