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Teaching Web search skills : techniques and strategies of top trainers /
"Here is a unique and practical reference for anyone who teaches Web searching. Greg Notess shares his own techniques and strategies along with expert tips and advice from a virtual "who's who" of Web search training: Joe Barker, Paul Barron, Phil Bradley, John Ferguson, Alice Fu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Medford, N.J. :
Information Today, Inc.,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Web searching and the teaching paradox
- Online searching background
- Internet information growth
- Origins of the Web
- Instructional background
- The teaching connection
- Teaching simplicity
- The state of Web searching today
- Changing patterns
- 2. Understanding our audience
- General audience characteristics
- Novices
- Know-it-alls
- Experienced users
- Pairing strategies for hands-on workshops
- Audience assessment
- Navigation versus search confusion
- Remembering what we did not know
- Box confusion
- Address confusion
- Button confusion
- Browser differences and problems
- Operating system and hardware issues
- Adaptability and change
- 3. Choosing an instructional session type
- Hands-on sessions
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Facilities
- Planning
- Exercises
- Lecture and demonstration sessions
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Facilities
- Planning
- Semi-online tutorials
- Capturing a screen shot within PowerPoint
- Course coverage and distance education
- Other settings and approaches.
- 4. Online tutorials : friend or foe?
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Issues with online tutorials for Web searching
- Search engine inconsistencies
- Search feature changes
- Databases changes
- Online tutorial examples
- Web search guide tutorial : research, Web searching
- Finding information on the Internet : a tutorial
- Internet tutorials
- LearnAndGo, searching the Web
- Quick tutorial on searching the Internet
- Net. TUTOR : using Web search tools
- Interactive tutorials : Internet search tips and mouse exercise
- Tutorial : site clustering and filtering
- The information cycle
- Information literacy online tutorials
- Finding tutorials
- Tutorials : worth the effort?
- 5. Organization : focus, length, and goals
- Primary session focus
- Pure Web searching
- Basic Internet training
- Advanced Internet training
- Part of multiple sessions
- Course-integrated bibliographic instruction
- Session length
- Variations in length
- Ideal length
- The burnout paradox
- Goal setting
- A collection of goals
- How many main goals?
- Specific objectives
- Bringing it all together.
- 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.