Matt+Brockman

Brockman What is a search engine and how is it created? A search engine is a software program that enables the user to search the internet using keywords. If you wanted to start your own website what do you need to do that? How does the Internet work? What makes Google's search technology different than other sites? It uses the links in a website to make connections between the more popular websites. What should you consider before putting information on the web? You should consider the validity of the site and think twice about giving out personal information such as social security number or credit card number. What should you consider when evaluating a website?

When you use a search engine are you searching the world wide web? If not what are you searching? You are searching the world wide web because your searching the world wide web, which is a part of the Internet.

** Evaluating Electronic Information **

** At the end of this lesson each student should be able to answer the following questions. **

Why do we need to have reasons for evaluating Internet resources? To make sure we aren't scammed or hacked. It increases our Internet security on our computers. What are the criteria for evaluating electronic information? What is software piracy? What are different types of Internet Resources? What is a copyright? A copyright How do you cite Internet sources?

** At the end of this lesson each student should be familiar with the following vocabulary **

Copyright Currency Navigation Public Domain Shareware

** The Internet and Research **

** At the end of this lesson each student should be able to answer the following questions. **

List three reasons for searching the internet- Finding information on a topic, getting pictures, or social networking What is a search engine? A website used to crawl the Internet with certain keywords. How does a search engine work? It uses keywords and simple math symbols like + -. It uses the keywords to identify the desired webpages. What is stemming? Search engines include the stem of words. What is a database? a database is a collection of data What is a keyword search? using keywords to find info. What is the difference between a search engine and a subject directory? People assemble directories while a serach engine is a computer generated search. What are different types of Internet Resources? List 5 common search engines? Google, Yahoo, Netscape, Ask, Bing What are specialty search Engines? List 5 different search techniques for effective searching? What is the invisible web? Deep Web. Content has better quality of information.

** At the end of this lesson each student should be familiar with the following vocabulary **

Algorithm Boolean logic- uses simple search engine math Database-collection of organized info Hits-results from a search engine Keywords Math Symbols Meta tags-special tags embedded in a webpage Related Search Spider URL Wildcard Character Index (Indexer) Invisible web MP3- file format that allows audio compression at CD- Quality Search engine- software that enables the user to search the Internet via keywords. Search engine math Subject directories- collection of links to Internet resources Truncation

** The Internet and the World Wide Web **

** At the end of this lesson each student should be able to answer the following questions. **

What are the origins of the Internet? Arpanet- Four host nodes How does the Internet work? What is necessary for web sites to work? What is **HTML**? What are **protocols**? How do I access the Internet? From any computer with a connection. What are the ways you can connect to the Internet? What is a browser? What are the main features of a browser? How do I copy and paste images, text and web pages? You press ctrl+c on your highlight item. When you are ready to paste you press ctrl+v and the copied item pops up on your page. How do I download and install a program? What are the dangers of this?

** At the end of this lesson each student should be familiar with the following vocabulary **

Address Bar Bookmark-saved URL Browser-software program that provides a GUI for the Internet Disk Cache Domain Name-identifies a site on the internet Favorites-most visited sites Home Page-page that opens when you connect to the internet/ open your browser Host Computer- Host Node-computer derectly connected to the internet HTML Hypertext Markup Language HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol ISP Internet Service Provider Online Service Provider TCP/IP Transmission Control and Internet Protocol URL Uniform Resource Locator Web Page WWW World Wide Web