Integrating the Internet

Integrating the Internet into the Classroom
Facilitator: Michael Krauss

Daily Assignments Week 2
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means that the task is not required for overseas teachers and others enrolled for professional development hours.
is a link to a tutorial. Tutorial videos may vary slightly from your situation, but they should prove helpful.

WEEK 2
Finding, Organizing and Accessing On-Line Materials

DAY 1
Searching the Internet/Getting Started with Social Bookmarking (Delicious)

I'm sure you are anxious to begin designing your own web-based activity formats. And we will do that this week! To make this task easier, we will first work on search skills and social bookmarking skills.

TASK 1: Read Deborah Healey's Tech Tip on Internet searching. Pay special attention to the tips for using Google (my favorite search engine). Complete the practice exercise. Compare the search terms you used with the ones suggested in the tech tip.

TASK 2: Although Google is the search engine I use most often, the best search engine to use depends on the type of information you are seeking and for whom. For example, you may know that you want the information to be appropriate for kids, contain primary source materials, and include textual and graphics resources. If you enter these particulars into "NoodleQuest" , you will be given links to the appropriate search vehicles to meet your research needs. Try NoodleQuest out by selecting criteria appropriate for your classroom situation. See what search engine/directory suggestions NoodleQuest comes up with. Vary your criteria and see how the recommendations change.

TASK 3: Watch the Common Craft video, "Social Bookmarking in Plain English."

TASK 4: Read Getting Started at Delicious.com.

Additional Information/Resources:

Browse the Search Engine Watch site--everything you ever wanted to know about search engines and directories. You may want to sign up to receive the free Search Engine Report Newsletter.

Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL, University of California, Berkeley's Teaching Library Internet Workshops - Up to date resources that first presents a strategy for searching the Interent. This is followed by coverage of search engines, subject directories and the invisible Web!

Teaching Social Software with Social Software. Ulises Mejias examines how social software (information and communications technologies that facilitate the collaboration and exchange of ideas) enables students to participate in distributed research, an approach to learning in which knowledge is collectively constructed and shared. You'll have to register for the Journal of Online Education, but it is free.

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WEEK 2
Finding, Organizing and Accessing On-Line Materials

DAY 2
More Searching the Internet/More Social Bookmarking with Delicious

TASK 1: Complete the activity, Scavenger Hunt: Trying Out Internet Search Tools in order to get practice using several of the most popular search engines. Your answers will automatically be emailed to me. (Note: When you click on links for the Search Engines, a new window will open. When you finish using a search engine, you can close that window. Don't hit the "Back" button on the page where you record your answers or you will lose your data. Also, you'll need to complete this task in one sitting. If you quit your browser, your answers will be gone. Suggestion: Write down your search terms and answers on a piece of paper as you go. Or copy and paste your search terms and answers into a word processing document. Then, if you inadvertently erase your answers, or if you can't finish in one session, it will be a simple matter to re-enter your answers (or copy paste them) into the form!

TASK 2: Open an account at Delicious.com and create browser buttons. Yahoo now owns Delicious. If you have a Yahoo ID (all those with Yahoo mail already have one), you simply sign in. For those who don't, you will be asked to create a Yahoo ID in order to use Delicious. During the registration process, be sure that you add the browser buttons. After installing buttons, whenever you are at a site that you want to save to your Delicious account, you just click the button, a window opens, and zip zap you can save that Web site to your Delicious account. Please view the tutorial for this lesson to see how to register and install the browser buttons.
Note: You also have the option of importing all your existing bookmarks into Delicious when you register. If you have an organized and useful set of bookmarks, it would make sense to import them. However, you can skip that step and import your bookmarks later if you wish.

TASK 3: Post a bookmark to your Delicious account with our class tag: Now that you have created your Delicious account, go to any Web page that you would like to share with our group. Using your Delicious button on your Navigation Bar, save the Web site to your Delicious account. Add tags. NOTE: Every time you save a bookmark to Delicious during this course, add the following tag: integratingapril2010.
This will allow us to see all the bookmarks created for our course. You can see our Delicious bookmarks collected during the course here or at the "Our Delicious Bookmarks" link on the Course Home page.

Additional Information/Resources:

What is the "Invisible or Deep Web?" The fact is that a huge number of pages on the Internet do not show up in standard search engines. Find out more about the this body of hidden resources and try out search engines that will help you find them.

Want additional practice in using Google, try Bernie Dodge's Four NETS for Better Searching exercises.

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Updated: 3/9/10

WEEK 2	Finding, Organizing and Accessing On-Line Materials
DAY 1	Searching the Internet/Getting Started with Social Bookmarking (Delicious)
	I'm sure you are anxious to begin designing your own web-based activity formats. And we will do that this week! To make this task easier, we will first work on search skills and social bookmarking skills. TASK 1: Read Deborah Healey's Tech Tip on Internet searching. Pay special attention to the tips for using Google (my favorite search engine). Complete the practice exercise. Compare the search terms you used with the ones suggested in the tech tip. TASK 2: Although Google is the search engine I use most often, the best search engine to use depends on the type of information you are seeking and for whom. For example, you may know that you want the information to be appropriate for kids, contain primary source materials, and include textual and graphics resources. If you enter these particulars into "NoodleQuest" , you will be given links to the appropriate search vehicles to meet your research needs. Try NoodleQuest out by selecting criteria appropriate for your classroom situation. See what search engine/directory suggestions NoodleQuest comes up with. Vary your criteria and see how the recommendations change. TASK 3: Watch the Common Craft video, "Social Bookmarking in Plain English." TASK 4: Read Getting Started at Delicious.com.
	Additional Information/Resources: Browse the Search Engine Watch site--everything you ever wanted to know about search engines and directories. You may want to sign up to receive the free Search Engine Report Newsletter. Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL, University of California, Berkeley's Teaching Library Internet Workshops - Up to date resources that first presents a strategy for searching the Interent. This is followed by coverage of search engines, subject directories and the invisible Web! Teaching Social Software with Social Software. Ulises Mejias examines how social software (information and communications technologies that facilitate the collaboration and exchange of ideas) enables students to participate in distributed research, an approach to learning in which knowledge is collectively constructed and shared. You'll have to register for the Journal of Online Education, but it is free.

WEEK 2	Finding, Organizing and Accessing On-Line Materials
DAY 2	More Searching the Internet/More Social Bookmarking with Delicious
	TASK 1: Complete the activity, Scavenger Hunt: Trying Out Internet Search Tools in order to get practice using several of the most popular search engines. Your answers will automatically be emailed to me. (Note: When you click on links for the Search Engines, a new window will open. When you finish using a search engine, you can close that window. Don't hit the "Back" button on the page where you record your answers or you will lose your data. Also, you'll need to complete this task in one sitting. If you quit your browser, your answers will be gone. Suggestion: Write down your search terms and answers on a piece of paper as you go. Or copy and paste your search terms and answers into a word processing document. Then, if you inadvertently erase your answers, or if you can't finish in one session, it will be a simple matter to re-enter your answers (or copy paste them) into the form! TASK 2: Open an account at Delicious.com and create browser buttons. Yahoo now owns Delicious. If you have a Yahoo ID (all those with Yahoo mail already have one), you simply sign in. For those who don't, you will be asked to create a Yahoo ID in order to use Delicious. During the registration process, be sure that you add the browser buttons. After installing buttons, whenever you are at a site that you want to save to your Delicious account, you just click the button, a window opens, and zip zap you can save that Web site to your Delicious account. Please view the tutorial for this lesson to see how to register and install the browser buttons. Note: You also have the option of importing all your existing bookmarks into Delicious when you register. If you have an organized and useful set of bookmarks, it would make sense to import them. However, you can skip that step and import your bookmarks later if you wish. TASK 3: Post a bookmark to your Delicious account with our class tag: Now that you have created your Delicious account, go to any Web page that you would like to share with our group. Using your Delicious button on your Navigation Bar, save the Web site to your Delicious account. Add tags. NOTE: Every time you save a bookmark to Delicious during this course, add the following tag: integratingapril2010. This will allow us to see all the bookmarks created for our course. You can see our Delicious bookmarks collected during the course here or at the "Our Delicious Bookmarks" link on the Course Home page.
	Additional Information/Resources: What is the "Invisible or Deep Web?" The fact is that a huge number of pages on the Internet do not show up in standard search engines. Find out more about the this body of hidden resources and try out search engines that will help you find them. Want additional practice in using Google, try Bernie Dodge's Four NETS for Better Searching exercises.