SEARCH ENGINES

Evaluate your InformationFind quality:

Check for • Authority (creator’s status) • Recency• Accuracy• Bias

“On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”

Peter Steiner (1993). The New Yorker, 69 (20) p. 61

TOP TEN SEARCH ENGINES

Top Search Engines for 2010

Google:71.6%

Yahoo!: 14.76%

: 9.13%

2.66%

Total: 98.16%

Site for CHOOSING BEST SEARCH

SMART SEARCHING

Look at URL

Use site:.edu to get education sites

Beware of .com sites- they are selling you something

BEYOND GOOGLE

Other good search engines:

Subject Directories built by people

Gale Science Resource Centre(use public library card)

EDNA eg /www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.htmlhttp:/

.WORLD BOOK ONLINE

w.learner.org/teacherslab/science/light/color/dots/index.html

International Directory of Search Engines

www.searchenginecolossus.com/

Search within specific countries

Australian content only use:

Australian Crawler & Web Wombat

Victorian content use:

http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ergo/

Advanced Search

If you must Google use .edu for

domain to avoid .com sites

Use only for finding definitions

Wikipedia“Imagine a world in which every single person on the

planet is given free access to the sum of all human

knowledge “Jimmy Wales

Be sceptical of this resource, anyone can be an

editor. Use it as a starting point and analyse each

resource you use.

CMIS/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_Wikipedia_is_not_so_great

PLAGIARISM

Did You Know? The word plagiarism comes

from the Latin plagiarius meaning "kidnapper"

San Jose State University, Plagiarism Tutorial,

http://130.65.109.143/plagiarism/tutorial/introduction.php

Definition of plagiarism:

The act of presenting another person’s work or

ideas as your own

WHO CARES ?

Plagiarism is theft of intellectual

property.

Plagiarism is cheating.

Plagiarism may result in receiving a

zero grade

The following types of sources do not need to be

acknowledged:from HSC: All My Own Work, accessed 4/3/07 http://amow.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/module5/module5s3.html

Your own experiences Your own experimental results Common knowledge Common knowledge includes: Facts that are commonly known (eg there

are twelve months in a year) Facts that are so well known that they are

easily available in a number of different kinds of sources (eg World War II began in 1939)

Commonsense observations (eg interest rates going up will affect mortgage payments).

All the following need to be acknowledged:from HSC: All My Own Work viewed 28 February 2007

Board of Studies NSW <http://amow.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/module5/module5s3.html >

advertisements other student’s work

others’ ideas letters

encyclopedia articles

personal interviews

CD ROMs &DVDs

blogs

pictures magazines TV Programs newspapers

pamphlets journals movies music

artwork teachers books letters

websites emails discussion groups

lecturers

Referencing

See your Student Diary

Books - include the information in this order:

1. Author’s surname, (comma) initials. (full stop)

2. Year, (comma)

3. Title of book, (italics) (comma)

4. Publisher, (comma)

5. Place of publication. (full stop)

EXAMPLE: Harvey,J.2002, Water pollution,

Penguin Books, Ringwood.

In Text Referencing

*TASK 2 Also set out the In Text references for the following paragraph taken

from Al Gore’s book written in 2006: An Inconvenient Truth, page 146. You will have to make a summary of the information in your own words and acknowledge the author’s ideas at the end with brackets containing: (author surname, year, page number).

…. “The melting of the ice represents bad news for creatures like polar bears. A new scientific study shows that, for the first time, polar bears have been drowning in significant numbers. Such deaths have been rare in the past. But now, these bears find they have to swim much longer distances from floe to floe, in some places, the edge of the ice is 30 to 40 miles from shore.What does it mean to us to look at a vast expanse of open water, at the top of our world, that used to be- but is no longer- covered by ice? We ought to care about this a lot, because it has serious planetary effects.”……

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… (Gore, 2006, p.146)

SUMMARY

Ask librarians for help

Searching tips use:

Narrow results by using:

site:.edu ; .gov sites can also be trusted

“whole phrase search” eg “global warming” not global warming

allintitle: “Global Warming in Australia”

choose file type:eg filetype:.pdf , (not so easily changed)

cite your resource (ask for booklet)

BE SCEPTICAL using INTERNET – don’t trust findings on one website unless backed up by another website