1.+Intro+to+Internet+Literacy

Assignment 1-1: Email accounts created while-u- wait.
Go to [|mail.google.com]

Shhhhh! Pass it on... Once you have created your email account, find the email of the person next to you and email them. Introduce yourself in the email and share a few things like...

(1) Your name, your new email address, and a little about your teaching assignment -district, grade level, etc. (2) Exaplin how you use (or would like to use) technology in your classroom, (3) Your status with the wilkes program.

We will start with one person in the room and forward your answers to the email to each student in the class. The last person should email the instructor: terence.laughlin@wilkes.edu

Assignment 1-2: Mmmmmm. Delicious!
[]  Are you having a hard time keeping track of all the interesting Web pages you find? Would you like access to your bookmarks from any computer? Delicious can help. Delicious keeps all your bookmarks in one place so you will never lose track of your web sites again. Since you store your bookmarks online, you can get to them from any computer, whether you're at home, at work or on the road.

After you have created an account... add a link to your school district homepage one link to wilkes university one link to the BCIU Now find and add five new links to your account. (be sure to include appropriate tags),

Now find and add __tjlaughlin__ to your network & one person from the class to your network of contacts.

The search engine that rocked the world: [|Google] Demonstration & Activities

Assignment 1-3: Is there more out there than just google? Search Engine Evaluation
Create your collaboration page on this wiki - use your first initial and last name. Once the page is created, copy and paste the questions below on your page and complete the assignment.

Assignment: Select one search engine from //each list// to investigate.

Name of search engine Describe this type of search engine and give examples of searching strategies. How does it order/rank responses? Overall, how would you rate this search engine? Any special comments?

List 1 Hotbot - [|www.hotbot.com] Excite - [|www.excite.com] Lycos - [|www.lycos.com] Yahoo - [|www.yahoo.com] AltaVista - [|www.altavista.com] Bing - [|www.bing.com] About.com - [|www.about.com] Ask - [|www.ask.com] Search - [|www.search.com]

List 2 LookSmart - [|www.looksmart.com] Gimpsy - [|www.gimpsy.com] Galaxy - [|www.galaxy.com] Vivisimo - [|http://vivisimo.com] Open Directory- [|http://dmoz.org] Family Safe Startup Page - www.startup-page.com

Lis 3 Infomine - [|http://infomine.ucr.edu] Resource Discovery Network - [|www.intute.ac.uk] Internet Public Library - [|www.ipl.org]

List 4 Mamma [|www.mamma.com] WebCrawler [|www.webcrawler.com] DogPile [|www.dogpile.com] MetaCrawler [|www.metacrawler.com] All the Web [|www.alltheweb.com]

What is the world wide web? How did it get started?
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__Assignment 3-3: Student Surveys __
 What if you wanted to know just how much a student knew before the test was given? Surveying students is a great way to find and analyze information about our class fast.

First, I want you to set up an account with Survey Monkey

Create a survey that you could use with your classroom. Send a copy of the survey to the instructor terence.laughlin@wilkes.edu and at least three others in the class.

Should we just ask any old questions in a survey? Is phrasing quesitons important? What qualities do you find in an effective survey?

Here are some links for more information []

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Homework

Write a 5-page paper on the History of the Internet and include a cover paper with an appropriate title and your name. But, contrary to most assigned papers, I want you to totally plagiarize the entire assignment. Sure, make it looks ligit and that you used your own words, but use segments from at least five different Internet sites.

Print the article and bring it to the next class. On a separate page from your report, type the URL addresses of the actual Internet sites that you plagiarized from.

Tomorrow we will test your Internet Savvy skills...