Empowerment Technologies

Week 3
Competency: Use the Internet as a tool
for credible research and information
gathering to best achieve specific
class objectives or address
situational.
Objective: Facilitate the practice in judging
the credibility, value, and usefulness of
researched materials. Use the Internet as a
tool for credible research and information
gathering to best achieve specific
objectives.
Search Engines
are websites used for retrieval of data, files, or documents from data
bases. Some search engines we use today are:
Anatomy of a URL
A URL is one type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URL). It is a generic
term for all types of names and addresses that refer to objects on the
world wide web. Knowing the URL endings will give you clues to who
is sponsoring the website and help evaluate the sources.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/alternative-searchengines/271409/#close

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1. Protocol 4. Top-level Domain 7. Named anchor

2. Subdomain 5. Folders/ Paths
3. Domain 6. Page
Popular Domains
Top- level Domains
.edu – educational institution
.org – non-profit organization
.gov – government site
.com – commercial site
.net - network
Country code top level domains
.ph – Philippines
.eu – European Union
.uk – United Kingdom
.au - Australia
Search Skills and Tools
1. Boolean Logic – narrows, broadens, or eliminates search term.
A. Boolean “or” – this operator will find pages that include either of the
search terms.

Ex. A or B
Search Skills and Tools
1. Boolean Logic – narrows, broadens, or eliminates search term.
B. Boolean “and” – this operator will retrieve only pages containing
both terms

Ex. A and B
Search Skills and Tools
1. Boolean Logic – narrows, broadens, or eliminates search term.
C. Boolean “not” – this operator will find pages that do not include
search term immediately following it.

Ex. A not B
2. Phase Searching
is used to search for famous quotes, proper names,
recommendations, etc. It encloses the phrase in
quotation marks.

Ex. “Jane Doe” “To be or not to be”

3. Plus (+) sign
indicates that the word after the sign is a required
word must be found in search.

Example: volcanic eruption +fire

4. Minus (–) sign
indicates to exclude a word from your search that is
not required on the result.

Example: volcanic eruption -fire

 5. At sign
(@)
is used to find social tags.

Example: @SteveJobs
6. Hashtag
(#)
is used to find popular
hashtags.

Example:
#LawOfClassroom
7. Finding Documents
using the filetype refines the search for documents
on the web.
filetype:pdf
filetype:doc
filetype:xls

Ex. ICT in the Philippines pdf

8. Searching Site
the sites find webpage from a website.

Ex.: National Geographic information in Australia

Search: Australia site: NationalGeographic.com
Exercises:
Direction: Read each item carefully and choose the letter of the correct answer.
Write your answers on your answer sheets.

1. What is the Boolean logic technique used for?

A. Narrowing, broadening or eliminating a search term.

B. Using a robot to do instant research.
C. Searching several search engines at the same time.
D. Searching the infinite information from the internet.
Exercises:
Direction: Read each item carefully and choose the letter of the
correct answer. Write your answers on your answer sheets.

2. http://www.avg.com/en/signal/what-is-spyware is an example
of?

A. Access code B. Directory C. Server D. URL

Exercises:
Direction: Read each item carefully and choose the letter of the
correct answer. Write your answers on your answer sheets.

3. Which of the following is a search engine?

A. Netscape C. Elsevier
B. Yahoo D. Macromedia Flash
Exercises:
Direction: Read each item carefully and choose the letter of the
correct answer. Write your answers on your answer sheets.

4. Which of the following is NOT an example of a domain?

A. .gov B. .com C. .npr D. .edu

Exercises:
Direction: Read each item carefully and choose the letter of the
correct answer. Write your answers on your answer sheets.

5. What are the three Boolean logic search operators?

A. FROM, TO, WHOM C. AND, OR, BUT

B. AND, OR, NOT D. SEARCH, KEYWORD, TEXT
Exercises: P. Task 2(To be done at
home)
Direction: Using the Internet, try to search for your complete name.
(2 points each)
Write down the first three websites that have featured your
personal name and what is written about you.

Example:
1st. www.Facebook.com – it is about my Facebook Account post
where in I passed my NCII and TM 1 Assessment in TESDA
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