Doing Research

Downloading information from a

website/ webpage
• Downloading pictures from the internet
• Search words should be very precise.
• Search for Mother Majeri, iMac, Sony Home
theatre system and wedding dress.
• Download and save the pictures as .jpeg
files to your computer.
 Doing research on the internet
• How to find out more information about anything.
• Type the item name in the search engine. Open
web-links of popular sites such as wikipeadia.com
• Open other links in other tabs and read through.
Copy and paste content to a word document.
Read through and re-write in your own words and
how you understood it.
 Research topics
• Steganography (demonstrati on)
• How to plant a tree
• Mercedes Benz
• London
• Oliver Twist
Downloading information in form
of files
• DOWNLOAD A FAVORITE UGANDAN SONG
FROM HOWWE.BIZ AS MP3.
• DOWNLOAD A DOCUMENT ABOUT
POLLINATION AS .DOC FILE
• DOWNLOAD A PRESENTATION ABOUT
GLOBAL WARMING AS .PPT FILE
 Downloading information
as files
• Download an e-book Romeo and
Juliet as .pdf (portable document
format)
• Download a video about ‘How to
plant a tree’ as .mp4 or .mkv file
Advantages and disadvantages
of using the internet
• Search for information about the
above topic
• Copy the text to a Microsoft Word
document and save it as Assignment
1 and names of all participants in
the group