Develop your Information Skills using Internet Resources
Transcript of Develop your Information Skills using Internet Resources
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Instructor: Dr. Laila Samea
Assistant Professor – IST Department
LRC Director
Develop your Information Skills using
Internet Resources
Workshop for final year students
Workshop objectives:
Making your Internet searches more precise and focusing on
academic information.
Using other search tools and new technologies to improve
your results.
Evaluating what you find for research quality.
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Internet Resources & Learning
Electronic technology in general and Internet in a specific affect
our life at all levels, e.g.:
communication.
Acquiring information.
Learning & Teaching process.
Entertainment.
Work.
Shopping.
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One of the most
important affect ,the
impact of Internet
resources on the
Learning process.
How can we use the Internet in our
Learning process
Seek for Information for our educational purposes (e.g., assignments, quizzes & tests examples, exercises … etc.)
Prepare a research or a project.
Browse the other educational organizations courses.
communicate with classmates & instructors.
Browse the electronic resources available on the Internet (free or subscribed).
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Be carful!! Don’t allow yourself to copy and paste from the free resources.
Define your need from information exactly.
Select the right search engines and databases.
List your important key terms (you can take them mainly
from the title of your research or the main words in the
assignment …etc.)
Formulate your search strategies.
Browse the results.
Evaluate the retrieved results.
Filter the results if needed.
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Search Steps
Select the right search engines and databases.
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1- Directories & categorized lists of websites:
If you want general information about a topic of
interest choose yahoo.
Yahoo (www.yahoo.com)
Advanced
search
Filter
search
results
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Advanced
search
Select the right search engines and databases.
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2- Natural language Searches: If you want answer to a question, or to browse the another
asked questions in the same topic choose Ask. Ask(www.ask.com)
Quick
answers
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3- Keyword Searches If you want information in a subject with limited
available information choose Google
Google (www.google.com)
Select the right search engines and databases (cont.,).
List your important key terms
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(you can take them mainly from the title of your research
or the main words in the assignment …etc.).
Examples:
Get information about the following :
-What are the differences between AMD & Intel Processors.
-The Impact of Information Technology on the marketing.
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Formulate your search strategies.
Search strategies tools
Simple Search Advanced Search Browsing
How to Improve your search process
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Describe your search as completely as you can.
What are the differences between AMD & Intel Processors.
Add quotation marks to limit your search and retrieve more related websites. E.g.,: “Corporate Finance”
Limit your search Domain: site: om
Corporate Finance site: gov.om
Choose advanced search technique
Choose Certain File types as you need: filetype: PPT, PDF, DOC…etc.
Use three dots to indicate Numerical ranges: …
e.g., “Sur University College” 2005…2013.
If you want a definition write: define:
e.g., define: human-computer interaction.
Go to Google translator if you want a translation to the
word/words.
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Filter your
results
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Limit your
search
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Advanced
Search in
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scholar
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Examples
Other Useful Resources for Effective
Web Search
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Wikipedia – free encyclopaedia in the Internet
• Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary
http://visual.merriam-webster.com/
•Cambridge Dictionaries Online
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
• DOAJ a free database includes till now 1524368 articles in
9949 journals in all disciplines http://doaj.org
Springer Link
http://link.springer.com/search?facet-content-
type=%22ReferenceWork%22
Open Educational Materials (e.g., MIT)
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Free
journals
As soon as you retrieve the results, try to assess them according to
their relationship to your search needs.
Confirm that there isn’t any missing information.
Check if there any extra information you don’t need them.
Ask yourself if you need more results.
Try to record the complete reference to the resources and don’t
forget to record the URL and the date of access.(you can make a
note in which place in your research you will refer to this resource)
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Evaluate your results
Be carful and
avoid the
plagiarism
References
Hilla Wait and Colin Cook Philosophy & Theology Faculties Library.
An introduction to Information Skills for graduate students in
theology. Available at
<http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/15
5798/THEO-Infoskills-presentation-for-grads-2013.pdf>
Web search. Available at:
<http://www.csub.edu/~jross/classes/GS390/Internet/WEB_SE
ARCHING/WebSearch.ppt>
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