Find some information
about ‘inventions’
The technology behind Google’s great results
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
What are keywords?
China's long history has seen some extremely important inventions emerge, most noticeably gunpowder, paper making, printing and the compass. China's four great ancient inventions made tremendous contributions to the world's economy and the culture of mankind. They were also important symbols of China's role as a great world civilization.
keyword also key word ( ) n. A word that serves as a key to a code or cipher. A significant or descriptive word. (www.answers.com )Is a word that is associated with a site or contents of a site. Keywords are used to categorize and search for specific web sites. http://www.mantis.biz/glossary/#k
Keywords and Hits
Keywords• Dinosaur• Dinosaur carnivore• Dinosaur carnivore Triassic
• Tyrannosaurus • Tyrannosaurus Rex• Tyrannosaurus Rex prey
Hits• 20,300,000• 372,000• 101,000
• 13,400,000• 958,000• 78,100
But where do the Keywords come from?
Knowledge Question Keywords
Keywords and Hits
Keywords
• inventions• Chinese inventions• Ancient chinese
inventions• Ancient chinese
invention paper
How many ‘Hits’ did you get?
Do a search on a topic you are doing at the moment with one keyword, record the hits, now try it with another keyword, recordand then one more time. Look at the quality of the hits!
Internet addresses and what they mean
http://www.jsharp.co.nz
URL: Universal Resource LocationThe internet address Top level Domain name
Second level domain name - brand or company name
schoolAustraliaAmericaBusiness New ZealandNetwork or internetEnglandmilitaryGovernment JapanEducation Organisation
Top level domain names
.com.au
.edu
.school.nz
.biz.net
.mil
.gov
.jp
.co.uk
.co.nz
.org
.com
vodafone
asb
dse
bbc
wikipedia
clevedon
nationalgeographic
prehistory
wikispaces
Second level domain names
Can you think of some more?
What information do you think you might find at these websites?
• www.prehistory.com/tyranrex.htm • dinosaurs.about.com/od/
carnivorousdinosaurs/p/tyrannosaurus • www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz/Fauna/
LittleSpottedKiwi • www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/2437
69/great-spotted-kiwi
Fact or Opinion
• Do you believe what you see and what you hear?
• House Hippo• Dove Evolution
Ideas adapted from http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/03/11/dont-believe-everything-you-see-online/
All about Explorers
• Go to http://allaboutexplorers.com/webquest/
• And click on the name of an Explorer
• Complete the tasks• What did you find
out• Put a comment on
your wiki page
Ideas adapted from http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/03/11/dont-believe-everything-you-see-online/
More sites to ‘critically evaluate’
• http://www.brookview.karoo.net/Sellafield_Zoo/ a zoo with a difference
• http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html is this dangerous?
• http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/ hunt the haggis
• http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/• http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Help save the
tree octopus
Fact or Opinion?Choose one of the sites on the previous page and fill in the Fact or Opinion Graphic Organiser
SIFTINGUse Ctrl – F (- F for Mac)
Type in one of the keywords, press Enter on KeyboardFirst instance of the word will be highlighted
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Use a keyword from yourresearch question and sift forinformation.
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