Activity - Web Search Practice

The main goal of this activity is to learn how to search for information more efficiently. This means finding relevant, reliable, and accurate information, as fast as possible. This activity also helps you learn how to obtain and save the APA style citations of the articles.

Open a Word Document and copy/paste  this whole page into it.

Practice 1-

1-      Use Google to search for the keywords in this table (type the exact words and symbols)

2-      Write the number of pages you find in the second column.

3- Explain why the numbers in the 4^th and the 5^th rows are different.

4-      Imagine you want to learn about internal validity of a research design. How will you search to find the most relevant web sites/

Keywords	Number of results
Validity
"Validity”
"validity and reliability”
Validity AND Reliability
Validity OR Reliability

Practice 2

Use Google to search for “behavior modification”. Once limit your search to COM and the second time limit your domain to EDU. Only look at the first 5 pages found in each search. Use the following table to rate the value of each search (a number between 1 & 10; with 10 as the highest value or most useful).

Search 1 (COM )	Search 2 (EDU)
1^st result=	1^st result=
2^nd result=	2^nd result=
3^rd result=	3^rd result=
4^th result=	4^th result=
5^th result=	5^th result=
Total points =	Total points =

Practice 3

Using CSULB Library web site to do the following searches.

a- Choose a data base like ERIC

b- Search for the followings and after each search copy and paste the search criteria as shown in this picture:

· Find the list of books in Education by Lesley Farmer

· Find the list of journal articles by Lesley Farmer

· Find the list of journal articles with Achievement and self-confidence in the title

· Find the list of books with Achievement in the title

· Find the list of journal articles (published after 1990) with educational technology in their title.

Practice 4

1- See the attached list of Top 100 Tools for Learning.

2- Use a table to categorize similar tools to make at least 6 groups. You simply put similar tools in the same category. Some of the tools may not fit into any of your categories.

3- Select 5 of the 100 tools and then search the Internet to find information about how each tool is used in education. You should write at least 1 paragraph to explain how the tool is used.