Go to the computer and

find some information about the

‘telephone’

Google

The technology behind Google’s great results

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

What are keywords?

In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). Both men rushed their respective designs to the patent office within hours of each other, Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone first. Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell entered into a famous legal battle over the invention of the telephone, which Bell won.

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

• Telephone• Telephone invent• Telephone invent

alexander graham bell• Telephone invent

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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!

Fact or Opinion

• Do you believe what you see and what you hear?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBfi8OEz0rA&eurl

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U&eurl

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 pageIdeas adapted from http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/03/11/dont-believe-everything-you-see-online/

http://www.viewzi.com/

SIFTINGUse Ctrl – F (- F for Mac)

Type in one of the keywords, press Enter on KeyboardFirst instance of the word will be highlighted

Internet Explorer 8

Firefox 3

Explorer 7

Use a keyword from yourresearch question and sift forinformation.

Try these Search Engines with your keywords

http://www.sortfix.com/index.aspx

http://clusty.com/

Search Engines

Finding and Saving pictures

Finding Pictures•Go to Google •Click on the images link type in the name of the images you want to find and click Search Images.

•Click on the thumbnail image and then click on theSee full size image when it appears in the next screen

•Right click on the image and select either Copyimage if you are copying straight onto a document or Save image as (if you want tosave to a different location)

Don’t forget to acknowledge where you got the image from.

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Upload PowerPoints to Slideshare

• Upload PowerPoints to Slideshare

• These can be inserted into wikis and blogs

• http://jacquiscourses.blogspot.com/2008/07/upload-powerpoints-to-slideshare.html

Kerpoofhttp://www.kerpoof.com/

Create Comics

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• Create comics with characters, panel prompts and talk balloons MakebeliefsComix. Make 2, 3 or 4 page comics. You can't save or download the comics but you can Email or print (or take a screen capture and paste into Word or PowerPoint).

• If you are taking a screen capture for showing in a PowerPoint then make sure that you only do a 2 page comic at a time, that way you will get a better image when you make it bigger on the screen.

Mapwing: create a virtual tour from photos with a map background http://www.mapwing.com/

Mixbook: Online books http://www.mixbook.com/

Mixbook example

Dipity: interactive timelineshttp://www.dipity.com

Dipity Example