Anthropology: My Personal

Learning Network

- Sam Spector

1: Slideshare.net

• World's largest community for sharing presentations

• Anyone can view presentations & documents on topics that interest them

• Over 25 million monthly visitors

How do I use it?

• Very simple

• Type in key word in search bar

• Browse for best result!

Variety of different results relating to anthropology

2. Topdocumentaryfilms.

com

• Full watchable documentaries and information on documentaries

• Quotes from trusted sources

How do I use it?

Documentaries are classified in

categories so I can easily find what I’m

looking for

Search for the best result!

There are many results relating to anthropology…

Guns, Germs, and Steel, a documentary we watched in class, is from this site

3. TED.com

• TED = Technology, Entertainment, Design

• Non profit foundation

• “Ideas worth spreading”

How do I use it?Search by keyword:

Search by themes:

Search by category:

Something I’ve learned from TED:

4. Metacrawler.com

• Assembles results from many of the Web's major search engines

• Richer and more relevant spectrum of results

• Results are a combination of the top commercial and non-commercial results from the most popular search engines on the Web

How do I use it?

Type the keyword in the search bar:

• There are videos and images just like Google

• This site takes its results from Google and other search engines as well

There are so many results!

Web results:

Image results:

Video results:

5. Kosmix.com

• Explore the Web by topic

• Shows a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics

How do I use it?

I EXPLORE…

… and search for the best result!