What is this?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

The Internet

What is the Internet

A network of networks

How many users and where?

Ho much information?

How much information is available on the internet?

487 billion gigabytes

How much is that????

If printed and bound into books

stretch from Earth to Pluto 10 times

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/may/18/digital-content-expansion

Wow, but so what????

What can language teachers do with the Internet?

Connect students with native speakers

Find images

Find lesson plans, PowerPoints, etc. from other teachers

Create webquests

Find authentic materials in the target language

Allow students to publish in the Target language

Etc., etc., etc., etc.

Search – Kick it up a notch

The internet is a database.

What are some examples of a database?

Searching your ward website for a last name.

Searching the library website for a book or everything related to Cheese or any other topic.

Let’s see how this works

Boolean Search – the basics

Refine search using ALL CAPS for connector words

Log on to your computers, open a browser

Go to www.google.com

Type in the word Cat

How many results do you get?

Boolean search cont.

Now try Cats AND Dogs

How many hits?

Now try Cats Dogs

How many hits?

Now try Cats OR Dogs

How many hits?

OR expands the number of possible results

Boolean search cont.

What’s the difference between searching for…?

A search for, Spanish Civil War

A search for, “Spanish Civil War”

Quotes = exact phrase, No quotes = some or all

Now more fun. . .

Try this. . .

Enter in the search box, “Costa Rica” filetype:ppt

What do you get?

You can also try filetype:doc, filetype:pdf, xls etc. etc.

Something besides Google????

Take two minutes and play around with these:

www.clusty.com(clusters results by topic)

www.newseum.com/todaysfrontpages(try searching by region)

http://odeo.com/ (find podcasts)

www.spezify.com(cloud results)

http://www.teachertube.com(videos for teachers)