Showing posts with label Module 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Module 2. Show all posts
9.24.2015
Content and Copyright - digital plagiarism
Digital plagiarism is a problem in education because young students believe they can copy material from the internet and present it as their own.
There are a number of digital plagiarism checker available on the internet. Some of them are free, some are on subscription and some require a fee.
Content and Copyright - understanding copyright
Ollie presents a tutorial so that we unterstand copy rights in more detail. He explains the term creative commons.
Creative commons are resources that the teacher and the students can legally copy, modify and reuse.
This is very important, because lotsof stuff in the internet is copyrighted.
Creative Commos is filling the gap between the material that is on public domain and the material in which all rights are reserved.
Here you can see the page of creative commons in Greece for the colleagues who are from Greec and here the page in english language.
Take a look at the following video
Wanna Work Together? from Creative Commons on Vimeo.
Content and Copyright - 7 things you didn't know about Wikipedia
Ollie introduces 7 things we didn't know about wikipedia. Wikipedia is full of interesting facts and information. We should teach our students how to use it.
- Wikipedia is pretty accurate. When something isn't accurate then the site itself indicates a warning.
- It is up to date. It instantly updates itself.
- It has tabs on the top of the page. (Article, discussion, revision history)
- It is available in lots of languages
- It is easy to reference
- Turn wikipedia into a book
- It has lots of sisters by the wikimedia foundation
Read ten tips on using wikipedia provided by mashable.
Content and Copyright - reliability of digital content
Ollie speaks about the first spam photo in the internet, which was a hoax, It showed an american helicopter in front of the Golden Gate threatened by a large african shark. The respon to the picture was so massive, that National Geographic had to pu a post on the site, explaining that it was a hoax.
This is an intersting story in credibility and important message to our student that we have to look at all kind of content, not only digital sources. The challenge for the educators is to teach the students what the digital clues are.
Helpful tips
They shouldn't believe everything they read
Look closely at the URL
Does the publisher of the site make sense?
Look at domain reliablitity.
- .edu or .ac extension indicates a college or university
- .org extension indicates an organisation
- .gov extension indicates a government entity
- .com extension indicates a commercial enterprise
Scan the page parameter.
Check the quality information
What is the purpose of the website?
In the video Ollie mentions the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus for which the below website has been created. This is a great example of a website that can be used with your students to investigate the reliability of digital content. Take a browse through the website and in the Padlet further below identify elements of the website that would indicate a lack of reliability.
9.23.2015
Searching the Internet - searching the future internet
Ollie is explaining the concept of searching the future internet. All the search engines we've been looking at until now are searching for things that have already been put on the web. We are always looking backwards. It is very important to set alerts for things that will be published about you or a thing online in the future. That's the meaning of "searching the future internet".
The best service for this function is google alerts. With google alerts you can set up certain search terms and google will update you on a regular basis.
Hidden gems
In this video Ollie shares with us three "internet gems" : instagrok, bing, wayback machine.
Instagrok
In Instagrok you can "grok up" a term and the SE returns an interactive concept maps on the specific term, which include websites, images, images, texts. In the concept map you can explore a little more deeply. Ollie points out that instagrok is a great digital literacy tool to use with your students.
The video function and the mapping function are two of the strenghts of Bing. In theo right bottom there a some buttons with which one can flick through a number of beautiful educational high resolution images and video of the day.
Although the search engine is a little bit similar to google, it has an interesting way of searching videos with a very advanced way.
The maps feature is another hidden gem of Bing. One of the best feature is the Ordnance Survey Map
This search engine is from the Internet Archive. You can access webpages, videos, software, images and audio recordings. It is basically an archive for over 400 billion webpages of the past.
Here a snapshot of my blog in 2012
Advanced Search
In this part we are looking at the advanced features of the search engines.
Ollie goes through the shortcut keys.
- If you put something in quotationmarks then the SE will look for the exact phrase.
- If you put a minus in front of a word, the SE will exclude a word
- You can search within a site
- You can include allintext
- You can use the word location
- You can search for a specific filetype
- You can use the asterisk to fill in the blanks, if you don't remember a word exactly
- You can use the word OR to look for things within a specific context
Further more Ollie shows us the advanced search function and expalins the different features.
Read here the 12 reasons one should use the advanced search.
Read here the 12 reasons one should use the advanced search.
9.22.2015
Searching the Internet - improving your search
Ollie strikes out the importance of selective attention. You have to know what you are looking for, without being distracted. For this puprose he presents a short video, where it is obvious that distraction can make us oversee something important.
He gives us some tips on how to look in Google and suggests this link too, where you can find certain tips by google itself.
Ollie's tips are:
1. Use tabs across the top of the page. Switch between web, videos, images, news etc
2. Use important words only
3. Search for multiple words using OR
4. Gradually add search terms if it doesn't return any answers
5. Use word that websites would use
6. Don't worry about the spellung of the words
7. Use descriptive words, different ways to ask the same questions
8. Use the advanced search
9.21.2015
Types of search engines
Ollie presents the different types of search engines providing a piece of information about every search engine He recommends the "List of search engines" in wikipedia, where you can research about search engines depending on the purpose of search.
The search engines referred to in the video are:
Google - the most popular
Baidu - the second most popular, especially popular in China
Bing - Microsoft's search engine, for maps, videos, images
Ask.com - specialises in answering questions
Askjeeves.com - specialises in answering questions
Duckduckgo - ensures your privacy and doesn't track, waht you are searching online
Dogpile - unses metadata from a number of other search engines
Instagrok - visual search, really good for project work
Quora - answers by specialists with credentials, refined answers
Google scholar - search for accademic journals
Library of Congress - search for accademic journals
Wayback Machine - search websites that no loger exist, great historical source for recent history
and many others
To the question "What is your favourite search engine and why?" my answer in the padlet was:
You can see the answers of the other participants below in the padled
Introduction
Ollie introduces Module 2. The central question is "How to use digital resources and content" The module will have a focus on two topics: a) searching the internet, b) content and copyright.
a) searching the internet
- search engines
- improving search
- advanced search
- search: hidden gems
- searching the future internet
- reliability of digital content
- 7 things to know about wikipedia
- understanding copyright
- digital plagiarism
Dealing with digital content one has to be skilled with the ability to:
- manage information (find, manage, store digital information and content)
- communicate (communicate, interact, collaborate, share, connect to others)
- transact (purchase and sell goods and services; organise finances; register for and use digital governmet services)
- solve problems (increase independance and confidence using digital tools and finding solutions)
- create (engage with communities; generate jobs)
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