Research+&+Information+Fluency

__**Searching**__ Search Engines -A program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found. Examples: [|google] [|ask.com] [|bing] Search Directories - organizes Web sites by subject, and is usually maintained by humans instead of software. Examples: [|dmoz] [|Info Please Homework Center] [|Intute] [|about] Examples: [|Dogpile] [|metacrawler]
 * M**eta-Search Engine Sites - that queries other search engines and then combines the results that are received from all. In effect, the user is not using just one search engine but a combination of many search engines at once to optimize Web searching.

Using Google Search more effectively (hint: try advanced search!)

__** Validating **__ Students need to be able to apply a given criteria to determine the usefulness and appropriateness of informational Web sites. How do I validate content on a Website? 1. Find out as much as you can about the author 2. Use google to find out who links to the site 3. Use the site below to find out who registered and owns the Website domain names and registry ID

__**Plagiarism**__ [|How Teachers Can Fight Plagiarism on the Web] turnitin

__Citing__
[|Citing Web sources]

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