Entry #3

Nothing much during this course, I mean, I still learned a lot.

Learned how to search the deep web and on libraries, which I thought was neat. I didn't even know the Internet had a deep net. I also learned about different search engines. The first one I used was from Yahoo, and then I stwirched over to Google. I never really used anything else, what Google gave I got. I'm really glad that I can search the deep web, it provided what I was looking for and Google kinda just told me where I could buy what I was looking for. Not really useful when you're broke half the time.

I also love the fact that you can put a minus sign after the sentence to exclude it in the hit list. It's helpped me a lot more then I though tit would!

When you're looking for a decent search engine, look for one that is:

-Easy to use

-Updates it’s information often

-Has the best relevance to key words

-Returns searches results quickly

-Sponsored or paid for by some company

I learned about Digital Citizenship and it's nine elements:

1) Digital Etiquette
2) Digital Communication
3) Digital Literacy
4) Digital Access
5) Digital Commerce
6) Digital Law
7) Digital Rights & Responsibilities
8) Digital Health & Wellness
9) Digital Security

Learned about IF, which is the ability to gather, evaluate, and use information in ethical and legal ways IF is a combination of information literacy and Digital Citizenship.

I may not have entirely focused on this course. I'm still juggling my other schools and classes, so my attention is definately divided. I'll just have to keep paying attention in class.

Skills Needed for the 21st Century:
You need to be able to adapt, be flexible and accept consrtuctive critisim, be able to work on your own, balance your time, and be able to produce results.
You have to be aware of Global and enviromental issues, with economic choices, and Information & Media Literacy.

Now it's time for some vocabulary!

Search Query, or question for the information that you seek should contain at least on Keyword, or one specific word that describes the information that you seek.

After the search, each web page that pops up in the search result list is called a hit.

A search that uses a complete sentence is sometimes called a natural language search.

Small unimportant words in the natural language search query, such as and, what, where, is, of, in, & how, are called stop words, and are typically ignored, and the more important words are used.

Targeted search is specific information using keyword combinations, and that is being looked up for with specific words, only generates a few useful Web pages.

An Open-ended search looks for the information on a much broader scale, and can generate up to thousands of hits, again, very few are ever useful.