1. RESEARCHING ONLINE

8. Evaluating an online source

10. Checklist for evaluating online information
1. Can you verify it?
2. Who published it?
3. Who wrote it?
4. When was it written?
5. Is it a “dead “site?
6. Is it objective?
7. Is it advertising?

12. Conducting Effective Online
Research

13. How to approach online
research?
•Use natural language
•Keywords
•Do a test search
•Scan for keywords
•Construct a new search query
•Weed out the trash
•Look for links
•Repeat this process
•Bookmark

14. Exercises
Exercise 1: Search for online videos
on Youtube
Exercise 2: Search for images with
Google Image Search
Exercise 3: Search for geographic info
with “Google Maps
Exercise 4: Search for music on
LastfM
Exercise 5: Search for people with
Pipl
Exercise 6: Search a chronic illness

15. Group Activity
Search for the following Info:
1.What building is just across the road from the Double Tree
guesthouse on Times Square in New York City?
2.What are the symptoms of overdosing on vitamin C?
3.What was the most recent concert or event that Madonna
performed at?
4.Find a video of the very first moon landing in 1969.

16. Movie Reviews
1.Rotten Tomatoes: www.rottentomatoes.com
2.IMDB (the internet Movie Database):
www.imdb.com
Weather
1.Weather.com: www.weather.com
Blogs
1.Google Blog Search:
blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en
2.Technorati: technorati.com
3.Blogline: www.bloglines.com

17. Books
1.Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org
2.Google Book Search: books.google.com
3.LibraryThing: www.librarything.com
4.Amazon.com: www.amazon.com/books-used-
books-textbooks/b?ie=UTF8&node=283155
Classifieds
1.Craiglist: www.craiglist.org
2.Gumtree: www.gumtree.co.za