The document provides guidance on how to effectively research topics online for academic purposes. It discusses strategies for conducting focused and planned internet searches, evaluating the credibility and reliability of sources, determining whether and how sources can be used, and properly citing sources. The key recommendations are to have an effective search strategy, carefully evaluate sources for authority and bias, consider how sources can be used while citing attribution, and utilize citation management tools.

1. Taming the Beast Bending the Internet toward Not Scholastic Doom Academic Enlightenment

2. The Internet – Pet or Beast? When it comes to your academic work, is the Internet a pet or a beast? What are its positive attributes? What is it good for? What are its problematic attributes?

3. Tame the Beast You must have FEAR!

4. Tame the Beast 1. Effective, efficient Internet searching

7. Become the Web Whisperer Try the Search Engine Guide: http://www.searchengineguide.com/searchengines.html Create your own search engine: http://www.google.com/cse/ http://www.rollyo.com/ Some alternate search engines:

9. Bad Site! 2. Separating the wheat from the chaff

10. Bad Site! Believe it or not… This step is one of the keys to your entire academic career. Creative Commons Image by Luekk from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lenzkirch-Key.jpg Employers want to hire people with the ability to critically analyze information.

11. Authority Bias Currency Credibility Scope Bad Site! Evaluation Vocabulary Media Construct Creative Language Embedded

16. Bad Site! http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html A comprehensive plan: http://www.library.american.edu/tutorial/index_4.html http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html Step-by-step evaluation resources:

18. Can I keep it, Mom? 3. Can and should I use this?

20. Can I keep it, Mom? Signs of the Times

22. Can I keep it, Mom? Creative Commons website: http://creativecommons.org/ Wikipedia’s Public Domain entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain Copyright, CC, Public Domain Additional resources A very interesting movie about copyright vs. creative commons: http://www.archive.org/details/RipRemixManifesto

24. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo Can I keep it, Mom? For a quick & fun overview of this topic, watch A Fair(y) Use Tale : Created by: Professor Eric Faden, Bucknell University http://www.slideshare.net/aamarie/copyright-law-fair-use-creative-commons-and-the-public-domain For more information comparing the usage rules, watch this presentation:

25. The Resource Petting Zoo How to search for cc/pd content http://www.labnol.org/internet/find-public-domain-content-with-creative-commons/8996/ http://search.creativecommons.org/ Image and Multi-media Resources http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Image Resources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources http://www.public-domain-image.com/ http://www.public-domain-photos.com/ http://publicdomainclip-art.blogspot.com/ Multi-media Resources http://internetarchive.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Free_sound_resources

26. Google Advanced Search The Resource Petting Zoo Use the “Usage Rights” area of the Google Advanced Image Search.

27. Web Field Book 4. Record and give credit to your sources

29. Additional Credits Title card and template images from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_path_to_enlightenment.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muhammad_face.gif http://www.photos8.com/ This presentation was created by the Learning Commons at Fort Hays State University.