Ch. 11 - Student Notes

Ch.11- Learning with Internet Tools

Internet: collection of computers on a worldwide network (a larger scale)

                  -like train tracks

                  -like a map

www: rides on top of the internet

                  -the train (which rides on the tracks)

 

- Web browser allows you to travel along the internet

-ArpaNet

                  -military and scientific users

-Gutenberg

                  -inventor of printing press

                  -so that Bibles could be mass-produced

                  - Gutenberg and the internet will have changed human history

-More information available now than ever in human history

Internet Language

- FTP (file transfer protocol)

-transferring files

- HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)

-exchanging information

                  - www.apple.ca is a URL (uniform resource locater)

                  - apple/index.html= home page

                                    - html (hypertext mark-up language)

                  - index.htm

                                    -htm (hypertext mark-up)

Is information on the internet reliable?

- Author (reputation, peer review, .gov, .edu, research author)

- Organization

- Cite references

-CRAAP TEST-   *see InfoTube on blackboard*

                  Currency: the timeliness of information

                  Relevance: the importance of the information for your needs

                  Authority: the source of information

                  Accuracy: the reliability and correctness of the information content

                  Purpose: the reason the information exists

                  -(Link: website) Google search and all pages that link to this page will be brought up

                 

 Thanks to Leanne for these notes!