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Online Search and Research Essentials

The document outlines key concepts related to online search and research, including media and information sources, evaluation of information, and plagiarism. It discusses the importance of indigenous knowledge, library types, and the reliability of information found on the internet. Additionally, it provides guidance on search skills, tools, and operators, as well as strategies to avoid plagiarism.
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Online Search and Research Essentials

The document outlines key concepts related to online search and research, including media and information sources, evaluation of information, and plagiarism. It discusses the importance of indigenous knowledge, library types, and the reliability of information found on the internet. Additionally, it provides guidance on search skills, tools, and operators, as well as strategies to avoid plagiarism.
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CONCEPTUALIZE

D ONLINE
SEARCH AND
RESEARCH
TOPICS
MEDIA AND INFORMATION SOURCE
SEARCH TOOLS, SKILLS AND ENGINE
INFORMATION EVALUATION
PLAGIARISM
GOOGLE YOURSELF
FORMATIVE
ASSESSEMENT
 WHAT DID YOU OBSERVE ABOUT THE ACTIVITY?

 ARE THE SEARCH RELIABLE?

 IS THE SEARCH RESULT AFFRONTED YOUR PRIVACY?


MEDIA &
INFORMATION SOURCE
 INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE

 LIBRARY

 INTERNET
INDIGENOUS
KNOWLEDGE
INDIGENOUS
KNOWLEDGE
 LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
 Knowledge that is unique to a given culture or society.
 IK contrast with the international knowledge system universities, research institutions and private
firms.

CHARACTERISTICS
 Oral Tradition of communication
 Store information in memories
 Information exchange is face to face
 Information are contain within the border of community.

EXAMPLE: Benguet Province ( Municipality of Tublay)


LIBRARY
TYPES OF LIBRARY
Library often classified in four groups (these libraries may be either
digital or physical in form.):

 ACADEMIC
 PUBLIC
 SCHOOL
 SPECIAL
CHARACTERISTICS OF LIBRARIES IN
TERMS OF RELIABILITY, ACCURACY AND
VALUE
Libraries of published books are often considered highly
reliable, accurate, and valuable.
 Books and documents from dominant sources are often
peer reviewed.
 ISSN or ISBN registration ensures that standards were
followed in producing these materials.
INTERNET
INFORMATION ON THE
INTERNET
 Information found on the Internet may be quite varied in form and
content.
 It is more difficult to determine its reliability and accuracy.
 Accessing Information on the internet is easy, but requires more
discipline to check and validate.
 Factual and fictitious data are often merge.
 Information should be always validated.
ONLINE SEARCH AND
RESEARCH
 Also known as Internet Research.
 More than just googling (type a word in google and
then clicking the search button).
 A skill needed to be improve to get factual
information.
EVALUATING
INFORMATION
ACCURACY
Content is grammatically correct, verifiable
and cited when necessary.
AUTHOR
Defines who created the content, the individual
or group’s credential/ expertise and provides
contact information.
DOMAIN TYPES
.com (commercial)
.org (organization)
.edu (education)
.gov (government)
.net (network)
.mil (military)
.ph (country domain)

This is used to further evaluate a website.


CURRENCY
Information is current & updated
frequently.
SEARCH SKILLS
USE OF SEVERAL SEARCH
ENGINES
 Search Engines are programs that look for documents based from specified keywords and
return these documents where the keyword were found.

MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES


Google
Yahoo (uses google)
Alta Vista
Bing
Lycos
FAIRNESS
Content is balanced , presenting all slides of
an issue and multiple points of view.
RELEVANCE
Content is relevant to your topic or research.
SEARCH
TOOLS
SAFE SEARCH
Helps you block Inappropriate or explicit images
from your Google Search results.
 The Safe Search Filter isn’t 100% accurate, but it
helps you avoid most adult content.
RESTRICTED MODE
 An opt-in setting available on the computer and mobile site
that helps screen out potentially objectionable content that
you may prefer not to see or don’t want others in your
family to stumble across while enjoying YouTube.
 A parental control setting for YouTube.
GOOGLE SCHOLAR
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly
literature. From one place, you can search across
many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books,
abstracts and court opinions, from academic
publishers, professional societies, online repositories,
universities and other websites.
REVERSE IMAGE SEARCH
Use a picture as your search to find related
images from around the web.
SEARCH
OPERATORS
SEARCH OPERATORS
Use search operators and other
punctuation to get optimize search.
AND & OR OPERATOR
 For conditional Searching.
 Search result must agree on the given condition.
 The operator AND narrows the search by retrieving only
records contain both terms.
 The operator OR broadens the search to include records
containing either keyword, or both.
SEARCH OPERATORS
PLUS (+)
 To indicate that the word after the sign is a required word must be found
in the search.
 Ex: + preventive

MINUS (-)
 To exclude a word from your search that is not required on result.
 Ex: personal
WILDCARD (*)
 To find variations of word, for an instance measure. It will find
entries such as measures and measurement.

QUOTATION MARK (“”)


 Names of phrases should be enclosed with quotation mark better
result./
Ex: “precautionary measures”
PLAGIARISM
 Anact or instance of using or closely imitating the
language and thoughts of another author without
authorization; the presentation of that author’s work as
one’s own, as by not crediting the original.
 Using other people’s words and ideas without clearly
acknowledging the source of the informationpresentation of
that authors
HOW TO AVOID
PLAGIARISM
 You need to site the things you copy on the internet.
 Put quotation marks around everything that comes
directly from the text and cite the source.
 Paraphrase, but be sure that you are not simply
rearranging or replacing a few words and cite the source.
 Use the style manual in properly citing sources.

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