Search Engines and Copyright Issues
The Internet is a mess! How can you find anything in here?
Google matches words to websites, it doesn’t answer questions.
Asking "How to fix a flat tire" is better than "How can I fix my car's flat tire?" because you can find an article titled "How to fix a flat tire."
There is no webpage titled "How can I fix my car's flat tire."
You can use quotation marks (")to make things more specific and keep all the words together.
You can use a minus sign (-) to take away nonsense results that are trashing your results.
1. What if you had to cut a pineapple for the first time? How would you find out how? Where would you search? Find a webpage and a video that show how to cut a pineapple. Do you think it's easier to understand the webpage or the video?
2. Your parents finally agree to let you go to the hottest concert in town for Max and Harvey. But now you need to figure out how to get tickets as cheaply as possible. Your first search on Google for just the term Max and Harvey turns up 1,000's of pages. How do you narrow the search results to find out exactly how to get the tickets you want close to you for the dates you want? Look at the first link on the each of the 5 pages of the Google search that would help and rank them on usable from most usable to least usable. Is there a pattern? Why do you think the results become less usable as you go further into the search results? How do you add the city you want? Should it go first or last in the search query, try each way and see which is better. Is there a term you want to remove? Try adding it with a minus sign.
SNIPPET: the bolded text within the link that shows your search term. If it's not in the page, the term will be crossed out. Look for pages where the term appears close together, or linked.
Not all webpages are created equal.
Some sources are less credible than others.
Let's evaluate these images from the Executive Summary of the
The Stanford History Education Group Study
Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning November 22, 2016
Some sources are less credible than others.
Let's evaluate these images from the Executive Summary of the
The Stanford History Education Group Study
Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning November 22, 2016
Is Wikipedia reliable?
Wikipedia is very useful, but it is not a primary source of information. Most wikipedia pages have references and links to primary sources at the bottom of the page. It's a good place to start, but you should also go directly to the primary, or first source to be sure to get the best information.
Wikipedia is very useful, but it is not a primary source of information. Most wikipedia pages have references and links to primary sources at the bottom of the page. It's a good place to start, but you should also go directly to the primary, or first source to be sure to get the best information.
Copyright: the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.
Plagarism: the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own
Plagarism: the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own
Ways to avoid copyright infringement when creating digital media:
Wikimedia activity.
Visit wikimedia
Find a photo of Max and Harvey that you identified in your earlier search that you might be able to use in a public forum for posting information when talking about them.
What other types of media on Max and Harvey could you find to use?
Wikipedia page scavenger hunt:
Go to https://www.wikipedia.org/
Type Max and Harvey in the Search bar.
What happened?
Now visit
http://wholecelebwiki.com/harvey-mills/
Is this the same as Wikipedia?
What is it missing that wikipedia has?
- Create images, video, music and text content yourself.
- Use things under the creative commons license, a way to share another person's creations by using proper attribution.
- Read the terms of service/use carefully; education use sometimes has exemptions for use.
Wikimedia activity.
Visit wikimedia
Find a photo of Max and Harvey that you identified in your earlier search that you might be able to use in a public forum for posting information when talking about them.
What other types of media on Max and Harvey could you find to use?
Wikipedia page scavenger hunt:
Go to https://www.wikipedia.org/
Type Max and Harvey in the Search bar.
What happened?
Now visit
http://wholecelebwiki.com/harvey-mills/
Is this the same as Wikipedia?
What is it missing that wikipedia has?