The Internet & World Wide Web

• Bare Bones 101:  A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web  (frames) (University of South Carolina-Beaufort)
  http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml
  http://www.webteacher.org/windows.html
• Finding Information on the Internet:  A Tutorial  (U.C.Berkeley)
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
• Searching the World Wide Web: Recommended Search Strategy:  (U.C.Berkeley)
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html )
  http://www.northernwebs.com/bc/index.html
• Internet 101/102: Untangling the Web   (University of Texas at San Antonio)
  http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Research/Internet101/

• Learning Internet Explorer
  http://ced.ncsu.edu/seniorsurf/im1/2.htm
• Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Guide (Wellesley College Computing Documentation)
  http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/Firefox/firefox2guide.html
• Getting Started with Netscape 7.0 (Wellesley College Computing Documentation)
  http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/Netscape/Netscape7/netscape7guide.html

• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: or Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources  (New Mexico State University).
  http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html
   Use these criteria to complete the following Evaluation Exercises (WSC) (See #3 on the menu).
• Evaluating Information Found on the Internet  (Johns Hopkins University)
  http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/index.html
  • Information and Its Counterfeits: Propaganda, Misinformation and Disinformation
    http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/counterfeit.html
• ICYouSee: T is for Thinking  (John R. Henderson, Ithica College)
  http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html
• Evaluating Internet Resources  (SUNY Albany)
  http://library.albany.edu/usered/eval/eresources.html
• Evaluating Web Resources (Cornell University Library)
  http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/evaluating/evaluate.html
• Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources (U.C.L.A.)
  http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm
• Find Web Sites: Evaluating Web Pages  (Muskingum College)
  http://www.muskingum.edu/home/library/find/websites.html#eval
• Evaluating Internet Research Sources  (Robert Harris)
  http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm
• Opposing Views:  (University of Washington, OR)
  http://www.lib.washington.edu/mcnews/opposingviews/
  Look here for web sites expressing pro's and con's on controversial topics.
• Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources  (U.C.L.A.)
  http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/discipline.htm
  • Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!  (U.C.L.A.)
    http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/hoax/index.htm
  • Aids Facts!  (Ithaca College Library)
  • http://147.129.226.1/library/research/AIDSFACTS.htm
  • Dihydrogen Monoxide FAQ  (Tom Way)
• Validity Wizard
  This interactive page requires answering questions about an Internet site before it 'assesses" the validity of the site.  Useful if you are confused about assessing any Internet site--but make sure you other sources to check the assessment.

  More on Assessing Credibility

• Criteria to Evaluate the Credibility of WWW Resources  (Virginia Montecino, George Mason University)
• An Educator's Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation  (University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign)

• Internet Search Engines  (University of Tennessee)
• Search Engine Watch  (internet.com)
• Search Engine Showdown (Greg Notiss)
  This excellent source contains much helpful and well organized information about the most commonly used search engines.  Beware:  The links on this page are not underlined.  Assume that any differently colored words are links.
  
  
  

Search Techniques

• Advanced Searching Techniques  (Duke University)
• Boolean Logic  (Ithaca College)
  This site provides an excellent explanation of using AND, OR, and NOT using visual and textual guidance.
• Boolean Operators  (New York University Libraries)
  Although this site is directed at Internet users, most of the observations noted here also work in subscription databases.

• WWW Resources By Subject  (Ely Library, Westfield State College)
• Yahoo
• Librarians' Index to the Internet  (Digital Library Sunsite, Berkeley Univ.)
• Subject Guides  (James Madison University)

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Wikis, RSS, Blogs...

• Find a brief but informative slide show on some popular Web 2.0 applications.
  (Michael Sauers, Internet Trainer, Iowa City Public Library)

Citing Electronic Sources

  Noodle BiB

• NoodleBib  (NoodleTools)
  An online bibliography composer.

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August 16, 2007