Teaching Web Search Skills : Techniques and Strategies of Top Trainers.

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- About the Web Page -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Web Searching and the Teaching Paradox -- Online Searching Background -- Internet Information Growth -- Origins of the Web -- Instructional Background -- The Teaching Connection -- Teaching Simplicity -- The State of Web Searching Today -- Changing Patterns -- Chapter 2: Understanding Our Audience -- General Audience Characteristics -- Novices -- Know-It-Alls -- Experienced Users -- Pairing Strategies for Hands-OnWorkshops -- Audience Assessment -- Navigation Versus Search Confusion -- Remembering What We Did Not Know -- Box Confusion -- Address Confusion -- Button Confusion -- Browser Differences and Problems -- Operating System and Hardware Issues -- Adaptability and Change -- Chapter 3: Choosing an Instructional Session Type -- Hands-On Sessions -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Facilities -- Planning -- Exercises -- Lecture and Demonstration Sessions -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Facilities -- Planning -- Semi-Online Tutorials -- Capturing a Screen Shot Within PowerPoint -- Course Coverage and DistanceEducation -- Other Settings and Approaches -- Chapter 4: Online Tutorials: Friend or Foe? -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Issues with Online Tutorials for Web Searching -- Search Engine Inconsistencies -- Search Feature Changes -- Database Changes -- Online Tutorial Examples -- Web Search Guide Tutorial: Research-Web Searching -- Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial -- Internet Tutorials -- LearnAndGo-Searching the Web -- Quick Tutorial on Searching the Internet -- net.TUTOR: Using Web Search Tools -- Interactive Tutorials: Internet Search Tips and Mouse Exercise -- Tutorial: Site Clustering and Filtering -- The Information Cycle -- Information Literacy Online Tutorials -- Finding Tutorials -- Tutorials: Worth the Effort?.

Chapter 5: Organization: Focus, Length, and Goals -- Primary Session Focus -- Pure Web Searching -- Basic Internet Training -- Advanced Internet Training -- Part of Multiple Sessions -- Course-Integrated Bibliographic Instruction -- Session Length -- Variations in Length -- Ideal Length -- The Burnout Paradox -- Goal Setting -- A Collection of Goals -- How Many Main Goals? -- Specific Objectives -- Bringing It All Together -- Chapter 6: Terminology -- Importance of Terminology -- Definitions -- Search Engine -- Directory -- Portal -- Metasearch Engine -- Ad Bidding Engine -- Answer Engine -- Metasite -- News Search Engine -- Opinion Engine -- Site Search Engine -- Invisible Web -- Other Terminology Distinctions -- Final Thoughts on Terminology -- Chapter 7: Content: Web Search Features -- Search Features -- Phrase Searching -- Boolean Searching -- Truncation -- Field Searching -- Limits -- Stop Words and Case Sensitivity -- Sorting -- The Teaching Choice -- Chapter 8: Content: Primary Concepts -- Research Process -- Question Analysis -- Using More Than One Search Tool -- Search Engines Versus Directories -- Evaluation -- Which Primary Concepts to Teach -- Recent Changes in Teaching Topics -- Additional Concepts to Consider -- Identifying Ads -- Understanding Web Addresses (or URLs) -- Understanding Databases -- Teaching Change -- Chapter 9: Additional Content: Image Searching, News, Usenet, and More -- News -- Usenet Newsgroups and Opinions -- Pictures and Images -- Multimedia -- Phone Numbers -- Bibliographic Databases -- Subject-Specific Sites -- Invisible Web -- The Lost Obvious -- Chapter 10: The Search Engines -- The Starting Point -- Ask (www.ask.com) -- Exalead (www.exalead.com) -- Gigablast (www.gigablast.com) -- Google (www.google.com) -- MSN Search (search.msn.com) -- Windows Live (www.live.com) -- Yahoo! (search.yahoo.com) -- Directories.

Chapter 11: Creating a Framed Workshop Web Page -- Advantages and Disadvantagesof Frames -- Frames Code and Explanation -- Top Page with Frameset (index.html) -- Left Frame Table of Contents (toc.html) -- Content Pages -- Exercise Pages Frame Set (exer1.html) -- Exercise One Top Frame: JavaScript and a Form (topexer.html) -- Other Exercise Pages -- Solutions for Frame Breakers -- Chapter 12: Presentation Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts -- Keyboard Shortcuts -- General Windows Shortcuts -- Browser Shortcut Keys -- Shortcuts for Filling Out Forms -- Other Shortcuts -- Quick Links and the Personal Toolbar -- Bookmarklets -- Zapping Images, Animations, and More -- Bookmarklets for Web Searching -- The Pop-Up Presence -- The Shortcut Advantage -- Chapter 13: Tales from the Trenches: Anecdotes, Examples, and Exercises -- Analogies, Sayings, and Terminology Tales -- Boolean Examples -- Exercises -- Unexpected Answers -- Limitations of Search Engines -- Failures -- Facilities Failures -- The Team Teaching Danger -- Web Site Instruction and the Web Searching Paradox -- Lost Interest -- Formulas for Success -- Afterword -- Appendix A: The Trainers: Introduction to the Interviewees -- Appendix B: Sample Handouts and Other Training Material -- Appendix C: URL List -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index.

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