The Main topic of Web Technology I had learned in this Web
module is searching on the Internet, and how Efficient and Effective it can be.
Again I felt I knew enough information on how to use a search engine to look up
information, but there's more tools people can use that majority of Internet
users don't know. I found out about the difference between a search engine and
a Meta Search Engine. What a Metasearch search engine can do is not only look
about the internet for the topic you want to know about, but it also collects
date from tons of other search engines and combining that into a list one can
browse through. My original search engine I've stuck to for years has been
Google. I tried out Bing, Dogpile.com, and ixquick.com. Interestingly enough
all of these search engines have a similar layout to that of Googles. I'm still
sticking to Google, since I've been navigating on it longer than those three. Another
thing I have learned is using AND, OR, and NOT key terms in my searches to help
bring search results down or up when I need them.
The Deep Web is databases that are kept hidden from the
public. Mostly restricted information is kept there, such as College Databases.
(For Example NCCC's Library Database isn't available to the public unless you
are a student at the College.) This information is said to be more reliable
than basing it off of the public's website, mostly because it's scholarly
articles gathered by professionals. Knowing this now will help tremendously
with my Research papers in the future. PDF are also said to be part of the deep
web, or invisible thread. There is an exception to this though, seeing as
'some' browsers support PDF formats like Google. Most websites in the invisible
web are password-protected databases. Again in this case the public can't get
in and misuse the information.
Truste is something I honestly did not know about until
working on this module. Truste is a Privacy Policy that helps you trust the
business you are taking part in online, and making sure it's done legally. If
the site you are trying to do a business transaction on has the Truste logo on
it, automatically the public should know it's a website you can trust to pay or
sell things online. It also helps protect your privacy as a user. It's a
trusted logo to thousands of businesses worldwide.
Here's a video on the principle called IF. It stands for
Information Fluency and basically means it's the skills employers are going to
look for in the new people they try to hire. This is a video I found to be very
interesting and important during this lesson:
An Information Fluency Model:
21st Century Skills:
-Life and Career Skills
-Learning and Innovation Skills
-Informatuin, media, and Technology Skills
-Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes
-Standard and Assessments
-Curriculum and Instruction
-Professional Development
-Learning Environments
Five Words I have Learned:
Breadcrumb trail- Shows the hierarchical arrangement of
categories and sub categories through which you have clicked.
Web Crawler- Software, or a robot that browses the web,
automatically adding the URLs and other information about web pages to a
searchable index.
Metasearch Engine- Used to compile the search results from
multiple search engines into a single search result list.
Boolean Operator- A conjunction used in a logical
expression, when given multiple keywords in a query, a search engine uses the
AND, OR, AND NOT.
Shopping Aggregators- Shopping Search Engines aggregate
information about consumer product or services, and help online shoppers
compare models, prices, shopping costs, and other variables from various
sellers before they buy.
