Learning Journal Post #3

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.