You can learn it from the URL!
Helpful websites
• Google Docs (includes presentations & spreadsheets)
• Parts of a URL from the Simpson Library,
University of Mary Washington
• URL Basics from Open Office.org
• Learning the Web from Teachers First.com
• Evaluating Websites from UC Berkeley
• Searching the World Wide Web from Ivy Tech
Fort Wayne, Library
URL’s
• Uniform Resource Locator
• The internet addressing structure
• Gives you information about the
website
Parts of a URL
http://www.starwars.com/seminars.html
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1) http is the protocol (not the only one) by which files are transferred
to the internet.
2) www is generally used to designate a web server
3) Starwars is the domain name of the URL above, it should be
indicative of the origin of the information provider
4) .com is the top level domain, it is informative of the type of
information contained at a site.
5) /seminars is referring to the pathname, the specific place in the site
where a pg is located
***URL’s with a ~ in the address often indicate a personal homepage to be wary of!
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Source: http://www.teachersfirst.com/tutorial/webintro.htm#URL1
http://www.library.umw.edu/talon/internet7.html
Top Level Domains
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• Source:
Into the Wild
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How Do You Find What You Need?
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Before you start using the
information--
EVALUATE!
Is the Information Accurate?
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Is it Current?
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Remember…
To err is human,
but to really foul
things up requires
a computer.
Farmers' Almanac, 1978
Derived from
“Preparing to search the internet”
by Carol Kotsch
http://www.libraryinstruction.com/SearchingtheInternet.ppt