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Searching the right thing...
Seems simple but people don't often look up the right thing when looking for information online.
20240527131512834.pdfWhat you can do to improve your Google skills
What you can do to improve your Google skills
Think about what it is that you really need to know.
For example: you are wondering if there "Does Christchurch have a real haunted house?"
What are you wanting to find out with this question?
You could just search this question in Google as is but would it give you what you need to know?
If you try search "Does Christchurch have a haunted house?" here is what comes up:
If you try search "Does Christchurch have a haunted house?" here is what comes up:
Is this useful information?
What appears on my search results screen?
Are there problems with the results, or are they on target with my task?
What do I need to know to help me choose the right links?
You can also add different words that mean the same thing
You can also add different words that mean the same thing
If your results aren't coming up with the right thing, then you can change the words slightly (like the video said, Google uses what you give it so the more accurate you are with extra words, the better)
e.g. "houses spooky Christchurch" "ghost haunted house Christchurch" "home haunted Christchurch"
How to reference the websites you use
How to reference the websites you use
When you do assignments, you need to keep a track of where you got the information from.
As we heard in the video, Google is not the source of the information, it is the program which searches for information. For that reason please, please, please do not put "Google" as one of your resources as you will be marked wrong!
Write down the website link (the URL) and the date you looked at it.
Think of it like this:
Once upon a time in the old days, when your teacher was in high school, they would go to the library to find information. You would go up to the librarian and say "Mrs Turnball I need a book about world war two please!" and the librarian would help them find the right book which held the information they needed. The book was what actually gave them the info even though the librarian was helpful in finding the book.
You wrote down the name of the book when asked where you got the information from, you did not write down "The librarian" !
When Google shows an answer straight away you cannot just say "Google" Google has taken this answer from an article, most likely the one on the right. At this level you can use Wikipedia. You need to click into the article and get the FULL URL (website link) so that if someone was going to check your work they could see exactly where you got the information from.
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