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Internet As A Teaching Resource

The document discusses how the internet facilitates teaching and learning. It provides an overview of the internet and explores how tools like search engines, directories, email and forums allow online learning, communication and access to resources. The internet provides opportunities for interactivity, asynchronous learning and reducing the costs of education.

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Internet As A Teaching Resource

The document discusses how the internet facilitates teaching and learning. It provides an overview of the internet and explores how tools like search engines, directories, email and forums allow online learning, communication and access to resources. The internet provides opportunities for interactivity, asynchronous learning and reducing the costs of education.

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Rakotoarison Louis Frederick
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Education Development Project (EDP)

Internet as a teaching
resource

© Ing. Louis Frederick Rakotoarison, MT


Outline

 Internet overview

 How do internet facilitate teaching & learning 

 What is the impact of the internet on learning &


teaching 

 What tools do we need to get resource on the


internet

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Internet

 Internet what is that?

The Internet is a global network of networks.

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Is the internet a www?

 www = world wide web

 www = web sites, which are linked together

 web site contains a number of web pages.

 www is only a small part of the internet

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The most popular ways of using Internet

 The WWW and Email are the most popular ways of

using the Internet

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How do internet facilitate teaching and
learning
 it displays the answers whenever you scan it

 communicating with someone: email, chatting,


video, forum discussion

 Online Learning or Distance Learning

 Online qualification

 …

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What is the impact of the internet on
teaching and learning

 Online learning programs: offering interactivity

 Asynchronous Learning

 Time Flexibility

 Reduce the cost of learning

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What tools do we need to get
resources

 Is it easy to find Information on the net?

 It is challenging!

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Our famous tools

 Search Engines

 Directories

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Search Engines vs. Directories

 Search Engines: automatic

 Directories: manual

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Directories

 Yahoo! 

 Librarian's Index to the Internet

 MedWeb, from Emory University

 LookSmart

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Search Engine:

 Statement:

“Searching is pretty easy, finding is the


most difficult part”

“Many people can search on Google but


only few people can find information”

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Search Engines

 Google http://www.google.com
 AltaVista: http:// www.altavista.com
 Ask: http:// www.ask.com
 Hotbot: http:// www.hotbot.com
 ...

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Search Engine:

 The fact:

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Search Engine:

Google is the world’s biggest one-stop shopping


mall for finding information on the Web.

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© Ing. Louis Frederick Rakotoarison, MT
Google Search Engine: Effectively
searching

 Be specific

 Use both singular and plural forms of words

 Use distinctive and important keywords

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Google Search Engine:
Basic operators
 “” : Explicit phrase
 - : Excluded words
 + : Included words
 ~ : Similar words and synonyms
 OR : Multiple words
 … : Numerical ranges
 * : Words in between

© Ing. Louis Frederick Rakotoarison, MT


Google Search Engine:
Special Operators
 site : Site specific search
 filetype : Specific document types
 define : Word definitions
 phonebook : Phone listing
 allintitle : appear in the title of the page
 allinurl : appear in the URL of the page

© Ing. Louis Frederick Rakotoarison, MT


Google Search Engine:
Special Operators
 info : information about site
 related : similar site
 link : linked websites
 stocks : traded stock

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