ET630 Agenda Class 7

• Questions and Announcements
  • First Project Due Today (people who need structure only)
  • Questions
• Discussion Readings
• Chapter 4, Designing Projects
  • Designing Projects: NickNacks Page
• Newspapers on the Internet
  • Evard, Children's interests in news: Online opportunities
  • Google News Search
  • Listing of Newspapers Around the World and in the United States
  • Listing of English Language Newspapers Around the World
  • The New York Times (USA)
  • The Irish Times (Ireland)
  • The Melbourne Age (Australia)
  • The Jerusalem Post (Israel)
  • The Namibian (Namibia)
  • The Mail and Guardian (South Africa)
• Separating Editorial Content from Advertising
  • Amazon.com (see New York Times article)
• What is the future of news?
  • http://www.abcnews.go.com/Business/IndustryInfo/story?id=3389523&page=1
• Searching Strategies
  • Warm-up: Use a search engine to try to spell SEE zer Salad: Cesar Salad, Ceaser Salad, Caeser Salad, Caesar Salad, Ceasar Salad
  • Search Strategies
  • Quotations
  • Boolean Operators
  • Narrowing Searches
  • Different Search Engines
    • http://www.google.com/ (see New York Times article)
    • http://www.lycos.com/
    • http://www.dogpile.com/
    • http://www.yahoo.com/
    • http://www.ask.com/
    • http://groups.google.com/ (search discussion groups)
    • http://news.google.com/ (search recent news stories)
    • http://www.archive.org/ (search Web pages as they used to be)
    • http://www.altavista.com/ (see New York Times article)
    • http://www.altavista.com/image (search for images)
    • http://images.google.com/ (search for images)
    • http://www.goodsearch.com/ (donate to charity as you search)
  • Search Engines for Kids (see New York Times article)
    • http://www.askforkids.com/
    • http://kids.yahoo.com/
    • http://www.kidsclick.org/
    • Other search engines often have filtered options (see, for example, Google's Safe Search options)
  • Advertising on Search Engines (see New York Times article)
• Graphics on the Web
  • Size of Graphics
  • A Closer View of Web Graphics
• Work Time
• Assignments:
  • Read Harris, Chapter 5

This page was prepared by: David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.

Last updated: October 31, 2008