DefinitionsOpen Source (free tools and free content)Searching (is google a verb?)Reliability (experts v. crowd)Bookmarking and TaggingRSS (Really Simple Syndication)Copyright and Creative Commons

A metaphorA kind of computing – SaaS

The new version of the WebMy current version of Internet Explorer is

IE 7.0.5730.13This is referring to significant changes in the way

the internet operates

Not just a pathway for communication and trading information

A workspace A data centerA desktop that is accessible from anywhere

Tagging is naming and describing

Tagging is related to meta data – behind the scenes organization

Tagging is the “new” folder

Tagging let’s you put your document in the equivalent of many folders at one time

Open=Free and AccessibleSource=Code Source

Who Cares? Microsoft, Google, and Me

Open Source is not just about showing code. It is a philosophy that insists that this code must remain open for others to see, build upon and distribute without discrimination against persons, groups, or fields of endeavor.

Let’s talk about Open Source and Open Content for a few more minutes

Who is Microsoft’s biggest competitor?

The competition is the Cloud.

1. Operating systems - Ubuntu

2. Office packages – Open Office, Google Apps

3. Image manipulation – Gimp

http://www.merlot.org/

We have been talking about Open Source Software. Now let’s talk about Open Content or Open Education.

Online Distance Education has led to a reassessment of access to education and leading to what has been termed Open Educational Resources (OER)

Educause books - http://www.educause.edu

Online Educational ResourcesMerlot - http://www.merlot.orgCurriki - http://www.curriki.orgConnexions - http://cnx.org/Wikiversity - http://en.wikiversity.org

MIT offers 1,800 courses online. You may access and enjoy an MIT education for free. (You don’t get a degree)

Try Physics for example: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-01Physics-IFall1999/VideoLectures/detail/embed11.htm

http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/explore.php

Nicholas Negroponte’s world shaking idea. The $100 computer

Find an example of Open Source

Software ServicesContent

Research-Quality Web Searching

• Search Google effectively and precisely

• Know when to use other search engines and web directories

• Evaluate what you find on the web

• http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com

Googling Is this a verb?

Before you search:“Crawls” pages on the public webCopies text & images, builds database

When you search:Automatically ranks pages in your resultsWord occurrence and location on page Popularity - a link to a page is a vote for it~ 200 factors in all!

Think “full text” = be specific war of 1812 economic causes vs. history

Use academic & professional termsdomestic architecture vs. houses

genome societygets International Mammalian Genome Society

also try combinations with association, research center, institute, directory, database

Specify exact phrases with quotes “” “tom bates” “what you're looking for is already inside you”

Exclude or require a word proliferation -nuclear obama +hussein

Web page titleintitle:hybrid allintitle:hybrid cars mileage

Website or domainsite:whitehouse.gov “global warming”site:edu “global warming”

File typefiletype:ppt site:edu “global warming”

Definitionsdefine:pixeldefine:“due diligence”

Search box (use to modify)

“Cache”

“Related pages”

“Translate this page”

http://www.exalead.com/search

Search more of the webYahoo!

Get more optionsExalead

Librarians’ Internet Index

InfoMine

Google Custom Search Engines (CSE)

Go to Google and do a search using some of the feature described in the last few slides.

http://www.google.comGo to the Librarians ‘ Internet Index and do a

search on the same topic.http://www.lii.org

Go to Merlot and do another search on the same topic.

http://www.merlot.org

Anyone can put up a web pageMany pages not updatedNo quality control

most sites not “peer-reviewed” less trustworthy than scholarly

publications

Look at the URL - personal page or site ? ~ or % or users or members

Domain name appropriate for the content ? Restricted: edu, gov, mil, a few country codes (ca) Unrestricted: com, org, net, most country codes (us,

uk)

Published by an entity that makes sense ? News from its source?

www.nytimes.comAdvice from valid agency?

www.nih.gov/www.nimh.nih.gov/

Can you tell who wrote it ?name of page authororganization, institution, agency you

recognize

Credentials for the subject matter ?Look for links to:

“About us” “Philosophy” “Background” “Biography”

Is it recent or current enough ?Look for “last updated” date

Textpossibly forged ?why not a link to published version

?Sources

documented with links, footnotes, etc.?

do the links work ?Evidence of bias

in text or sources ?

Search the URL in alexa.com

Click on “Overview”

Who links to the site? Who owns the

domain?

What did the site look like in the

past?

(Wayback Machine)

Which blogs link to it? What do they say?

Try the URL in Google Blog Search

See what links are in Google’s “Similar

pages”

Look up the page author in Google

Was the page put on the web to inform ? persuade ? sell ? as a parody or satire ?

Is it appropriate for your purpose?

All that said, who do we trust?The Encyclopedia Britannica is written by

expertsWikipedia is written by the crowd.

Which is better?BBC says WikiWhat Wiki saysWhat others say

Do one of the following:Which one is the real website of the World

Trade Organization? World Trade Organization http://www.gatt.org/ World Trade Organization http://www.wto.org/

Which one is the real website of the White Househttp://www.whitehouse.gov/http://www.whitehousehistory.org/

Do a search using Google, then Yahoo and compare the difference.

We defined tagging earlier. Now let’s look at it a little further.

Create a free account on delicious

This one is called TrendsandIssuesThe Password is trends12

http://delicious.com/tag/

http://delicious.com/tag/poverty

http://delicious.com/tag/ + word you want to search for

depression

http://delicious.com/tag/poverty/depression

The social aspect of this process is whatgives this the term folksonomy.

This is the symbol that identifies a site that can be tracked using an RSS reader.

My Google Reader

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