Des Car Gable

B1 Level 1Sketching my project

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If you follow the process with me, at the end of this material, you will be able to:

Identify direct and indirect sources of information

Narrow your searching

Look for reliable information

Lets get to work!

Start - Up

Start - Up

Welcome!

Hello!

Today, Im going to start working on my project. Im very excited because the whole process depends on

the planning of today.


Warm Up

Warm Up

So this must be a project with a focus on recycling at home. I know I want to work on recycling paper butIm going to read about recycling, that may help me.

Oh, God! Thats too much information, but theres nothing related to recycling ideas or recycling paper.


Let's get inside

Let's get inside

Stacey: Hello, Anthony!Anthony: Hi, Stacey! I was looking for you!Stacey: Tell me, how can I help you?

Anthony: cant find information about recycling that can be useful for my project. When I type recycle, I get lots of information, but nothing about recycling paper.Stacey: Maybe, you need to narrow your search. I can give you some tips on searching for information in a better and more effective way.Anthony: Thank you, Stacy! That would be great!Stacey: First, what you need to define is whether you are going to use a direct or indirect source of information. In a direct source, you can find information without consulting another source, for example, books. Indirect sources dont give you the information, they give you a description of the sources where you may find the information, for example, search engines.Anthony: Hi, Stacey! I was looking for you!Anthony: I dont have any books about recycling, but whats a search engine?Stacey: Search engines are websites that have gathered information about web pages to make it easy for you to find a website or page in an instant. The most popular engine is Google, but there are more such as Yahoo!, Bing and AltaVista.Anthony: Of course! I use Google all the time. However, in Google I always get information about things that are not even related.Stacey: Thats because they cant select specific pages or information, or check their reliability. Thats why you need to narrow your search.


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Stacey: Other search engines are HotBot, Lycos and Northernlight.Anthony: They dont sound very academic.Stacey: Popular academic search engines include: BASE, Academic Info, Infomine, RefSeek, arXiv, and of course, Google Scholar.Anthony: What about databases? Ive heard about them, but Ive never used them. What are they?Stacey: They are also indirect sources of information. They take you to articles and books classified by fields of knowledge. Some of them are JSTOR, ERIC, sciELO and Ebscohost.Anthony: What else can I do to find information more efficiently?

Stacey: You can look at the domain name of the site. The most common are:

.edu = educational

.com = commercial

.mil = military

.gov = government

.org = nonprofitAnthony:Which domain is better?

Stacey: That depends on the type of information you need. In your case, educational and government websites are better because they are not trying to sell objects or persuade you to buy or do something about the environment. Instead, they may show you related studies and laws.Anthony: I had never considered that before!Stacey: You can also look at the section About me or About us and read the biography of the author or authors of the website. There, you can see if their studies and experience make them reliable sources. Quoting adequately may also give you clues about the author.Anthony: Anything else you can suggest me?Stacey: Well, there are many things you can do, but those simple steps are enough to check the reliability of the sites you consult.


Lets analyze!

Lets analyze!

Look at the following sentences and try to answer this question: what do these sentences have in common?

If your answer was that the verbs of those sentences are composed by two words, you were right!


Lets analyze!

The previous sentences have verbs composed by a verb and a preposition. Thats what we call phrasal verbs.

Other phrasal verbs related to information are:

Look up = research

Check out = look at

Fill in= complete with information

Hand in = send an assignment


Credits

Credits

Pedagogical Direction

Paul Cifuentes Velsquez,Carlos Javier Amaya

Direction of Art

Csar Augusto Pez Ramos

ICT Leadership

Yeison Ospina Marn

Quality management

Juan Carlos Rojas Lozada

Script composition

Diana Cantor

Content Support

Diana Cantor

Multimedia Development

Andrea Contreras GuerraAndrs Felipe RodrguezAdriana Guerrero Ladino

Audio Production

David Molina

Wes Manuel

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