4.3 Extending skills A Discuss these questions.


1 You want to find out about computers in teaching and learning. Where would you look for the information? Why?


2 What keywords would you use to make this search? Why?


B Your search produces 50 results. How can you select the most useful ones without reading all


of them? Look at the list of criteria on the right and put a tick or ‘?’.


C You want to research the following. Choose up to three keywords or phrases for each search.


1 invention of World Wide Web 2 types of communication tools found in a VLE 3 where to find online learning activities for ICT


D Go to a computer and try out your chosen keywords. 4.4 Extending skills


using the Internet effectively


Criteria for choosing to read a result


It contains all of my keywords. The document comes from a journal. It is in the first ten. It has this year’s date. It is a large document. The website address ends in .org The website address ends in .edu The website address contains .ac It is a PDF file. It refers to ICT. It refers to a person I don’t know. It refers to an organization I know.


analyzing Internet search results • reporting research findings


A What information is contained in the results listing of a search engine? 1 Make a list.


2 Check with the results listing on the opposite page.


B Scan the results listings. Answer these questions. 1 What keywords were entered?


2 Why was journal used as a keyword? Why is it not in inverted commas? C Answer these questions.


1 Which results contain abbreviations or acronyms?


2 Where is the website address in each result? 3 Which are PDF documents? 4 What do the different coloured fonts represent? 5 Which results refer to journals?


6 Which results refer to educational institutions?


7 Which results are commercial sites? 8 Which country does result 7 come from? 9 What does similar pages mean? 10 What does cached mean?


D Continue your research on computer-assisted learning by entering the keywords into a search engine and accessing three of the results.


1 Make notes. 2 Compare your findings with other students.


E Choose the most interesting result. Write a paragraph about the information you discovered. Develop the topic within the paragraph with discourse markers and stance markers.


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