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Digital Literacy week 4

Developing Search Challenge

**In what way, if at all, does what Belshaw suggest in his lecture impact your thinking about teaching digital literacy skills (e.g. search, keyboarding, etc...) to your students?** Other questions you may want to consider include:
 * Will you refer to the subject of this course as 'digital literacy' or 'digital literacies'? Why?
 * How do you interpret the concept of 'elegant consumption'?
 * How would you explain to students' parents Mills' idea that digital literacy is a condition, not a threshold? What about to your fellow educators? To a 13-year-old?


 * The Video **

Acquiring digital literacy is more progressive than sequential.
 * Meme =** an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. Idea + tool(s) + communication = meme.
 * Remix =** the opposite of elegant consumption
 * Digital literacy** is a condition not a threshold.
 * Digital literacies** because plural, context dependent, need to be socially negotiated.

> > world health organization; the who > band; a who = a book
 * Video 2 = Seminar 1**
 * 1) Using but not abusing the stop words => stop words = a, and, or, articles => at Google you want to use stop words => demonstration **who**
 * 1) Using a proper word order => demonstration **grass snake =** grass snake => change the order **snake grass =>** word order matters
 * 2) ** Capitalization ** doesn't matter
 * 3) **Punctuation** does not matter
 * $, #, ++, = recognizes
 * 1) ** Google internal resource bank = ** sometimes finds some synonyms foe some words
 * 2) **Google admits submissions** from site maps => eli näkyy ne alasivut (= subpages) pääsivun alla (esim. OPH)
 * 3) **Predictive search features =** search for the answer not for the question => how can I make one PDF from three PDFS = **merging multiple PDFs** => so think first what the answer would be and search the answer. what are we gonna get when we put something in to a search engine
 * 4) **Negative Narrowing =** excluding words that might be associated wit the resources that I am not looking for => no space between the hyphen/dash and the word =>
 * 5) **positive narrowing =** put + => forcing the search engine to find something => OR in capital letters
 * 6) ** Term of Art = ** you are searching something but don't know the real term for it => looking for concepts and gradually finding the right one
 * 7) ** Definition operator = define ** haettava termi = define affluent
 * 8) Etsitään vihreää napoleonista kertovaa krijaa, jossa on kotka kannessa = **kuvahaku** ja sieltä värivalikosta **green**
 * 9) **Recency** => löytää uusimmat
 * 10) News paper archive = http://news.google.com => includes one more filter = **archive =>** finds scanned news papers
 * 11) Special databases (not visual web) => site: search like gov


 * Video 3 = seminar 2 Books, news and Scholar **

> => results are in rank order (= > what Google thinks is most relevant = frequency people are looking at, how many pages the page is connected) = how many times sited (but not necessary in that order) => under sited link you can find all those sites => in the side of the page there might be a link to the PDF document (and you can always write to the author and ask it)
 * 1) ** Scholar **
 * 1) Same searching things work as in the regular Google =>
 * 2) The more referrals, the more important the book is.
 * 3) **Related articles =** topicly related articles
 * 4) **Library search =** online catalog = worldcat =
 * 5) **Versions count =**
 * 6) **Advanced search =** author, time, topics, **Author: flowers =** returns articles written by people with name Flowers => **flowers -author:flowers =** returns papers about flowers, ignores flowers named authors
 * 7) OR operator
 * 8) **+ operator** = forced inclusion
 * 9) preferences = change language, number of results, library link, => remember to save
 * 10) Link resolver
 * 11) Legal opinions and journals = hyvä juttu, jos tekee jotain lakitutknusta: common phrases - restrictions 80 and 50 years
 * 12) sitations - index, not anymore
 * 13) **Google news** = constantly updated, personalisation, filter by time, searching by time span
 * 14) **patent search =** only in USA =>
 * 15) Public data = visualization of data => it is possible to upload own data and visualize it
 * 16) **Video** = Youtube and other video resources => youtube education, TED; => oral history
 * 17) alerts = mails news about chosen topic everyday
 * 18) Microsoft = Academic search
 * 19) Wolfram ALFA = mathematics