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{{font color|brown|'''<big>The global digital library'''</big>}}<br>
{{font color|brown|In this activity, you will be introduced to methods of accessing, evaluating and organizing information from the internet.}}
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=== Objectives ===
# Understanding that the internet is a network of computers
# Understanding that the world wide web is a global digital library
# Getting familiar with using the web for accessing, downloading and organizing resources
===What prior skills are assumed===
#You must be able to work with different applications - text editor, text processor, mind mapping tool, independently
#You must be able to access, open, create and save files in your folder
#You must have an understanding of the internet and be able to browse the web
===What resources do you need===
# Working computer lab with [[Explore a computer|projector]]
# Computers installed with [[Learn Ubuntu|Ubuntu Operating System]]
#Access to the internet
#Handout for [[Learn Firefox|Firefox]]
===What digital skills will you learn===
#Accessing the internet, searching for information
#Downloading information
#Evaluating the information and creating a personal digital library for self learning
#Understand safe and ethical ways of using the internet
===Description of activity with detailed steps===
====Teacher led activity====
'''Demonstration 1'''<br>Your teacher will demonstrate for you how to access and organize information on the folder: follow along as she does the following
#Use a search engine to search for information - discuss with your teachers what happens when we do not give good key words
#Open the pages returned on each search
#She will demonstrate how to search for images, videos and text
#Download the resources accessed - the entire web page, image, videos, etc
#Your teacher will discuss with you how to legally download materials from the internet and how to use it correctly.
'''Demonstration 2'''<br>
#Watch your teacher search for the following, "giraffe", "evolution of giraffe", "miraculous evolution of giraffe"
#Did you see any difference in the pages returned by the search?
#Does this tell you anything about how a search engine works? How can you search more effectively?
====Student activities====
This is an activity to be done in groups. If adequate internet access is there, individual activities may be done.
#Make a concept map for the topic or issue about which you want to research.
#In groups, access the internet and download information relevant to your topic.
#Organize your downloaded information into folders
#In a text document summarize what you have found on your topic. In your document, also give a ranking for your resources and give the reasons for your ranking; this analysis of resource accessed is called meta data of a resource.
===Portfolio===
#You would have developed a concept map for the topic that you want to research on.
#Your text document summarizing your internet research, which should contain links to web pages you have accessed
#Your resource folder which should contain your concept map, text document with a summary of resources, images downloaded and web pages saved on the computer.
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