Web Pages

Part One: Effective Searches

• Type as many keywords as you need to make the search as specific as possible.
• Read the hyperlink search result before you click on it.
• Use several search engines if necessary.
• My favorite is www.google.com
• Pay careful attention to the "Authority" of the page/site that you are viewing. Who made the page? When? Why? What is their expertise or agenda or reason for making the page? Hmmmmmmm? Remember, almost anyone can make a page about almost anything and post it to the WWW.

http://www.southwestschools.org/websearch.htm

Notes: I am searching for ______________________

Best Results (List Search Engine):

Part Two: Using Existing Lists of Quality Hyperlinks

• There are many sites that are simply a set of hyperlinks to other sites. They may be indexed and annotated (or not!).
• They can be very useful BUT be aware of who has created them and when they were created.

http://www.thejournal.com/roadmap Educators Road Map to the Web

http://www.southwestschools.org/jsss.htm Mr. Sams' HJS Social Studies Page

http://www.southwestschools.org/hjsweb/hjsweb.htm Old HJSWeb

Part Three: Making your own Page/List of Links

• Adding to "Favorites"
• Copying URL into Word Document
• Copying URL into FrontPage and making a Web page, then sending that file to Todd Sams at HJS, todd.sams@southwestschools.org , for him to post to the SLSD Web site.