Searching The Internet
Evaluating Sources
Cheating & Plagiarism
Domains
Internet Browsers
100
To define your question and decide if you need to narrow, broaden, or change your question and search.
What is focus?
100
An organized collection of web pages.
What is a website?
100
Schoolwork that a student is required to do at home.
What is homework?
100
The domain meaning a commercial site associated with a business.
What is .com?
100
An Internet browser developed by Google Inc.
What is Google Chrome?
200
A large international communication network that links millions of individuals and computer networks electronically.
What is the Internet?
200
A personal judgement or opinion.
What is bias?
200
A critical examination, observation, or evaluation.
What is a test?
200
The domain meaning a site maintained by a government agency.
What is .gov?
200
A Web browser that made its debut in 1995 as Microsoft's response to Netscape, one of the first graphical-based Web browsers and, at the time, the dominant browser in use with control of over 90 percent of the market.
What is Internet Explorer?
300
A global collection of information on the Internet that can be read and interacted with by a computer.
What is the World Wide Web (WWW)?
300
A word, phrase, or image that you can click on to jump to a new document or a new section within the current document.
What is a hyperlink?
300
To violate rules dishonestly.
What is cheating?
300
The domain meaning a site maintained by a nonprofit organization.
What is .org?
300
A Web browser available for the Macintosh and Windows operating systems as well as the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
What is Apple Safari?
400
An organized and searchable collection of materials that have been filtered and evaluated.
What is a database?
400
To provide a reference to a source such as a book, an article, or a Web page.
What is a cite/citation?
400
The act of using another person's words or ideas without giving credit to that person.
What is plagiarism?
400
The domain meaning a site created by a college or a school.
What is .edu?
400
A free, open source Web browser for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
What is Mozilla Firefox?
500
Computer programs that use electronic search programs called spiders, crawlers, and robots to collect information sources. Examples: Google, Bing, Yahoo!
What are search engines?
500
The address of the website usually beginning with http://.
What is the URL (Uniform Resource Locator)?
500
Rules of behavior based on ideas about what is morally good and bad.
What are ethics?
500
A free, open content online encyclopedia created through the collaborative effort of a community of users often used but not credible.
What is wikipedia?
500
A free software package that lets you view web pages, graphics, and most online content.
What is a browser?