ex. Accessing information, conducting business transactions, and communication
What are examples of how we use the web in daily life?
Software designed to find webpages based on your search criteria
What is a search engine?
E-commerce
What is another word for electronic commerce?
The ability to find, evaluate, use, and communicate online information.
What is the definition of information literacy?
Something that lets you search databases, news providers, podcasts, and other online information sources that general search engines do not always access.
What is a search engine?
Microsoft Edge, Google, Safari, Chrome
What are examples of a web browser?
A site that gathers, organizes, and distributes web content.
What is a content aggregator?
B2C, C2C, B2B
What are the 3 types of E-commerce websites?
Navigate many sources of information, including the Internet, online libraries, and popular media sites, select the right tool for finding the information you need, recognize that not all information is created equal, evaluate whether information is misleading, biased, or out of date, and manage information to become a knowledgeable decision maker
What are things you can do when you have information literacy?
True or false – Using search engines designed for research yields more reliable results, saving you time and effort.
What is true?
Internet Engineering Task Force
What does ITF stand for?
A web app is an app you can run entirely in a browser, and a website is a collection of web pages.
What is the difference between web apps and websites.
Variety, convivence, and budget
What are the 3 pros for consumers when using E-commerce?
A nonspecialized program designed to find general results based on your search term.
What is a search engine?
Identify the author of the webpage and check their credentials, If you find biographical information, read it to learn whether the author has a degree in a field related to the topic, Use a search engine such as Google or the professional networking site LinkedIn to search for the author’s name and see whether the author is an expert on the subject.
What are ways you can determine the credibility of a website?
A holding area where your browser keeps a copy of each webpage you view. This temporary storage area helps speed up processing time.
What is cache?
Resides on a server on the Internet, rather than on your computer or mobile device, store your data on the web app’s server.
What is a component of a webpage?
Electronic Retail or e-retail
What is it called when you purchase products from a B2B E-commerce website?
They comb the web to find webpages and add new data about them to the database.
What do spiders/crawlers do?
Verify its facts and claims. Consult an expert or use fact-checking sites to find professionally researched information, evaluate the information source, find out more about an organization that has no history, physical location, or staff, check to see if the source has a bias and evaluate the information with the bias in mind, or check the webpage footer for the date the information was published or updated.
What are ways you can verify the accuracy of a website?
.biz, .com, .edu, .gov, .int, .mil, .mobi, .net, .org, pro
What are examples of Top-Level Domain?
The process of protecting information or data by scrambling ordinary text into a form that is impossible to read without the proper decryption key
What is encryption?
B2C - shopping websites, C2C - online auctions, B2B - market research websites
What are examples of websites for each of the E-commerce websites?
A general search engine refers to its database index and then lists pages that match your search term, ranked by how closely they answer your query.
What is the definition of query?
Identify the purpose of the webpage. Is the page designed to provide facts and other information, sell a product or service, or express opinions? Evaluate whether the webpage offers more than one point of view. Emotional, persuasive, or biased language is often a sign that the author is not being fair or moderate. Even opinions should be expressed in a moderate tone. Look for a conflict of interest. For example, if the page reviews a certain brand of smartphone and the author sells those types of phones, he or she has a conflict of interest.
What are ways you can determine the reasonableness of a website?