- 1. Advanced internetsearchingto find Open
EducationalResourcesNicole Southgate Education Development
UnitFaculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town Image by
shawe_ewahs CC-BY-SA-2.0
2. Search engines: how do they work?They focus on the content of
web pages, the words Web spiders crawl the web, build up a list of
words that we key in when we search for specific topics Spider
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3. Google dominatesHave you everheard someonesay, Let me
Yahooit?StatCounter Global Stats CC-BY-SA-3.0 4. Other popular
search enginesBing http://www.bing.com/ Yahoo!
http://za.yahoo.com/?p=usAsk Jeeves http://www.ask.com/ YANDEX
http://www.yandex.com/ AOL http://www.aol.com/ 5. i Search Tips
Keep it simple Use words most likely to be on that page Instead of
asking [how good is health care in South Africa?]use the query
[state health care south africa] Use descriptive words For a
definition type [define asthma] -> dictionary definition will be
displayed 6. Google AdvancedUse advanced search to narrow down your
searchNavigate to www.google.com and type in yoursearch terms
[asthma treatment south africa] 7. Google AdvancedBut, you want to
find the Physiotherapy unit atHealth Sciences, UCTTo the right:
click Options > Advanced searchPlacing quotes around
phrasesnarrows down the search as itrestricts results to that exact
phrase 8. Google Advanced Webpage foundIf you need more specifics,
look at the Advanced Search pageMore parameters i with which to
narrow yoursearch 9. The Google Advanced page 10. Google
Scholarwww.scholar.google.com+ Find journal articles, books on
specific topics- Your search may lead you to abstracts 11. OER|
What is it?Open educational resources (OER) are materialsfreely
available to share, remix, repurpose through Creative Commons
LicencesExample of OER - http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm @ MITAll
their courses now freely availableReaching every corner of the
earth Earth image: CC-BY-2.0 Nasa Goddard Photo and Video 12.
Creative Commons LicensingTraditional CopyrightOnly two options:
Copyright and public domain licences All rights to author Public
domain was openCC licencesCreative Commons now affords alternative
licensingoptions Some Rights Reserved CC 13.
http://youtu.be/_P-bQB8zUSoA video explaining Creative Commons 14.
Creative commons licencing An explanatory video
http://youtu.be/_P-bQB8zUSo Source: Hodgkinson-Williams, CA, &
Gray, E (2008) Degrees of Openness: The Emergence of OER at UCT.
Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town 15.
Practicing cautionThe internet may have false or
misguidedinformationUse articles produced by academic
sourcesinstead of the usual generic information beware of Dr
Google! 16. Useful searches for open
contenthttp://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm - MIT Open
Coursewarehttp://www.oercommons.org/http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/http://www.compfight.com/http://www.ookaboo.comShihaam
Shaikhs Slideshare
presentationhttp://www.slideshare.net/ShihaamD/finding-open-stuff
17. Example searchCompfighthttp://www.compfight.com/Search engine
for Creative Commons imagesType search term, then EnterClick on
Creative Commons on the left 18. Example search CompfightChoose an
imageRedirected to Flickr - the source of the imageOn the right is
licence information - Click there 19. Example search
CompfightLicence information tells us we are able to Use it with
attribution to author Share with the same type of licence to it
Copy Remix Make commercial use of the work 20. As studentsWhen
using open images in your assignments, always attributethe author
and state the license typein your references section, include the
URL too:http://www.flickr.com/photos/88164721@N00/5768825292/ 21.
Open
videoshttp://academicearth.org/http://khanacademy.org/http://www.open-video.org/http://ted.comNot
all the videos have the same license. Pleaselook at the permissions
/ terms of use links foreach resourceIcons by DryIcons
http://dryicons.com 22. SummaryCreative Commons offers new
opportunities forFinding resourcesSharing materialAdapting
resources from others 23. Acknowledgements and PermissionsCursor
image by shawe_ewahs. License: CC-BY-SA-2.0URL:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shawe/3486394638/sizes/t/in/photostream/Spider
image by DanieVDM CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0URL:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dvdmerwe/378660212/sizes/m/in/photostream/Search
Engine Graph by StatCounter Global Stats CC-BY-SA-3.0URL:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-ww-monthly-201104-201204-barSlide
background by specialized666 License: CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0URL:
http://ipadwallpapergallery.com/grey-line-stripes-wallpaper-by-specialized666/Surgical
glove image by miheco License: CC-BY-SA-2.0URL:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88164721@N00/5768825292/Creative
Commons licences image source: Hodgkinson-Williams, CA, & Gray,
E (2008) Degrees ofOpenness: The Emergence of OER at UCT. Centre
for Educational Technology, University of Cape TownEarth image by
Nasa Goddard Photo and Video. License: CC-BY-2.0URL:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6760135001/Icons by DryIcons
http://dryicons.comThanks to Douglas Sias, Veronica Mitchell and
Sarah Crawford-Browne for their constructive input 24. Quick
survey!Please take a minute or two to complete mysurvey. Navigate
to the link http://goo.gl/wlrOhId love to know what you think 25.
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