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Using the Internet for Learning
09 & 17 April 2016
Outline of the session
The Internet
◦ The Internet – the modern source for all
your needs
◦ Limitation and problems of the Internet
◦ Searching the WWW - Search Engines
Open Educational Resources
Collaboration and getting help
THE INTERNET
The Internet –the modern source for all your needs
What is the Internet –
◦ A global network of interconnected
computers that uses the standard
Internet protocol suite (TCP IP) to serve
billons of users world wide.
What the Internet offers?
Sharing material◦ World Wide Web: for sharing information in the form of
web pages
◦ File sharing – books, documents, pictures, Software, etc
◦ Audio & Video streaming
Communication – e-mail, video/voice call, chatting
Social interaction – facebook, twitter
Collaboration – groups, forums
E-learning
E-commerce – shopping, banking, booking
Controlling and Monitoring -
The Internet & the other mediums
The Internet differs from other
mediums primarily in two things:
◦ Immediacy – Any once can access
information from anywhere and at any time
◦ Volume - The Internet offers instant access
to millions of material on countless topics.
Pros and Cons about the Internet
The Internet is a self-
publishing medium,
anyone with the
necessary technical
skills can place
information on the Web
◦ Gives freedom for
publishing, but also a
nuisance if not used
unethically
Pros and Cons about the Internet
It has grown into extreme proportion
◦ There is more possibility for an item you
wish to refer to be in the Internet, but
finding it needs skills.
Availability of tools for every need
◦ More possibility to get distracted.
Evaluating the accuracy & reliability
Who published the information
◦ A site maintained by a university or
government organization is probably
more reliable.
Who wrote the information
◦ by a known expert in the field is likely to
be reliable.
Evaluating the accuracy & reliability
The age of the material
◦ If you need current statistics, carefully
check the age of the material you’ve found.
Why the material exists
◦ Many special interest groups have Web
pages. Think about whether they might
have some reason, other than pure
helpfulness, for posting information.
How to find what you want?
Effective searching
Knowing the right places◦ Authorities
◦ University / Open educational resources
◦ Library collections
Get help from reliable user group and forums
Use the available tools – Calendar, Online forms, Online documents, Save search histories
Accessing information from the web
Directly using a URL
Known by heart, from publications,
guessing
Browsing from a known main page
Search engines
Search engines
Free web based text search engines
◦ Google : http://www.google.lk/
◦ Yahoo : http://www.yahoo.com/
◦ MSN : http://www.msn.com/
◦ AltaVista : http://www.altavista.com/
◦ Others : Web search engines
Searching software, files & emails in Windows
◦ Copernic Search
Natural Language search engines
◦ Ask Jeeves
More on searching
Simple text search
Weather, Dictionary, Calculations, Unit
conversions, Sports, Quick facts
Google Advanced Search
Google in Tamil
Simple text search GoogleTamil
Advanced search Google மேம்பட்ட மேடல்
Searching in Tamil
Saving web pages for offline use
Whole pages can be saved
Part of the page; text, table, figure, etc.
Whole web site can be saved using
software
HTTrack
Wget
Best Search engine for Your Need
Noodletools – A little outdated, but, still
useful
◦ http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacie
s/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
Some more tips
Tap into reputable sources
◦ Use .edu or .gov.
◦ Additionally, you can conduct a search for
only scholarly information.
Subscribe to Feeds
◦ Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds is
new technology that allow subscribers an
immediate update when new information
is posted.
◦ Atom feeds
Some more tips
Join or Create a Group◦ A number of websites like Google, Yahoo and
MSN offer online groups where members can share information.
Understand and Use Boolean Logic or an advanced search◦ Boolean Logic uses the words “and”, “or” and
“not” to create relationships among search terms and allow you to narrow your search.
Use Synonyms, Alternate Spellings and Related Topics◦ For example, if you’re looking for information on
dogs, you may also want to search “puppies”, “canines” and “pets”.
Some more tips
Use Different Search Engines
Choose a Browser That’s
Conducive to Research
◦ Some browsers allow you to add notes,
save groups of websites and have
integrated search engines that make web
research easier and faster.
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Open Educational Resources
• Champions the sharing of knowledge
worldwide to increase human intellectual
capacity.
Can develop new resources selecting
mixing and editing existing OER
List of OER –
◦ http://zaidlearn.blogspot.in/2008/09/101-
open-educational-resources.html
◦ OER on Wikipedia
101 Open Educational Resources
OpenStax CNX
But, OER is not a degree awarding strategy.
Open Content: Full Courses
Open Content: Full Courses
Open Content: Library Collections
•The Free Library
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/
•Perseus Digital Library
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/coll
ections
•Documents of Dutch East India
Company
http://databases.tanap.net/vocrecords/in
dex.cfm
Open Content – Books
•Google Books Search
http://books.google.com/
Open Content –Tamil book collections
Noolaham Project –
www.noolaham.org
Madurai Project -
http://www.projectmadurai.org/
Noolthettam - http://noolthettam.com/
Open Content - Data repositories
UCI Machine Learning Repository
http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.h
tml
Machine Learning Repository
http://mldata.org/
TOOLS FOR COLLABORATION
Tools for collaboration
User groups / Forums
Blogs
Chats
Social media
…
Forum
An Internet forum, or message board,
is an online discussion site where people
can hold conversations in the form of
posted messages.
They differ from chat rooms in that
messages are at least temporarily
archived.
Also, depending on the access level of a
user or the forum set-up, a posted
message might need to be approved by
a moderator before it becomes visible.
Forum
Forums have a specific set of jargon
associated with them; e.g. a single
conversation is called a "thread".
Anyone can login and participate in the
conversation by posting their view.
A discussion forum is hierarchical or
tree-like in structure: a forum can contain
a number of sub-forums, each of which
may have several topics.
Forum
Depending on the forum's settings, users
can be anonymous or have to register
with the forum and then
subsequently log in in order to post
messages.
On most forums, users do not have to
log in to read existing messages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_foru
m
Forum
http://tamilnanbargal.com/forum
Creating you own Forum
https://www.phpbb.com/
Blog Is a Web site, usually maintained by an
individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.
Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order.
"Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
Blog -http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefi
eld
Popular Blogs
http://dailytekk.com/2012/05/14/100-
useful-blogging-tools/
Popular Blogging Toolshttps://www.blogger.com/
http://wordpress.com
http://www.edublogs.org
