Reflection day 3

Day 3.

The lesson on the third day was on Web Search. It is one of the most important components in the ICT world. Our tutor is familiarized with a web search and its benefits. My understanding as per on web search was finding materials on the web is rather similar to the process of finding books in a library. If we have strategies to find the information we need from the larger library with millions of books. A similar approach is needed to find information on the web.

Our tutor also said finding things on the web is a little trickier as search engines don’t always do a great job of picking out the best sites for our search topics. Many of the sites that come up are simply advertising and a short summary. However a little bit of effort we will be able to find enough credible sources. I also came to know about the search engine and the meaning and its definition. It says the Search engine is a list of web pages maintained by a computer program called robots. A robot periodically scans for web pages to add to its lists. Each robot does this in a different way. There are many search engine used different methods to search for the result.

We were also introduced to different kinds of operators. They are

1.      Boolean operators: are used to connecting and defining the relationship between our search terms. The three Boolean operators are AND, OR & NOT.

-          Use AND to narrow our search

-          Use OR to broaden our search by connecting two or more synonyms.

-          Use NOT to exclude terms from our search result.

2.      Truncation means the ability of some search engine to locate related terms from a root keywords and wild card.

3.      Wildcards: is a symbol used to replace or represent one or more characters?

This really helps me to enhance my little computer knowledge and also help me in doing my assignment and daily teaching and learning.

Towards the end of the lesson, we were taught using Google books and Google helps centers. From the lesson I came to know Google books is a Google service that makes discovering a book's contents easier for use on the web. And also I came to know the Google help center help form like Chrome, Account, YouTube, Gmail, Google Play, search Drive photo, etc..,.Whatever I have learned, I am going to share and implement with my learners and friends. Moreover, it really equipped me with the ideas and knowledge on ICT that I am going to use in the 21st-century classroom.