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Level 6 Internet Use

At level 6 students contribute to forums, SMS messaging, and interacting with websites such as Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page), which allow viewers to make modifications to the content. Students expand their skills in locating information on websites by using general and specialised directories. They refine their searching techniques to get more precise results by using within suitable search engines, proximity operators, which specify where one term in a document must appear in relation to another term. They develop knowledge and understanding about the ethical use of ICT through practical experience, observation of their own and others’ behaviour, and by researching strategies for protecting vulnerable users from accessing or receiving unwanted information from the Internet.

SMS Messaging

It is possible to subscribe to online SMS gateways that allow sending of bulk SMS messages from a computer. I use the Clickatell Bulk SMS Gateway http://www.clickatell.com.

I use a stand alone program called Messenger-PRO for an online demo is available.

There are many online SMS Gateway providers including:

http://www.message-media.com.au
http://www.smsglobal.com.au
http://www.smsc.com.au
http://messagenet.com.au
http://www.directsms.com.au/index.php

New Practices in Flexible Learning
Txt Me: supporting disengaged youth using mobile technologies
Evaluation report November 2004

Schools are using SMS Gateways to send reminder message to students & parents.
Library SMS Notification Service
Schools to SMS parents

Search Engines

Cyward Internet Education
Search Engines & Specialized Directories
compiled by Nancy Picchi, Internet Consultant Updated July 24, 2006
http://www.cyward.com/speciali.htm

Search Engine Showdown: The users guide to Web Searching
by Greg R.Notess
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com

Search Engines for Children

http://www.askforkids.com
www.yahooligans.com

Google

Googling to the Max
UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops
Has an interesting list of ways to limit Google searches
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/limiting.pdf
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Google.html

Remember that Google is not the only search engine.
List of search engines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

Meta-Search Engines

Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines
By Chris Sherman | March 23, 2005 Unlike search engines, metacrawlers don't crawl the web themselves to build listings. Instead, they allow searches to be sent to several search engines all at once. The results are then blended together onto one page. Below are some of the major metacrawlers. Also see the Search Toolbars & Utilities page for metacrawler-style software that you can run from your desktop.
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2156241

Bare Bones Lesson 2: Metasearch engines
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/lesson2.shtml

Clusty: http://clusty.com
Dogpile: http://www.dogpile.com
Giggablast: http://www.gigablast.com
KartOO: http://www.kartoo.com
Mamma: http://www.mamma.com
Soople: http://www.soople.com

Meta-Search Engines
UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/MetaSearch.html

Australian search engines

http://au.altavista.com
http://au.yahoo.com
http://az.ezilon.com
http://search.aol.com.au
http://search.ninemsn.com.au
http://www.ansearch.com.au
http://www.askted.com.au
http://www.ausdict.org
http://www.ausearch.com.au
http://www.ausfind.com.au
http://www.aussie.com.au
http://www.australia.gov.au/rss
http://www.blackstump.com.au
http://www.citysearch.com.au
http://www.coo-ee.com.au
http://www.directory.com.au
http://www.hitcity.com.au
http://www.kids.net.au
http://www.live.com.au
http://www.matildasearch.com
http://www.mysearch.com.au
http://www.on-shopping.com.au
http://www.ozebiz.com.au
http://www.ozsearch.com.au
http://www.postcodes.com.au
http://www.search.net.au
http://www.search66.com
http://www.searchenginez.com.au
http://www.searchme.com.au
http://www.sensis.com.au
http://www.squizz.com.au
http://www.tas.gov.au/tasmaniaonline
http://www.webwombat.com.au
http://www.westaustraliaonline.com
http://www.wilddogsearch.com.au
http://www.yellowpages.com.au

Visual Search Engines

Search UI
General Visual Engines by Chris Fillius
http://www.searchlounge.org/index.php?cat=6

A Visual Search Engine for Music
By Chris Sherman | July 12, 2004 Want to find music similar to what you already enjoy? Musicplasma creates intriguing music maps revealing connections between musicians, styles and musical epochs.

http://www.quintura.com
http://kartoo.com
http://www.pagebull.com
http://www.mooter.com
http://www.musicplasma.com
http://live.grokker.com

General Directories

Lesson 1: Tool Type Primer
General and Specialized Directories What is a Directory?
http://www.suite101.com/lesson.cfm/18678/2019/2

A directory search tool organizes an index of web pages into a hierarchy of broad subjects such as Business, Computers, or Reference. It then breaks these broad subjects down into subcategories. more...

Recommended Subject Directories
UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/SubjDirectories.html

International General Directories

Best of the Web: http://botw.org
Open Directory Project: http://dmoz.org
Yahoo! Directory!: http://dir.yahoo.com

Specialised Directories

A specialized directory, focuses in on a very specific topic, field, or discipline. For example HealthFinder.gov is a specialized directory that focuses specifically on health topics, while ChemDex.org is a specialized directory that zeros in solely on chemistry-related links. more...

Internet & specialized directories, ISKIV Ltd
http://www.iskiv.net/expert/en/directories.html

Australian Specialised Directories

Australian Bureau of Statistics: http://www.abs.gov.au
Best of the Web Australia: http://www.bestoftheweb.com.au
Bureau of Meteorology: http://www.bom.gov.au
Whitepages: http://www.whitepages.com.au
Postcode Search: http://www1.auspost.com.au/postcodes
Yellowpages: http://www.yellowpages.com.au

International Specialised Directories

Chemdex: http://chemdex.org
Healthfinder: http://www.healthfinder.gov
Internet Archive for Moving Images: http://www.archive.org/details/movies
MedlinePlus: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus

Proximity Operators

A type of operator used by some search engines to improve search constraints by instructing the search to look for words that are within a short distance of each other in a document. For example, using a search engine that supports proximity operators, querying the phrase “cable NEAR modem” will instruct the search engine to look in documents for instances of the words “cable” and “modem” that are near each other.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/proximity_operator.html

Bare Bones Lesson 8: Searching with Boolean logic and proximity operators
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/lesson8.shtml

The OFFICE OF THE QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENTARY COUNSEL supports searching using Proximity Operators
http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/Core_pages/help-search.htm#proximity_operators

PANDORA, Australia's Web Archive supports searching using Proximity Operators
http://pandora.nla.gov.au
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/searchhelp.html

Random Links to be removed later

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/659289.html

http://forums.port80.asn.au/showthread.php?t=10712

http://www.australianlandscapes.com/index.html

http://www.booth.net.au/articles/adaware.htm

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