TEC 3012: Preliminary Assessment of Web Searching Skills



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	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	Preliminary Assessment of Web Searching Skills Before we begin the course, I would like you to complete a preliminary web search activity that will help me evaluate your baseline web searching skills. Here’s the topic: "What was the relationship between guta percha and the first transatlantic telegraph cable?" Note: One of the words above has been deliberately misspelled… Use any of the web search tools you have at your disposal. In this preliminary activity, the process is more important than the product. Conduct your web search. Send the instructor a short e-mail message titled TEC 3012 preliminary assessment. List the web search tools that you selected and describe how you found (or didn’t find) the answer to the question. Send me the URL (internet address) of a webpage that contains the answer. This concludes the activities of the first module of the course. In the second module you will explore some background information that will help you better understand the World Wide Web. Click on the Background Information link on the left side of this webpage when you are ready to continue.

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Website maintained by Bob Jost \| bjost@josts.net \| last revised Jan. 1, 2002 Copyright © 1998-2002 by Bob Jost & Geoffrey Jost. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be transmitted, stored or recorded in any form without written permission from the authors.



instructor \| listserve \| web board \| project archives \| toolkit

	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	Preliminary Assessment of Web Searching Skills Before we begin the course, I would like you to complete a preliminary web search activity that will help me evaluate your baseline web searching skills. Here’s the topic: "What was the relationship between guta percha and the first transatlantic telegraph cable?" Note: One of the words above has been deliberately misspelled… Use any of the web search tools you have at your disposal. In this preliminary activity, the process is more important than the product. Conduct your web search. Send the instructor a short e-mail message titled TEC 3012 preliminary assessment. List the web search tools that you selected and describe how you found (or didn’t find) the answer to the question. Send me the URL (internet address) of a webpage that contains the answer. This concludes the activities of the first module of the course. In the second module you will explore some background information that will help you better understand the World Wide Web. Click on the Background Information link on the left side of this webpage when you are ready to continue.

Fresno Pacific University \| School of Professional Studies

Website maintained by Bob Jost \| bjost@josts.net \| last revised Jan. 1, 2002 Copyright © 1998-2002 by Bob Jost & Geoffrey Jost. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be transmitted, stored or recorded in any form without written permission from the authors.