SCIENCEPOWER 10
Student Resources

Appendix B Using Resources and the Internet Effectively

The Spider's Apprentice: Some Tips on Web Searches
http://www.monash.com/spidap.html

Having a guide to explain how search engines work can help you plan your Internet-based research more effectively and efficiently. This site tells you what methods the computer uses to search, so you can find what you want quickly.

Netiquette Home Page
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/index.html

Brush up on the do's and don'ts for online communication here.

A Brief History of the Internet
http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html

An anecdotal history of the people and communities that brought about the Internet and the Web.

A Web Search Tutorial
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

This site, set up as a tutorial, provides some techniques on how to find information on the Internet.

Some search engines you can use include the following:

Altavista http://ca.altavista.com/

Excite http://www.excite.com/

Infoseek http://www.infoseek.com/

Hotbot http://www.hotbot.com/

Google http://www.google.com/ You can type in a sentence, and it will search based on your idea.

Google Canada http://www.google.ca

Yahoo http://ca.yahoo.com/ Canadian Yahoo (you can choose Canadian-only site searches).
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com/ Main and U.S. Yahoo.

Try searching for "online encyclopedia" at any of the above search engines - see what comes up! There are many more to choose form as well, but these should give you a good start.