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Enhancing Online Research Skills for Counselor Educators

Learn how to evaluate websites, conduct effective web searches, and utilize innovative web tools in counseling education. Discover tips for assessing source credibility and content reliability. Enhance your online research skills today!

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Enhancing Online Research Skills for Counselor Educators

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  1. Using the Internet: Guidelines for Counselor Educators and Students Jodi Mullen Michael LeBlanc

  2. Topics • Evaluating a Web Site • Effective Strategies for Searching the Web • Innovative Uses of the Web • Extending the Classroom • Creating Listserves

  3. Session Goals • Provide strategies for evaluating websites • Demonstrate strategies for effectively searching the Web for information • Provide Counselor Educators and Students with innovative uses of the Web

  4. I. Evaluate the Source • Can the author be identified? • Are the author’s qualifications listed? • Is contact information supplied?

  5. Evaluate the Source • Who is the sponsor? • Domain names • .edu: educational institutions • .gov: government institutions • .com: commercially sites. • .net: Internet Service Provider • .org: Organizations (non- profit)

  6. Evaluate the Source New Domain Names • .aero: air transport industry • .biz: business • .pro: professional i.e., doctors, lawyers, accountants • .info: general • .museum: museums • .name: for individuals • .coop: cooperative

  7. Evaluate the Source • A tilde followed by a name in the URL may not be officially monitored by the sponsor www.oswego.edu/~leblanc

  8. II. Evaluate the Site • Does the page offer new or unique information? • Is the information important? • Is the page dated • Is the page current? • Is the site what it appears to be? www.gwbush.comwww.georgebush.com

  9. Evaluate the Site • What does the site offer that is not foundelsewhere? • Whatis the value of the information presented? • How thorough is the information? Ritalin 1 Ritalin 2

  10. III. Evaluate the Content • Is the purpose of to provide information or change opinion? • Is bias apparent? • Is the site selling something? • Is the information reliable? • Are references present?

  11. Searching the Web • How engines work • Databases compiled with use of “spiders” • Spiders index words from site on database • When you search for words you are searching the database for sites with words that match your request • Currency depends on search engine

  12. Searching the Web • What are you searching? • If you want specific information use the general search engines such as Google, AltaVista, HotBot, or Exite • If you have a broad topic, use a directory such as Yahoo to find information in a topic area • To browse lots of information, use a meta-directory such as Dogpile or do same search on several search engines

  13. Search Tips • If you need to refine a search • Excite suggests word lists to refine your first search • Yahoo lists useful categories • Good general purpose search engine is Google:

  14. Search Tips • Advanced searching strategies includes • + searches: Putting a plus sign before a word insures it will not be ignored • Star Wars Episode +I • - searches: Putting a minus sign before a word insures it will be ignored • +attention +deficit -hyperactivity

  15. Search Tips • “ ” searches: Using quotations around a phrase will search for a all enclosed words together • “counselor supervision” • Wildcard searches: Using * to in a truncated word • counsel* searches for counselor, counselors, and counseling • Use advanced searching pages to find out search engine possibilities e.g., google

  16. General Search Tips • Be specific as possible • The more words in the search term, the smaller the results • Make phrases enclosed in quotation marks when possible • Place most important words first in search phrases

  17. Extending the Classroom • Cooperative Learning • Threaded Discussions

  18. Creating Listserves

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