Media: a means of communication through which one can transfer information
Technophobe: a person who fears, dislikes, or avoids technology
Technogeek: a person who is an expert in technology and constantly keeps up with the newest technology
Digital native: a person born during or after the digital era (circa the '90s)
Digital immigrant: a person born before the digital era (who is usually not very familiar with technology)
Information literacy: the ability to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information
Clues of information literacy:
Currency: how recent is the website?
Audience: who is the target audience of the website?
Validity: does the website have valid references?
Authority: who made the website content?
Point of view: is the website content biased?
Basic goe sarch operators:
- (minus sign/hyphen): a word that follows this sign isn't included in the search
~ (this wormy sign): synonyms of the word that follows this sign are included in the search
" " (double quotation marks): to search for a specific set of words
* (asterisk): to find a word that comes before/between/after a phrase
site: (site colon): to find information from a specific site
related: (related colon): to find websites of a similar kind
define: (define colon): to give a complete dictionary entry of a word (definition, word origin, synonyms, antonyms)
CAUTION: DO NOT PRESS SPACE AFTER ANY OF THESE OPERATORS
What makes a bad PowerPoint presentation?
-Inconsistency
-Illegible text or graphic
-Obnoxious background or graphic
-Distracting animation
-Image put there for no reason at all
-Gratuitous graphic
-Too much text
How to zip a file:
-Right click, send to zip
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