Module 3: Finding and Evaluating Information on the World Wide Web

Concepts to Learn

Define and/or give an example of each of the following terms. You may want to use the "Help" function in the logon information window, the Infotech and Light on the Internet books. You may use other sources (including online sources). Please list them below.

1. Address/URL
2. Link
3. History
4. Favorites/Bookmarks
5. Refresh
6. Home
7. Home page
8. Browser
9. Navigate
10. Search Engine
11. Boolean Logic
12. Spider/bot
13. Retrieve/download/open
14. Internet host
15. Domain/top-level domain
16. IP address
17. DNS address
18. .org
19. .edu
20. .com
21. .gov
22. .mil
23. .net
24. .ma
25. Subject directory/tree
26. Database
27. Cache
28. Cookie
29. Keyword search
30. Search string/query
31. Advanced search
32. IRC (e.g ICQ,AIM,IM)
33. ISP
34. JAVA (Script)
35. html/shtml/xhtml
36. http/https
37. Credible
38. Relevant
39. Current
40. Objective
41. Reliable

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