Individual Activity For Module 1

Individual Activity for Module 1
Objectives:
Internet scavenger hunt of chosen professional track on the following:
- Work Opportunities
- Images and Videos on the impact of ICT
- Articles on the nature of ICT in the context of their lives, society, and professional tracks to be
used as reference for their reflection paper.
Apply search and research skills using advance Google Search tips.
For this activity you will be using Google Search Engine, the most popular search engine based on
estimated number of unique monthly visitors (retrieved on October 29, 2016 at
http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/search-engines).
Part 1: Launching the Google Search Engine
1. Click on your browser (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc.)
2. Once the browser is launched, go to the address box to type the URL: google.com and press
enter to launch Google Search Engine.
Address bar
URL : google.com
3. Once the Google Search Engine is launched, you can type in your search keywords or phrases.
Search textbox
Google Search Tips and Tricks

1. Explicit Phrase: When searching for something specific, to minimize the guesswork for Google
search, use quotes. When you put your search parameters in quotes, it tells the search engine to
search for the whole phrase. If you are looking for content about online marketing. Instead of
just typing online marketing into the Google search box, simply enclose the search phrase within
double quotes; “online marketing”.
2. Exclude Words: Let’s say you want to search for content about online marketing, but you want
to exclude any results that contain the term advertising. To do this, simply use the “-“ sign in
front of the word you want to exclude; online marketing –advertising
3. This OR That: By default, when you do a search, Google will include all the terms specified in the
search. If you are looking for any one of one or more terms to match, then you can use the OR
operator. (Note: The OR has to be capitalized); online marketing OR advertising
4. Words in the Text: If you want to find a webpage where all the terms you're searching for
appear in the text of that page (but not necessarily beside each other), type in allintext:
followed immediately by words or phrases; allintext : online marketing
5. How to Search Within a Website : Often, you want to search a specific website for content
that matches a certain phrase. Even if the site doesn’t support a built-in search feature,
you can use Google to search the site for your term. Simply use the site:somesite.com
modifier; site: www.forbes.com “online marketing”
6. Related Search: If you want to find new websites with similar content to a website you already
know of, use the related:somesite.com modifier; related: google.com.
7. Similar Words and Synonyms: Let’s say you want to include a word in your search, but also
want to include results that contain similar words or synonyms. To do this, use the ~ in front of
the word; “online marketing” ~professional
8. Word Definitions :If you need to quickly look up the definition of a word or phrase, simply use
the define: command. You can listen to the word's pronunciation by pressing the megaphone
icon; define: marketing
9. Specific Document Types : If you’re looking to find results that are of a specific type, you can
use the modifier filetype:. For example, you might want to find only PowerPoint presentations
related to online marketing; “online marketing” filetype:ppt
*source:http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/1264/12-Quick-Tips-To-Search-Google-Like-An-
Expert.aspx#sm.0001n5m6x178gdmqx7o1o1rh4vfed
Part 2: Google Search.
1. Search for work opportunities in your strand; use the following keywords with the phrase:
career opportunities in
ABM : business, business management, accountancy, marketing
HUMMS : humanities, social science
STEM : science and technology, mathematics, engineering
GAS : any of the items in all strands
Career opportunities in
business management
a. What are your observations with the results? About how many results were produced from
the search? _________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
b. Try to do the same search, this time put a double quotation (“ ) at the start and end of the
search phrase. Did it produce exactly the same result? Did you get the same number of
results? ____________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
c. Use the same search and exclude sales for business management (you can use related item
for your strand). What will be your search phrase?
___________________________________________________________________________
d. Try to search for career opportunities in more than one specific field, if you are searching for
careers in both accountancy and humanities what will be your search phrase?
___________________________________________________________________________
e. To better understand your strand, try searching the Department of Education website for
content on your specific strand. What will be your search phrase?
___________________________________________________________________________
f. List 5 possible work opportunities for your specific strand based from your search results
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
2. Search for the Impacts of ICT as reference for your reflection paper. Use the search results as
sources; make sure to copy the URL (Provide at least 2 sources for each item). Search for articles
that will help you answer the following questions:
a. How has ICT changed the way people live? Provide positive and negative effects of ICT in
general?
b. How has ICT affected society? How has it changed the way people learn, work, and
communicate?
c. What will be the role of ICT in the context of your professional track? What role will ICT play
in your future profession?
d. Search for images and videos showcasing impacts of ICT
3. Scholarly Research
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly
literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. It indexes most peer-reviewed
online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, preprints,
abstracts, technical reports and other scholarly literature, including court opinions and patents.
Other freely available sites with similar function include CiteSeerX and getCITED, as well as
subscription-based tools Elsevier’s Scopus and Thomas Reuters’ Web of Science.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Scholar).
To launch google scholar, type in the address bar scholar. google.com
*Notice the difference with google.com. Tips and tricks for searching also applies here.
a. Provide at least 3 scholarly articles (researches) on the impact of ICT in your professional track.
Provide title, author/s, year of publication and URL.

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