514-2 Operating Systems



Enkelejda (Maggie) Mullaj

3/3/09

SED 514 Assignment 4

Web RESOURCES

1) Internet Vocabulary – Define the following terms/acronyms:

Search Engine: 1) A software program that searches a database and gathers and reports information that contains or is related to specified terms.

2) A website whose primary function is providing a search engine for gathering and reporting information available on the Internet or a portion of the Internet.

Web Crawler: A search portal that searches other search engines for results provides yellow and white page lookup and offers three levels of searching: general Web pages, news and photos. It also provides featured listings and site recommendations by category. The site is run by Infospace, Inc., which also owns the and brands. For more information, visit .

Boolean logic: of or relating to a combinatorial system devised by George Boole that combines propositions with the logical operators AND and OR and IF THEN and EXCEPT and NOT

Wildcard: A symbol that stands for one or more unspecified characters, used especially in searching text and in selecting multiple files or directories.

Firewall: Any of a number of security schemes that prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to a computer network or that monitor transfers of information to and from the network.

Start saving all your links as bookmarks/favorites

(2) WWW searching: Use Google, Alta Vista or other search engine with advanced search features to locate web sites relevant to your teaching. Use Boolean search (aka advanced search) or wildcard characters to perform 2 different searches.

Be sure to save the sites you find in the favorites list

| |Topic you are searching for|Search strings used |# of good sites in the |

| | | |first 20 |

|1 | | |4 |

| |Grammar (present tense vs. |English grammar | |

| |present continuous) | | |

| | | | |

| | | | |

|2 | |present tense |5 |

| | | | |

| | |present continuous/progressive | |

(3) Research with Electronic Resources:

Identify a teaching topic that you would like to learn more about. Try to keep the topic narrow (e.g. ‘Battle of Gettysburg’ rather than ‘US History’).

Topic: Present tense vs. present Continuous Tense

Identify 7 different online resources to gain information on each of the two topics (fill in table below). Choose resources of different types including encyclopedias, newspaper, personal accounts, fiction, video, audio,

|Topic of research ( | |

|URL |Site |Key information from resource ( |Screen capture( |

| |name | | |

|http:/|present |Info on English grammar. This website is |[pic] |

|/e|tense |very advanced and it can be rather | |

|nglish| |challenging for the students. | |

|page.c| | | |

|om/ver| | | |

|bpage/| | | |

|simple| | | |

|presen| | | |

|t.html| | | |

|http:/|present |330 grammar is a simpler version of |[pic] |

|/web2.|tense |present continuous tense. It is very easy| |

|uvcs.u| |to access and there are exercises for | |

|vic.ca| |students to practice. | |

|/elc/s| | | |

|tudyzo| | | |

|ne/330| | | |

|/gramm| | | |

|ar/pre| | | |

|s.htm | | | |

|http:/|present |This website contains many quizzes, but |[pic] |

|/gramm|tense |the students will need to work with this | |

|c| |website in the class because they might | |

|.commn| |need help surfing through the website. | |

|et.edu| | | |

|/gramm| | | |

|ar/ | | | |

|http:/|present |Present Progressive is explained in |[pic] |

|/e|progress|detail here and there are plenty of | |

|go4u.c|ive |exercises for the students to understand | |

|om/en/| |and grasp the main uses of this | |

|cram-u| |particular tense. | |

|p/gram| | | |

|mar/pr| | | |

|esent-| | | |

|progre| | | |

|ssive/| | | |

|form/e| | | |

|xercis| | | |

|es | | | |

|http:/|present |330 grammars - simplified version of |[pic] |

|/web2.|progress|present progressive. | |

|uvcs.u|ive | | |

|vic.ca| | | |

|/elc/S| | | |

|tudyZo| | | |

|ne/330| | | |

|/gramm| | | |

|ar/pco| | | |

|nt.htm| | | |

|http:/|present |Here we have a comparison between present|[pic] |

|/g|tense vs|tense and present progressive. There are | |

|rammar|present |clear explanations with many examples. | |

|-quizz|progress| | |

||ive | | |

|/prese| | | |

|nttens| | | |

|es1.ht| | | |

|ml | | | |

|http:/|present |More practice on both tenses. The student|[pic] |

|/e|tense vs|can get plenty of practice. | |

|go4u.c|present | | |

|om/en/|progress| | |

|cram-u|ive. | | |

|p/gram| | | |

|mar/si| | | |

|mpre-p| | | |

|repro/| | | |

|tests?| | | |

|test1 | | | |

(4) Web Quest:

Describe an assignment or quest where students would use the resources you identified above to learn about the topic and draw conclusions.

A) Introduction (provide context for the quest)

Present tense and present continuous are very useful in the English language. You can use present tense when you want to talk about something in general, a habitual action or state a fact. For example

1) I like music and chocolate

2) I smoke and drink daily.

3) The sun is hot.

We use the present progressive when the action we are referring to is happening right now. For example:

1) He is driving now, do not call him.

2) My father is feeding the dog.

B) Task (what is the goal of the quest)

The goal for the quest is for students to familiarize themselves with these two tenses. they are relatively simple, but they can get complicated when thinking of time in general and thinking of time in isolation.

C) Process (what are the steps the students will go through)

The students will have to go in the websites after I will have explained the painful theory and then they have to surf the websites and jump on the practice exercises. The exercises will allow them to think of exceptions as well and to realize that English is a bit different from what they originally had thought when first came to this country.

D) Evaluation (how will the quest be evaluated)

Evaluation is very easy because the websites provide ample feedback and the feedback is very easy to understand. ESL classes are usually small in number if the school is expensive, so the teacher can walk around and monitor progress and another way how to evaluate progress is by calling students in front of the board and ask them to do an exercise.

(5) Job search:

Use Internet job search services to obtain two announcements for a teaching job in your discipline, one within California, and one outside of California. Post screen shots of both job ads here

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(6) School Information: use Dataquest

Obtain standardized test scores for your school from the California State Department of Education. Get a screen shot of the test results and interpret them (what do those scores tell you).

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(7) Professional Organization:

Locate the web site for a professional organization related to your teaching discipline (e.g. National Science Teacher Association, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, College Board, etc.) Identify the date and location of the next national meeting, and find the costs of airline flights necessary to take you from LAX to the site of the convention.

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This year the CATESOL will be held in Pasadena, California, so no plane tickets will be involved.

(8) WWW Bookmarks/Favorites:

Create a list of bookmarks (Firefox) or favorites (Explorer) of the best links you have found for use in a subject you teach. Organize the bookmarks/favorites into folders and subfolders and name them appropriately. Export your bookmarks/favorites file to an HTML file. (if you don’t know how to do this check your browser’s help pages)

Open your list as an HTML page and post a screen shot of the HTML file here.

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