Survival guide

Survival guide

Introduction

everybody wishes for more success, motivation and fun in the program, and wants stress-free reading, studying and writing. There are many tips and tricks for organizing and learning your studies. To determine your goals and strengths to motivation and concentration techniques are essential for perfect learning days, examination periods and thesis. While it is important that students learn to find information in a dictionary or an encyclopedia, it is important to learn how to find information online, what are the basic skills needed to move in the context of navigation.  This paper will go all through the important aspects of survival guide in study (Zook, 1997).

Discussion

Web searching skills

Searches of information: the information seeking process is part of the basic skills needed for project work and problem solving. We have already referred to the wide possibilities offered by the Internet in this regard, and the skills needed to make good use of this service. In this sense, has a special interest when it comes to access to information sources not available locally or are changing. The information is obtained by means of remote databases, e-mail or conference. This has the potential to offer a broader curriculum, not only nor linear. To the extent that not all students will access the same information will be possible to complement and contrast work (Zook, 1997).

The Internet space is being considered as a desired and feared at the same time, he has not had its beginnings in a direct relationship with the educational field but, in so far as it has become a means of social communication in a meeting place and communication in a large database with updated information until the last minute is very obvious to suppose that can or should become an educational resource.

Teaching about the Internet

While it is important that students learn to find information in a dictionary or an encyclopedia, it is important to learn how to find information online, what are the basic skills needed to move in the context of navigation. It is suggested that students develop skills to:

The web browsing using the tools of browsers and links between the portals.

Articulate and express orally and in writing the findings of navigation and the concepts we are looking for.

Must get a proper know how of using Phoenix database and other online libraries.

Read the contents of a web page to make decisions about where to find information on the site.

Recognize a page who is the creator and who is the one that's promoting.

Articulate orally and in writing how the page is built.

Know the difference between a website and a website.

Recognize the differences between the information presented on the Web and a textbook and evaluate the conditions under which it is advisable to use one or other resource.

Evaluate a website, according to various criteria.

Evaluate different textbooks and compare with the evaluation of websites.

Joint search resources with concepts and strategies (Zook, 1997).

Knowledge of key concepts for conducting searches

Students must learn to analyze their search strategies. One of the most important skills related to Internet use is the planning ...