Lesson

Contextualized Online Search

3 and Research Skills

What’s In

In previous lesson, we discussed on online safety, security, ethics and etiquette

that we must take into consideration in using internet. Technology such mobile phone,
laptop, computer, and other electronic gadgets connect us to world through different
online platforms. Security and safety have been taught to us so that we can avoid risk
and danger online. As an individual who is part of online community must maintain
good social behavior. We need to adhere to the same standard behavior online that
we follow in real life. Now that you are ready to enter and explore the online world, this
lesson will teach you on online search and research skills.

What I Need to Know

Internet Research is a research method in collecting and gathering information via

internet by using search engine such as google.

Search Engine is a program that allows users to search for content on internet.

Examples of Search Engine

Google Aol Search Wow Baidu
Web Crawler Yahoo! Search MyWebSearch Wolframalpha
Bing Info Dogpile DuckDuckGo
Ask Infospace Contenko Internet Archive

Searching the Web

Getting the correct and reliable information is our goal in internet research. We
may rely on the capability of search engine but sometimes it may not give us the
correct information because of the keywords we entered into a search engine. There
are techniques in searching information that can be applied in search engine in order
to get a better result. Some search engines allow combination of words and logic
connectors of AND, OR, and NOT.
Tips for Effective Internet Research by George Mathews
1. Know what kind of research you want to do.
2. Make a list of keywords you will use in your search.
3. Enclose keywords in quotation marks.
4. Use the minus sign (-).
5. Try specialized search engines.
6. Skim through search results web pages.
7. Bookmark
8. Review your bookmarks.

Online Research Skills by Hannah Trierweiler Hudson

1. Check Your Sources
2. Ask Good Questions
3. Go Beyond the Surface
4. Be Patient
5. Respect Ownership
6. Use Your Networks

Copyright Issues
There are millions of information that we can get from the internet. Some of this
information are free but others are not. They are protected by a copyright law.

What is Copyright?
Copyright is a protection given to the owner of the rights in an original work such
as books, musical works, films, paintings, and other works, and computer programs.
This original work is called intellectual property which is protected under Republic Act
8293 known as the “Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines”.

Copyright Infringement
This happens when the copyrighted work is use by other person without
permission of the author or copyright holder. Any person who is infringing the right
protected work would be liable under the law. An example of this is the case of M.Y.
Intercontinental Trading Corporation (MITC), Tedwin T. Uy, Allianz Marketing and
Publishing Corp. (Allianz), and Fujian New Technology Color Making and Printing
Company, LTD (Fujian) against St. Mary’s Publishing Corporation (SMPC). Manila
regional trial court ordered Fujian and its partners to pay P24.7 million for the damages
and cost of litigation for copyright infringement to SMPC. Fujian and its three local
partners was guilty of printing, copying, reproducing, importing, distributing and selling
of original and revised textbooks that they have illegally sold to Department of
Education in Zamboanga, Municipality of Cabuyao in Laguna and Municipality of
Matnog in Sorsogon without the approval of SMPC, the copyright owner of the
textbooks.
Fair Use
Research is important to the students and other people. Most of them rely on
the information that they can get online. Although this information is protected by a
copyright law but we can still use this information without permission in a limited way
under certain condition and purpose.
Fair use is the use of copyrighted material for comment, teaching, criticism,
news reporting, research, scholarship, and other similar purpose is not an infringement
of copyright.
Example of this is when you post a quote from a person in your Facebook wall.
Include the name of person who owns the quote in your post. Another example is when
you copy image from internet, give credit to the creator of image. The copied image
should be use for educational purpose not for commercial use.
In fair use, 5% of the content of reference can only be copied. If 20% or less
of reference copied, there must be a secondary use agreement and fee. And if 20%
or more of reference copied, it requires purchasing of creative work.

Guidelines for Fair Use

1. Majority of the contents created must be yours.
2. Give credit to the owner.
3. Don’t make profit of the copyrighted work.
MODULE 3: Contextualized Online Search and Research Skills
ACTIVITY SHEET

What I Have Learned

Activity 1: Generalization
Directions: Answer the following questions below.
1. Is research online reliable? Why or Why not?

2. How can you show respect of other’s intellectual property?

What I Can do
Activity 2: Facts and Opinion Chart
Directions: Fill in the chart correctly by checking the correct
column and defend youranswer by writing on the Reason column.

Statements Facts Opinion Reason

1. All information from the

internet are reliable.

2. Giving credit to the owner of

the copied work is optional.

3. All the information can be

found on the internet.
Assessment

I. Multiple Choice:
Directions: Read and answer the questions below. Write the
letter of the correctanswer.
1. An application and website where user can communicate,
create, and sharecontent, and participate in online
communities?
A. Convergence C. Mobile Technologies
B. Social Media D. Assistive Media
2. What do you call for the markup language used in World Wide Web?
A. DNS C. HTTP
B. URL D. HTML
3. A web page that allows user to interact with web page?
A. Web 1.0 C. Web 3.0
B. Web 2.0 D. Web 4.0
4. A website that allows you to broadcast short message.

A. Social News C. Microblogging

B. Bookmarking Sites D. Media Sharing
5. Platform that assists person with disability.
A. Assistive Media C. Convergence
B. Social Media D. Semantic Web

II. True or False

Directions: Write “True” if the statement is true and write “False” if the
statement is
false.

1. It is right to copy the works of other people without asking permission.

2. All Information from the internet is free.
3. Search engine is a tool used in internet research.
4. All information from the internet is reliable.
5. Google is an example of search engine.
6. Child pornography is a form of cybercrime.
7. Committing crime on the internet is not punishable by law.
8. Do not share personal information to suspicious website or user.
9. Share your password with anyone.
10. Think before you click.