Asia EdNet Tutorial - Module 1

What's out there and how do you find it?

Introduction

In this module, you will:

• explore a range of studies of Asia resources available on the Internet;
• learn how to go about finding such resources.

This module deals with getting information from the Internet by visiting websites. Other ways of using the Internet to get information (such as through discussion groups and newsgroups) will be dealt with in Module 4.

Module 1 consists of the following sections:

	Exploring some Internet sites
	Task 1 - Exploring some sites
	Some different types of Internet sites
	Task 2 - Classifying Internet sites
	Finding the Internet sites you want
	Using subject directories
	Task 3 - A sample search in Yahoo!
	Task 4 - Using Yahoo! and the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
	Task 5 - About subject directories
	Task 6 - Using EdNA
	Using search engines
	Task 7 - Natural language searching
	Task 8 - Search strategies using keywords
	Task 9 - Searching on your own topic
	More advanced search techniques
	Task 10 - Meta-search engines

 
Note : You can choose to complete any or all parts of this module. You can simply follow the tutorial sequentially by clicking on the 'Next' arrow on each page or, if you have limited time, you may wish to only complete the Core  sections.