Title: Activity 2.2. Practice Efficient Searching
Course: Digital Fundamentals > Section: Topic 2: Internet Fundamentals and Applications

Aim: To assist in efficiently locating resources to be used in your academic activities.

Motivation: To use your new skills in power searching (Activity 4) to find a scholarly article on a specific theme.

Task:  Search for and locate a specific resource, as described below.

Duration: 45 minutes

Tools: Internet; search engine; Web browser.

Resource:  Power Search with Google course skills explored in Activity 4.

What to do:

- Find a resource that emphasises the importance, challenges, and drawbacks of using ICT for visual impaired students in higher education institutions; OR
- Identify a particular area of research where you need to find a useful article, and undertake a search using appropriate keywords.
- Make a note of your challenges in locating the suitable article/s, and record the URL of the article/s you have located.

How:

- Use the resources, techniques, and searching skills you accessed and learnt in the Power Searching with Google course.
- Use the Google Scholar search facility to find downloadable article/s of interest to you.
- Contribute your notes by posting to the discussion forum.

Feedback/Response: (peer review)

- Read and respond constructively to at least one other person’s contribution.
- Read the other people’s responses to your own contribution.

Assessment:

Completing this activity will count towards your course portfolio