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 * Welcome to **** your Research Subject **

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**Subject expectation:** In week 8/9 you will present your research about a human rights issue to your classmates.

**During the next 9 weeks you will :**


 * Do better searches for information on the internet
 * Learn about search engines, browsers and URLs
 * Understand how to reference pictures and information legally (Copyright laws)
 * Learn how Australian teachers give marks for assessment tasks
 * Share information about a human rights issue
 * Work collaboratively with others
 * Develop your opinion into a presentation using ICT
 * Inform and persuade your classmates about a human rights topic (your choice of topic)
 * Self and peer assess your research and presentations

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 * Week 1: Laptops and wiki: passwords **

Watch video " Blood, Sweat and Luxuries" ABC TV IView. Think about some of the things you saw on the video and respond to the discussion question in the forum above.
 * Week 2: Human Rights **
 * Week 3: Human Rights **


 * 1**. What are your human rights? Watch this video about your human rights.

There are 30 articles. Go and have a brief look at them....here (keep this page open!)
 * 2.** Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says ** "All people are born free and equal" **.


 * Week 4: Human Rights: Looking at Websites for reliability **



media type="file" key="Analysing_websites.mp3" width="240" height="20" How do you know that information you find is reliable and accurate? It’s always important to consider the quality of the information you use. It’s especially important to critically evaluate web resources as there is no quality control on the internet. No single person or organisation has the task of verifying the authenticity and accuracy of sites. Responsibility of assessing the merit of information lies with you. So use the table (5 questions) below to help you. Translation here
 * I ntroduction. Listen and read along: **


 * 5 Questions to check a website's reliability and validity **


 * 1) **Who made it?** Can you find information about them on the site? Do you trust them?
 * 2) **Why?** What is the purpose of this website? Is it to teach you, inform you, persuade you or get you to buy something?
 * 3) **What kind of information?** Does the site just give opinions or is the information supported by facts, interviews, research, books or documents?
 * 4) **Where did the website come from?** - look at the URL for the domain name
 * 5) **When was this website published**? recently or years ago?

**Task 1**. Use the 5 questions to assess the Youth for Human Rights website. (answer in ENGLISH BOOK)

** 1. Who made the website? **
 * What is the name of the organization that started this website? Y f-- __H__- R-.
 * What year was the organisation founded? (History page)
 * Who is the founder and president of the organization? (//Look in 'Executive Staff')//

** 2. Why? **the **purpose** of this website

** 3. What kind of information? Can you see examples of how the YHR educates **

** 4. Where did the website come from? - look at the domain name in the URL. **

**What is the URL and what information can it tell me about the website?** The URL (address) of Google ** http://www.google.com. ** is broken into four parts:
 * **HTTP ** : the way information is sent over the internet
 * **://** : Separator
 * **www**: World Wide Web
 * **Google**:The website name
 * **com **: domain name (.com for commercial.)

Other domain names. Which ones would be more **reliable** sources for your research?
 * **.com** initially related to commercial companies. Very common.
 * **.edu** relates to educational organisations;
 * **.gov** relates to governmental organisations;
 * **.net** initially related to networks.
 * **.org** usually relate to **//not for profit//** organisations
 * **.biz** (//business//) relating to commercial companies

5. When was this website published? recently or years ago? (Look at the bottom of the page for a date)

**Task 2**. Learn about assessing websites here Which 3 questions do you think are the most important for you in your research? You will need to share your learning with your classmates so take your time understanding each point!

**Task 3** Go to the discussion forum above and share something you learned from today's lesson

**Task 4 (if time) ** // **Human Right Number 2. Don’t Discriminate.** These rights belong to everybody, whatever our differences. //

What is it saying in your own words? You are going to watch a short video about discrimination //Think about these 2 questions and write the answers on the sheet://
 * 1) //Why was the boy discriminated against?//
 * 2) //What lesson did the taller boy learn about discrimination?//

//Note!!!! While you are waiting for the video to load, please go to Task 2// Watch number 2 video about the discrimination human right.


 * Week 7: Searching with Google **

[|Searching with Google:]

//Let's say we want to search for information about the life of Egyptians in Ancient Egypt.// 1. Type in the word egypt and see how many hits you get. Jot down the number. How effective do you think this was?

//The more words you add to the search, the more relevant hits you will get.// 2. Try putting in the words. ancient egypt (just type in the words) How many hits did you get?

//Using quotation marks, " ", around a phrase or a set of words in a particular order will give you results that only search for that particular phrase or group of words.// 3. Try typing in "ancient egypt" and see how many hits did you get.?

//What if you specifically want to find information about how the pyramids were built in Ancient Egypt?// 4. Type in "how were the pyramids built" (don't forget to use the quotation marks) Write down the number of hits. What do the first few sites tell you?

//But this still does not necessarily get you the links that you need so lets see if we can narrow the search even more.// // Lets say that we want to find sites that are easier to read and have information that isn't too complicated. //

5. Type in the words **"ancient egypt" kids.** How many hits do you get? You will see that you actually get more hits than the last search. Why do you think that is? What do you notice about the types of sites that now appear? Are they more suitable for students? How do you know?

6. Now send a few minutes looking at this list of things to do when you research the net. Tips for searching the net

//Now think about your Human Rights Topic that you need to search for.// 7. Try typing in up to 10 words that are related to the topic. e.g Human Rights,discrimination, kids How does that change the search results?

Collaborate on your research project in groups 8. You are going to research a Human Right in groups of 3 or 4: Use this link to go to a document to collect your research and links to websites

Group 1: Group 1

Group 2 Group2 Group 3 Group 3

Group 4 group 4

Group 5 group 5

Group 6 group 6


 * Locate a definition of the Human Right. Copy and paste then link the website source.


 * Give examples/ an example of an abuse of this Human Right. (Google search - example: "discrimination example") Copy and paste some information and reference the site.


 * Find another reliable site and copy/paste information and link. (using the 5 questions we have learned to assess websites - 1.who made it? 2. Why did they make it? 3. What type of information is it? (opinion/ research/ sales etc) 4. What's the domain name? (.org/.gov/ .com) 5. When was it made? (still relevent?)


 * Find a Powerpoint presentation of the abuse of Human Right (Google search - advanced search - discrimination kids. Type of File: powerPoint) Link the PPT . Reference it.


 * Find some images to visually show the topic. Go to Fickrcc here . copy and paste the images and link the source.

**7. Use the discussion forum above to share your ideas.** Write a paragraph about what you have discovered so far about Google Searching. What have you learnt so far? How will this change the way you search using Google? Be specific about the strategies you will use.