Using the Internet Safely: YEAR 7

1. Be specific in your searches

2. Use more than one search engine

3. Use quotes to locate a specific phrase

4. Surfing the Web

5. Your online footprint is "a trail that people can follow" all the while being able to find out information about you.

6. The things that you put online can be seen by lots of people and have the possibility to remain online forever.

7. Your "Online Footprint"

8. YOU, YOUR FRIENDS, THE INTERNET

9. NETS: S

9.1. S stands for Looking For SIMILAR pages, this entails looking at pages that could have a similar url

10. NETS: T

10.1. T stands for TRIM BACK THE URL: Instead of searching for the entire ur, trim it down to the basic company, ie www.oxfordlibrary.com rather than www.oxfordlibrary.com/this-is-how-i-make-an-example/this-is-an-example-of-an-example

11. NETS: E

11.1. FIND EXACT PHRASES: when searching for something, use the exact phrases: this is especially helpful when trying to source poems or songs that you may only know certain lines of etc etc.

12. NETS: N

12.1. NARROW: in the "with all words field" enter what you think would appear if you found a perfect website.

12.2. Put anything that might be distracting in the WITHOUT FIELD to eliminate them from your search

12.3. If you have terms with synonyms which might be able to assist your search, put it in the WITH ANY OF THE WORDS field

13. It can show your profile pictures, posted pictures and even the comments that you leave on online forums/posts

14. What your online footprint can show

15. HELP