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"Back in August I shared an infographic featuring search strategies that every student can use. Yesterday, Vicki Davis posted a great companion to that infographic. Vicki shared this Google Search Modifiers Poster (link opens a PDF). Many of the modifiers featured in the poster can also be used by opening the advanced search menu in Google and making search choices. " Both the sites mentioned here and the links below the short article will be helpful in getting your students to use more productive search terms. T/H R. Byrne

Searching by file type and searching by domains is a great way for students to refine their Google searches. Searching for and within a DOC, a PPT, or XLS file can lead students to resources that they might not otherwise have seen.

A search engine for apps, organized first by the type of interface you are using: mobile, desktop, browser, or web (or all). May create some good short-cuts in the elusive quest for the perfect app.

Webinars to improve your search skills, many focused on education and designed to help teachers make their students' searches more successful.

This is a video tour of Google TV, which offers TV channels on the Web with an excellent search engine. Also has apps, e.g., connections to NetFlix, Twitter, Amazon, et al. You can use your mobile phone as a remote control and use voice search. You can watch TV and a website at the same time, e.g., for a sports event. More developments to come.

Pixabay was recently updated to make it easier than ever to find quality public domain images. Now when you visit the search page on Pixabay you can filter your search according to image type (photo, drawing, vector), image orientation (landscape or portrait), and image category (subject matter). T/H to R.Byrne

Pixabay was recently updated to make it easier than ever to find quality public domain images. Now when you visit the search page on Pixabay you can filter your search according to image type (photo, drawing, vector), image orientation (landscape or portrait), and image category (subject matter). Still, it's a time-consuming process. T/H to R.Byrne

"Introducing: the first search engine that can find podcasts according to the words spoken during them!"

An excellent site with mock-up sites to help students explore search engines, evaluate what they read on the Internet, plagarism, etc.

A Pinterest-type site with short reviews of lesson plans for teaching with film, and descriptions of films that might be used for education, especially those with cross-cultural interest. Will take some willingness to hunt, though there is a search engine.

"The online royalty free public domain clip art" The search engine works pretty well. A good place for adding illustrations to student projects.

Called "A collaborative rubric toolkit," the search engine will help you find a pre-created rubric, and has K-6 rubric sam[les for assessing student writing as well.

"740+ Online Courses, 18000+ Videos from Top 20+ Universities on 35+ Categories - Download in MP4, FLV, 3GP, MP3 and Torrents" - a very extensive list indeed, and a search engine. Subjects and universities listed.

Another way to use tagging. if it can be found in a search engine, you will see it displayed on a visual wall, as in this example from the Webheads in Action: http://spezify.com/#/webheads Makes using tags of all kinds even more important. Be sure your students select really unique tags. (In this example, there is a YouTube video and other materials related to Spider-Man, whose fans are also called "Webheads.")

"Explore the YUDU library to read online magazines, free eBooks and other digital content. Browse thousands of free digital magazines or buy your favourite titles in the YUDU Store. Self publish your own digital magazines, eBooks, digital brochures and more with our free publisher software. Simply upload your PDFs and other documents to create search engine friendly page-turning publications that can be added to your website or sent out on email. Create your own personalised library to store and share your digital magazines and other content. " Looks like a good way to "publish" things for your students to read, or for them to publish their own projects as a class magazine.

"All pictures on Ookaboo are available free under public domain or Creative Commons and can be used on web sites and for classwork and other creative projects." The site begins at a map with pegs for locations, or you can use a modet search engine. It willtake a little time to find something you want. Commons licensing for most pictures.

Got to Time.com, select the pull-down menu for Videos, and use the Search engine to find "10 Questions." There are hundreds of these--questions for famous people, newsmakers, politicians, etc. Great way to examine cultural assumptions, explore current events, etc. Teachers will have to develop the lessons. Recommended by Russell Stannard.

"TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it." It's handy that the site begins with a search engine to find a topic or URL in YouTube.

"A podcast sounds better with a bit of music in it. " This blog also has links to the Creative Commons search engine.

Hundreds of how-to videos (mainly on lifestyles) that could be used for Hot Pot exercises, particularly for high school-adult classes. Some content may be objectionable to the very strict (e.g. "How to Photograph a Nude Woman," though it is quite tastefully done), but most is highly practical, and some looks very professional. The only thing lacking is a good organizational system, besides its search engine general categories, and tags. A good project would be to have students make their own instructional video to add to the collection.