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Sharpen your skills with our featured Internet Search Challenges. Test your strategies and tactics as you attempt to solve puzzling Internet research problems efficiently and effectively.

Internet Search Challenge

Twitter is one application of a broader category called microblogging. You've seen it on The View, you've watched it creep into night time dramas, you've heard it in the news, you've seen Larry King take on Ashton Kutcher with their one million follower challenge. Ashton Kutcher got over one million followers and beat Larry King / CNN. Ashton had 1,230,000+ and CNN had 980,000+ where the match actually bought malaria nets for children in Africa. Isn't this a great application of social media; helping kids?

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Using the keyword challenge would be a great way to help students identify keywords in an article. This would help juniors studying for the Language Arts section of the GHSGT.

I love these action zone games that reinforce finding and identifying information. These are great activities that would engage students while helping them gain research skills in a "real world" setting. Great activity!

I think these games are great. We could use the games we played yesterday to formulate a search--somewhere we'd have to talk about boolean operators. And then the next step would be to actually find the answer. From this page there are times to beat--how long did it take to find the answer with your search?

I think the games would be particularly helpful to illustrate to students which words they can leave out of their searches. It might help the more astute students think about word substitutions too.