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"A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging."

"A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging."

A useful post that give a lot of good advice about how to get the best from your Google searches. Google has become very good at understanding and providing relevant results for many popular queries, so there are a lot of people getting into bad habits and lazy with their searches and simply taking the auto-selected results. As teachers we should be teaching our students to explore more deeply and critically appraise all their results before coming to any conclusions or using the information. Students need to learn to use Google search modifiers. These manual commands can be used in any search queries and will allow you force Google to bring you the results you want.

There is a new digital divide on the horizon. It is not based around who has devices and who does not, but instead the new digital divide will be based around students who know how to effectively find and curate information and those who do not. Helene Blowers has come up with seven ideas about the new digital divide - four of them, the ones I felt related to searching, are listed below.

Infotopia-A Safe Google Alternative Search Engine for Students

Some useful tips to improve your Google searches

Links to a number of visual search engines

Handy tips on how to search on Google

The latest tips on how to use google for more efficient searching

"My goal in this article is to help you understand the available Evernote search tools, so that you will find it even easier and more enjoyable to use, than it already is. And if you're not a current Evernote user, to encourage you to take a look (or another look) at it. Note that these methods can be used in both desktop and web versions."

Use the Resources search on the right side for Browse and Advanced searching.

Search this wiki (quality content is starred), then follow article links to more information

I subscribe to Echoeducation and find it really useful for my senior secondary English classes. It can be searched for articles in the Australian media and also compiles information and articles about current issues.

Contains information and screen casts about how to teach better searching techniques to students. This article ties in with the ideas of e-learning and digital literacy.

A powerful search tool for the collections of our national, state and territory libraries, including vast resources such as digitised newspapers.

National library of australia

Search Trove for online resources including books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives.

Use Pandora a feature from Trove to search for a selection of archived websites.

Info lit exercises from Google

Good search engine for students; has American bias

Another alternative to Google for students