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Cathy Oxley

Free Technology for Teachers: Beyond Google - Improve Your Search Results - 20 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...oogle-improve-your-search.html

search Google education searchengine research information literacy blog research 2.0

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  • Cathy Oxley on 23 Nov 09
     
    " Beyond Google - AddThis Posted by Mr. Byrne at 2:12 PM Labels: Google, Internet search, teaching technology, Teaching With Technology, Technology Integration, web search, web search strategies 5 comments: SIS Media Specialist said... Geesh Richard, another great resource; like your posts are not enough. Many, many thanks. I have followed your blog for about a year and have learned SO MUCH. I understand you are from CT. Any chance we can get you to the joint annual CASL/CECA (Connecticut Association of School Librarians and Connecticut Educators Computer Association) conference next year? October 24, 2009 10:35 PM Mr. Byrne said... Yes, I am originally from Connecticut. In fact, I went to CCSU for freshman year. I'd like to come to CASL/CECA. Can you send me an email? richardbyrne (at) freetech4teachers Thanks. October 25, 2009 6:47 AM Linux and Friends said... Thanks for the amazing document. I am aware of a few of the resources listed in the document. However, many of the others are new to me. I will definitely check them out. November 2, 2009 9:45 PM dunnes said... I visited and bookmarked four sites from this post! Thank you for the great resource. Students want to use Google rather than stick to the school library catalog, but they need more instruction on how to do this. I have seen too many children search with ineffective terms, and then waste time clicking on their random results. November 8, 2009 12:38 PM Lois said... Beyond Google is a great resource. I wish I had your skills for taking what you learn and putting it together as you do. I love reading your daily blog. November 15, 2009 10:04 AM Post a Comment Links to this post Beyond Google: Improve Your Search Results http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/10/beyond-google-improve-your-search.html While working with some of my colleagues in a workshop earlier this week, I was reminded that a lot of people aren't familiar with tools
James Whittle

12 Ways To Use Google Search In School, By Degree Of Difficulty | Edudemic - 33 views

edudemic.com/...school-by-degree-of-difficulty

information_literacy search_engines

shared by James Whittle on 15 May 12 - No Cached
  • James Whittle on 15 May 12
     
    From the site: "I've been completely obsessed with Google's new mini-site devoted to finding better ways to incorporate proper web searches into the classroom. Dubbed 'Search Education,'Google's new site has an array of lesson plans, videos (check a sample out below), concept maps, and other tools designed to help any educator properly integrate Google." This is just the logical next step for the search (and basically everything else) behemoth as Google pushes its way into the classroom. As part of Search Education, Google has shared a bunch of lesson plans that are organized by degree of difficulty. So, if you consider yourself and / or your students Google experts, you should try out the more advanced plans. If you don't know what 'boolean' means, then you probably should start with the more basic stuff. The following are just some of the many lesson plans brought to you by Google. Check out the site for more info!
Cathy Oxley

Google For Educators - Classroom Posters - 2 views

www.google.com/...posters.html

google posters education resources reference search howto lessons

shared by Cathy Oxley on 24 May 11 - Cached
  • Lissa Davies on 24 May 11
     
    Classroom posters from Google
  • Cathy Oxley on 19 Oct 12
     
    Free Google posters to print including Google Search tips, Google Book Search, Google Scholar and Google Earth.
jenibo

Free Technology for Teachers: Activities for Teaching Students How to Research With Goo... - 4 views

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professional development research 2.0

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  • jenibo on 19 Aug 14
     
    "Google Books can be a good research tool for students if they are aware of it and know how to use it. These are activities to teach students and others about the features of Google Books. 1. Search for a book by using the "researching a topic?" search box. 2. Use the advanced search menu to refine your search to "full view only" books. 3. Use the advanced search menu to refine a search by date, author, or publisher. 4. Search within a book for a name or phrase. 5. Download a free ebook. 6. Share an ebook via the link provided or by embedding it into a blog post. 7. Create a bookshelf in your Google Books account and add some books to it. 8. Share your bookshelf with someone else. "
Robin Cicchetti

It's official: Google wants to own your online identity - Tech News and Analysis - 7 views

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identity privacy identity service real name google digital footprint

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      Robin Cicchetti on 30 Aug 11
       
      Users forfeit the ownership of their user data to Google.
  • Google’s purpose was clearly to “provide identity in a commerce-ready way. And to give them information about what you do on the Internet, without obfuscation of pseudonyms.
  • obvious search-related rationale for launching a social network like Google+, since indexing and mining that kind of activity can help the company provide better “social search” results. But the real-name issue has more to do with Google’s other business: namely, advertising.
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  • The growth of Google+ provides a reason for people to create Google profiles, and that data — along with their activity on the network and through +1 buttons — goes into the vast Google cyberplex where it can be crunched and indexed and codified in a hundred different ways
  • excludes potentially valuable viewpoints that might be expressed by political dissidents and others who prefer to remain anonymous. In effect, Schmidt said Google isn’t interested in changing its policies to accommodate those kinds of users: if people want to remain anonymous, he said, then they shouldn’t use Google+.
  • the reason Google needs users with real names is that the company sees Google+ as the core of an identity platform it is building that can be used for other things:
  • n identity service, so fundamentally, it depends on people using their real names if they’re going to build future products that leverage that information
beth gourley

The Library in the New Age - The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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  • four fundamental changes in information technology since humans learned to speak.
  • around 4000 BC, humans learned to write.
  • the invention of writing was the most important technological breakthrough in the history of humanity
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  • second technological shift when the codex replaced the scroll sometime soon after the beginning of the Christian era. By the third century AD, the codex—that is, books with pages that you turn as opposed to scrolls that you roll
  • eventually included differentiated words (that is, words separated by spaces
  • other reader's aids
  • codex, in turn, was transformed by the invention of printing with movable type in the 1450s.
  • technology of printing did not change for nearly four centuries, but the reading public grew larger and larger, thanks to improvements in literacy, education, and access to the printed word.
  • fourth great change, electronic communication
  • movable type to the Internet, 524 years;
  • writing to the codex, 4,300 years;
  • codex to movable type, 1,150 years;
  • would argue that the new information technology should force us to rethink the notion of information itself.
  • Internet to search engines, nineteen years
  • search engines to Google's algorithmic relevance ranking, seven years;
  • continued at such a rate as to seem both unstoppable and incomprehensible.
  • continuity I have in mind has to do with the nature of information itself or, to put it differently, the inherent instability of texts.
  • every age was an age of information, each in its own way, and that information has always been unstable.
    • beth gourley
      beth gourley on 25 May 08
       
      premise
  • pace of change seems breathtaking:
  • news has always been an artifact and that it never corresponded exactly to what actually happened.
  • News is not what happened but a story about what happened.
  • aving learned to write news, I now distrust newspapers as a source of information, and I am often surprised by historians who take them as primary sources for knowing what really happened
  • newspapers should be read for information about how contemporaries construed events, rather than for reliable knowledge of events
  • We live in a time of unprecedented accessibility to information that is increasingly unreliable. Or do we?
  • as messages that are constantly being reshaped in the process of transmission
  • Instead of firmly fixed documents, we must deal with multiple, mutable texts. By studying them skeptically on our computer screens, we can learn how to read our daily newspaper more effectively—and even how to appreciate old books.
  • Unbelievers used to dismiss Henry Clay Folger's determination to accumulate copies of the First Folio edition of Shakespeare as the mania of a crank.
  • When Folger's collection grew beyond three dozen copies, his friends scoffed at him as Forty Folio Folger.
  • eighteen of the thirty-six plays in the First Folio had never before been printed
  • only two were reprinted without change from earlier quarto editions
  • extual stability never existed in the pre-Internet eras.
  • Piracy was so pervasive in early modern Europe that best-sellers could not be blockbusters as they are today
  • They abridged, expanded, and reworked texts as they pleased, without worrying about the authors' intentions.
  • question in perspective by discussing two views of the library, which I would describe as grand illusions—grand and partly true.
  • o put it positively, there is something to be said for both visions, the library as a citadel and the Internet as open space.
  • We have come to the problems posed by Google Book Search.
  • Google proposal seemed to offer a way to make all book learning available to all people, or at least those privileged enough to have access to the World Wide Web
  • will open up possibilities for research involving vast quantities of data, which could never be mastered without digitization
  • Electronic Enlightenment, a project sponsored by the Voltaire Foundation of Oxford
  • scholars will be able to trace references to individuals, books, and ideas throughout the entire network of correspondence that undergirded the Enlightenment
  • notably American Memory sponsored by the Library of Congress[1] and the Valley of the Shadow created at the University of Virginia[2] —have demonstrated the feasibility and usefulness of databases on this scale
  • will make research libraries obsolete
  • 2. Although Google pursued an intelligent strategy by signing up five great libraries, their combined holdings will not come close to exhausting the stock of books in the United States.
  • 1. According to the most utopian claim of the Googlers, Google can put virtually all printed books on-line.
  • If Google missed this book, and other books like it, the researcher who relied on Google would never be able to locate certain works of great importance.
  • On the contrary, Google will make them more important than ever. To support this view, I would like to organize my argument around eight points.
  • For books under copyright, however, Google will probably display only a few lines at a time, which it claims is legal under fair use.
  • 3. Although it is to be hoped that the publishers, authors, and Google will settle their dispute, it is difficult to see how copyright will cease to pose a problem.
  • But nothing suggests that it will take account of the standards prescribed by bibliographers, such as the first edition to appear in print or the edition that corresponds most closely to the expressed intention of the author.
  • Google defines its mission as the communication of information—right now, today; it does not commit itself to conserving texts indefinitely.
  • it has not yet ventured into special collections, where the rarest works are to be found. And of course the totality of world literature—all the books in all the languages of the world—lies far beyond Google's capacity to digitize
  • Electronic enterprises come and go. Research libraries last for centuries. Better to fortify them than to declare them obsolete
  • 5. Google will make mistakes.
  • Once we believed that microfilm would solve the problem of preserving texts. Now we know better.
  • 6. As in the case of microfilm, there is no guarantee that Google's copies will last.
  • all texts "born digital" belong to an endangered species
  • 7. Google plans to digitize many versions of each book, taking whatever it gets as the copies appear, assembly-line fashion, from the shelves; but will it make all of them available?
  • 4. Companies decline rapidly in the fast-changing environment of electronic technology.
  • No single copy of an eighteenth-century best-seller will do justice to the endless variety of editions. Serious scholars will have to study and compare many editions, in the original versions, not in the digitized reproductions that Google will sort out according to criteria that probably will have nothing to do with bibliographical scholarship.
  • 8. Even if the digitized image on the computer screen is accurate, it will fail to capture crucial aspects of a book.
  • ts physical aspects provide clues about its existence as an element in a social and economic system; and if it contains margin notes, it can reveal a great deal about its place in the intellectual life of its readers.
  • Rare book rooms are a vital part of research libraries, the part that is most inaccessible to Google. But libraries also provide places for ordinary readers to immerse themselves in books,
  • Meanwhile, I say: shore up the library.
  • I also say: long live Google, but don't count on it living long enough to replace that venerable building with the Corinthian columns.
  • he research library still deserves to stand at the center of the campus, preserving the past and accumulating energy for the future.
  • beth gourley on 25 May 08
     
    The library as citadel and as the open internet both play an important and distinguishable role.
jenibo

7 Indispensable Google Scholar Search Tips Teachers Should Know about ~ Educational Tec... - 47 views

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google scholar technology

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  • jenibo on 30 Sep 14
     
    Google Scholar is definitely one of the best academic search engines out there.  The search part which I am sharing with you today is only a small part of what you really can do with Google scholar. There are actually several other features that are indispensable for academics and student researchers. Staring from today, I will be sharing with you some of the tips and ideas on how to unravel the hidden mysteries of Google scholar and tap into its full educational potential.
Cathy Oxley

By The Numbers: Twitter Vs. Facebook Vs. Google Buzz - 4 views

searchengineland.com/-facebook-vs-google-buzz-36709

twitter facebook google yahoo bing statistics research 2.0

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  • Cathy Oxley on 11 Feb 11
     
    "Updates/Posts * Facebook status updates: 700 per second * Twitter tweets: 600 per second * Buzz posts: 55 per second And compared to searches * Google: 34,000 searches per second * Yahoo: 3,200 searches per second * Bing: 927 searches per second"
jenibo

Pause Google: 8 Alternative Search Engines To Find What Google Can't - 39 views

www.makeuseof.com/...gines-to-find-what-google-cant

research 2.0 searchengines

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  • jenibo on 28 Jun 14
     
    "Yes, if you really want to go into those little hidden lanes of the web you need to keep a roster of alternative search engines close by. Here's a roll call of some search engines which can grab for you what even Google can't."
Cathy Oxley

Get more out of Google - printable poster - 52 views

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google pdf poster search strategies search engine searching research 2.0

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  • Cathy Oxley on 27 Jan 13
     
    How to Google Keyboard shortcuts Other Google tricks Google Scholar Further research tips
Kathleen Porter

Inside Google Search - 18 views

www.google.com/insidesearch

google search tools googleapps research 2.0

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  • Kathleen Porter on 28 Sep 11
     
    Link from A Google a Day: "Find out all the nifty Google search tricks at insidesearch. "
Anthony Beal

SearchReSearch - 23 views

searchresearch1.blogspot.co.uk

google search information literacy

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  • Anthony Beal on 22 Jun 12
     
    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.
James Whittle

Search Education - Google - 1 views

www.google.com/...searcheducation

information_literacy search_engines

shared by James Whittle on 09 May 12 - No Cached
  • Erica Trowbridge on 09 May 12
     
    Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers--whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.
  • James Whittle on 15 May 12
     
    Help your students become better searchers Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.
Martha Hickson

12 Google Search Tricks You Probably Didn't Know | The Gooru - 26 views

www.thegooru.com/12-google-search-tricks

Google search_strategies

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  • Martha Hickson on 28 Mar 15
     
    Deciding between two similar items for your next purchase? Easily compare them by putting vs between two search terms. For instance, "f16 vs f/a-18". Ask Google to "Flip a coin" and watch as a virtual coin appears in your search results and gets flipped!
Dianne Laycock

Google Image Search - 30 views

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google information_literacy copyright digital_citizenship

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  • Dianne Laycock on 27 Jul 11
     
    Great lesson from Tania Shenko on effective Google searching.
Martha Hickson

Free Technology for Teachers: How to Build Your Own Custom Image Search Engine - 24 views

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creative_commons images royalty_free

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  • Martha Hickson on 10 Dec 14
     
    build your own Google Custom Search Engine. In your search engine you can specify the image hosts that you want your search engine to index. When your students use your search engine the only content that will appear will be from the sites that you have deemed appropriate for them to view.
Anne Weaver

Five Handy Things You Can Do with Google's New Knowledge Graph Search - 18 views

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search research google

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  • Find Recommendations for Movies, Music, Books, and TV
  • Find Cultural Events or Other Happenings
  • Know the Must-See Attractions When You Travel
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  • Locate the Closest Post Office, Dry Cleaner, Italian Restaurant, and More
  • Find Out What Time It Is in Another City
  • Jamin Henley on 30 May 12
     
    Earlier this week, Google introduced Knowledge Graph, the company's new search technology that understands "things not strings" and adds rich and relevant details about your query in the sidebar of your search results. Here are five great things you can now do with a quick Google search.
Martha Hickson

How to Use Google Search More Effectively [INFOGRAPHIC] - 29 views

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google infographics

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  • Martha Hickson on 25 Apr 12
     
    Great infographic on Google search strategies
Robin Cicchetti

Research tool - Google Docs Help - 34 views

support.google.com/...answer.py

research google docs googledocs

shared by Robin Cicchetti on 16 May 12 - No Cached
  • Robin Cicchetti on 16 May 12
     
    Google Docs has add a research tool to facilitate web searches. Filters for images, quotes, license, etc. help limit the search.
Anthony Beal

Google Books for Educators - 18 views

docs.google.com/...view

google googlebooks education resources learning teaching books

shared by Anthony Beal on 08 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Anthony Beal on 08 Jul 11
     
    A guide from Free Technology for Teachers. How to: - Refine search to Free Google eBooks - Search by publication type and date etc. - Download book to your ereader device - Share your book - Add book to your library - etc.
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