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Cathy Oxley

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

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    " 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
jenibo

Free Technology for Teachers: Activities for Teaching Students How to Research With Google Books - 4 views

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    "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. "
James Whittle

Search Education - Google - 1 views

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    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.
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    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.
James Whittle

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

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    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!
Anthony Beal

SearchReSearch - 23 views

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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.
Cathy Oxley

Searchme: Visual Search - Beta (Search Engine) - 0 views

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    This is a visual search engine which shows the front page of each of the web pages in your search - pretty cool! As you scroll sideways it flicks through each page. It also gives you a list of categories you can click on first to refine your search - good for students to use.
Martha Hickson

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

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    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.
Cathy Oxley

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

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    "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"
Janet Allen

Searching the Internet : Subject Indexes and Search Engines - 1 views

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    Internet Great site for explaining all the different search engines
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    Great site that explains the advantages and disadvantages of various search engines.
Cathy Oxley

Free Search Better Tutorial at GCFLearnFree.org - 37 views

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    All about online search How to read a webpage Evaluate a webpage - practice Google search tips Judging online information
Antonietta Neighbour

oSkope visual search - A fun way to search - YouTube - 13 views

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    This is a visual search engine which searches Youtube, flickr, amazon, ebay and fotolia.  Register and you can store your results. 
Marita Thomson

Search Tip for Students: Try Predicting Your Search Results | MindShift - 36 views

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    Just as having students predict answers to math problems is a way of creating more meaningful learning, prediction can be a useful strategy in successful searching too.
Angie Spann

Lesson Plans - Search Education - Google - 57 views

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    With more and more of the world's content online, it is critical that students understand how to effectively use web search to find quality sources appropriate to their task. We've created a series of lessons to help you guide your students to use search meaningfully in their schoolwork and beyond. On this page, you'll find search Literacy lessons and A Google A Day classroom challenges. Our search literacy lessons help you meet the new Common Core State Standards and are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced.
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    I cannot wait to look through these in depth. I was just thinking my lessons needed a bit more umph! Thanks for sharing!
Anne Weaver

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

  • 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
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    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.
Cathy Oxley

Viewzi - 1 views

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    This is a visual search engine which is especially good for searching for videos and photos / images.
Robin Cicchetti

Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity - 21 views

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    Invisible web, search tools, curriculum. Incorporate this into web search lessons.
Jessica Thomas

‪How Search Works‬‏ - YouTube - 0 views

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    Clearly explains how the Google search engine works - why you get the results you do, and why something you've created might not come up when you search for it.
Antonietta Neighbour

Compfight / A Flickr Search Tool - 0 views

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    A "visual inspiration ignition engine"!  Search images based on tags or text.  The CreativeCommons Search option is especially useful.
jenibo

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

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    "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."
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