Searching+for+Quality+Resources


 * SEARCHING FOR QUALITY RESOURCES **

//**The world and the data we're living in...**//

Basic Skills
Understanding the URL(Alan November) Understanding Boolean Search (nice visual) Boolean Searching - nice explanation The Boolify Project - visual for teaching Boolean Searches For more search tips, click here.

Animated Tutorials Presentation by Tony Vincent

Host/Site Command
//Finding information on a particular site.// It is important that students use reliable sites on which to do their searching. However, many sites are so enormous that finding information on them can be difficult. This command will search only a particular site. You can also do this same thing by using the Google Advanced Search.

In Google:Type site:(domain name) + (search term) Examples: //To find information about polio on the CDC site:// Google - site:cdc.gov +polio

//To find information about polio vaccine on the CDC site:// site:cdc.gov +polio +vaccine or site:cdc.gov + "polio vaccine"

//To find the York interviews NPR did:// Google: site:npr.org +York + PA

//To find information on Sylvia Plath on the Poets.org site:// Google: site:poets.org + "Sylvia Plath"

//To find information about American Poets on the Thinkfinity site:// Google: site:thinkfinityorg + "american poets"

URL Command
Different from the host command, the URL command will search for any URL's that contain the search term. Type: url:search term(s) Examples: //To find sites that contain the word lion:// url:lion

//To find sites educational sites that contain the word lion:// url:lion +edu OR +k12

Finding Specific Information from Global Sites
For this, you would need to know the country internet codes. You can find them [|here.]

This is one from Alan November: //To find academic sites in Great Britain about the American Revolution:// site:ac.uk +"American Revolution"

//To find information on the American election in France:// site:fr +america +election

GOOGLE
[|How Does It All Work] [|Google Advanced Operator Cheat Sheet] [|Google Librarian Central]

[|Using Google Advanced Search]

[|Google Quick Reference] [|Quick Help Reference] [|Google News] - News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods. [|Better ways to search Google News] [|Google Language Translator] - Search for pages written in various languages. Also can be used to translate text. [|Google Scholar] - Search for scholarly articles. [|Google Books] - Search for full text books. [|Google Blog Search] - Search for blogs. [|University Search] - Searches university sites for specific information [|Government Sites] - Search results are only from Government Sites.

Other than Google . ..
Search Engines Other Than Google Goofram - search Google and Wolfram at the same time.

Sweet Search - Search Engine for Students

[|Cool Resources That Are Not Google] [|Top 100 Alternative Search Engines] [|Top 55 Reference Sites]

[|Wikipedia for Schools] [|Wikipedia Beneath the Surface] - nice video of explanation

Invisible Web
What is the Invisible Web? How To Search the Invisible Web [|Searching the Deep Web - The Future of Searching] [|Invisible Web] [|Deeper Web] - Use this Firefox Addon to conduct a Google Search that produces better results than a regular Google Search.

Some Very Comprehensive Information
[|Tools for Teaching Internet Search Habits] [|Wikipedia List of Search Engines] - this a very comprehensive list of subject-specific search engines. [|Basic Internet Tutorials] [|Search Engines] [|How to Choose a Search Engine] [|Lil Geltz' Research Page]

The Knowledge Construction Kit

Guide to Using Wikipedia in the Classroom 10 Reasons to Not Rely on Wikipedia