Beyond Search - ITSC Conference

Beyond Search Lucy GrayInstructional Technology Strategies Conference Portland, Oregon February 21, 2011

Guiding Thoughts• Search is the essential 21st century skill.• The responsibility of teaching search to kids lies within the entire school community.• How can educators help students to organize, access, and leverage their collection of information in useful ways?

Agenda• Leveraging Google Search Tools• The Art of Search• Scaffolding Searches with yolink

Google’s Mission To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Online content Ofﬂine contentBillions of web pages Billions of items becoming indexed

A New Digital Divide• Those who know how to “think” about search vs. those don’t.• Those who know how to validate soft information vs. those don’t.• Those who know where to ﬁnd information in new “hot” channels vs. those don’t.• Those who understand the current culture of informal languages vs. those don’t

A New Digital Divide• Those who know how to get information to travel to them vs. those who still chase it.• Those who have the knowledge and skills to create and re-mix digital media vs. those who don’t.• Those that understand that learning is a continual process vs. those that view learning as achievement. -Helen Blowers, Columbus Metropolitan Library

Did You Know?http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchStories

About Search Tools

• Everything is searchable.• Control + F is incredibly useful.• Nothing stays constant on the web.• Advanced Search and Preferences are available with each product.• RSS feeds are usually also available.• Just about every product has a team blog.

Understanding Search Options

Options

Everything

Images

Green Images

Videos

Shopping

RealTime

Places

Discussions

Wonderwheel

Social

Translated

Try It• #ITSC, #ITSC11 • Portland Trailblazers• #edapp • INTC or NKE• #killthebill • earthquake Japan• Bahrain • sunrise Portland OR• education resources k12 • Douglas Englebart invented * science fair volcanoes • 2000 dollars in pesos• Garageband tutorials • population OR• weather 97220

Customized

Headlines

Images

Fast Flip

Most Shared

Advanced

Search Results

Lo of cate an da ew t th ss eb ea rch ottom pa geRSS & Email Alerts

Try It• Go to http://news.google.com• Search for a famous person in the news. (Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Arne Duncan, Steve Jobs, Roger Goodell, Amy Chua, Liam Neeson)• Click on Quotes on the left hand side of the page. Search inside those quotes if you wish. For example, within Arne Duncan’s quotes, search for “technology”.• Go back to your original search or try another.• Click on Advanced Search.• Restrict your search to a particular news source.

Scholar

Search

Search Within Results

Advanced

Preferences

Try It• Go to http://scholar.google.com• Enter in a search term such as John Dewey, Brown vs. Board of Education, or forestry.• Use the pull down menus to customize your results. For instance, select Oregon courts with your forestry query.• Do another search using the keyword mobile.• Click on Advanced Scholar Search.• Narrow your results by entering “Learning and Leading with Technology” in the publication ﬁeld.

Book Search

http://books.google.com

Search

Advanced

About This Book

WorldCat

My Library

Bookshelf

Try It• Do a search for the following authors and titles and click on About This Book: • Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8 • Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavina • Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie • Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye • Catherine Ryan Hyde, Pay It Forward • Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream• Make sure you are logged into your Google account and search for your favorite books. Create shelves and add books to your shelves. You can link to your My Library to share your collections with others.

Google’s Search Curriculum

Dan Russell

Control + F

Creative Commons

A Shared Culturehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKm96Ftfko

http://www.yolinkeducation.com/education/iste/creative.jsp

The Art of Search

Organizing a Search• What is it I’m looking for? (think about common keywords)• How would someone else talk about it? (what words would they use? how would THEY describe it?)• Which of those terms would be most common?• Which of those terms would be very specialized to this topic?• What kind of thing would make me happy? (do I want a single web page, a deﬁnition, a collection, an image.... or … ?)

Keyword Choice• Think about what you are trying to ﬁnd• Choose words that you think will appear on the page• Put yourself in the mindset of the author of those words• Use synonyms• Start broad and use just a few words, then go deep• Use contextual terms

Other Search Tips• Use specifiers • Example: [Oregon population wikipedia]• Try an image search when normal means fail, you might find something that will be useful or spark your interest in a different way.• Word order matters—when it’s not working one way, try another.• When searching for common phrases, don’t leave out the “stop words.” (e.g., [ Lord of the Rings] )• Use double quotes to find a particular sequence of words • Example: “Daniel M Russell” or “Ursula K Le Guin”

Help• Google Search Basics• Advanced Search Tips• Explore Google Search• Google Guide Quick Reference

If we have time...• Make your own Search Story • http://www.youtube.com/user/ SearchStories• Email it to me (elemenous@gmail.com) or post to Twitter and use the tag #ITSC.

yolink

yolink search does the work so you don’t have to. Let me tell you what that means…

Applies logic, and goes to work. Unstructured and structured content Reveals key information from unwieldy results Multiple steps executed at once Share and CreateSave Time – Find Better Information.

From Searching To Doing Keywords Content in Context 10 Blue Links Blocks of Information Multiple Clicks Actionable in one-click

yolink API, Widgets

PostPost

yolink & Postpost Resources• Main site • http://yolinkeducation.com• ISTE 2010 Lessons, Slideshows & Resources • http://www.yolinkeducation.com/education/iste/• Find yolink on Facebook, Twitter, Slideshare, Blogger,YouTube • http://www.facebook.com/yolink • http://twitter.com/yolinkeducation • http://www.slideshare.net/yolinkeducation • http://yolinkedu.blogspot.com/ • http://www.youtube.com/user/yolinkVideos • http://www.youtube.com/user/TigerLogicPostPost

Conclusion• Plan on learning new skills.• Nothing stays constant on the web.• Search engines are continually improving.• New search tools are always being developed• Make research to be a part of everything that you do in the classroom. Teach and model this attitude to your students.• Help students and colleagues develop a research stance across content areas using News, Scholar, and Book Search.• Encourage your school or district to adopt search tools and strategies globally.

Lucy’s Resources• High Techpectations: http://lucygray.org• Google in Education Diigo Group• Find me on delicious, diigo, etc: elemenous• Email: elemenous@gmail.com

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