This presentation was delivered to the staff at OLMC Heidelberg, Melbourne, Australia, on August 19. It outlines a variety of Google Search and Research tools that teachers could use within their classrooms.

1. Google Search/Research Tools for TeachersAUGUST 19, 2011 Glenda Morris Teacher Librarian OLMC Heidelberg

2. Consider Many tools, need to choose the right tool to best suit the purpose Effective searching is an essential 21st Century skill As educators, it is OUR responsibility to teach students HOW to search efficiently and effectively We MUST help students to organise, access & leverage the information to meet their information needs

3. Today’s session Many know how to search with Google ... but we can always do it better, thus save time Can’t cover all aspects on how to search with Google – too huge Opportunity to explore a range of tools that can reduce the millions of results to be more focussed & links with specifically with your search

4. Google’s Mission To organise the world’s information & make it universally accessible & useful

5. Google Search Tools RelatedSearches ReadingLevelFilter Timeline Limitresults by Time

6. Search query

7. Google Sidebar

8. 1. Related Searches

9. 2. Timeline

10. 3. Reading Level Filter

11. Reading level Intermediate Basic

12. Advanced Reading Level

13. ROAD TEST #1 Enter a topic/search query into Google Locate “more search tools” on sidebar Experiment with Google’s Related Searches Timeline Reading Level Filter

14. 4. Translated Foreign Pages SINA now blocks me from translating foreign pages 

15. 5. Limit Results by Time

16. 6. Advanced Search

19. ROAD TEST #2 Enter a topic/search query into Google Locate “more search tools” on sidebar Experiment with Google’s Translated Foreign Pages Limit Results by ... Advanced Search

20. Google Multimedia Search

21. 7. Google Images

22. Similar images

24. 8. LIFE Photo Archive http://images.google.com/hosted/life

25. ROAD TEST #3 Enter a topic/search query into Google Images Experiment with Google’s Similar Images Enter topic/search query into LIFE Photo Archive

26. Google Research Tools Closed yesterday by Google  Closed by Google Tuesday  Appears to be replaced by Google News Newspaper Search

27. Google News Timeline Closed yesterday by Google 

28. 9. Google News Newspaper Search http://news.google.com/newspapers

31. 10. Google Books Find books for students/yourself to read or to assist with research – especially SENIOR students Provides access to 1000s of books that would otherwise be difficult/impossible to find Search to find pages according to your search query Create booklists/bookshelves related to curriculum areas saving in My Library

33. Limited Preview = Still under copyright with permission granted by publisher/author for X number of pages for viewing

34. Snippet preview = Books under copyright & in print, but publishers/authors granted permission for only small sections to be made available

37. No Preview = copyright and/or in print

38. Snippet = copyright and/or in print

39. Preview = Publisher/creator granted permission or out of print

40. Full View = Public Domain (out of print, no copyright)

43. Newspapers

44. Magazines

46. Journals

48. Uni of Southern QLD article download as PDF

49. ROAD TEST #4 Enter a topic/search query into Google’s research tools Google Books http://books.google.com Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com Google’s Newspaper Search http://news.google.com/newspapers