This document provides information about Google's search tools and strategies for effective searching. It discusses Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible. It also notes that a new digital divide exists between those who know how to effectively search for and validate information online versus those who don't. The document provides tips for refining search queries, choosing keywords, and using different Google search tools like News, Scholar, and Book Search to organize, access, and leverage information. It emphasizes that searching is a key 21st century skill and that educators should help students develop strong research abilities.
Updated and expanded presentation given at the Cornerstone Schools, Detroit, MI on March 16, 2012.
Most underlined links are clickable and will take you right to the named resource!
Updated and expanded presentation given at the Cornerstone Schools, Detroit, MI on March 16, 2012.
Most underlined links are clickable and will take you right to the named resource!
Search Like a Pro - Lucy Gray - Tech Forum 2012Lucy Gray
My portion of a presentation on search given at Tech Forum Chicago 2012 on May 4, 2012.
For the full slide deck, including Hank Thiele's and Michael Gorman's slides, please visit: http://goo.gl/ohEvT
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With our rapidly increasing and instantaneous access to information, it can be difficult to help people slice through the “data smog” and become fluent with information while critically assessing its value and purpose. This webinar introduces a variety of technical resources and research tools, and provides tips to help make learning more meaningful, engaging, and relevant, with the ultimate goal of providing learners with opportunities to create something new and exciting. The end goal is to help learners enrich their lives by constructing a personal learning environment, online or face-to-face, that is conducive to information discovery, sharing, and lifelong learning.
This is the Power Point presentation for a class I developed aimed at teaching high school students. Please feel free to use my presentation as long as you credit me as the creator.
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
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5. Google’s Mission
Online content
Billions of web pages
Offline content
Billions of items becoming
indexed
To organize the world’s information
and make it universally accessible
and useful.
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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?
19. 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 … ?)
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20. 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
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21. Other Search Tips
Use specifiers
Example: [Georgia 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”
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27. Keep in Mind
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.
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49. Try Search Features
education resources k12
science fair volcanoes
Garageband tutorials
weather Churchill
Manitoba
Atlanta Braves
DIS, KO or PEP
earthquake
sunrise Atlanta GA
Jimmy Carter was born in
*
2000 dollars in pesos
population GA
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59. Located at the bottom
of a news search page
RSS & Email Alerts
60. Try Google News
Go to http://news.google.com
Type in a search term.
Click on Advanced Search.
Restrict your search to a particular news source.
Set up a Google News alert for your school. See the bottom of the
page.
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77. Try It
• Go to http://scholar.google.com
• Enter a search term such as John Dewey, Brown vs. Board
of Education, or NASA and see what you can find.
• Use the pull down menus to customize your results. For
instance, select Tennessee courts and search for using a
term of your choice.
• 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.
Try Google Scholar
78. Try Google Scholar
Go to http://scholar.google.com
Enter a search term such as John Dewey, Brown vs. Board of
Education, or NASA and see what you can find.
Customize your results. For instance, see if you can select Georgia
courts and search for using a term of your choice.
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.
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96. Try Google Book Search
Do a search for the following authors, pick a title, and click on About This Book:
W.E.B Du Bois
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Margaret Mitchell
Flannery O’Connor
Alice Walker
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.
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97. Help & Resources
• Google Inside Search
• Google Search Basics
• Google Guide Quick Reference
• Google in Education Diigo Group
98. 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.