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Search Tools and Search Strategies

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Search Tools for K-5


Ask Kids

Awesome Library (directory)

DibDabDoo
FactMonster

KidRex

KidSpace (Internet Public Library)

Kids Click (directory)

Quintura for Kids

Sweetsearch4Me

TinyTube (Youtube videos for children)

 

Read-Able (check the readability of a website)

 



Teaching Search Strategies

5 W's of Website Evaluation (from Kathy Schrock's excellent Kathy Schrock's ABC of Website Evaluation)

Beware Search "Filter Bubbles" (an eSchoolNews post by Dennis Pierce)

Bing vs. Google (compare search results)

Boolean Machine (visual for teaching AND, OR and NOT)

Boolify (search engine that demonstrates Boolean search strategy)

Dirty Little Secrets of Search (Feb 13, 2011 article about how JC Penney optimized their webpage to increase their ranking in Google searches)

EPIC 2015 (science fiction video that invites us to consider our information sources, and the implications of "personalized search results")

Googleaday (puzzle game; Google Search Education lesson plan)

Google Game I, Google Game II

Google Search Education (search literacy videos, lesson plans & activities)

Guidebook to Internet Searching

How Search Engines Work (Finding Dulcinea article - very good)

How to Choose the Best Search

If You Printed the Internet (demo of how huge the Internet is.... sets up a reason for learning to be an effective, selective searcher!)

Note-taking on the Net (tutorial for students; teaches them a procedure for extracting relevant text and images from a web page and documenting it)

Research Beyond Google (sources by topic area)

Search Crystal (search multiple sources; compare results)

Search Education (lesson plans and presentations from Google on effective searching)

Search Engine Showdown (reviews, feature charts, strategies)

Search Strategies (handout)

Semantic Search vs. Keyword search (Hakia's explanation)

TED Talk: Beware of Filter Bubbles (discussion of how searches are customized without us knowing that)

Ten Steps to Better Searching

Thumbshots (comparison of search results from various search engines)

Websearch Strategies in Plain English (Commom Craft video)

Who Is (check the owner of a web domain)

Who Is Hosting this? (check the owner of a web domain)
Who Is the Owner (check the owner of a web domain)

 

 

Teaching Website Evaluation

(Additionally, see the ICT Literacy page for more resources on teaching digital media literacy)

 

Center for Media Literacy (resources for teaching all sorts of media literacy topics)

Evaluating Websites (TeacherTube video - Tom Daccord)

 

Bogus Websites

All About Explorers (don't miss the For Teachers section)

Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie

Dog Island

Google Technology (the secret behind Google's search technology)

House Hippo (Canadian PSA advising viewers not to believe everthing they see)

New Zealand Golf Cross

Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

RYT Hospital

Search Tools

 

123People (people search engine)

AllMyFaves (portal to a wide variety of specific search tools)

Ask.com

AudioOwl (search tool for audiobooks)

Bing (Microsoft; don't miss Bing Maps!)

*Blekko (human-curated search engine; use slashtags to focus search and avoid spam)

Blinkx (search for videos)

Carrot2 (metasearch, clusters results by theme)

Complete Planet (searches "deep web" dynamic databases and specialty search engines; don't miss the Advanced Search)

Cool Tools for Schools (search engines for a variety of specific purposes)

Deeper Web (Google-based; displays search clouds, topic mapping)

*DuckDuckGo (does not track use!; avoids the "filter bubble issue; semantic search; features)

FactBites

FinderMind (people search)

Finding Dulcinea (web guides, context/background/analysis for news stories)

Gigablast (uses "gigabits" to explore the subject; in the Results, note "more results from this site")

Glean (search tool for educational videos - particularly science and math)

Goofram (results from Google and WolframAlpha in one search interface)

Google (advanced search; search features; see the ICT Literacy page for more information and handouts on using Google features)

Google Alerts (get an email with results of a specific search)

Google Books (advanced search)

Google Custom Search (create your own search engine; customize by indicating which websites to search; Google Gravity for a grin...)

Google News (refine results by source, date, author)

Google Scholar (scholarly journals, patent applications and legal opinions)

Harnu (find news, videos, music and connect with individuals in other countries; read more about Harnu)

Hidentify (search tool for consumer electronics; search by features, find sellers and track prices)

Infomine (university level; documents, databases, directories)

Infoplease (encyclopedias, thesaurus, almanac, atlas, biographies)

iTools (find the best Internet tool for the job)

Hakia (semantic search;

* Infotopia (academic custom search engine, safe search)

Kngine (semantic search; uses "concepts" to feature relevant results)

MagPortal (free online magazines)

Mashpedia (good for specific "encyclopedia-type" topics; documents from "real-time" sources like blogs, newspapers, magazines, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia)

Mimvi (search for mobile phone apps)

PanoGoogle (search for panoramic photos)

Pipl (people search engine)

Quintura (Yahoo & Amazon; provides results in a word cloud; has a "kids search engine")

Qwiki (provides a concise collection of images, video, infographics, narration, etc about a topic)

Rbutr (download; community driven app which creates links between webpages where the content of one page is a rebuttal against another)

RefSeek

SearchCloud (create a search cloud to customize the relevance of your search terms)

SlideFinder (search for slideshows)

Spezify (visual search)

SweetSearch (reputable sites: custom Google search that searches sites approved by the Finding Dulcinea staff)

ThinkExist (search for quotations)

TinEye (reverse search for images: submit an image to search for other places it's being used or changes that might have been made to the image)

Twingine (searches both Google/Yahoo or Google/Bing side by side so you can compare the results)

Twurdy (ranks search results according to readability)

VizBand (YouTube search with results as visual thumbnails)

Waatp (Who are all these people? people search tool)

WatchKnow (educational videos)

WebMii (people search)

Wolfram Alpha (uses statistics and data to answer questions; self-described as a "computational knowledge engine" For Educators)

ZabaSearch (people search, public information)

Zuula (returns results from 9 different search engines, under tabs -- not a metasearch)


Directories

AllMyFaves (educational websites)

BUBL LINK (Internet resources, arranged by Dewey category)

DeweyBrowse (directory organized by Dewey number)
DMOZ (Open Directory Project)

Digital Librarian

EDSITEment (Art, Literature, Social Studies, World Languages, lesson plans)

Education World (lessons, websites, Eric Baylin's songs for teachers)

EduHound (directory of subject links, lesson plans; partner with Time For Kids)

Encyclopedia Britannica

FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)

Gateway (National Education Association)

Go2Web20 (directory of web 2.0 sites)
Great Websites for Kids (ALA)

Homework Center (Multnomah County Library)

IPL2 (Internet Public Library; also Kidspace)

Intute (UK universities; also has search tutorials)

Franklin Institute (science topics)

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet

Mrs. Alline - Directory of Educational Resources on the Web - rich collection of links to educational websites

Rockingham Public Schools (dig into this deep Standards of Learning directory to find websites that support curriculum areas)

Scout Report Archives (search or browse by LOC subject headings)

Thinkfinity (lesson plans, interactive games)

* Virtual LRC (Virtual Learning Resources Center; educator/librarian selected resources)

Webrary (Morton Grove Public Library)

WWW Virtual Library (academic, organized by subject area)

 

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