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Safe and Successful Searching

Safe and Successful Searching. Literacy Through Technology. Welcome!. While folks arrive, please go to ed1stop.net and log in as my student. Username: TheresaNierlich_stu Password: nierlich Check out the links in the bookmarks under Literacy Through Technology.

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Safe and Successful Searching

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  1. Safe and Successful Searching Literacy Through Technology

  2. Welcome! • While folks arrive, please go to ed1stop.net and log in as my student. • Username: TheresaNierlich_stu • Password: nierlich • Check out the links in the bookmarks under Literacy Through Technology

  3. Agenda: Safe & Successful Searching • Discuss benefits and pitfalls of online searches. • Learn safer and effective searching strategies • Develop a hotlist for your topic

  4. Review • Students need to develop deep questions: • more than a one word or sentence answer; • require multiple sources; • Motivating or interesting to the students

  5. Create smaller, researchable questions -> What resources were available in different areas? What landforms surrounded the tribes? What was the climate in different areas? Model Big Question:What led to the similarities and differences between Native American tribes?

  6. Identify Key Search Terms • What resources were available in different areas? (NA food, NA resources) • What landforms surrounded the tribes? (geography, landforms) • What was the climate in different areas? (climate, weather)

  7. Identify Problem Words • What words might throw off the search? -What resources were available in different areas? (American, links) -What landforms surrounded the tribes? (maps) - What was the climate in different areas? (today’s weather report)

  8. What can go right? • More information than we can provide in class or at school • More interactive and interesting • Requires thinking and analysis (when done well)

  9. What can go wrong? • End up at “bad sites.” • Can’t find any information • Believe everything they find- no evaluation of material • Can’t read what they find

  10. What are the options? • Hotlists • Indexes and Directories • Search Engines

  11. Advantages Safe (usually- Van Gogh example) No problem with typing errors Free Saves time for students Disadvantages Takes time to develop Limits what’s available Need to keep updated to avoid broken links Hotlists: A list of websites selected by the teacher and linked to the Internet

  12. Places to Create Hotlists • Filamentality- http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil • Ed1stop.com- student page under bookmarks • Scholastic Teacher Homepage Builder • Word Document with links

  13. Screened and organized sites Focused Advantages- someone else did the searching; likely to be appropriate Disadvantage- limited scope Indexes and Directories

  14. Indexes and Directories • KidsClick!- screened by librarians; search by reading level; info about pictures • Yahooligans- kid-friendly, organized • Librarians’ Index to the Internet- screened by librarians, organized

  15. Library Databases • Most libraries have an online, searchable database you can access using your library card • Ed1stop.com has a link to the Contra Costa County Library system

  16. Activity • Using the indexes and directories listed, search for websites that pertain to your Big Question. Find the sites at the ed1stop.com site. • When you find a site, copy and paste the address into a Word document. • 10 minutes

  17. Advantages Access to a wide range of information Can be refined to find what you actually need Disadvantages Not screened Not organized Will find ANYTHING even remotely related if not defined well Anyone can post anything they want on the Web Search Engines: Google & Yahoo & Altavista, oh my!

  18. Searching Strategies • Four NETS for Better Searching • Start Narrow • Find Exact Phrases • Trim back the URL • Look for Similar Pages

  19. Good Google Searching • Go to google.com • Click on Advanced Search • Search using Boolean logic • “with ALL of the words” • “with the exact phrase” • “with at least one of the words” • “without the words”

  20. Good Google Searching • Search by language • Search by date • Search by domain type • Find similar sites • Find sites that link to the original

  21. Evaluating Websites:Can you trust this site? • Check the ending • .gov- from the government, usually safe • .edu- from an educational institution, usually safe, but there are some odd professors out there! • .org- from a non-profit organization, think about the motives of the group • .net and .com- anyone can have one

  22. Evaluating Websites:Can you trust this site? • Guidelines for evaluating a site • Site to use with your students

  23. Activity: Create a Hotlist • Use the tips and sites we discussed to create a hotlist for the topic of your choice. • Filamentality directions are in your handout. • Scholastic.com • Ed1stop.com- add bookmarks to student page

  24. Next Time • Empowering Readers • Making text accessible to readers at many levels • Making sense of the text

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