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Welcome. Expectations. Search Engines Techniques. Learning Outcomes. Know how to enter effective search criteria into a search engine Demonstrate you can find appropriate information, which fully meets the requirements ,. Friday, 21 November 2014. Search Engines.
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Learning Outcomes • Know how to enter effective search criteria into a search engine • Demonstrate you can find appropriate information, which fully meets the requirements, Friday, 21 November 2014
Search Engines • Look at these three different search engines, • www.google.com • www.bing.com • www.wolframalpha.com • http://is.gd/cEFsKs • http://www.labnol.org/internet/google-search-results-in-3d-cube/6530/
Google’s Tips and Tricks Try some
5 Topics to Search What you are searching for Task Brainstorm in groups, what you would write if you used a Keyword, a Phrase a quote a wild card Other
5 Topics to Search • 1) What is it I’m looking for? (think about common • keywords) • 2) How would someone else talk about it? (what words • would they use? how would THEY describe it?) • 3) Which of those terms would be most common? • 4) Which of those terms would be very specialised to this • topic? • 5) What type of result do I want? (do I want a single webpage, a définition, a collection, an image etc?) What you are searching for
Advanced searches • Try this: http://www.google.com/advanced_search
TASK • Log on and load up word create a table
Plenary “Share with your table one new thing you have learnt today” Which picture best represents your learning and why? What have you learnt today?