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iSEEK Education Demo http://education.iseek.com. What is iSEEK Education?. iSEEK Education is a targeted search engine containing 200,000+ authoritative resources from universities, government organizations, and other trusted providers of quality content. Why iSEEK Education?.
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iSEEK Education Demo http://education.iseek.com
What is iSEEK Education? iSEEK Education is a targeted search engine containing 200,000+ authoritative resources from universities, government organizations, and other trusted providers of quality content.
Why iSEEK Education? “Authoritative” as defined by top educators and technology experts: Accurate Information Reliable Authorship Quality Content Intuitive Navigation & Design Timeliness Links maintained by cutting-edge technological means, user feedback, and human reviewers. Safe – Top-of-industry safe search technologies and site blocking Authoritative – 200,000+ standards-based sites from trusted sources Intelligent – iViews instantly identify lesson plans, activities, school subjects, grade levels, and more Time-saving –With MySEEK, create your own searchable Web-based library, accessible from anywhere
iSEEK Education for Students Let’s imagine we are a tenth grade Language Arts Student looking for help with a persuasive writing essay. Sample query: Persuasive Essay
Quality, manageable results! Star rating system! Intelligent categories! GO LIVE!
iSEEK Education for Teachers Let’s imagine we are a seventh grade Biology teacher looking for lesson plans about viruses. Sample query: Viruses
Wikipedia #1?! What teacher has time to browse this many results? Results about computer viruses and current events, but nothing from a trusted educational source. Can iSEEK help?
Viruses + Lesson Plans iView = Great Results! * Intelligent iViews categorize and narrow results quickly! Standards Alignment: Life Sciences Grade 5-8 Diversity of Organisms
iViews and Targeted Discovery • iSEEK “reads” your results before you do! Then, it generates categories based on what it has read. These categories become iViews. • Other iViews are pre-identified categories for education: lesson plans, activities, school subjects, grade levels, and more!
iSEEK for Administrators …and Everyone! Create a Personalized, Web-based Library: • Organize it any way you like • Populate it with your favorite URLs • Access it from any Internet connection • Search against its contents
Create any categories you like in your personalized iSEEK portal, your own Web-based library!
To add a link, simply click on the bookmark icon after any result. A pop-up window will appear with all your library’s categories.
In MySEEK, search against only those results you have bookmarked. • You can also insert your own resources into MySEEK.
Live Queries • Civil rights timeline (History) • How a law is made (Government) • Narrative Writing (Language Arts) • Online calculus tutorial (12th grade Math) • Persuasive writing (Language Arts) • Subject-verb agreement (ELL) • Viruses (Biology)
iSEEK Education: Safe, Authoritative, Intelligent &Time-saving “You have a library in your house, in your community, and another in your school – isn’t it time you had one that goes anywhere you go?” http://education.iseek.com
Additional Slides • Calculus online tutorial
iSEEK Education for Students Let’s imagine we are a twelfth-grade Calculus student. There’s a test approaching and we’re looking for help. Sample query: Calculus online tutorial
What student has time to browse through so many, looking for quality? Lists of links; the link chain goes on and on…
Manageable, quality-approved results! Star rating system! Intelligent categories! GO LIVE!