It is fun to explore the geographic background of your students, you get input and involvement from the class, and a great lead in to talking about the concepts of term selection and controlled vocabulary/thesaurus use
M-all the world’s a stage A-A street light is like a star. Both provide light at night, both are in predictable locations, both are overhead, and both serve no function in the daytime. S-He runs like a cheetah
Reinforce the comparison Use visual aids, demonstrations, or models Check for understanding Wean students from comparisons Generate new comparisons with your colleagues.
What concepts can we get students talking about using this cartoon? Privacy Trust of librarians and library staff Confidentiality Issues related to IL standard 5
Notice article that could be parody and makes one question legitimacy, too--not uncommon even on “legit” news site--Ozzy Osbourne’s bat coat fetches $3300.
Also, when it comes to learning styles, appeals to visual and tactile
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Advanced Searching Features Let’s take a look at some of the advanced features many search tools make available to users. Search engines tend to have the very best advanced search capabilities. I’m going to use Altavista to demonstrate Boolean searching. Boolean- explain operators on the board [Go to AlltheWeb’s Advanced Search interface.] I want to find out a little about the Children's Internet Protection Act. Boolean searching allows you to require terms in your results, or exclude them completely. AND- terms separated by AND must appear (sometimes +) OR- at least one of the terms separated by OR must appear, but not necessarily both NOT/AND NOT- the term following NOR or AND NOT should not appear (sometimes -) (CIPA OR "Children's Internet Protection Act)" AND ALA AND "Supreme Court" Add NOT Carla Hayden to see if it narrows the search. Another Example: "USA PATRIOT ACT" AND libraries AND FISA NOT "homeland security" Boolean at Google Boolean searching isn’t for everyone, so some search engines handle this type of search with menus rather than nested statements. Google is such an example. Notice that you are presented with “Find Results” fill-in fields and a word filter fill-in fields. With these options we can replicate the same search as we performed at Altavista. with all of the words ALA with the exact phrase "supreme court" with any of the words CIPA Children's-Internet-Protection-Act without the words
Not is to me, the most “dangerous” boolean operator. There could be a great pair of Reebok running shoes out there--the difference between winning and losing the race-- that I exclude in my search for sneakers NOT reebok
Who what where when why Authority, bias, consistency, currency, cites its sources Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review Currency, Relevancy, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose Others?