Searching the internet more effectively

1. Search - Digital Literacy
Helping students be more productive when searching the Internet

2. Why bother?
Most students don’t know how to search the internet quickly or efficiently,
yet
when doing any gathering of information this is the first place they look
therefore
we need to help teach them searching techniques to help them become
better at it.
to do this we need to become familiar with search engines and various
searching techniques

3. Some combine
Google -site:wikipedia.org
Operators
site:edu
site:org

4. inurl: only show
results with that
Google
word in the URL
Operators

5. Google
Operators

6. Gathers Data from various reputable
sources makes them available and
comparable in lots of different ways
Like encyclopedia on steriods

7. Distance from New York to Auckland

8. Height of Everest

9. Distance from New York to Auckland
Height of Everest

10. Educators

11. What significance has Stevie wonder had on other artists?
inurl:interview
"stevie wonder" inspiration inurl:interview

12. History of the Orchestra?
filetype:pdf history of the orchestra
filetype:doc history of the orchestra
filetype:ppt history of the orchestra
filetype:pdf history of the orchestra

13. History of the Orchestra?
filetype:pdf history of the orchestra
filetype:doc history of the orchestra
filetype:ppt history of the orchestra
filetype:pdf history of the orchestra