Searching+Beyond+Google's+First+page

http://tinyurl.com/websearch3
=Two questions that face any information seeker are,=

(2) How can I know that what I find is any good?
This collection of links to classroom resources that can assist you in gathering and organizing resources for developing learning activities that have a positive impact on student achievement. Be sure to use the Cornell style **Notes from Tech Tools Workshop** or a social bookmarking tool like Delicious or Diigo to capture the web sites you want to save. Identify the resource url and name, How you will use the resource, and your thoughts on its potential impact on student learning.

Notes from Tech Tools Workshops.dotx

Beyond Google 15 Tools and Strategies to Improve your Search Resultsmedia type="custom" key="10868482" []

Teaching Ten Steps to Better Web Research []

Student Guide to Web Search- []

Sweet Search a search engine for students where all articles have been reviewed.media type="custom" key="10870354"

Common Craft Web Search Strategies in Plain English Video and Transcript []

**Ky Virtual LIbrary** Interactive guide for elementary student research

**Ten Steps to Better Web Research: ** [|**http://www.sweetsearch.com/TenSteps**]

=Top Sites for Getting Better Search Results = //For search engines and directories … //

Yolink Help students to effectively scan web pages, browse ebooks, and mine for information. yolink finds and organizes content from search results, and makes it easy to share and create information using Google Docs or your favorite social networking tool. Overview and videos pdf guide **SweetSearch,**“A Search Engine for Students,” searches only 35,000 Web sites that have been evaluated and approved by a staff of Internet research experts, and librarian and teacher consultants. It lets students choose the most relevant results from a list of credible results, rather than having to waste time on unreliable sites. **go to site »**

**Ask Kids**is a simple and straightforward search engine that also has news sources and study help for a number of school subjects. Choose one of the topics on the left to get started, or enter your search term in the search field. **go to site »**

**KidsClick**is a search engine that lists results with descriptions of what each site offers. The site also provides a link to other helpful [|**search tools**]. **go to site »**

**Librarians’ Internet Index**is a collection of Web sites hand-selected by librarians. Each site is listed with a short description. Although some of the links in this index were added years ago, this is still a good place to look for trustworthy sites. **go to site »**

**Ivy’s Search Engine Resources for Kids**has a collection of search fields for many of the best search engines. Scroll down to “Specialized Searches for Kids” to find search engines that specialize on cool topics like animals, webcams and space exploration. **go to site »**

//Who knew? // **Quintura for Kids**is a great tool to use when you run out of ideas for keywords. Enter a search term in the “Find” field and Quintura creates a word cloud above the search box, and lists your search results below. Click on one of Quintura’s suggested words in the word cloud and you’ll get a new set of search results. **go to site »**

[|Meet Bing, Microsoft’s New Search Engine] (Search Engine Land)

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">[|Guidebook to Internet Searching](PDF file)

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;"> Dean Sherwin has created an excellent up-to-date guide on specialized search engines and savvy search strategies for faculty and students.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">Web Sites for researching History: **[] or [|**http://tinyurl.com/historyresearch**]


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">Classroom Materials from Library of Congress **[|**http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/#**]

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[|Lesson Plans] <span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> | <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[|Themed Resources] <span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> |

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[|Primary Source Sets] <span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> | <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[|Presentations & Activities] <span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> | <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[|Collection Connections]


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">Primary Source Sets from Library of Congress **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/# **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">Teaching with Documents: **[|**http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/**] <span style="color: #30302e; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|National History Standards] <span style="color: #30302e; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> and <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|National Standards for Civics and Government] <span style="color: #30302e; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">, and cross-curricular connections.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">Google recently added [|real-time searching] to search results, which provides breaking news via tweets, blogs and other updated Web content. To access real-time results in any Google search, click on the **Show Options** link below the Google search box, then on the **Latest** link in the left-hand column which appears.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">Tech Tip: Real-Time Search Results in Google **

Gathering and Organizing Web Resources
Since students have a tough time entering long urls and Twitter posts are limited to 140 characters, it is important to condense text as much as possible. When sharing favorite Web sites, these two handy free tools will shorten the URLs.
 * Tech Tip: Two Ways to Shorten URL's**

[|TinyURL] - Shortens links to 25 characters; simply go to the Tiny URL site and paste in the URL to shorten.You can assign the name you want for your URL.

[|Bit.ly] -Shortens a URL and allows direct one-click sharing of shortened links in Facebook, Twitter or email. If you sign up for a free account, you can track how many clicks your shortened URLs get.


 * Tech Tip: A Way to combine multiple URLs into one URL**
 * Fur.ly**
 * Have the URL's you want to combine ready. Paste them into Fur.ly and get your new one link.**


 * Tech Tip: Keep all your resources for a unit a course or any kind of a collection in one place,**
 * Livebinder, Including text, video, web pages, images.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6667px;">It is now possible to simultaneously convert multiple Microsoft Office files to PDF format in Google Docs with just three steps Google Docs as a batch PDF converterhttp://www.labnol.org/internet/batch-pdf-converter/10796/
 * Tech Tip: Convert multiple Microsoft Office files into PDFs in Google Docs.**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">Evaluating Internet Research Sources –the second question **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">Summary of The CARS Checklist for Research Source Evaluation **

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.6667px;">Performing research online is like being a police detective: Your information is only as good as your sources. Some Web sites are legitimate and credible, while others cannot be counted on for reliable information. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.6667px;">Visit our Ten Steps to Better Web research for the best tutorial anywhere on Web research; below is a condensed version of it. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.6667px;">The first step is to develop the right approach to research: <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.6667px;">* Be skeptical. The focus of your search should be finding the best information available, rather than finding the first information that sounds good. Anyone can publish anything on the Web, quickly and cheaply. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.6667px;">* Try to verify information by confirming it with multiple sources. If several reliable Web sites provide the same details, it’s more likely that the information is accurate. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.6667px;">* No single characteristic will tell you if a Web site is reliable. Every aspect of a Web site must be fully examined to ensure that the available information is accurate, up to date, objective and authoritative. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.6667px;">Your first stop when visiting a Web site should be the “About Us” section. If there is no “About Us,” or little information in it, then you can’t trust the Web site any more than you can trust a book that doesn’t identify the author. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.6667px;">Find answers to these questions: <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.6667px;">Who is the publisher of the Web site? Who funded it? Might they have any motives other than sharing accurate information? Look elsewhere on the Web for other opinions about the publisher, as well as the authors of articles on the site. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.6667px;">Does the site appear to have any social or political biases? <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.6667px;">Does the site have advertisements? Are they clearly labeled, or do they blend with the general information? Could the advertisers influence the information on the site? <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.6667px;">Who is the author, or authors, of the article you are reviewing? What are the author’s credentials? Does the author back up their statements with verifiable facts, or is the article merely unsupported opinion? Does the author link to credible third-party resources so you can verify the information elsewhere? <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.6667px;">Is the article not meant to be taken seriously? Is it a satire or a parody? <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.6667px;">Is this the original source of the article, or was the article taken from another site? Many Web sites steal content from other Web sites, and don’t bother to keep it up to date. Cut and paste a sentence into a search engine to see if it appears anywhere else on the Web. If you find that the article appears on multiple web sites, try to figure out which site was the original publisher of the content and evaluate the credibility of that site. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.6667px;">What is the site’s editorial policy? Do editors or experts review the information? Is the information thorough and complete? <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.6667px;">Many Web pages indicate when they were created and last revised. Check the bottom of the page for a copyright date or look for a date near the byline of an article. Without a date, the validity of the information is difficult to evaluate. If you can’t find a date, you cannot assume the information is current and up to date; look elsewhere for similar information with a date on it.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">Credibility ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">trustworthy source, author’s credentials, evidence of quality control, known or respected authority, organizational support. Goal: an authoritative source, a source that supplies some good evidence that allows you to trust it. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">Accuracy ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">up to date, factual, detailed, exact, comprehensive, audience and purpose reflect intentions of completeness and accuracy. Goal: a source that is correct today (not yesterday), a source that gives the whole truth. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">Reasonableness ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">fair, balanced, objective, reasoned, no conflict of interest, absence of fallacies or slanted tone. Goal: a source that engages the subject thoughtfully and reasonably, concerned with the truth. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">Support ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">listed sources, contact information, available corroboration, claims supported, documentation supplied. Goal: a source that provides convincing evidence for the claims made, a source you can triangulate (find at least two other sources that support it). ||
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 24.1667px;">How to Evaluate Web Sites for an On This Day Article **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">The Right Approach **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">About Us **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Reviewing Individual Articles **[|**http://findingeducation.com/on-this-day-challenge/how-to-evaluate-web-sites-for-an-on-this-day-article/**]