Searching is a Snap!

Presenter

Director of Professional Development 972-275-9251 dbenner@tcea.org @diben

Diana Benner

@diben

@tcea

TWEET It!

Tired of “googling” something and not finding

what you need?

Goals

• Identify search strategies for Google to better locate relevant information

• Identify search strategies for Twitter to better locate resources

• Create a custom search engine

Session Resources

http://goo.gl/B9VmYP

Today’s Meet

Today’s Meet https://todaysmeet.com/search081914 1. Introduce Yourself

• Name, Position, Campus, Grade Level 2. How often do you search the Internet for

information?

The web is made up of over 60 TRILLION individual page…and

growing!

Searching the Internet can feel like drinking from a fire hydrant.

Bing: Cure for Search Overload Syndrome (Commercial)

How Does Google Work?

Reverse Image Lookup

1. Go to images.google.com

2. Click on the camera icon

3. Paste a link or upload your image

4. Review search results

Reading Level

1. Perform your search

2. Click on Search Tools

3. Click on All Results

4. Select Reading Level

Time

1. Perform your search

2. Click on Search Tools

3. Click on Any Time

4. Select time or set custom range

Site

Limit your search results to a particular site(s) by adding site:site_name to your search terms.

Examples:

[ biology site:.edu ] Search results for biology limited to edu domains

[ flipped classroom -site:.com ] Search results for flipped classroom excluding all commercial domain sites

[ technology grant site:ed.gov ] Search results for technology grant limited to only pages found at ed.gov

Filetype

Easily locate files on the web by restricting your search results to just that file extension.

Examples:

[ storyboard filetype:doc ] Search results for storyboards that are MS Word files

[ prezi filetype:pdf ] Search results about Prezi that are pdf files

[ creative commons license filetype:ppt ] Search results for PowerPoint files that are about creative commons licensing

Advanced Search Form

Google Advanced Search Form-http://www.google.com/advanced_search

Voice

1. Go to google.com

2. Click on the small microphone icon

3. Clearly speak your search terms into your microphone

Google Custom Search Engine Tool - https://www.google.com/cse/

1. Adds sites to be searched. 2. Select the Language 3. Update the name of your

custom search engine 4. Share public URL 5. Edit your CSE to add more

features

Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com

• Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

• -Cited by -Sort by date -Sort by relevance

Google Calculator

• Guide for Google Calculator

• Instructions on how to use the math functions built into Google

• More information here: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/3284611?hl=en

Google Fight

Google Fight – http://www.googlefight.com

• Tool to see how many times a word or phrase is used in a website

Using Google Fight in the Classroom

• An article on how to use Google Fight when teaching language usage.

What Do You Love?

http://www.wdyl.com/#

• The tool wdyl allows users to conduct a search and Google in turn provides results via communities or services like results in Groups, Trends, YouTube and more.

Let Me Google That for You

(LMGTFY)

http://www.Imgtfy.com/

• Let Me Google That For You let's you conduct the search and send the process

• Funny Google Humor!

Filters

Limit your Twitter search results to find resources faster.

Examples:

[ book study filter:links ] Tweets with links with the word(s) book study

[ bulletin board filter:images ] Tweets with images with the word(s) bulletin board

[ flipped classroom filter:videos ] Tweets with videos with the word(s) flipped classroom

Hashtags

Examples:

#edtech #yalit

#iwb #ece

#gbl #byot

#smedu #txed

#sschat #libchat

#txedchat #ntchat

#elemchat #ioschat http://goo.gl/zmdJGQ

Google Power Searching Online Course - http://goo.gl/Q5MNBk

Tips & Tricks

Inside Search Tips & Tricks - http://goo.gl/2vMgh6

http://goo.gl/dd6fXa

Google Search Star - http://goo.gl/mA2umH

Google Search

Tips & Tricks

http://goo.gl/JHfUwU

What is your

favorite search

strategy?

Share at Today’s Meet: https://todaysmeet.com/share081914

Searching

Challenge #1

https://todaysmeet.com/share081914

1. Go to the Google Custom Search Engine Tool -

https://www.google.com/cse/

2. Create a Custom Search Engine

3. Share your custom search on Today’s Meet

“Learn Today, Use Tomorrow”

Searching

Challenge #2

https://todaysmeet.com/share081914

1. Go to the Google Advanced Search -

https://www.google.com/advanced_search

2. Conduct a search and narrow your results

3. Share what you searched for and how you

narrowed the results

“Learn Today, Use Tomorrow”

Now What?

Share:

• Twitter - @diben or @tcea

• Today’s Meet https://todaysmeet.com/share081914

What will you take back to your campus

after this session and how will it be used?

Questions

Resources

Session Resources

1. Great Google Search Strategies

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/08/great-google-search-strategies-

every.html#.U_Al48VdU9J

2. How to Search the Invisible Web

http://www.onlineuniversities.com/articles/students/how-to-search-invisible-

web/

3. Visible vs Invisible Web

https://www.hartnell.edu/library/LIB5/visible_invisible_web.htm

4. Advanced Search Operators

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190

5. 10 Google Search Tips for Students

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/11/10-google-search-tips-all-students-

can.html

6. Become a Power Searcher

https://sites.google.com/a/tcea.org/get-your-google-on/power-searching

7. General Searching Techniques

http://berglandresources.wikispaces.com/Google+Search

Thank You and

Happy Searching!

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