The document discusses search skills and tools. It provides an overview of Google's search capabilities including News, Scholar, Books and other tools. It emphasizes that search is an essential 21st century skill and educators should help students learn to organize, access and leverage information. The document also introduces yolink as a tool to help scaffold student searches and provide contextual information from search results.

1. Beyond Search
Lucy Gray & Anne Kimbrel
yolink
http://yolinkeducation.com
Punahou School
July 6, 2010
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2. Guiding Thoughts
• Search is the essential 21st century skill.
• The responsibility of teaching search to
kids lies within the entire school
community.
• How can educators help students to
organize, access, and leverage THEIR
collection of information in useful ways?
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3. Agenda
• Leveraging Google Search Tools
• The Art of Search
• Scaffolding Searches with yolink
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4. Google’s Mission
Online content
Billions of web pages
Offline content
Billions of items becoming
indexed
To organize the world’s information and make it
universally accessible and useful.
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5. A New Digital Divide
• Those who know how to “think” about
search vs. those don’t.
• Those who know how to validate soft
information vs. those don’t.
• Those who know where to find information
in new “hot” channels vs. those don’t.
• Those who understand the current culture
of informal languages vs. those don’t
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6. A New Digital Divide
• Those who know how to get information to travel
to them vs. those who still chase it.
• Those who have the knowledge and skills to create
and re-mix digital media vs. those who don’t.
• Those that understand that learning is a continual
process vs. those that view learning as
achievement.
-Helen Blowers, Columbus Metropolitan Library
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7. DidYou Know?
http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchStories
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8. About Search Tools
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9. • Everything is searchable.
• Nothing stays constant on the web.
• Control + F is incredibly useful.
• Advanced Search and Preferences are
available with each product.
• RSS feeds are usually also available.
• Just about every product has a team blog.
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10. Understanding Search
Options
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27. News
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32. Located at the bottom
of a
news search
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34. Scholar
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38. Advanced Scholar
Search
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39. Scholar Preferences
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40. Scholar Preferences
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41. Book Search
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52. Google’s Search
Curriculum
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53. Dan Russell
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54. Control + F
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63. Creative Commons
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66. The Art of Search
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67. Organizing a Search
• What is it I’m looking for?
• (think about common keywords)
• How would someone else talk about it?
• (what words would they use? how would THEY describe
it?)
• Which of those terms would be most common?
• Which of those terms would be very specialized to this topic?
• What kind of thing would make me happy? (do I want a single
web page, a definition, a collection, an image.... or … ?)
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68. Keyword Choice
• Think about what you are trying to find
• Choose words that you think will appear on the
page
• Put yourself in the mindset of the author of those
words
• Use synonyms
• Start broad and use just a few words, then go deep
• Use contextual terms
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69. Other Search Tips
• Use specifiers
• Example: [Hawaiian flowers wikipedia]
• Try an image search when normal means fail, you might find
something that will be useful or spark your interest in a
different way.
• Word order matters—when it’s not working one way, try
another.
• When searching for common phrases, don’t leave out the
“stop words.” (e.g., [ Lord of the Rings] )
• Use double quotes to find a particular sequence of words
• Example:“Daniel M Russell” or “Palo Alto Library”
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70. yolink
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72. yolink search does the work so you don’t have
to.
Let me tell you what that means…
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73. Save Time – Find Better Information.
Unstructured and structured
content
Reveals key information from
unwieldy results
Multiple steps executed at once
Share and Create
Applies logic, and goes to work.
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74. To DoingFrom Searching
Keywords
10 Blue Links
Multiple Clicks
Content in Context
Blocks of Information
Actionable in one-click
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76. yolink API,Widgets
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77. yolink Resources
• Main site
• http://yolinkeducation.com
• ISTE Lessons, Slideshows & Resources
• http://www.yolinkeducation.com/education/iste/
• Find us on Facebook,Twitter, Slideshare, Blogger,YouTube
• http://www.facebook.com/yolink
• http://twitter.com/yolinkeducation
• http://www.slideshare.net/yolinkeducation
• http://yolinkedu.blogspot.com/
• http://www.youtube.com/user/yolinkVideos
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78. Conclusion
• Plan on learning new skills.
• Nothing stays constant on the web.
• Search engines are continually improving.
• New search tools are always being developed
• Make research to be a part of everything that you do in the
classroom.Teach and model this attitude to your students.
• Help students and colleagues develop a research stance across
content areas using News, Scholar, and Book Search.
• Encourage your school or district to adopt search tools and
strategies globally.
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79. Lucy’s Resources
• High Techpectations: http://lucygray.org
• Google in Education Diigo
• Find me on delicious, diigo, etc: elemenous
• Email: elemenous@gmail.com
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