3. Where is the riptide?
What TV shows are showing on Saturday night?
When is the next full moon?
Where is the nearest post office?
When does daylight savings time begin?
How can I get from San Francisco to Baltimore?
Where can I get a fake ID?
What country has twice as many sheep as people?
4. http://www.polleverywhere.com/my/polls
You'll need a cell phone (with texting
capabilities) or a computer with internet
connection for this next activity.
Yes, it's okay to take out your phone in class.
Before we get started...
5. A search engine is
a TOOL and a TEXT.
Use it like a lever.
Read it like a book.
8. How to use the search engine
to your advantage...
9. Formulate your search...
Focus on desired results
Use key words / ideas
Utilize strategies
In essence, think like a machine!
10. "exact phrase"
one OR the other
exclude -this
include all ending*
only search site:example.edu
include unknown * here
no punctuation
... you can even search an image!
For more tips and tricks, visit http:
//www.google.
com/intl/en/insidesearch/tipstricks/basi
cs.html and https://support.google.
com/websearch/
answer/136861?hl=en. You can even
take an online course to increase
your Google Fu at http://www.
powersearchingwithgoogle.com/
12. Let's put it all together
and practice... If you were in the basin
of the Somme River at
summer’s end in 1918,
what language
would you have had to
speak to understand coded
British communications?
The question on this slide was created by Google Education, accessed from http://www.google.
com/insidesearch/searcheducation/lessons.html#challenges, and used thanks to a CC-BY license
13. If you were in the basin
of the Somme River at
summer’s end in 1918,
what language
would you have had to
speak to understand coded
British communications?
Thinking out loud...
What are we trying
to find?
What do we need to
know to find it?
○ place?
○ why 1918?
○ speaking the language?
14. Closing Thoughts:
What did you learn about search engines
and/or search strategies from this lesson
that you didn't know before?
