Beyond Search

Beyond SearchLucy Gray & Anne Kimbrel

yolink http://yolinkeducation.com

Punahou SchoolJuly 6, 2010

1Thursday, July 8, 2010

http://yolinkeducation.com


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?


Agenda

• Leveraging Google Search Tools

• The Art of Search

• Scaffolding Searches with yolink


Google’s Mission

Online contentBillions of web pages

Offline contentBillions of items becoming

indexed

To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.


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


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


Did You Know?

http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchStories




About Search Tools


• 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.


Understanding Search Options


News


Located at the bottom of a

news search


Scholar


Advanced Scholar

Search


Scholar Preferences


Book Search


Google’s Search Curriculum


Dan Russell


http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/

http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/

Control + F


Creative Commons


The Art of Search


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 … ?)


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


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”


yolink


yolink search does the work so you don’t have to.

Let me tell you what that means…


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.


To DoingFrom Searching Keywords

10 Blue LinksMultiple Clicks

Content in ContextBlocks of InformationActionable in one-click


yolink API, Widgets


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




http://www.yolinkeducation.com/education/iste/

http://www.yolinkeducation.com/education/iste/

http://www.facebook.com/yolink

http://www.facebook.com/yolink

http://twitter.com/yolinkeducation

http://twitter.com/yolinkeducation

http://www.slideshare.net/yolinkeducation

http://www.slideshare.net/yolinkeducation

http://yolinkedu.blogspot.com

http://yolinkedu.blogspot.com

http://www.youtube.com/user/yolinkVideos

http://www.youtube.com/user/yolinkVideos

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.


Lucy’s Resources

• High Techpectations: http://lucygray.org

• Google in Education Diigo

• Find me on delicious, diigo, etc: elemenous

• Email: [email protected]


http://lucygray.org

http://lucygray.org

http://groups.diigo.com/group/google-in-education%60

http://groups.diigo.com/group/google-in-education%60

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