Arden Izzo’s EDU 276 PORTFOLIO REFLECTION LOG

ARTIFACT NAME:

Excel Search Engine Analysis

COMPONENTS: A table made in Microsoft excel that compares and contrasts three different search engines. FILE NAMES:ISTE NETS STANDARD(s): Standard 5 - Productivity & Professional Practice: Teachers use technology to enhance their productivity and professional practice

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE REVIEWER WILL SEE:

Above you will see a Microsoft excel document comparing and contrasting three different types of search engines (A traditional search engine: Google, A directory search engine: Clusty, and a Meta search engine: Meta crawler) The table indicates the search engines URL’s, the pro’s and con’s of these search engines number of hits and relevance of results.

CONTEXT IN WHICH THE WORK WAS COMPLETED:

For this assignment, I was asked to research three different types of search tools (A traditional search engine, directory search engine, and a Meta search engine) I was then asked to search these sites for one topic that was related to my Literacy Wiki project. I choose editing. I was then asked to compare and contrast my results and publish them through a spreadsheet I built using Microsoft Excel. I was to make the spreadsheet aesthetically pleasing, and grammatically correct. Finally I had to submit my excel document in a drop box in angel.

BULLETED REFLECTION: Pre-project skills:

This project reflects several new skills I learned. Before this project I was very unfamiliar with search engines other than google and was ignorant to the fact that there are several different types of search engines. (Traditional search engines, directory search engines, meta search engines, etc.)

Resources Used: Search engines * Google * Clusty * Meta crawler

Angel Microsoft Excel Microsoft editing tools

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New Skills Practiced: Using Microsoft office excel Expanding my knowledge of search tools Familiarizing myself with using different search tools and learning which types of search engines

work best. Next Steps:

Continue to use Clusty, and Meta crawler instead of always referring to google. Familiarize myself with new search tools including other directory search engines, and Meta search

engines. Familiarize myself with Microsoft excel Continue to use Microsoft editing skills

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