D219 Conference - Beyond Search

Beyond Search
Lucy Gray
D219 Technology Conference
April 9, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011

Agenda
• Leveraging Google Search Tools
• The Art of Search

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.

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?

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

DidYou Know?
http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchStories

About Search Tools

• Everything is searchable.
• Control + F is incredibly useful.
• Nothing stays constant on the web.
• 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

Options

Everything

Green Images

Shopping

RealTime

Discussions

Wonderwheel

Translated

Try It
• #edapp
• #killthebill
• Bahrain
• education resources k12
science fair volcanoes
• Garageband tutorials
• weather 97220
• Portland Trailblazers
• INTC or NKE
• earthquake Japan
• sunrise Portland OR
• Douglas Englebart invented *
• 2000 dollars in pesos
• population OR
Try It

Customized

Headlines

Fast Flip

Most Shared

Advanced

Search Results

Located at the bottom
of a news search page
RSS & Email Alerts

• Go to http://news.google.com
• Search for a famous person in the news.
(Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Arne Duncan, Steve Jobs, Roger Goodell, Amy Chua, Liam
Neeson)
• Click on Quotes on the left hand side of the page.
Search inside those quotes if you wish.
For example, within Arne Duncan’s quotes, search for
“technology”.
• Go back to your original search or try another.
• Click on Advanced Search.
• Restrict your search to a particular news source.
Try It

Scholar

Search Within ResultsSunday, April 10, 2011

PreferencesSunday, April 10, 2011

Preferences

Try It
• Go to http://scholar.google.com
• Enter in a search term such as John Dewey, Brown vs.
Board of Education, or forestry.
• Use the pull down menus to customize your results. For
instance, select Oregon courts with your forestry query.
• Do another search using the keyword mobile.
• Click on Advanced Scholar Search.
• Narrow your results by entering “Learning and Leading
with Technology” in the publication ﬁeld.
Try It

Book Search

http://books.google.com

About This Book

WorldCat

My Library

Bookshelf

Try It
• Do a search for the following authors and titles and click on About
This Book:
• Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8
• Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavina
• Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie
• Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
• Catherine Ryan Hyde, Pay It Forward
• Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Make sure you are logged into your Google account and search for
your favorite books. Create shelves and add books to your shelves.
You can link to your My Library to share your collections with others.
Try It

Google’s Search
Curriculum

Dan Russell

Control + F

https://sites.google.com/site/gwebsearcheducation/

Creative Commons

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

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: [Oregon population 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 “Ursula K Le Guin”

Help
• Google Search Basics
• Advanced Search Tips
• Explore Google Search
• Google Guide Quick Reference

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 Group
• Find me on delicious, diigo, etc: elemenous
• Email: elemenous@gmail.com

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