This document provides an overview of Google search and research tools for teacher librarians. It discusses tools like Related Searches, Timeline, Reading Level Filter, Translated Pages, Limiting Results by Time, Advanced Search, Custom Search, Images, Similar Images, Life Photo Archive, Google Alerts, Newspaper Search, Books, and Scholar. The document encourages "road tests" to experiment with these tools and emphasizes that as teachers, it is important to teach students effective searching skills to organize, access, and leverage information.

1. Google Search & Research Tools for Teacher Librarians CLANS Teacher Librarian Network Meeting September 1, 2011 Glenda Morris Teacher Librarian OLMC Heidelberg

3. Many know how to search with Google ... but we can always do it better, thus save time

4. Can’t cover all aspects on how to search with Google – too huge

6. GTA Application Video – Motivation & Learning

7. GTA SYD Participants Australia (28), America, New Zealand, Belgium (1), Japan (1) & Russia (1)

8. Agenda

9. Action plan guidelines

10. Google Search Tools ReadingLevelFilter RelatedSearches Limitresults by Time Timeline

12. Effective searching is an essential 21st Century skill

13. As TLs, it is OUR responsibility to teach students (& teachers) HOW to search efficiently and effectively

15. Sidebar

16. 1. Related Searches

17. 2. Timeline

18. Timeline – Antarctica 1900-99

19. 3. Reading Level Filter

20. Basic Intermediate Reading level

21. Advanced Reading Level

23. Locate “more search tools” on sidebar

24. Experiment with Google’s Related Searches Timeline Reading Level Filter

25. 4. Translated Foreign Pages

26. 5. Limit Results by Time

27. 6. Advanced Search

31. Locate “more search tools” on sidebar

32. Experiment with Google’s Translated Foreign Pages Limit Results by ... Advanced Search

33. 7. Google Custom Search

37. ROAD TEST #3 Create a Google Custom Search Engine on a topic of your choice http://www.google.com/cse/ More info My blog post on creating Google Custom Search Engines

38. Google Multimedia Search

39. 8. Google Images

40. 9. Similar images

41. Google Similar images

42. 10. LIFE Photo Archive http://images.google.com/hosted/life

45. 11. Google Alerts Monitor the Web for new content on topics Google Alerts = email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news) Uses: developing news stories, latest on events … Enter the topic you wish to monitor, click preview to see the type of results you'll receive

48. 12. Google News Newspaper Search http://news.google.com/newspapers

51. 13. Google Books Find books for students/yourself to read or to assist with research – SENIOR students Provides access to 1000s of books that would otherwise be difficult/impossible to find Search to find pages according to your search query Create booklists/bookshelves related to curriculum areas saving in My Library

53. Limited Preview = Still under copyright with permission granted by publisher/author for X number of pages for viewing

54. Snippet preview = Books under copyright & in print, but publishers/authors granted permission for only small sections to be made available

57. No Preview = copyright and/or in print

58. Snippet = copyright and/or in print

59. Preview = Publisher/creator granted permission or out of print

60. Full View = Public Domain (out of print, no copyright)

63. Newspapers

64. Magazines

66. Journals

68. Uni of Southern QLD article download as PDF

70. Useful search websites Google Web Search - Classroom Lessons and Resources http://www.google.com/educators/p_websearch.html Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers Lessons are short & not specific to any discipline = fit the need of your classroom