beyond search

Beyond SearchLucy Gray & Anne Kimbrel

yolink http://yolinkeducation.com

Punahou SchoolJuly 6, 2010

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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?

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Agenda

• Leveraging Google Search Tools

• The Art of Search

• Scaffolding Searches with yolink

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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.

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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

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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

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Did You Know?

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

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About Search Tools

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• 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.

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Understanding Search Options

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News

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Located at the bottom of a

news search

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Scholar

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Advanced Scholar

Search

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Scholar Preferences

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Scholar Preferences

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Book Search

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Google’s Search Curriculum

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Dan Russell

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Control + F

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Creative Commons

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The Art of Search

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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 … ?)

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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

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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”

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yolink

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

Let me tell you what that means…

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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.

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To DoingFrom Searching Keywords

10 Blue LinksMultiple Clicks

Content in ContextBlocks of InformationActionable in one-click

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yolink API, Widgets

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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

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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.

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Lucy’s Resources

• High Techpectations: http://lucygray.org

• Google in Education Diigo

• Find me on delicious, diigo, etc: elemenous

• Email: elemenous@gmail.com

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