Search Tools for Teachers at
What are Search Engines?Searching Learning Segment, The ILT Leadership Institute, Springfield's Public SD 186, Webliminal Tools,
Kathy Schrock's guide to using search engines. The Spider's Apprentice and Larry's World lessons on using Search Engines and Filamentality's Searching Tips.
Kansas City Public Library has published an introduction to using search engines. Discover the differences between a search engine and a subject guide.
Teachers especially find
our
Savvy
Cyber Teacher project materials useful.
These materials were designed to help teachers
develop
their Searching Skills and are only one unit of the ten
units developed as part of our Alliance+
National Teacher Internet-In-Education Teacher Training Program.
How To! Using the best directories and search engines, Windweaver's Search Guide along with Windweaver's top ten and an honorable mention of 20 more search engines.
Hamline University's Bush Libray: Understanding and Comparing Search Tools
The Northwestern University Library's Search Tools and Internet Resources
Try The
Spider's Apprentice, or the Search
Engine
Watch's "Tutorial",
"How Search
Engines Work", "Tips
on Using", and "Power
Searching".
What about effective Search
Strategies? Examine Kathy Schrock'sSearch
Strategies, FAQ's
(Frequently Asked Questions) on search engines, and further
information about searching the net. Try The Instruction, Learning
& Technology Leadership's Web links to study
the Web.
Teachers especially find our Savvy Cyber Teacher project materials useful. These materials were designed to help teachers develop their Searching Skills and are only one unit of the ten units developed as part of our Alliance+ National Teacher Internet-In-Education Teacher Training Program.
Ready to try out your skills at searching? The Institute's Savvy Cyber Scavenger Hunt is excellent! Here are two scavenger hunts, a student scavenger hunt and teacher scavenger hunt using the Congresslink Communicator. Try the Internet Scavenger Hunts put together by Olmsted Falls' Middle School's technology class and Bill Schuck or the China Scavenger Hunt by Forefront Curriculum.
And finally, some Compelling uses for the Internet in Education.
