Effective Internet Searching
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This document provides strategies for effective searching on search engines. It explains what search engines are and how they work by searching keywords entered by users. It also defines operators like NOT, OR, and AND that can make searches more specific by removing or adding additional search terms. Finally, it encourages practicing different search strategies using a site called Boolify.org and reflecting on the results.
Effective Internet Searching
- 1. Effective Searching How Do We Find The Information We Need?
- 2. Write Your Response - Act. 1 What is a search engine? What does it do? What does it actually search? Explain how you think it works when you search for something.
- 3. Searching Effectively We need to search for information quickly and effectively. Sometimes that can be difficult. This lesson is going to give you strategies to assist you in finding what you need. Searching Strategies in Plain English Video
- 4. How Does It Work? Act. 2 When we use search engines, we enter key words (things we are searching for). We need to use operators to help us be more specific. Operators are words like NOT and OR. They are used to remove or add results to our searches.
- 5. NOT, OR, AND Means NOT means that we dont want to receive something as a result. OR means we want EITHER thing 1 or thing 2. AND means both things have to be present
- 6. Lets Try Something Search 1: students Search 2: girl Search 3: girl OR boy Search 4: student NOT wearing red shoes Search 5: boy AND hat
- 7. Quotes Theres something else thats important to know about search engines. Does anyone know what happens if you use quotes around your words or phrases? What do you think the difference would be if you search Georgie Washington with and without quotes?
- 8. Boolify Activity www.boolify..org 1. search for Dolphins a. What do you think will appear? b. What actually happened? 2. Using the operators we learned, how do we search to find just the mammals?
- 9. Activity On Your Own Using www.boolify.org and your handout, do the searching and record your findings per the instructions. Then go to IC and answer the questions online. Thank you!