The Search
segment will focus on things such as being able to locate timely
relevant research (when needed for research-based decision making),
discovering news about the school, and having updates on important
topics come to you (as a way to save precious time).
"We want to make
sure
the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time."
"We want to ensure that the Google you
use today is
better than the one you used yesterday."
Marissa Mayer, Google VP
Search Products
& User Experience
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Activity/Discussion:
Time for the Google Scavenger Hunt! Click here to view it online or here to download the file in a format that will be happy
on both PC's and Macs. Once home, feel free to print and share with your
students. Need help? Check Google's
Search Feature page.
Activity/Discussion:
With a partner, find a
book in Books you would like students to have read before they graduate.
Share what you two come up with with the other members of your team.
Also take a few minutes to see what resources you can find that would
help your students with research projects.
Getting
Advanced
Google also makes it possible to filter results
in ways that can be very helpful to students and teachers. There are
language tools, ways to specify domain and file types, and some creative
ways to look at results tied to related searches and timelines. Start
with that little "Advanced
Search" link to the right of the search field on the main page. Use
what you find to try the following:
- Set your Google search page to French.
- Do a search that only taps the websites of
universities. (Which universities did it check?)
- Find Power Point presentations on the Taj Mahal
For those moments when you want to know what terms commonly
get searched with the one you're wielding at the moment, give the Wonder
wheel a good look. Find it by doing a search, and then clicking on that
"Show options" link you may never have noticed before:
Activity/Discussion:
Try both Wonder wheel and
the Timeline options. When might these be valuable for students?
Custom
Search Engine:
Activity/Discussion:
Would
this be a good tool for what you teach? What sites would you include?
How would you find related sites to add in the future?
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GWE SearchGoogle Workshop for Educators - GWE Search Resources
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