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With so many exemplary resources -- and so much artfully packaged trash -- now available on the Internet, how do you know which is which? More importantly, how do you teach your students to tell the difference? These sites might help. | | | Soucre: IMSA: Looking for Resources for Elementary Students?
Find activities you can use with younger children to prepare them for searching, evaluation and citation. These workshop resources were recently introduced at the Illinois School Library Media Association Conference. You'll find offline and online activities that lay a foundation for information fluency through gaming, role playing, simulations and interactive tutorials. | | | Tools and Technologies: Tips for Web Literacy
Teachers and students need new literacy skills as more and more of the resources they turn to are web-based. Here are tips on what to help them learn. | | | Curriculum Integration: Information Literacy
Students get it about technology. The challenge for schools is in developing a new generation of knowledgeable digital citizens who can operate in the unregulated online world.
| | | 19. MASTER SEARCH TECNIQUES TO PINPOINT FILES OR WEBSITES
Drill down through millions of search results for popular Google search terms by mastering advanced search operators. Enclose phrases and proper names in quotes (as in "Don't tase me bro" or "Michael Phelps") to get exact-phrase matches. Use the + and - signs to specify meaning, especially for words that have more than one definition (for example, salsa -dance), and use the filetype: operator to find certain kinds of documents (as in budget filetype:xls).
You can even search for all the ingredients in your fridge with the word recipe to figure out what to have for dinner tonight.
Then, take your search chops to your desktop, where organizing files in an elaborate folder scheme is no longer necessary. Use Windows Vista's Saved Search folders to build a dynamic store of all the files that contain the term "NYC," for instance, or all the digital photos taken on your birthday.
Gmail's built-in e-mail search capabilities are also killer. Use the from:, to: , and subject: operators to find specific messages, as in from:"Bill Gates" subject:"dinner date".
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