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Teaching Internet Search Strategies
Resources teachers can use to teach internet search strategies.
The Boolify Project
The Boolify Project is a simple
The Boolean Machine
Common Craft Videos
jigsaw game that teaches students
Rockwell-Schrock's Boolean
Common Craft produces excellent
the effects of "and," "or," and "not"
Machine is a simple way to show
videos that take potentially
on Internet search results.
students how the terms "and",
confusing topics and breaks them
"or", "not" affect the outcome of a
down into simple terms.
The game is simple enough for
search.
elementary school students to
Common Craft’s Web Search
benefit from, at the same time the
The Boolean Machine is a simple
Strategies in Plain English is an
game provides valuable lessons for
program to use. To use the
excellent video for introducing
high school students. To see the
Boolean Machine simply hold your
students to a variety of Internet
effects of operator words on a
mouse pointer over each word and
search strategies.
search, students drag and drop
you will see an explanation of how
operator words into the jigsaw
each operator word affects the
Web Search Strategies in Plain
puzzle.
search.
English explains how search
engines work, how to pick search
In addition to the Boolify game,
The Boolean Machine was created
words, how to use quotation marks
the Boolify Project has links to
in part by noted technology
in a search, and how to combine
teaching resources and videos
integration expert Kathy Schrock.
search methods.
explaining the effects of operator
words on Internet search results.
You can find the Boolean Machine
You can find the video at http://
at
http://kathyschrock.net/rbs3K/
commoncraft.com/search
You can find The Boolify Project at
boolean/
http://www.boolify.org
Permission is granted for non-commercial reproduction. For questions about reproduction of this material please contact the author at
richardbyrne@freetech4teachers.com
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