searchactivities

Activities: 1. The search engine I use the most is Google. After this lesson I will use many more!! [|www.webcrawler.com] This site uses Google search, Bing and Ask. I really liked this search engine because of all the possiblities of so many searches. [|www.lycos.com] I liked this site because it gave you other subject headings to choose from if you hit a dead end. I loved the little snapshots of the web pages. [|www.A9Search.com] This was developed by Amazon so you get suggestions of books that tie into your subject search. I thought that was pretty cool! [|www.HotBot.com] This site was pretty basic with websites listed neatly.

2. Using quotations marks around a keyword or phrase such as "renewable resources" cuts your web results in half!

3. [|www.boolify.com] My favorite new search engine! I love this so much that I did more searches for my pathfinder when I already had plenty.

4. www.easywhois.com I use the site [|www.abcteach.com] all the time so it was very interesting to find out who owned the site. I found out who the administative contact would be and the technical contact. I have names and phone numbers! Too cool!

5. .aero - air-transport industry .asia - Asia-Pacific region .biz - business .com - commercial .coop - co-operative .edu - education .gov - U.S. government .info - information .jobs - companies .k12 - .mil - U.S. military .mobi - mobile devices .museum - museums .name - for personal use .net - for network provider or host .org - organizational, non-profit .pro - professions .tel - Internet communication services .travel - travel and tourism industry related sites

6. Very interesting, I found 41 colleges in Australia.

7. This was a little strange for me because you are looking for one word in Higher ed. sites so I didn't really know what to look for! I put in animals instead of turtle and didn't get anything.

8. http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/feaures.html Search by number: Great for tracking all my packages! Trip planning: I can't wait to use this feature this summer. Health Search: What an easy way to help out when you're clueless or need more information on a health issue. Choosing Key word: Love the synonym search! Reference Tools: I will use the book search part on this tool.

9. I shared the Google features from number 8 with my son Kyle. He really likes the choosing key words to help in his English class and the dictionary tool.

10. I shared [|www.Boolify.com] with everyone the next day at school. I was so excited about how fun and easy this was. My teacher friend Bobbi wants to use it on her Smart Board. I will share this with my students when we start our research paper.

BONUS ACTIVITY: I did this but still in the process of getting it uploaded on my wiki!

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