WWWSearchStrategiesLearning

a. ** Google ** b. ** Yahoo ** c. ** Dogpile ** d. ** Ask Jeeves **
 * 1. ****What four major search engines can you think of?** Many people tend to just use the same search tool (Google, for example) over and over without realizing there are many more options.

b. Access the search engine Boolify http://boolify.org. You'll drag the puzzle pieces into the open space, and the search results show up at the bottom. c. How successful has this strategy been for you? ** Wow!!! I really like Boolify!!! I like the fact that I can compare the different “words” being used. I also like the fact that I can save my searches **. 4. Did you ever wonder who actually owned a particular website? ** The search tool Easy Who Is allows you to discover the individual or organization's name who has paid for the particular URL.
 * 2. ****Activity #1:** Try a few of these tools you've never heard of. List the ones you tried and your impressions of it.
 * a. Biology Browser **
 * b. Biosites **
 * c. Scicentral **
 * These sites were very interesting. I found some new information when I navigated around them. They were more geared toward adult science students. **
 * Activity #2:** Go to the Teoma search engine at [|http://www.teoma.com] and search for a phrase, such as renewable resources without quotation marks, then with quotation marks. Note the differences in the number of results.
 * Without quotations : 3,740,000 **
 * With quotations: 3,740,000 **
 * I was a little confused by the above results so I tried the same activity on google. The results are shown below. **
 * Without quotations: 6,050,000 **
 * With quotations: 1,960,000 **
 * Activity #3:** a. Try a search using Boolean operators on your favorite search engine.

Activity #4: Go to [|www.easywhois.com] and enter the URL of a site you wonder about. Activity #5: Use your developing search skills to find the intended use of the following:
 * 5. Generic top level domains are the ".com" part of a URL.** There are many different options.
 * Wikipedia was the main website that I found the information from. **

.aero-** Aviation Community **

.asia- ** regional domain for companies, organisations, and individuals based in the region of [|Asia], [|Australia] , and the [|Pacific] **

.biz-** Business Community **

.com- ** networks of general commercial character **

.coop- ** intended for the use of [|cooperatives], wholly owned subsidiaries, and other organizations that exist to promote or support co-operatives **

.edu-** Educational Institues **

.gov- ** [|government] entities in the [|United States]  **

.info- **// informative //**** Internet resources **

.jobs- ** domain is restricted to employment-related sites. **

.k12- ** Public Schools **

.mil- ** the [|United States Department of Defense] and its subsidiary or affiliated organizations. **

.mobi- ** indicating its use by [|mobile devices] for accessing Internet resources via the [|Mobile Web]. **

.museum- ** used exclusively by [|museums], museum associations, and individual members of the museum profession, as these groups are defined by the [|International Council of Museums] (ICOM). **

.name- ** intended for use by individuals for representation of their real names, nicknames, screen names, pseudonyms, or other personal or fictional names **

.net- ** organizations involved in networking technologies, such as [|Internet service providers] and other infrastructure companies. **

.org- ** [|non-profit organizations] or organizations of a non-commercial character that did not meet the requirements for other gTLDs **

.pro- ** qualified professionals. **

.sch-** Used for schools **

.tel- ** a single management and publishing name space for Internet communication services, providing a global contacts directory service by housing all types of contact information directly in the Domain Name System. **

.travel- ** restricted use by [|travel agents], [|airlines] , [|bed and breakfast] operators, tourism bureaus, and others in the [|travel industry] **.

** I searched .travel.it to try to find travel information on Italy. This is the first website that appeared. http://www.travel.it/ It is an entire page on different things to do in Italy. ** Go to Alta Vista: ** [|http://www.altavista.com] ** and type "host:edu + turtle" in the search box. Activity #7: Create your own search specific to a certain top level domain and report the results. ** I searched “host:org + polarbear” Many different sites came up including the polarbear webcam at the San Diego Zoo, and the Coney Island Polar Bear Club!! **
 * Activity #6:** Create your own search specific to a certain country and report the results.
 * 7. How would you conduct a search for the following: US higher education Web sites that contain the word turtle.**

There are so many ways to save your search time in Google. Here are some of the search features you need to know about: ** [] ** Activity #8: try out at least five of the features and report them for this activity.  ** 5) Movie ShowTime ** Share with two different people two different search strategies or tools you've learned in this module. Talk about this experience when you post to your wiki. So, for this module, you'll have 10 (plus a potential bonus item) posted on your wiki. The first person I shared this with is a fellow teacher in my building named Natalee. I shared the [|www.easywhois.com] and how she could apply this search in her english class. I also showed her about the Boolean operators. She had never realized that those "little" words that she used in her search engines could have such an effect.  The second person I shared with is Billy, he teaches science right next door to my classroom. I showed him the biology search engine that I discovered earlier and we look at some different resources that we could use for our science curriculum.
 * 8. Have you ever used Google as a calculator?**
 * 1) Area Code **
 * 2) Airplane Travel Info **
 * 3) Public Data **
 * 4) Local Search **


 * Bonus Activity: ** Create your own personalized search engine at: ** [] **
 * My search engine: Teacher Resources Search Engines []  **