SearchStrategies

Search Strategies/Information Literacies

• Mozilla: Web Literacy Map: Acquiring online literacy skills
• SafeStars: Effective use of search strategies using browsers 
• The Advanced Google Searches Every Student Should Know 
• Using Online Resources & Google Scholar to Conduct Research in the Classroom 
• Marilyn Abramowitz: Information Literacies resources
• Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Association of College & Research Libraries
• MOOC: Online Research and Media Skills course
• Google Books browsing strategies 
• 12 Useful Chrome Extensions for Research 
• Video summary: MOOC: Online Research and Media Skills course
• MIT edX MOOC: Overcoming Information Overload 
• Remix: Teaching Students To Verify Social Media Content 
• Using Google Research in Google Docs for searching for information
• Who Is Hosting This: Strategies for Assessing Websites 
• 4 Important Google Docs Features for Student Researchers
• Digital Reading Poses Learning Challenges for Students. Education Week
• Julie Corio: Teaching Adolescents How to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information. Edutopia 
• Google Search Education: Lessons from Google on search strategies 
• Power Searching with Google
• The Open Information Literacy Users' Guide: An Open Online Textbook
• Video: Primary versus secondary sources. Common Craft 
• WebCheck: Tool for assessing websites
• Bill Stifler: The Research Process
• Mozilla: Web Literacy Standard Provides a framework for reading and participating on the web 
• Amy Goodloe: Information Literacy, Digital Writing 101 
• Lucy Gray: Presentation: Using Google for effective search 
• Lucy Gray: Presentation: Beyond Search
• Mozilla: Web Literacy Standards 
• Ten Steps to Better Web Research 
• Information Investigator 3.1: Download module for students on information literacies 
• Sortfix: Provide useful keywords for searching 
• Study: Use of a graphic novel to teach information literacy/research skills to college students
• Google: Search Education: Module on search strategies
• Tutorial: Penn Libraries: ABCs of Web Literacy
• Question and answer sites: Wikianswers and Yahoo Answers
• NECC 2009: Information literacies tools
• Bibliobouts: Game for learning about search strategies
• 32 Ways to Use Search Engines in the Classroom
• Video: Wendy Drexler: The Networked Student: Connectivism theory applied to student learning
• Tools for Real-Time Assessment of Information Literary Skills
• Joyce Valenza: Presentation: Information Literacy Meets Web. 2.0
• Video: NewsHour Teacher Extra: Using bookmarks and tags
• Mikoto Rich, In Web Age, Library Jobs Get an Update, The New York Times
• Alan November: Information Literacy Resources
• Alan November, Web Literacy for Educators, 2008
• The Big6: Teaching information literacies resources
• Google Power Searching Tips for Students
• Meris Stansberry: eSchool News: Rethinking Research in a Google Era
• Committee on Institutional Cooperation: conference papers on libraries' role in fostering information access
• NCTE: 21st Century research skills (from English Journal)
• S.O.S. for Information Literacy
• Utilium: Create study packs on certain topics
• Hennepin County Library: Databases versus Websites: What Is the Difference?
• Video: Databases Are Different
• Illinois Math and Science Association: search strategy tutorials
• Epistemic Games: science game for evaluating online resources
• University of California, Berkeley: Tutorials for conducting searches
• MIT: An introduction to online and database search strategies
• Vanderbilt University: Tutorials: search strategies
• Kathy Schrock: Successful Web Search Strategies: Power Point presentation
• Eduscape: Search Strategies
• Springfield Township School Library: Search strategies
• Springfield Township School Library: Scholarly vs. Popular vs. Trade vs. Primary sources
• Oregon School Library System: Search Strategies
• Atomic Learning: Module: Searching the Web
• Guided Searching @2Learn.ca for Teens
• Guided Searching @2Learn.ca
• Internet 101
• Tara Calishain's `ResearchBuzz
• Sharon Betts: Using Google search
• wNet School Internet Primer: Searching Smart
• Find Information: The Interactive Search Engine Tutorial
• Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, Usability of Websites for Teenagers
• Mission Possible: Successful Online Research (a video for students on engaging in online research)
• How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory
• Debbie Abilock: Choose the Best Search Engine
• Internet Search Engine Help & Tutorials
• Searchability
• Search Engine Guide
• WebData
• SearchEngineWatch.com
• Greg R. Notess. Search Engine Showdown Montana State University
• Pandia Search Central
• Aaron Swartz’s Google Weblog
• Finding It Online: Web Search Strategies
• Searching The World Wide Web
• Research Paper Navigator
• The Spider's Apprentice
• Infopeople. Best Search Tools Chart
• The UNCG Information Literacy Game.
• Florida's Library Media: Information Literacy
• Noodle Tools. Noodlequest: Enter in search topics
• TILT: Texas Information Literacy Online Tutorial
• Secondary ICT: Web Literacy
• Public Schools of North Carolina: Curriculum for information skills
• Information Literacy Wiki
• Information Literacy: Lesson PlansInformation Literacy: Search Strategies
• S.O.S. for Information Literacy!
• Teaching Information Skills for the Middle Years
• Information Skills Instruction
• Research Building Blocks
• Fact Fragment Frenzy: Interactive Online Tool
• Information Literacy Lessons
• University of Minnesota: Tech Talk: video production: The Changing Face of Libraries
• Bellingham Schools: Information Literacy and the Net
• Information Literacy: Tutorials
• Florida's Library Media: Information Literacy
• Springfield Township School Library: Online Activities Promoting Informational Literacies