Three Good Web Search Tutorials for Students

One of the first things that I do with any group of new-to-me students is talk with them about research strategies. The following tutorials ...

Search Before You Move On - Another Simple Search Tip for Students

In my previous post I shared that I like to have students create a list of things they know before they start to search. Once they move on t...

Get a Summary of Information About Sites in Google Search Results

Through Dan Russell's excellent Search ReSearch blog I learned that Google has recently added a potentially helpful new aspect to the s...

What a Cloakroom Can Teach Students About Web Search Strategies

I’m currently in London, England for the BETT Show and TeachMeet BETT 2014. As is the case with most flights going to Europe from the east ...

All About Explorers - Challenge Your Students' Historical Thinking

All About Explorers is a site that Russel Tarr tipped me off to this morning. The site, developed by Gerald Aungst and Lauren Zucker, was ...

Create a Library of Google Scholar Search Results

As I mentioned last month in my post about creating Google Scholar alerts , Google Scholar is one of the research tools that high school stu...

Using Google Image Search to Solve a Flea Market Mystery

Image credit: Becky White. This afternoon my friend Becky White posted on Facebook some pictures of the tea set that she found at a flea ma...

Four Helpful Web Search Strategy Tutorials

Vaughn Memorial Library at Acadia University hosts four free animated tutorials designed to teach lessons on web research strategies. The ...

Three Good Advanced Search Options for Students

Over the weekend I shared an idea for combining the reading level and domain level refinement tools in Google. Doing this can help your stu...

Two Video Guides to Website Evaluation

Writing the previous post about RADCAB reminded me of a Common Craft video about website evaluation . That video is embedded below. Common ...

Using Images as Research Prompts to Teach Google Search Strategies

Over the last month I've shown the picture that you see to the left during a number of presentations and workshops. I've used the pi...

Are Your Students Standing On The Shoulders of Giants?

If you visit Google Scholar right now you will see the tagline, "stand on the shoulders of giants." This is something that I menti...

Why Word Order Matters in Google Searches

Google's Search Anthropologist Daniel Russell recently shared a short video demonstrating why word order matters when formulating your ...

Web Search Lesson Plans from Google

This week I'm taking a few days off to ski, play with my dogs, visit with friends and family, and generally recharge my batteries. If yo...

Google Search and Common Core Standards

I had the privilege to spend today in the Rockingham County, North Carolina public school district. The purpose of my trip was to lead some ...

Become a Google Power Searcher This Fall

This summer Google offered a MOOC titled Power Searching With Google . More than 150,000 people registered for the course ( completion rate ...

What Makes Searching Difficult? What Makes it Easier?

A couple of times this summer I've mentioned Dan Russell's resources for making you a better web researcher. Most recently I feature...

Watch This Video Then Choose Better Search Terms

Wes Fryer just published a blog post about a Google Search tips presentation given by Lucy Gray . Included in Wes's post he included th...

Become a Power Google Searcher

Today, Google announced the launch of a new MOOC - Massive Open Online Course - titled Power Searching With Google . The course will contai...

Improve Your Search Skills with These Challenges

Daniel Russell is a Google employee who studies how people search on the Internet. He's a search anthropologist. I had the pleasure of m...