Searching

Session 6: Finding and Organizing Internet Resources
** Essential Question: How are Internet resources effectively and efficiently located and organized? **

 ** • Students have access to Internet resources (pre-selected on a webpage through search engines and directories) that meet diverse learner needs **  ** • Students and teachers effectively and efficiently locate and organize Internet resources. **  ** • Teachers value Internet resource location and organization skills as important for lifelong learning. **

 **//Connectivity & Session Starter//**

 **• Pre-session Play:**

**• Imagination Cubed []**  **• Soda Constructor @http://www.sodaplay.com/constructor/index.htm**  **• Jam Legend []**  **• Line Rider []**

**Wicked Decent Learning Podcast (Jeff Bailey at Mt. Valley and Dan Ryder at Mt. Blue)**
 **[|Telstar Music & Art Teacher Blogs]**

 **• Searching the Internet is like …**

 ** • Thinking about using Internet resources in the classroom is like … **  ** • Asking students to conduct Internet searches is like … **  ** • Let me tell you what keeps me up at night . . . **

 **//Effective Internet Searches//**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Video on Searching** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **[]**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **GOOGLE** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **@http://www.google.com/**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Boolean Search on the Internet: A Primer in Boolean Logic** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **@http://www.internettutorials.net/boolean.html**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Four NETS for Better Searching** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **@http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Maine MARVEL** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **@http://libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Wikipedia, Answers & Open Source: Authoritative vs Democratic** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **@http://www.answers.com/**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Major Search Engines & Directories** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **@http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2156221**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Specialized Search Engines and Directories** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **@http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/specialized.html**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Blue Web'n** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **@http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/contentTable2.cfm**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **42eXplore** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **@http://42explore.com/**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **eThemes** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **@http://www.emints.org/ethemes/index.shtml**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **National Library of Mathematical Manipulatives** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **@http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Richard Byrne's Free Technology for Teachers** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **[|http://www.freetech4teachers.com]**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Learning in Maine Blog** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **[]**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Learning in America Wiki** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **http://learninginamerica.wikispaces.com/**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **//Saving and Organizing Sites//**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Portaportal []** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Bookmarking Sites @http://region6.mainelearns.org/bookmarkingsites.html** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Online Classroom Environments http://region6.mainelearns.org/onlineclassenviron.html** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **BridgeURL []** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Delicious []**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**//If Time. . .//**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Share**

**//Reflection and Putting into Practice//**

**//Debrief//**

Essential Question: How are Internet resources effectively and efficiently located and organized?
• Learners will gain knowledge about using search engines to locate Internet information for classroom use that meets diverse learner needs.

• Learners will organize Internet resources using browser bookmarking features and will also become familiar with Web-based bookmarking tools.

• Learners will become acquainted with several tools that find classroom resources.

• Learners will determine how to use Internet safety resources in their classrooms.


 * Sign-in, Connectivity & Session Starter **

**[|Free Technology for Teachers Blog] (Richard Byrne at Oxford Hills)**

 * [|Wicked Decent Learning Podcast] (Jeff Bailey at Mt. Valley and Dan Ryder at Mt. Blue)**


 * Telstar Music & Art Teacher Blogs**

What Keeps You Awake at Night?

 * The Issues **

[|**The Paradox of Choice Video**] **vs. Pleasantville**


 * Living with Choice
 * Controlling Choice - How to make best decision?
 * Time - Limiting Choices
 * Trust - Is it reliable?

= Effective Internet Searches =

Google [|Boolean Search on the Internet: A Primer in Boolean Logic] [|http://www.internettutorials.net/boolean.html] [|Four NETS for Better Searching] Meta-Search Engines [|Clusty] [|Major Search Engines & Directories] [|Specialized Search Engines and Directories] Visual Search Engines: Kart00 SearchMe Quintura

= **Seeking Out Information** =





Filamentality

TRACKSTAR

== = **Saving and Organizing Sites** =

**Online Classroom Environments [| http://region6.mainelearns.org/onlineclassenviron.html]**
**Reliability**


 * Who Do You Trust?** **http://learninginmaineresources.wikispaces.com/Trust**

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= **Internet Safety** =

eThemes Internet Safety []
= Reflection and Putting into Practice =
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