Researching on the Interweb - How can we do this effectively?
Task:
- Using whatever search engine you like, try and see if you can find out what the word Kiwi means - I am talking about the flightless native bird, that is our national emblem. How will you do this? What will you do with the results? See if you can beat Mrs Thomsen - it took me 3 searches, looking at one site in 4 minutes.
- How did you go? Think about the steps you took? Were you successful? es
- Watch the following clip from Google and sharpen your research skills.
- Summarise each of the points in a new Subpage, called Reasearch Tips in Onenote/ Growley Notes section called ICT Hints (or similar)
- Put your new skills to the test; Try to find out where and when the game of "Fives" that we play at school came from?
- How did your search differ? Were you any faster at finding the results? Try to beat Mrs Thomsen - it took me 2 searches, looking at 1 site in 2 minutes.
- Summarise in a Research Do's and Do Not's table.
Summarised Tips from Google
- Feeling Lucky - Takes you to the first hit at the top of the page - a gamble
- " quotation marks" - To find an exact bit of text i.e from a poem
- Omit results - use a minus sign and the word/ topic you want to leave out
- Order matters - by changing the order, you modify the results
- Synonymous terms - to find terms that have the same meaning but different words put a tilde before synonymous words e.g. Italian ~film
- Define a word = define: tilde
- Filetype - to find a specific filetype i.e. PPT search :PPT
- Specific domain/ country - site then colon, then country code :.nz
- Related sites - related:web address
- Calculator/ conversion/ time/ weather - straight into Google search bar