Finding Kids Pages on the World Wide Web Paul Barron Director of Library and Archives George C. Marshall Foundation

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 2 Presentation Objectives Learn how to craft queries to find: –Kids pages –Kid-safe sites Search Syntaxes Reviewed –Boolean expression –Title field –Domain-limited (.edu,.gov, org)

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 3 Presentation Objectives Provide access to Portaportal “kids page” bookmarks – –Guest login - barronkidspage

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 4 Query Crafting AND Boolean Expression –“kids page” AND (what you want) AND (school or grade level)

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 5 Boolean AND Search Results.com sites may sell products. When links and resources are in the site description, open that result.

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 6 The Links and Resources

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 7 Your turn to search! Craft a query on a topic of interest to you or try one of these queries. –“kids page” AND “u.s. presidents” AND “3 rd grade” –smartboard AND "kids page" AND activities –“kids page” AND fitness AND “elementary school”

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 8 Query Crafting Title Field Search –intitle:”kids page” AND (what you want) AND (school or grade level)

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 9 Title Field Search Results NOTE Google found the synonyms: poem and poems. NOTE Kids page is in the title of all snippets.

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 10 “kid safe” Search Query

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 11 The Directory of Sites

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 12 Internet Public Library

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 13 Another Great Site!

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 14 Your turn for intitle: searches. Craft a query on a topic of interest to you or try one of these queries. –intitle:“kids page” AND "flash cards" AND math –intitle:”kids page” AND webquest –intitle:kidsafe AND storytelling

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 15 Query Crafting Limiting to Top-level Domains –An effective kid-safe filter –.edu, –.gov, –.org –AND site:k12.va.us

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 16.gov Search Results

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 17 Time for TLD-limited searches. Craft a query on a topic of interest to you or try one of these queries. –"kids page" AND dictionary AND site:edu –kidsafe AND images AND site:gov –"kids page" AND "current events" AND site:org

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 18 k12.va.us-limited Search Query All results will be limited to only k12.va.us sites.

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 19 k12.va.us-limited Search Results

2010 National Teacher Training Institute 20 Portaportal Bookmarks Guest login - barronkidspage