1. Searching the Internet

2. What is the best search tool?

3. Choose your search tool
Book Movie Theatre Journal Article Shopping Software University Program Dictionary, Terminology Instructional Video
(Amazon.com)
&
ERIC
Ebay
Amazon
Yahoo Directory
Wikipedia &
Sunburst & United Streaming

4. Examples

5. Be specific ... Limiting The Search
Computer applications in high school math teaching

6. and & or ignored by google
California OR Arizona
California AND Arizona
“Tall woman” + “Short Man”
Use the - sign to exclude
Disney -California -land -movie -tv

7. Search Tips

8. related:
will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page related:

9. Wildcards
"don't ask country * ask" “Isaac Newton discovered *”

10. File Type
"First amendment" filetype:ppt

11. Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) Adobe PostScript (ps) Lotus (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku) Lotus WordPro (lwp) MacWrite (mw) Microsoft Excel (xls) Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt) Microsoft Word (doc) Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb) Microsoft Write (wri) Rich Text Format (rtf) Shockwave Flash (swf) Text (ans, txt)

12. intitle: global warming
Intitle: Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title.

13. Screen Capture
JING
Command+Shift+3: takes a screenshot of the full screen (or screens if multiple monitors), and save it as a file to the desktop
Command+Shift+4: brings up a selection box so you can specify an area to take a screenshot of, then save it as a file to the desktop
Command+Shift+4, then spacebar, then click a window:takes a screenshot of a window only and saves it as a file to the 

14. Searching The Library

15. Click on Database by Topic

16. CSULB library

17. Choose Databases

18. Choose Eric Database

19. Input your BeachBoard ID and Password

20. Use Advanced Serach

21. Input your search Criteria

22. The results would be something like these