1. Utilizing Web Searches and Portaportal Presented by Barbara Dertinger and Mark Saunders with special thanks to Ozzie Brown

2. Search Engines Software programs that use “spiders” to search web pages for words included in the search item.

3. Spiders Spiders are programs that “crawl” through the information on the internet looking for links and adding the information to the search engine’s database.

4. Meta Search Engines Meta Search Engines run searches simultaneously on several search engines using the terms you typed in.

5. Web Directories Organize Web sites by subject Usually maintained by humans and not software Usually much smaller than search engines’ databases

6. Search Tricks Enclose keywords in quotations “ “ -limits the search to exact matches in the databases Boolean Logic: AND includes both words in the search Ex: Apple AND fruit OR- searches for sites with either term Ex: Apple OR fruit AND NOT- excludes the terms Ex: Apple AND NOT fruit Use capital letters for most search engines

7. Favorite Search Engines: www.dogpile.com www.ask.com www.dogpile.com www.ask.com

8. This is a web site if you want to view out dated web pages. www.archive.org

9. An Web-based Linking Tool

10. Portaportal What is it? –Web page that contains links to other pages –A “portable” “portal” to other sites –A server based book-marking utility

11. What is a server based book-marking utility? A book marking utility acts like your favorites or bookmarks menu. It gives you a place to keep references to your favorite websites. Server based gives portaportal the advantage over those. It means your bookmark information is actually stored on our computers. Now you can access it from any web browser on any computer, anywhere, so when you get a good link while away from home, you can just store it and have it always around.

12. Portaportal What can I do with it? –Create a review page for students –Create a resource page for your department –Create a “fun page” for kids that are done early on another project

13. Portaportal How do I set it up? –Go to http://www.portaportal.comhttp://www.portaportal.com

14. Portaportal Click on the Signup button

15. Portaportal Fill out the information in the blanks Click “Join portaportal”

16. Portaportal You will get an email from portaportal Click on the link in the email to activate your account

17. Portaportal Log in to your new account using the username and password you provided

18. Portaportal Click the Preferences Button Under guest page behavior, choose “allow guest access” from the dropdown menu

19. Portaportal Click the “add categories” button Type in the name for each of your categories here Click the “Add Categories” Button

20. Portaportal Click the “Add Links” button in the corner of the category you want to add links to. Add in the information here Click “Add Links”

21. Portaportal Guests can get you your site by going to: http://guest.portaportal.com/ youruserna me http://guest.portaportal.com/ youruserna me Just replace yourusername with the username you provided to portaportal.

22. Portaportal Don’t forget, you can add your portaportal page to the school’s website under your name.

23. The following slides are some suggested web sites you might want to link to your Portaportal

24. Exceptional Education  Excel Excel  Interactive math and science Interactive math and science  math math  Resources Resources

25. Student Sites –  Compass Learning Compass Learning –  Eduplace Eduplace –  Funbrain Funbrain

26. Teacher Sites –  Apples4 the teacher Apples4 the teacher –  LD Online LD Online –  Council for Exceptional Children Council for Exceptional Children –  Online Story Books Online Story Books –  Resource Resource –  Printable Worksheets Printable Worksheets

27. Fifth Grade  Printables Printables  Resources Resources Free Stuff  Excel Spreadsheet Excel Spreadsheet  Science/math Science/math interactive games  Interactive math Interactive math

28. Student Sites –  Funbrain Funbrain –  Eduplace Eduplace –  Game Goo Game Goo –  Cool Math Cool Math –  Math Playground Math Playground –  Compass Learning Compass Learning

29. Teacher Sites –  Puzzlemaker Puzzlemaker –  SOL Activities SOL Activities –  Edzone Edzone –web resources –  Worksheets Worksheets –  Lessons Plans Lessons Plans –  Math Puzzles Math Puzzles –  On-line Story Books On-line Story Books –  Reading, Math, Etc. Reading, Math, Etc. –  Interactive sites Interactive sites –reading, language arts, math, s.s. –  Classroom Technology Classroom Technology –  Discovery Discovery –  Discovery School Discovery School –  Math/Science Math/Science –interactive –  Resources Resources

30. Fourth Grade  Resources Resources Free Stuff  Printables Printables  Excel Spreadsheet Excel Spreadsheet  science/math science/math interactive games  Interactive math Interactive math

31. Student Sites –  Funbrain Funbrain –  Eduplace Eduplace –  Game Goo Game Goo –  Cool Math Cool Math –  math playground math playground –  Compass Learning Compass Learning

32. Teacher Sites –  Puzzlemaker Puzzlemaker –  SOL Activities SOL Activities –  Edzone Edzone –web resources –  Worksheets Worksheets –  Lessons Plans Lessons Plans –  Math Puzzles Math Puzzles –  On-line Story Books On-line Story Books –  Reading, Math, Etc. Reading, Math, Etc. –  Interactive Sites Interactive Sites –reading, language arts, math, s.s. –  Classroom Technology Classroom Technology –  Discovery School Discovery School –  Math/Science Math/Science –interactive –  Resource Resource

33. Third Grade  Resources Resources Free Stuff  Printables Printables  Excel spreadsheet Excel spreadsheet  science/math science/math interactive games  Interactive math Interactive math

34. Student Sites –  Funbrain Funbrain –  Eduplace Eduplace –  Game Goo Game Goo –  Cool Math Cool Math –  Math Playground Math Playground –  Compass Learning Compass Learning

35. Teacher Sites –  Puzzlemaker Puzzlemaker –  SOL Activities SOL Activities –  Edzone Edzone –web resources –  Worksheets Worksheets –  Lessons Plans Lessons Plans –  Math Puzzles Math Puzzles –  On-line Story Books On-line Story Books –  Reading, Math, Etc. Reading, Math, Etc. –  Interactive sites Interactive sites –reading, language arts, math s.s. –  Classroom Technology Classroom Technology –  Discovery School Discovery School –  Math/Science Math/Science –ajdaniel.org/InteractiveWebsitesMathandScience.html –  Resource Resource

36. Second Grade  Resources Resources Free Stuff  Printables Printables

37. Student Sites –  Funbrain Funbrain –  PBS Kids PBS Kids –  Eduplace Eduplace –  Game Goo Game Goo –  Cool Math Cool Math –  Math Playground Math Playground –  Compass Learning Compass Learning

38. Teacher Sites –  Puzzlemaker Puzzlemaker –  Apples for the Teacher Apples for the Teacher –  Edzone Edzone –web resources –  Worksheets Worksheets –  Lesson Plans Lesson Plans –  Math Puzzles Math Puzzles –  Read and Color Books Read and Color Books –  On-line Story Books On-line Story Books –  Reading, Math, Etc. Reading, Math, Etc. –  Interactive sites Interactive sites –reading, language arts, math, s.s. –  Classroom Technology Classroom Technology –  Math/Science Math/Science –interactive –  Resource Resource –  Resource Resource

39. First Grade  Resources Resources Free Stuff  Printables Printables

40. Student Sites –  Funbrain Funbrain –  PBS Kids PBS Kids –  Eduplace Eduplace –  Game Goo Game Goo –  Cool Math Cool Math –  Math Playground Math Playground –  Compass Learning Compass Learning

41. Teacher Sites  Puzzlemaker Puzzlemaker –  Apples for the Teacher Apples for the Teacher –  Edzone Edzone –web resources –  Worksheets Worksheets –  Lessons Plans Lessons Plans –  Read and Color Books Read and Color Books –  On-line Story Books On-line Story Books –  Learn to Read Learn to Read –  Interactive sites Interactive sites –reading, language arts, math, s.s. –  Classroom Technology Classroom Technology –  Math/Science Math/Science –interactive –  Resource Resource

42. Kindergarten www.Scholastic.com

43. Resources –  Free stuff Free stuff –  Printables Printables

44. Teacher Sites  Learn to Read Learn to Read  Special K Page Special K Page  Classroom Technology Classroom Technology  Online Storybooks Online Storybooks  Math/Science Math/Science »interactive  Resource Resource

45. Student Sites  Alphabets Alphabets  Alphabet, Writing, and Shapes Alphabet, Writing, and Shapes  Reading Games Reading Games  Compass Learning Compass Learning

46. Enjoy the Internet!