1. Advanced Web Searching for NTTIers Paul Barron George C. Marshall Foundation Director of Library and Archives barronpb@marshallfoundation.org pbbarron@gmail.com

2. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School2 Presentation Objectives Review search syntaxes to search for:  Search terms on a webpage  Search terms in a specific location on a Web document Title Web address (URL)  Webpages from a source Specific website Top Level Domain (TLD) Country Code (ccTLD)

3. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School3 Search Query Crafting and Format Develop the query the way you think about and state your topic. Format  Topic + Modifiers + Limiters to Refine Search Example I need teacher and student resources on climate change for my middle school class and I would like them to be from a U.S. Government agency.

4. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School4 Query Standardization intitle:“climate change” AND “teacher resources” OR “student resources” AND “middle school” AND site:gov

5. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School5 Phrase Search Phrase Search - A phrase is more than one keyword. When the terms are enclosed within “double quotation marks,” Google searches for them as exact phrase and return documents with the terms in the exact order as stated in the query.

6. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School6 Phase Search Results

7. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School7 More search tools Options

8. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School8 Related Searches Related Searches provides other suggested searches related to your query.

9. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School9 Related Searches

10. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School10 Wonder wheel Hub and Spokes Let’s expand our “small world” of George C. Marshall-related sites. Wonder Wheel visually presents connections between related searches and your search term as an interactive diagram.

11. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School11 Expanded Hub and Spokes Search Exercise Using Google’s Wonder Wheel, build your small world on a topic of interest to you.

12. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School12 AND Boolean Operator AND – Both of the search terms are present in the Web documents.

13. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School13 AND Boolean Expression AND Boolean Expression - Retrieves Web documents in which the phrases George C. Marshall and Marshall Plan are present on the webpage document.

14. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School14 AND Boolean Expression Results NOTE All the results have the phrases George C. Marshall and Marshall Plan in the snippet.

15. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School15 Boolean AND Search for a Glossary “special education law” AND glossary “climate change” AND glossary “k-12 education” AND inclusion AND glossary "differentiated instruction" AND glossary "school issues" AND glossary

16. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School16 OR Boolean Expression OR – At least one of the search terms is present on the webpage document.

17. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School17 OR Boolean Expression OR Boolean Expression - Retrieves Web documents in which at least one of the phrases, Marshall Plan or European Recovery Program is present on the webpage document.

18. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School18 OR Boolean Expression Results NOTE Only the phrase Marshall Plan appears in the second result. NOTE Only the phrase Marshall Plan appears in the second result.

19. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School19 We have learned about … Google ’s Search Tool Options Finding search terms on a webpage  Single keywords  Phrases of more than one word Enclose terms “double quotation marks” to search for a phrase  Searching with Boolean expressions

20. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School20 Let’s learn to find … Search terms in a specific location on the webpage. Webpage title Webpage address (URL)  Uniform Resource Locator - The standard addressing scheme for the Web.

21. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School21 Title Field Searching “The document title … is the single most important element used by search engines to index a document.” Effective Internet Search: E-searching Made Easy! Edward N. Baylin and Judith Gill ISBN - 0921354053

22. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School22 Title Field Searching “Ask a group of search engine optimization specialists what the single most important factor in determining high rankings and most will vote for the mighty title tag.” The Truth about Search Engine Optimization Rebecca Lieb ISBN 0-7897-3831-7

23. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School23 Title Field Search Query Title Field Search (intitle:) - Retrieves the keyword or phrase in the webpage title which appears in the title bar on the browser.

24. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School24 Title Field Search Results NOTE The phrase George C. Marshall appears in the title of the results. NOTE The phrase George C. Marshall appears in the title of the results.

25. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School25 Title Field Search Time! intitle:“your topic” AND “teacher resources” intitle:“your topic” AND “teacher resources” AND “your school level” intitle:“your topic” AND “teacher resources” AND “your grade level” REMEMBER The syntax is intitle: REMEMBER The syntax is intitle:

26. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School26 inurl: Search Query – Single Word Option URL-limited Search (inurl:) – Finds a string of characters in the Web address.  One word option  Dashed option REMEMBER The syntax is inurl: REMEMBER The syntax is inurl:

27. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School27 inurl: Search Results – Single Word Option NOTE The results are from Austria and Germany. Were those sites returned in other demonstrated searches? NOTE The results are from Austria and Germany. Were those sites returned in other demonstrated searches?

28. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School28 inurl: Search Query – Dashed Word Option NOTE The results are all different from those returned with the one word URL query. NOTE The results are all different from those returned with the one word URL query.

29. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School29 inurl: Queries inurl:k12 AND “your topic” AND “teacher resources” inurl:k-12 AND “your topic” AND “teacher resources” inurl:yourtopic AND inurl:k12 AND english

30. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School30 Points about inurl Search Queries Research by indicates that an inurl search may return better results than a title field search.  Words in the URL may be more descriptive of the site. The inurl search query may return results that would not be returned in any other type of search query. inurl I’m sui generis!

31. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School31 We have learned to find … Search terms on a webpage with: Search terms in a specific location in the structure of the webpage:

32. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School32 Finding Webpages from a Source Top Level Domain Site-limited Search  k12.va.us  Specific website Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLD)  Countries

33. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School33 Top Level Domains (TLDs) TLDPurpose.com Commercial.edu Educational.gov Government.mil Military.net Network.org Organization.us United States

34. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School34 Top Level Domains: Seen these? TLDPurposeTLDPurpose.aeroAir-transport Industry.biz Businesses.jobsEmployment-related.cat Catalan Language and Culture.museum Museums.coop Cooperatives.nameIndividuals.info Informational.pro Licensed professional service provider.int International Treaty Organizations.travelTravel Industry

35. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School35 T op L evel D omain-limited (TLD) Q uery Top Level Domain-limited Search - Restricts the results returned to only the top level domain stated in the query; for example, the international top level domain (int).

36. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School36.int Top Level Domain Results

37. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School37 Your turn to limit to TLDs! intitle:“your topic” AND “your school level” AND “teacher resources” AND site:org intitle:“your topic” AND “your school level” AND “teacher resources” AND site:edu intitle:“your topic” AND “your school level” AND “teacher resources” AND site:gov

38. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School38 Try one of these TLD-limited queries! intitle:"climate change" AND agreements AND protocols AND site:int intitle:"climate change" AND agreements AND protocols AND site:info "food banks" AND use AND unemployment AND site:coop obesity AND “elementary school students” AND site:info

39. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School39 k12.va.us-limited Query k12.va.us-limited Search - Restricts the results to only Virginia DOE webpages or Virginia school divisions with k12 in their webpage URL.

40. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School40 k12.va.us-limited Search Results

41. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School41 Your turn for k12.va.us-limited searches! “your topic” AND “your school level” AND “teacher resources” AND site:k12.va.us “your topic” AND “grade level” AND “teacher guide” AND site:k12.va.us “your topic” AND “your school level” AND “lesson plans” AND site:k12.va.us

42. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School42 Try these k12.va.us-limited queries. “your topic” AND links OR resources OR websites AND site:k12.va.us “your topic” AND “your school level” AND links OR resources OR websites AND site:k12.va.us “your topic” AND “your grade level” AND links OR resources OR websites AND site:k12.va.us

43. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School43 Try these k12.va.us-limited queries. sol AND “your subject” AND “school level” AND “practice tests” AND site:k12.va.us inurl:sol AND “your subject” AND “school level” AND “practice tests” AND site:k12.va.us intitle:“sol practice tests” AND “your subject” AND “school level” AND site:k12.va.us

44. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School44 Check out this k12.va.us-limited search!

45. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School45 Karen’s Resources for Teachers

46. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School46 Site-limited Query Site-limited Search - Restricts the results to a specific website in the given domain; for example, only the Marshall Foundation website.

47. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School47 Site-limited Search Results NOTE All the results are Marshall Foundation webpages. NOTE All the results are Marshall Foundation webpages.

48. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School48 Portaportal Site-limited Search

49. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School49 Your turn for site-limited searches! animations AND site:free.ed.gov “world studies” AND site:free.ed.gov “language arts” AND site:free.ed.gov “earth sciences” AND site:free.ed.gov

50. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School50 Check out this animations site! http://tinyurl.com/2dfr7tj

51. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School51 Speaking about animations, do you know about … I am not a kid-safe image search engine! www.picsearch.com

52. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School52 To find animated images select …

53. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School53 In advanced search select … In the search query box enter your query for the image you want animated.

54. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School54 The results page looks like … Click the thumbnail to see image details.

55. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School55 Image Details

56. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School56 To view only the animated image, select … The image can be copied for pasting into a PowerPoint slide or saved to your desktop or a folder.

57. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School57 To copy or to save the image … Put the cursor on the image and right click the mouse. Move the cursor to Save Picture As … or Copy.

58. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School58 To paste the image into a PowerPoint slide … Right click the mouse and select Paste.

59. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School59 Country Code-limited Search Query Country Code-limited Search - Restricts the results to a from country code; for example, China (.cn), Germany (.de), Spain (.es) or the United Kingdom (.uk).

60. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School60.uk-limited Search Results QUESTION Notice that the sites returned have.ac.uk in the URL. What does.ac. signify about the site host?

61. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School61 Country Codes Source http://tinyurl.com/yl587m

62. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School62 Filetype-limited Query Filetype-limited Search - Restricts the results to a specific filetype; for example, PowerPoint (ppt), Word (doc), or Excel (xls).

63. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School63 P ower P oint F iletype-limited S earch R esults

64. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School64 Time for PowerPoint-limited queries! “question-answer relationships" AND filetype:ppt “question-answer relationships" AND filetype:ppt AND inurl:k12 "to kill a mockingbird" AND “teacher resources” AND filetype:ppt "to kill a mockingbird" AND filetype:ppt AND site:k12.va.us

65. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School65 Recommendation Begin with a title field search with Boolean expressions and limited to a top level domain or a specific website.  intitle: “your topic”  Boolean expressions – Add specificity to your query  Top Level Domain – Who cares about your topic? Associations or Organizations -.org Educational Institutions -.edu U.S. Government -.gov  Specific website - site:k12.va.us

66. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School66 How about this one?

67. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School67 Recommendation Open any results with any of these words in the results snippet.