1. G OOGLE R ESEARCH S TEVE C ARTER

2. Information Literacy 1. Go to www.google.com.au 2. search for Martin Luther King

3. How do you Read a URL? Digital Literacy Who is Zack? R – Read the URL (Universal Resource Locator) E – Examine the site’s content A – Ask about the author/publisher L – Look at the links Domain name - http//www.novemberlearning.com Extensions -.edu,.k12, au,.com,.org,.gov Are you on a personal page? Check for a name in the url or a tilde symbol (~) or % http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/di/intro.html

4. Examine - Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover! Teach the students to look beyond the colours Ask questions and think critically is it useful?/are additional resources provided?/ is it current?/ do you think the info is accurate?/ does it seem contradictory? http://www.google.com/onceuponatime/technology/ pigeonrank.html Check the history of a website - even a deleted one. Use (http://www.archive.org) Let's look at http://www.martinlutherking.org

5. Who Is the Author/ Publisher? try http://www.easywhois.com Look At The Links Forward Links - o Check the URLs o Do the domain names change? o Is the information biased?

6. External Links External links are NOT controlled by an author's website o Who is linked to the website? o What is the purpose of the link? o What do other sites say about the information on the site? http://www.zapatopi.net/treeoctopus Use Alta Vista (http://www.altavista.com) with the prompt (link:) before the website you want to find external links from

7. Effective Search Practices 1. Develop a search plan 2. Teach students to use advanced search techniques 3. Teach students ti use more advanced and more specialised search engines.

8. Developing the Search Plan Step 1 - Define the research problem Step 2- Know what sort of information you are trying to find Step 3- Select the right research tools

9. Using Advanced Search Techniques Start with keywords MUST - MIGHT - SHOULD NOT Query Strings Assist in organising a search (+,-,!) + between keywords shortens the results birds +eagle - between keywords won't search for the - keyword birds -eagle "" find an exact phrase within a website birds +"North America" -eagle

10. Boolean Operators AND, OR, NOT Use with keywords and must be capitalised AND = searches for both words florida AND aquarium OR = searches both words (either) at the same time florida OR aquarium NOT = do not include florida NOT aquarium

11. Activity "statue of liberty" +Athena +compare "statue of liberty" +Athena +compare - "Athena group"

12. The Host Command The host command allows you to control your search. Use host: then any extension you want to limit the search to, such as "lung cancer" + host:gov

13. Useful Links http://www.googleguide.com/google_works.html

14. Recommended Search Engines Ask.com - http://www.ask.com Answers.com - http://www.answers.com Noodletools - http://www.noodletools.com Noodlequest - http://www.noodletools.com/noodlequest

15. Bonus Search Techniques http://mashable.com/2011/11/24/google-search- infographic/ Google Custom Search http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ Thank you Steve Carter stephen.carter@cg.catholic.edu.au

16. Bonus Search Techniques