Monday, October 15th, 2007
www.free.ed.gov There is a wealth on information available on the websites for government agencies. However, given that there are so many of them (agencies, that is), hunting down good stuff can be hard to do, especially for students who have less experience with search skills, or even a limited ability to scan through materials. This [...]
FREE – Federal Resources for Education Excellence
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
If you could customize the search results for your class searches would you do it? How would you tweak the results? Would you select a list of sites to search? Specify sites that should get preferred listing? A list of sites to leave out of the search? Google’s Custom Search allows such customization. With Custom [...]
Customized Search Results
Tags: Information Literacy, Research, Search
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
INFOhio recently announced the release of the new INFOsearch tool. INFOsearch allows the user to search many of INFOhio’s resources simultaneously. This resource will make it quicker and easier to locate good content via INFOhio. Records can be targeted toward the usual K-5 /6-8 /9-12 groups and can be filtered by resource types. Tip: This [...]
Announcing INFOsearch at INFOhio
Tags: Elementary, INFOhio, Middle, Research, Resources, Secondary
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