1. Toby Rajput NLU – RLS 514 Teaching Research to Children & Adolescents Image from: http://sids-network.org/images/animated_search.gif

2. Things I know about searching… Illinois Math & Science Academy’s 21 st Century Information Fluency at 21cif.imsa.edu is an excellent teaching tool, with:21cif.imsa.edu – Wizards: tools for to assist with Searching, Evaluating websites and Citing sources – Tutorials: including MicroModules and monthly Internet Search Challenges. Let’s try Kermit…MicroModules Internet Search ChallengesKermit… – Web 2.0 tools: Keyword blog, Search Challenge blog, Wizard wiki, Information Fluency ning

3. – and useful resources:resources Including an excellent directory of annotated linksannotated links and the Top Ten Searching TipsTop Ten Searching Tips – There are also Top Ten Tips for Evaluation Top Ten Tips for Ethical Use

4. Things I didn’t know… I did know about the Invisible Web; I didn’t know about the Opaque Web or Nearly Visible Web. (I can guess about the Vanishing Web). Think of the nearly visible or opaque web as web pages that are just one click beyond the reach of a search engine. The website itself has been visited and some of its pages are copied into the search engine Index. However, due to storage limitations, not all pages on a site are visited by every search engine. The opaque or nearly visible web is information on a public website that has not been indexed by the robotic 'crawlers' or 'spiders' sent out by the search engine. Indeed the information is 'indexible' but it hasn‘t yet been indexed. I know about operators (+, - and “ ”, including Boolean Operators). I didn’t know about advanced operators, i.e. [intitle:] or [inurl:].

5. More Things I Didn’t Know… From: Heine, Carl. ‘Do you (only) Google?’ 21 st Century Information Fluency. Accessed online 9/18/08 at 21cif.imsa.edu/rkitp/features/v1n1/leadarticle_v1_n1.html Search engines do not search the live Internet. Different databases like Google and Yahoo do not contain the same information. – Sometimes information is collected randomly; In other cases it is collected by experts. – No database indexes more than a fraction of the entire Internet. Only Metasearch engines (i.e. Dogpile.com) send queries to several search engines simultaneously “Google’s simplicity and impressive search prowess tricks students into thinking they are good all-around searchers” – Pamela Martin, Utah State librarian

6. Besides IMSA, try The Animated Internet for the basics on how search engines workAnimated Internet ILforTrails9 wikispaces for a PowerPoint by Shannon Mersand on Boolean OperatorsBoolean Operators A research report by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee titled Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future”, available online at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/progra mmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf

7. Google Watkins, K. & Elder, K. (1/1/2006). ‘ The Google Game’. School Library Journal. Accessed online 5/6/08. Carr, Nicholas. (July/Aug 2008). ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid?’ The Atlantic.com. Accessed online 6/16/08. Your experience? Advantages?Disadvantages?

8. Wikipedia Schiff, Stacy. (7/31/06). ‘Can Wikipedia Conquer Expertise?’ The New Yorker. Accessed online 9/18/08. ‘ Wikipedia’.Wikipedia. Accessed online 9/18/08 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article _criteria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article _criteria Your experience? Advantages?Disadvantages?

9. Additional Resources Adam, A. & Mowers, H. (4/1/08). ‘Start Your Search Engines: Taming Google (and Other Tips). School Library Journal. Accessed online 6/25/08. ‘Animated Internet’. Learn the Net.com. Accessed online 9/26/08 at http://www.learnthenet.com/english/animate/animate.htm. Carvin, Andy. (6/30/06). ‘The Wild World of Wikipedia: A Study in Contrasts’. PBS Teachers/learning.now. Accessed online 9/18/08. Carvin, Andy. (7/3/06). ‘Wikipedia in the Classroom: Consensus Among Educators?’ PBS Teachers/learning.now. Accessed online 9/18/08. TRAILS-Tool for Real Time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills wiki. Accessed online 9/26/08 at http://ilfortrails9.wikispaces.com/Develop%2C+use+and+refine+search+strategies. Watkins, K. & Elder, K. (5/1/08). ‘Return of the Google Game’. School Library Journal. Accessed online 5/6/08.