Information Fluency

HCPS Staff Development

Resources and Bibliography

Google Resources
Essentials of a Google Search- http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=basics&hl=en
Google Search Features- http://www.google.com/help/features.html
Using Google to Search-Webquest- http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm
Online Google search guidehttp://www.googleguide.com/

Search Engines
Choosing the Best Search Engine-http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
Selecting the best databases- http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/advicedepth.html
Web search engines- http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/p/websearch101.htm

Information on Searching
Broadening and Narrowing Vocabulary http://www.lib.washington.edu/uwill/research101/topic07.htm
Determining keywords in questioning- http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/taskanal.html
Analyzing a Question-http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/taskanal.html
Keyword Searching- http://dotatmac.mcmaster.ca/kw_searching/index.htm

Additional Research links for Facilitators
Using the Internet to promote Inquiry based learning http://www.biopoint.com/inquiry/ibr.html
Internet Search Challenge- http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkit/timed_sc1.html
Comparison of Google and Yahoo-  http://news.softpedia.com/news/To-Google-or-to-Yahoo-69938.shtml

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