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students tend to use Google every time they conduct an internet search other search engines may retrieve needed results more efficiently and effectively making students aware that there are options of different search engines and their attributes may decrease student (and teacher/librarian) frustration!
Follow the directions on the handout to determine your favorite search engine that you will recommend to your students!
Search Tips
global warming
weather
AND
search will retrieve information in which both terms are present narrows search Examples: climate global
change warming
global warming
weather
NOT
search will retrieve information in which only one of the terms is present the term selected by our search excludes records from search Example:
trees
flowers
trees NOT flowers -records will be retrieved that contain the word trees -no records will be retrieved that contain the word flowers, even if the word trees appears in the record
Goal: to find information with the fewest hits How: follow directions on the handout using the search tips learned in the workshop
Questions?
For copy of the PowerPoint presentation and/or the workshop handouts, contact me at:
kholton@kent.edu