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Finding Those Missing Links
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Gunn, Holly – Teacher Librarian, 2004
In this article, the author stresses not to give up on a site when a URL returns an error message. Many web sites can be found by using strategies such as URL trimming, searching cached sites, site searching and searching the WayBack Machine. Methods and tips for finding web sites are contained within this article.
Descriptors: Internet, Search Engines, Online Searching, School Libraries
Using the Google Deskbar
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Gunn, Holly – Teacher Librarian, 2004
The Goggle Deskbar is a handy utility that allows users to search the Web with Goggle while using other computer applications. Once the Goggle Deskbar is installed, the browser does not need to be open to perform a web search, as long as the computer is connected to the internet. The Goggle Deskbar is ready to search the Web from any computer…
Descriptors: Internet, Definitions, Dictionaries, Computers
With News Search Engines
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Gunn, Holly – Teacher Librarian, 2005
Although there are many news search engines on the Web, finding the news items one wants can be challenging. Choosing appropriate search terms is one of the biggest challenges. Unless one has seen the article that one is seeking, it is often difficult to select words that were used in the headline or text of the article. The limited archives of…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Search Engines, Internet, Web Sites
With Free Google Alert Services
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Gunn, Holly – Teacher Librarian, 2005
Alert services are a great way of keeping abreast of topics that interest you. Rather than searching the Web regularly to find new content about your areas of interest, an alert service keeps you informed by sending you notices when new material is added to the Web that matches your registered search criteria. Alert services are examples of push…
Descriptors: Internet, Selective Dissemination of Information, Information Retrieval, Search Engines
Become a Google Power User
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Gunn, Holly – Teacher Librarian, 2005
Become a Goggle Power User was developed for incoming students in Sackville High School, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 2003, and has been adapted for use in other local schools and in several universities, it is an instructional program designed for first-year high school students that was integrated into the English Language Arts curriculum, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Freshmen, Internet, Search Engines
Seeking Information for School Purposes on the Internet.
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Gunn, Holly; Hepburn, Gary – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2003
Reports findings of a study in four Nova Scotia public schools of twelfth grade students' information seeking strategies when using the Internet as an information source. Discusses student's knowledge of World Wide Web search engines; how students acquired Internet information seeking knowledge; and how students perceive their ability to locate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 12, Information Seeking, Information Sources
Seeking Information for School Purposes on the Internet
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Gunn, Holly; Hepburn, Gary – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2003
This paper reports the findings of a study undertaken in four Nova Scotia public schools of twelfth grade students' information seeking strategies when they use the Internet as an information source. Various Nova Scotia Department of Education curriculum documents hold high expectations of students' information seeking strategies when using the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Grade 12, Information Seeking