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Creative Search
Methods
Preparing Your Canvas
• What do you really need to know?– Questions to answer
• List of key words– Synonyms– Alternate phrasing
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Sketching Your Search
• Simple Search Engine• Simple Search Terms
• Get a baseline of results
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Gluing Terms Together• Quotation Marks– “Georgia State University”– “University of Georgia”– “Georgia Southern University”– “University of West Georgia”
http://goo.gl/5Z3zWI
Sculpting Your Search• Using advanced search tools–Google Advanced Search–Yahoo•What do you NOT mean?–Synonyms–Reading levels
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Cutting Out the Junk
• Ads• Anything that would let YOU, a
middle school student, be the authority on a topic.– Yahoo Answers–Wiki-pretty much
anything.
We will discuss Wikipedia separately.
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Adding Variety
• Different search engines return different results.– Bing vs Google– SweetSearch– NetTrekker (in CDL)
http://flic.kr/p/ukiwH
• Databases– CDL-MackinVia• EBSCO• Gale• Opposing Viewpoints
Back to the Drawing Board
• If you have not found what you are looking for in the first 10 to 20 sites, give it up. –Reformulate your search–Try another search tool
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Google Bing
NetTrekker
SweetSearch
MackinVia
Yahoo
Don’t use a limited palette.
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Resources
• http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/searchtips.html
• http://mediasmarts.ca/tipsheet/how-search-internet-effectively
• http://websearch.about.com/od/searchingtheweb/a/sevenhabits.htm
• http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/p/websearch101.htm
• http://websearch.about.com/library/cheatsheet/blgooglecheatsheet.htm
• http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/just-google-it-developing-internet-search-skills/?_r=0