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First Year Kits (Volume 1)

• Turning Questions into Queries
• Deep Web Searching
• Recognizing Relevance
• Finding Better Keywords
• Evaluating Information
• Web 2.0
• Maximizing these Resources
• Effective Operators
• Ethical Use
• Supplementary Resources

Topical Resource Kits (Volume 2 and thereafter)

• Getting Started (Search Process and Instructional Guidelines)
• Database Choices
• Question to Query
• Operators
• Homing In
• Browsing
• Web 2.0
• Evaluation
• Ethical Use

Articles

• Five Things Today's Digital Generation Cannot Do (and what you can do to help)
  • Part One: Turning Questions into Queries
  • Part Two: Do you (only) Google?
  • Part Three: Recognizing relevance 
  • Part Four: Finding Better Keywords
  • Part Five: Evaluating digital information
• School is Out for Web 2.0
• Teaching digital information fluency: Make it usable
• Taking Advantage of Operators
• Ethical Use
• Now That We've Come Full Circle
• Searching: Live or Archived?
• Q & A: Searching vs Browsing
• Speculative and Investigative Searching

Personal Side of Searching:

• Kitchen Conversations (Question to Query)
• Finding my dream house inside an Invisible Web Database (Database Choices)
• Finding My Way: How GPS and Internet Navigation Intersect
• Apples to Apples (Homing In)
• "Calamity" Jane Austin (Evaluation)
• The Critical Pastafarian: Evaluation by Authority in a Web 2.0 World (Web 2.0)
• Saving Pinky's Pups (Operators)
• QuestionCopyright -- Interviews, Chicago 2006 (Ethical Use)
• Outside the Search Box: Creating Search Challenges
• Why I go to the Internet instead of the Library (Getting Started)

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Podcasts

• The Deep Web: Laura Cohen shares strategies for searching the Deep Web.
• Online Reading: Dr. Mary McNabb, Director of Learning Gauge shares her observations about reading on the Web.
• Finding Better Keywords: Dr. David Barr, founding director of 21CIF, shares his observations about finding better keywords on the Web.
• Barriers to Teaching Evaluation on the Web : Frances Jacobson Harris, University Laboratory High School librarian (UIUC) and author of a chapter in a forthcoming book on Credibility, talks about Web page evaluation.
• Evaluating Blogs: Joyce Valenza, shares her insights about Web 2.0 - what it is, how to evaluate blogs.
• Maximizing these Kits: Carl Heine and Dennis O'Connor share ideas on getting the most value from Resource Kit materials in classrooms and for professional development.
• Search Engines and Operators Chris Sherman, Executive Editor of SearchEngineLand.com, shares insights on using search engines and operators.
• Copyright and Ethical Use Carol Simpson, University of North Texas, talks about copyright issues for educators.
• The Connected Classroom Will Richardson, author of Weblogg-ed.com, explores the interplay between online tools, communities of learning and pursuing passions.
  

Videos

• Find Command
• Invisible Web
• Browser Literacy
  • Interactive Tutorials to Improve Reading on the Web
• Google Search History
• Google Advanced Operators
• QuestionCopyright -- Interviews, Chicago 2006

Webinar Recordings

• Note: You must establish a free LearningTimes.org account before viewing
• Invisible Web: How to Move Beyond the First Search Result
• A Game-Based Approach to Website Evaluation
• What's in Your DIF Backpack?
  

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Instant Polls

• Search Skills Poll
• How Many Keywords do You See?

Web Resources

• Glossary
• Annotated Deep (Invisible) Web Links
• Annotated Links on Web Page Reading
• Annotated Links: Search History Tools
• Annotated Links: Hoax Sites for Evaluation
• Annotated Links: Operators
• Annotated Links: Citation
• Annotated Links: Copyright
• Annotated Links: Fair Use
• Annotated Links: Plagiarism
• Tags and Tag-Clouds
• Flash MicroModule Companions:
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Links to (who links to this page?)
  • Bias
  • Operators
• Web 2.0 Tools for Educators

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Assessment Articles and Tools

• Assessment Games as Motivators for Student Learning!
• What are they thinking? Practical ideas on assessment inspired by the podcast with Dr. Mary McNabb and from her book, Literacy Learning in Networked Classrooms: Using the Internet With Middle-Level Students
• Reflections on Where: David Barr asks "...can students make good initial selections regarding "where to search for information?” 
• Personal Search Log: A powerful way to assess students' ability to search is to have them keep a personal log of a search.
• Search History Log Instructions
• Evaluation Wizard (instructors guide): The IMSA Evaluation Wizard tool offers ten criteria, in the form of questions, to help students assess the credibility of a web resource. The Wizard provides an interactive form to be filled in.
• Blog Evaluation Assessment. Starting with Joyce Valenza's ideas for evaluating blogs, here's a way to measure students' skills at online evaluation.
• Finding Relevant Results: This assessment is aimed at students' abilities to recognize relevant information in snippets. Compare and evaluate the results of Google Blog Search, Technorati, and Blogpulse.
• Web 2.0 meets Information Fluency: Evaluating Blogs.  Joyce Valenza offers specific evaluation criteria for evaluating Blogs.
• Operator Assessment An online tool for measuring students' knowledge and use of basic operators.
• Assessment User Guide A guide for interpreting the results of the Operator Assessment.
• Citation Assessment An online tool for measuring students' knowledge and skills in finding accurate citation information for online articles.
• Citation Assessment User Guide A guide for interpreting the results of the Citation Assessment.
• Optimal Query Assessment An online tool for measuring students' understanding of turning questions into effective queries.
• Optimal Query Assessment User Guide A guide for interpreting the results of the Optimal Query Assessment.

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Action Zone Tutorial Games: Internet Search Challenges

Live (timed) Search Challenges:

• Broadway-Funny Girl Challenge
• Kermit the Frog Challenge
• 2005 Pump Price Challenge
• 2007 Pump Price Challenge
• Lego Builders Challenge
• Soccer - Subject Directory Challenge
• Apollo 8 Challenge
• Poetry Challenge
• Piranhas Challenge
• Batman: The Ride Challenge
• Reno Air Race Challenge
• Earthquake Toy Challenge
• Highest Lake Challenge
• Cell Phone Challenge
• Soccer Blog Challenge
• Diamond Challenge
• TV Search Challenge
• Sorting Hat Challenge
• Useless Facts Challenge
• Optical Illusion Challenge

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Database Challenges

• Archery Challenge Index
  • Archery Challenge 1: The Database Match
  • Archery Challenge 2: Can Google google it?
  • Archery Challenge 3 : Can Yahoo! google it?

Gold Rush Challenges (reading for relevance)

• California Gold Rush Index : Interactive Tutorial Games to Strengthen Scanning of Snippets
  • California 1 (untimed)
  • California 2 (untimed
  • California 1 (timed)
  • California 2 (timed)
• Klondike Gold Rush: Interactive Tutorial Games to Strengthen Scanning of Paragraphs
  • Klondike 1 (untimed)
  • Klondike 2 (untimed)
  • Klondike 1 (timed)
  • Klondike 2 (timed)

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Nyms Challenges

• Snowsport Challenges
  • Snowsport I - key concepts
  • Snowsport II - finding keywords in snippets
  • Snowsport III - choosing words based on characteristics
• Keyword Challenge Index
  • Broadway Challenge (Funny Girl)
  • Great Wall Challenge
  • Hollywood Challenge
  • Stamp Collectors Challenge
  • Piranhas Challenge
  • Earthquake Challenge
  • Diamond Challenge
  • Buffalo Challenge

   

• Snippet Sleuth Directory
  • Snippet Sleuth Broadway Challenge
  • Snippet Sleuth Great Wall Challenge
  • Snippet Sleuth Action Figure Challenge

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Evaluation Challenges

Use It? or Lose It? -- Evaluating Digital Information series

• Shakespeare
• Air Car
• Elect Susie Flynn

Bad Apple: Test your web page evaluation skills

• The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
• Golf/Cross
• Tadoos
• British Stick Insect Museum
• Silly String Campaign

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Operator Challenges

• Pirates and Piranhas Building queries from concept identification, keyword selection and operator selection.

Other Challenges

• Photo Tagging Challenges: Flickr Tag Search

Flash MicroModule Companions

• Flash MicroModule Companions: Author
• Flash MicroModule Companions: Publisher
• Flash MicroModule Companions: Bias
• Flash MicroModule Companions: Links To
• Flash MicroModule Companions: Operators
• Flash MicroModule Companions: Copyright
• Flash MicroModule Companions: Citation
• Flash MicroModule Companions: Plagiarism 1
• Flash MicroModule Companions: Plagiarism 2
• Flash MicroModeul Companions: Plagiarism 3: Science Topics

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Curriculum

• Query Checklist (all levels)
• Lesson Integration Adapting a Lesson Plan with the Query Checklist (high school)
• Rollyo Mini-lesson: Inventors and Inventions (upper elementary, middle school)
• Rollyo Tutorial: Creating Safe Searches (all levels)
• Rollyo Evaluation Challenges: Animal Fact or Fiction (elementary, middle school, high school)
• Comparative Searching (high school)
• Operators Tutorial (all levels)
• Think Aloud Demonstration Search: K-12 Reading & Search Comprehension Curriculum Idea
• Search Relevance: Relevance can mean different things, depending on where you stand
• Goldrush Applications: Goals and Objectives (upper elementary through high school)
• Snippet Sleuth: Goals and Objectives (upper elementary through high school)
• Using Evaluation Games: Goals and Objectives (middle school, high school)
• Browser Literacy: Quick fixes for incapacitating designs and layouts when...
• Help With Hypertext: Reading hypertext skillfully is like expertly navigating hyperlinks (all levels)
• Canyons: Middle School Language Arts: Modifying a Webquest
• Search History Links: Create and store a searchable record of your queries and results
• Tag We're It!: Understanding Tag Clouds
• Wikipedia: Ban It or Boost It?
• Using Wikipedia In Your Classroom
• How to use Action Zone Games: Web 2.0 Games (all levels)
• How to use Action Zone Games: SnowSport Games (all levels)
• Create a Unit (upper elementary through high school)
• Model Lessons: An experiment with six lessons (upper elementary, middle school, high school)
• Three Operators to Know Chris Sherman's suggestions for three operators every student needs to know.
• Best and Worst Query Examples of good and bad uses of operators.
• Action Zone Lessons (1.7--Pirates and Piranhas)
• Secondary Searching (1.8--Ethical Use)
• Action Zone Lessons (1.8--Sorting Hat Challenge and MicroModule Companions)
• Using Bad Apple Classroom Edition (supplement 1)
• Using Keyword Challenges (supplement 1)
• Searching the Cache: Three Choices (Database Kit)
• Live Searching: About Browsing (Browsing Kit)
• QuickPick: Reading URLs (Evaluation Kit)

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QuickPicks

• QuickPick: Turning Questions into Answers
• QuickPick: DeepWeb searching. Which keywords get you to expert's hidden information?
• QuickPick: The Find Command, use your browser to scan for keywords.
• QuickPick: Using better Keywords: understanding hypernyms and hyponyms.
• QuickPick: Finding sites that link to a webpage can help you assess the credibility of that web page.
• QuickPick: Web 2.0 and Bias -- A Web 2.0 Prospector's Kit
• QuickPick: Using Kit Resources as Plug-ins
• QuickPick: Operator Smarts What operators do and when to use them.
• QuickPick: Fair Use: The Four Factor Fair Use Test.
• QuickPick: Strategic Choices
• QuickPick: Reading URLs (in three parts)

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