Searching The Internet

August 22nd, 2006 · 11 Comments
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With the new school year now underway I thought it would be worth sharing a link that gives 10 excellent tips for using search engines such as Google, MSN etc to search the Internet.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone/searchenginetips.mspx

I would especially like to draw teachers attention to tip number 8 that tells you how to stop your searches returning inappropriate content.

I’ve lost count of the number of teachers over the years who have complained that their searches have returned inappropriate web sites / pictures etc and expect IT to wave a magic wand to make them disappear. Whilst we can block sites from being accessed we can’t actually stop them being returned in searches – the power is with the person doing the search and this tip explains how! Whilst it will never stop 100% of the inappropriate content it will reduce it greatly.

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1 Ewan McIntosh // Aug 22, 2006 at 3:49 pm

It’s the serendipitous nature of blogs that you write this now – I’m in the process of putting together a search and research lesson that teachers can use with kids or which librarians can use to get informed themselves. I’ll take those tips and see you 10 more

I’ll run my first draft by you and see if there’s anything you reckon I’ve missed based on what teachers get in touch with you about.
2 Karen Robertson // Aug 30, 2006 at 9:53 pm

Some good tips here, and format makes them easy to remember too. A bullet list for a classroom wall would be a good reminder for staff until they are familiar.
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