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The growing body of online educational resources (OEM) is helping to create universal access isn't always easy. The OER ecosystem works best when everybody contributes. 
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Google is getting more and more intelligent with each update, allowing us to find answers to basic questions without clicking through to another page. Hard-to-find information, on the other hand, still requires a bit of extra work. Let’s take a look at a few Google tricks to help you search smarter.
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Google's Inside Search is a good place to find information about how Google search works and to find a slew of search tips. How Search Works is an animated graphic that reveals the basics of how websites are sorted, ranked, and presented to you in your search results. More information is revealed as you scroll down the How Search Works graphic.
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Images speak thousands of words. Educators use them on every day basis, students love them and include them in their multimedia projects.Given this growing importance of images in education , the pending questions that we need to urgently answer are : do we know how to safely look for images online ? do we respect copyrights of those images?
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Dogpile.com makes searching the Web easy, because it has all the best search engines piled into one. Go Fetch!
[Was previously dogpile.co.uk, renamed dogpile.com from 5th December 2013.]
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This is a cool tool for finding archived newspapers from at least one hundred years ago via a Google news search. Particularly, as examining primary source documents can be an effective component of Common Core instruction, I hope you’ll find this useful. - See more at: http://creatinglifelonglearners.com/?p=1212#sthash.vCvVgH4V.dpuf
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A survey of Advanced Placement and National Writing Project teachers finds that teens’ research habits are changing in the digital age
Key points:-
Virtually all (99%) AP and NWP teachers in this study agree with the notion that “the internet enables students to access a wider range of resources than would otherwise be available,” and 65% agree that “the internet makes today’s students more self-sufficient researchers.”
At the same time, 76% of teachers surveyed “strongly agree” with the assertion that internet search engines have conditioned students to expect to be able to find information quickly and easily.
Large majorities also agree with the notion that the amount of information available online today is overwhelming to most students (83%) and that today’s digital technologies discourage students from using a wide range of sources when conducting research (71%).
Fewer teachers, but still a majority of this sample (60%), agree with the assertion that today’s technologies make it harder for students to find credible sources of information.
Given these concerns, it is not surprising that 47% of these teachers strongly agree and another 44% somewhat believe that courses and content focusing on digital literacy should be incorporated into every school’s curriculum.
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Earlier today on Google+ Google announced the addition of data tables to the research menu in Google Documents. You can search for data tables by selecting "research" from the Tools drop-down menu in Google Documents and in Google Slides.
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At Google we believe in the power of education and the promise of technology to improve the lives of students and educators -- leading the way for a new generation of learning in the classroom and beyond. But no matter what subject you teach, it is important for your students to know how to think critically and evaluate online sources, understand how to protect themselves from online threats from bullies to scammers, and to think before they share and be good digital citizens.
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Common Craft videos can help you be more efficient and effective.
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Google is moving on from simple data-retrieval to a system that understands how we think and what we want –- before we even know we want it
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A series of short video clips about the following key aspects of digital literacy:- - Be safe in a digital environment - Find, evaluate and apply information - Use digital tools - hardware/software - Understand social responsibility - Showcase achievement...
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Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education
Elizabeth E Charles's insight:
Collection of Ed Tech and Mobile Learning articles/posts on a variety of search engines for a variety of disciplines. Great resource.
Jim Spitler's curator insight,
January 19, 2014 2:51 PM
Seems like a good site - I look forward to fully exploring it... 
Emma Greengrass's curator insight,
January 20, 2014 5:53 AM
A useful free resource for online research...
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Internet has definitely marked a revolution in the way human knowledge is being generated, shared, communicated, and stored. The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge – the search engine. With this abundance of online information comes the question of credibility.
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A bunch of other stuff you can do with Google.
Google has launched Google Tips, a website with a smorgasbord of helpful tips and less-known features of various Google products.
The site is a very simple affair, consisting of rows of cards with helpful tips, which range from setting up Gmail on your mobile phone to grabbing your customized birthday Doodle. See also: Get Lost in These 19 Fascinating Maps You can sort the tips by topic or by category such as "On the go," "At home" or "At the office" by clicking on the menu button in the upper left corner. Power users will likely be familiar with most of the included tips, but the site does contain a fair amount of obscure tricks, such as setting up an Android device to act as a pedometer.
By Stan Schroeder.
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SEJ reader Samuel Edwards, from Tenthwave Digital, gave us a heads up about something he recently spotted while doing a Google search. Google appears to be Via Phil Bradley
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Offers a single source to search the Web, images, audio, video, news from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and many more search engines.
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Vertical search is a powerful way to focus your intent on topics (like health and shopping) or types of content (like images and videos). But even the most ambitious meta-search engine is limited to a few hundred different topics, built and organized by staff members. Nuggety removes these limitations and allows anyone to create a new search vertical for any topic. This is possible because Nuggety considers every website a potential search engine. This means you can simply list your favorite websites on any topic and Nuggety will generate a search list, enabling you to search each website directly (or as a secondary option, search the website using Google). With Nuggety it is simple to create a search vertical for something specific, like motorcycle parts. If you know of several websites for searching and buying motorcycle parts, you can build a search list that others can use as well. In this way, Nuggety is a social platform that determines the best search resources on every topic through user expertise. Because Nuggety is built around search engines and not web pages, there are many unique search lists that can be made. For example, if you ever wanted to see Google’s results for different countries, here is a search list of every international Google. If you’ve ever had a web page go down, you can probably find a cached version by searching for the URL using one of these caching services. For a final example, this list lets you find different information about a single word, including definitions, synonyms, etymological roots, pronunciation and more. Because Nuggety is new, many topics are in need of expertise. Try Nuggety now, and help build the future of search.
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10-step guide to web researching.
Trying to find out an accurate number for how many indexed webpages there are online is very difficult. Some websites believe there are 3,700,000,000 while others...
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Google and Beyond: NOT Google
Information consultant Karen Blakeman has posted another excellent powerpoint on Slideshare, focusing on alternatives to Google, including alternatives to Google Scholar.
http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/28333029?rel=0#
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Click HERE [ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10_mh-7N1nvtmQ5ef6OXjuLAAD2vk9TiI73M93kwwASE/edit#slide=id.g174541a70_053 ] for Full Screen version or to download / print! gcoakley
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There is a new digital divide on the horizon. It is not based around who has devices and who does not, but instead the new digital divide will be based around students who know how to effectively find and curate information and those who do not.
