April--Google+Report

“Beyond Google” Summaries

__ Common Craft—Web Search Strategies in Plain English __ This online video provides an excellent tutorial on how to create and refine web searches. Students often struggle with how to find and access internet material without going through the overwhelming numbers of webpages that are discovered during simple searches. This video explains how to narrow searches and the importance of doing so. This video will help students master the 21st century skill of finding and evaluating resources.

[|Common Craft Video] __ Cloudlet __ This is a Google extension that allows users to see the tags that are attached to webpages. These tags and be clicked on and added to Google searches, helping the user to refine and narrow the search.

[|Cloudlet Video]

__ Google Wonder Wheel __ The Google Wonder Wheel is an additional Google search option, available when using Google for web searches. It creates a web of related search strings that are connected to the original search request. These webs can be clicked on to create a more extensive and interconnected web. The Wonder Wheel could be useful when the current search is “coming up empty handed” because it provides addition search terms.

[|Google Wonder Wheel Video]