Alternatives to Google Paul Barron Director of Library and Archives George C. Marshall Foundation barronpb@marshallfoundation.org pbbarron@gmail.com All Right Reserved. This presentation may be copied and distributed for nonprofit educational purposes only. Revised and Sites Checked November 2012
Presentation Objectives Search Engines and Search Tools Bing Microsoft Search Engine Boolify Drag and Drop Search Tool Duck Duck Go Exalead French Search Engine Google Link Checking TouchGraph SEO WikiMindMap Virtual Libraries Internet Public Libraries Intute from the United Kingdom INFOMINE Univ. of California Issue-oriented Sources ProCon.org and CRS Reports VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 2
Research Sources for Middle & High School Students 1. Google or other online search engine (94%) 2. WikipediA or other online encyclopedia (75%) 3. YouTube or other social media sites (52%) 4. Their peers (42%) 8. Online databases (EBSCO, JSTOR, or Grolier (17%) 9. Research librarian at school (16%) How Teens Do Research in the Digital World http://pewinternet.org/reports/2012/student-research VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 3
Should educators be concerned? There are consequences to our students and our educational system if we [allow] a search engine to define the parameters of effective research. The University of Google: Education in the (Post) Information Age Tara Brabazon VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 4 4
Duck Duck Go http://www.duckduckgo.com VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 5
Duck Duck Go Goodies https://duckduckgo.com/goodies VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 6
Bing and Exalead http://www.bing.com http://www.exalead.com/search VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 7
NEAR Proximity Operator http://www.bing.com http://www.exalead.com/search Bing syntax near:n (near:3, near:5) Exalead syntax Requires UPPER case NEAR - Find words within 16 words of one another. NEAR/(n) - (NEAR/5, NEAR/10) NEAR VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 8
Exalead s AND Operator Results AND 1610 results VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 9
Exalead s NEAR Proximity Operator AND 1610 results NEAR 397 results VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 10
Exalead s NEAR/n Proximity Operator NEAR/n finds words within a specific number of terms from one another AND 1610 results NEAR 397 results NEAR/5 105 results VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 11
NEAR Proximity Operator Search Homework Using http://www.bing.com Your topic AND teacher resources AND school level Your topic near:5 teacher resources AND school level VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 12
NEAR Proximity Operator Search Homework Using http://www.exalead.com/search Your topic AND teacher resources AND school level Your topic AND teacher resources NEAR school level Your topic NEAR/5 teacher resources AND school level VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 13
Boolify http://www.boolify.org VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 14
Boolify Drag and Drop Search Tool Drag and drop a Word or Phrase or Exact Word or Phrase puzzle piece joined with a Boolean operator (AND is a default) into the work area. Site is the same as a top level domain (edu, go, org). Scroll down to view the results which are provided by Google. VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 15
About Boolify http://www.boolify.org/about.php Watch the movie at: http://ed-tech-axis.blogspot.com/2009/03/boolified.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5antatvqsos VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 16
TouchGraph SEO http://www.touchgraph.com/seo NOTE Touchgraph is powered by Google and supports Google s advanced search syntaxes. The TouchGraph Google Browser reveals the network of connectivity between websites, as reported by Google's database of related (similar) sites. VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 17
TouchGraph Search Template VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 18
Related Searches Let s expand the renewable energy results to find types of renewable energy. VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 19
Types of Renewable Energy Let s review the results for wave energy. VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 20
Wave Energy Search Results VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 21
wikimindmap (http://www.wikimindmap.org) Mind map that provides a structured and easy understandable overview of the topic you are looking for. Understanding the limits of Wikipedia, this tool is useful as a search term generator. VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 22
Mind Map Results for climate change NOTE Ensure that you select en.wikipedia.org To move the mind map, press and hold the left mouse button. Student Research Query: climate change VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 23
Expanding the Mind Map: From Causes to Student Research Query: climate change AND causes VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 24
Human Influences Student Research Query climate change AND causes AND human influences VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 25
to Fossil Fuel Student Research Query climate change AND causes AND human influences AND fossil fuel VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 26
Research Query Student Research Query climate change AND causes AND human influences AND fossil fuel VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 27
Duck Duck Go Results VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 28
Link Checking The Research A Web page author links to the best and most popular pages within the same category. This creates a small Web between pages with similar topics. "Growing and Navigating the Small World Web by Local Content Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences October 2002 Filippo Menczer VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 29
Link Checking Exercise link:http://www.ipl.org Queries link:http://www.ipl.org AND lesson plans link:http://www.ipl.org AND lesson plans AND american history AND middle school link:http://www.ipl.org AND lesson plans AND american history AND middle school AND site:org VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 30
Basic Link Check link:www.ipl.org All of the sites that were returned have links to Internet Public Library. VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 31
Refined Link Check link:www.ipl.org AND "lesson plans" AND "information literacy" VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 32
More Refined Link Check link:www.ipl.org AND "lesson plans" AND "information literacy" AND site:k12.va.us VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 33
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org NOTE the Ask an ipl2 Librarian VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 34
IPL for Teens VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 35
Internet Public Library for Kids http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/ VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 36
INFOMINE Scholarly Internet Resources http://infomine.ucr.edu/ VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 37
INFOMINE Search Results VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 38
Library of Congress Tracer Bullets VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 39
Library of Congress SCIENCE TRACER BULLETS http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/ VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 40
Intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk) NOTE Intute was closed in July 2011; however, the links remain active. VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 41
Humanities and Education Links VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 42
Kids.gov (www.kids.gov) VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 43
ProCon.org (Pro &Con on Issue) http://www.procon.org VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 44
Links to Micro Sites and Learn More 45
Issue: Human Activity & Global Climate Change 46
Background with Names of Advocates Sources Government agencies, think tanks, professional organizations 47 47
Pro and Con Arguments with Source Links 48
Video Gallery Pro and Con Heartland Institute video challenging human causation of global climate change. Source: Heartland Institute, "Global Warming: Was It Ever Really A Crisis?," www.youtube.com (accessed July 13, 2011) 49
Readers Comments What do your students think? 50
Learn More Footnotes & Sources This is only a partial list of the footnotes and resources on the topic. 51
University of North Texas Libraries http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/crsr/ Scroll down to view 19 categories of Browse by Subjects VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 52
Browse by Subject at UNT This is a partial list of the subjects. VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 53
Query Syntax Help Sources Title URL http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795620.aspx http://tinyurl.com/23xy4cm See Syntax at http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html http://www.exalead.com/search/web/search-syntax/ http://tinyurl.com/4k3uzu7 https://sites.google.com/site/gwebsearcheducation/advanced-operators http://tinyurl.com/6676abd VAASL 2012: Librarians as Leaders 54