Teaching Search and Evaluating Websites

Here are some weblinks relating to the teaching of search as mentioned in the staff meeting:

Teaching Boolean search:

http://www.boolify.org

Blog posts relating to Boolean search: http://creativeict.typepad.com/my_weblog/search/

Google Alerts

http://www.google.com/alerts

Creative Commons Search Tools

Flickr’s Creative Commons search tool: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

Another Flickr image search tool: http://www.compfight.com/ (includes a safe search option)

A Flickr search based on colour: http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#

A thematic Flickr search and display tool: http://www.splashr.com

Creative Commons: another search tool incorporating Google image search: http://search.creativecommons.org/

Search scheme of work: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYa5dxypo0lXZGN2Z2RoZ2ZfMzloa2Y0M213cA&hl=en

Or here as a Word doc:  cms.lgfl.net/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=217174&name=DLFE-6904.doc

Evaluating Websites

Year 3: The Tomato spider

Year 4/5: The Northwest pacific Tree Octopus

Year 4/5: All About Explorers

Year 6: Dihydrogen Monoxide