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A collection of guides for helping you scout the Net smarter.

 New   How to Search the Web - A Guide To Search Tools by Terry A. Gray

 New  The Spider's Apprentice - a helpful guide to web search engines
Helpful tips on searching, FAQ's, using meta tags and keywords in searching.
http://www.monash.com/spidap.html

 New  Soople - a guide to using Google search engine.

Simulated Search Activity. Try this guide for exploration at http://www.awl.com/englishpages/basic_activ.htm

Kathy Schrock's article about Internet researching  basics and strategies for helping students use the Web as a research tool.

Privacy Playground- The First Adventure of the Three Little CyberPigs learn how to protect your online privacy as you surf the Internet with the Three Little CyberPigs and the big bad wolf.  This link to media-awareness is useful in other surfing areas.

UC Berkeley   Finding Information on the Internet - an online tutorial.

UC Berkeley  "3 Basic Families of Search Tools"

UC Berkeley  "Search the Internet - a Graduated 3 Step Approach" 

UC Berkeley  "Five-Step Search Strategy" and "Suggestions for planning your Web search strategy"

UC Berkeley  "Table of Search engine features"

UC Berkeley  "How search engines work"

Going Beyond General Web Searching More subject

Going Beyond General Web Searching Guide

tips for finding databases 

Google 
Help Pages   
Advanced Search pages  
Advanced Search   
Interpret Results 

Additional Links

Globe and Mail - "Bringing Order to Chaos" (January 2, 2004)

CNN (Jan. 5, 2004) Better than Google 

IE  Tutorial - general overview of the properties and commands for the IE browser in the internet. This includes tips for internet searches.

Netscape Navigator - general overview.

Welcome to the Internet includes a parent and teacher page. 

LII - Librarian's Index to the Internet.  Advanced window,  Search Tools,  Net Search,  

Librarian's Yellow Pages - Internet 

WWW Virtual Library home page

Internet Library for Librarians - Search Tools

Media Awareness Network - Canadian resource for responsible internet use at home and school.  There are links for Educators, Parents, and Students. Go for the Jo Cool link to see smart stuff.  The site map gives an overview of resources.

KARE11 Kids and Computers

This was a featured report on KARE 11 in May, 2003.  Here are the links from the KARE 11 website.  You can test them and see how they can be helpful at your school our for a presentation in PowerPoint.

http://www.kare11.com/safety/index.asp

http://www.kare11.com/links/contact_detail.asp?NEWS_ID=46219

http://www.getnetwise.org/tools/

http://www.netsmartz.org/freestuff/index.html

http://www.safekids.com/search.htm

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,2840,00.asp

Created February 10, 2003, revision date March 26, 2004