searchactivites

=Search Activities:=

1. Four Major Seach Engines: Google (of course), Yahoo, ask.com. and mamma.com

2. Without the quotation marks 2400 questions were found and not true to the phrase I searched. With the quotation marks, the questions were narrowed to 791.

3. [|http://boolify.org] was an amazing tool. It was so easy to use. The process was so visual and the results were very easy to see at the bottom of the page with the different number of hits. The hits were so much more defined and the sites seemed to be more what I was looking for. I quickly bookmarked this site and shared it with my teaching team.

4. [|www.easywhois.com] was an amazing site. I entered our school district web site and was amazed at the information it gave me. Another site bookmarked into my favorites.

5. .aero - air-transport industry .asia - Asia-Pacific region .biz - business .com - commercial .coop - co-operative .edu - education .gov - U.S. government .info - information .jobs - companies .k12 - .mil - U.S. military .mobi - mobile devices .museum - museums .name - for personal use .net - for network provider or host .org - organizational, non-profit .pro - professions .tel - Internet communication services .travel - travel and tourism industry related sites

6. I had no idea there were so many domains! I thought the list in #5 was large until I went to the full list of domains.

7. Very interesting results for "host.edu + turtle". 522 results for ".com + lollipop".

8.The time feature was awesome! Great calculator, I'm not sure I want my students to know about this one. The Unit Conversion could come in very handy. I loved the movie show times by zip code. The Weather was also very cool... Wind: E at 4 mph Humidity: 88% Thu 43°F | 34°FFri ||
 * ===**Weather** for **Copan, OK**=== ||
 * **37°F** | [|°C]Current: **Cloudy**

9. I shared [|http://boolify.org] with a co-worker within minutes of my first search. I could see the immediate impact that this site could have on teaching search strategies with our students. I emailed her the link and we began planning a flipchart for our promethian board on using this site. She sent me back an email...Now can you find me a good online encyclopedia?

10. I shared [|http://boolify.org] with my daughter. She has some pretty good search strategies and has written countless papers and reports. She realized how helpful it could be, great sites and less time. "Mom! Why didn't you find this earlier?!!" She's a //**senior**// in college...