Internet Archive Scholar – An Academic Version of the Internet Archive
The Internet Archive warehouses all kinds of fantastic materials (and some not-so-fantastic) that can be useful to teachers and students. The trouble with it is the organization is a little clunky for research purposes. Even if you limit the scope of your search to webpages and text you can still spend a lot of time […]
Three Types of Web Search – And a Strategy for Conquering the Difficult One
In A Taxonomy of Web Search Andrei Broder, a noted scholar in the field of web search, classified web search into three categories. Those being navigational, informational, and transactional. When Broder was writing in 2002 navigational referred to a quest to immediately reach a particular website. Today, thanks to services like Google Maps, navigational search […]
Have Students Make Lists Before Starting Web Search
This is an excerpt from a book that I have been working on for the last fifteen months. I’m getting close to finishing it. Our students have become accustomed to entering a search into Google as soon as they are confronted by a question to which they don’t have an answer on the tips of […]