Fun With Augmented Reality in Search
Thanks to where I live and the amount of time that I’ve spent hiking, camping, fly fishing I have slightly more experience seeing wildlife like bears and moose than the average person. My kids often ask me to tell a story about seeing a bear, a moose, or other animal. Unfortunately, when they ask for […]
Two Image-based Search Challenges to Use With Your Students
One of my favorite ways to reinforce the use of good search strategies to students is to show interesting pictures and have students try to make a long list of questions about what they see. Then I let the students try to find the answers to those questions. When they get stuck, I intervene to […]
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 […]
The Most Important Search Skills and Attitudes According to SearchReSearch Readers
Dan Russell’s Search ReSearch blog is my go-to resource for learning new strategies and for ideas on teaching search. His search challenge blog posts always provide a new way to think about search. At the end of May he conducted a survey of his readers. The survey was to determine what readers of Search ReSearch […]
