Sub-image Search – A Strategy for Answering “What Is This?”
Image Credit: Becky Willough Earlier this week I had the good fortune to sit in on two presentations at TLA given by Daniel Russell. He is Google’s Senior Scientist in charge of search quality and user happiness. If you ever get the chance to hear him talk about search, take it! Even if you think […]
Tracing the Evolution of Phones – A Google Scholar Practice Activity
Google Scholar can be an excellent place to find articles from academic journals. Articles from academic journals aren’t the only things that students can search for on Google Scholar. Google Scholar provides search tools for locating court decisions and tools for locating patent filings. A good way for students to practice using the patent search […]
Vocabulary Lists Could Help Your Students Conduct Better Searches
As I mentioned in a video posted earlier today, I have been doing some research about how students search. Specifically, they’re search habits and how those habits influence outcome of their searches. It’s quite fascinating even if much of what I’m reading is rather dry data crunching. One of the research reports that I read […]
Credo Reference – Research Starters for Students
Credo Reference is a good reference site for students that I recently learned about from David Kapuler. Credo Reference provides students with reference articles from more than 4,000 reference books. In that regard Credo Reference is a search engine for encyclopedia entries. There are a few features of Credo Reference that teachers will appreciates. First, […]
Three Mobile Apps That Can Help Students Search
Students might forget their lunches, their gym shoes, and their homework assignments when they leave their houses in the morning, but they never forget their mobile phones. We can help students put those mobile devices to good use through the use of mobile search apps. Google Goggles is a free Android app that lets students […]