S.E.A.R.C.H.

S.E.A.R.C.H. the Internet 1997-1998 Southeastern Regional Technology and Teaching Conference
March 25, 1998

Greetings,

I want to tell you how much I enjoyed our session yesterday. I must say that it was the first one I have done in a lounge. I hope that it was valuable for you and that the following digital handout will extend the value of this conference. If there is anything else that we covered that is not referenced on the page, please send me an e-mail at:

-- dave --

URLs

The Landmark Project (Landmarks for Schools)	http://www.landmark-project.com
ThinkQuest & current projects	http://www.advanced.org/thinkquest/ http://www.landmark-project.com/ncsh/ http://www.landmark-project.com/evaluation/
E.R.I.C.
Search Tools	ERIC http://ericir.syr.edu Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com Yahooligans http://www.yahooligans.com Lycos http://www.lycos.com Excite http://www.excite.com Alta Vista http://www.altavista.digital.com InfoSeek http://www.infoseek.com
S.E.A.R.C.H. Process Pages	http://www.landmark-project.com/search/ http://www.cgsh.org/search/
If there are any other URLs that we looked at that I have not included here, please let me know.

Searching the Internet

Remember that searching the Internet is a process and not a one step thing. The following is only a model for beginning the development of your search skills. Also, remember the search tool that I have on the Internet at:

http://www.landmark-project.com/search/

S	tart with a small database search tool -- Yahoo
	Conduct this search to get a grasp on the types of resources that a available on the Internet. Yahoo will give you a very good representation. This gives you a chance to identify both the good and bad hits you will be getting and a chance to identify the keywords that are common to both the good and bad hits, both equally valuable.
E	dit search phrase as a result
	Create a boolean search expression from the common words discovered in your Yahoo search. Ex: (Earthquake OR seismology) NOT (engineer OR prediction OR individual)
A	dvance into a large database search engine -- Altavista or Excit
	Use your edited search expression on a large database such as Alta Vista or Excite.
R	efine search phrase
	Again, examine the good and bad hits, identify more key words and incorporte them in your search expression...refine your search phrase.
C	ycle back and Advance again
	Pretty clear!
H	arvest resources
	Good Luck!

Evaluating Web Sites

The Web Resource evaluation files are accessable from the Internet. Clicking this link will download a single zip file to your hard drive. PC users can decompress the file with WinZIP. Mac users can use the latest version of Stuffit Expander. This will produce a Microsoft Word (97) file, an RTF file that can be opened in to most any other word processor, and a text version of the file.

There is also an article (still being written) available on the Internet about goals-based Internet evaluation. It can be accessed at:

http://www.landmark-project.com/evaluation/

UgaBaby web pages:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmhail/baby.html

http://www.ktx.com/character_studio/html/babycha.html-ssi

http://www.creativelink.com/baby/

http://pages.prodigy.net/whaleclub/fox/ally-mcbeal.html

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rlussier/