11 Ways To Teach Advanced Search Techniques: New Ways To Think and Search in Your Classroom Dr. Howie DiBlasi C.I.O (Retired) “Emerging Technologies Evangelist “ howie@frontier.net 970-749-0760 www.drhowie.com twitter: @hdiblasi 1 120 Dr. Howie DiBlasi (CIO Retired) “Emerging Technologies Evangelist “ Digital Journey Twitter = hdiblasi howie@frontier.net http://www.drhowie.com/ www.disneyscience.com Presentation : 2014 2 120 Goals Today 1. Guide students through the research process – Advanced searching techniques – Finding the right information – How to search effectively 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. What are “Critical Thinking Skills” Essential critical evaluation and thinking skills. Read for information Evaluate information Determine fake information 3 120 4 120 What did you learn today? 5 120 6 120 Develop Information Processing Skills “Crap Detection 101” 7 120 “Mastering “crap detection 101” isn’t easy” • The average high school and college student…. 1. 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All Rights Reserved. • We were not able to locate the address: Verio, Inc. 8005 South Chester Street, Suite 200 Englewood, CO 80112 • Andrew Liveris, President & Chief Executive Officer • Online Newsgathering: Research and Reporting for Journalism • books.google.com/books?isbn=0240808517 • Stephen Quinn, Stephen Lamble - 2008 - Language Arts & Disciplines • Visitors to the fake site should also have noticed that all links within the site were actually file extensions of the http://www.dowethics.com home page, with ... 19 120 Clive Thompson Wired November 2011 look up answers to a series of questions. • Scientific researchers asked a group of students to • Not surprisingly, the kids relied on Web pages at the top of Google’s results list. 20 120 What is Critical Thinking? • 1605-Sir Francis Bacon • • • • • • • Relationships among things Inquisitive. Doubt and ask questions. Reflecting. Consider multiple points of view. Support their points of view Formulate an argument with reasons and evidence. • Deception. 21 120 Web Literacy and Critical Thinking: A Teacher's Tool Kit • http://iccb.org/pt3/pdf/resource/web_lit.pdf • How Many Hits? • "When we hear 'Wow, I got 1,000 hits!' we know we have not met our responsibility to our students," • What suggestions—from tutorials, teachers, peers, or elsewhere—were most helpful to them? 22 120 http://www.rcampus.com/rubricsearchlistc.cfm? • Web Page Evaluation • Assessment of the interactive web site Learning Games for kids. Grade levels: K-5 Categories: (General), Assessment • Web Page Evaluation • Assessment of the interactive web site Learning Games for kids. Grade levels: K-5 • Categories: (General), Assessment Evaluate web page Grade levels: K-5 • Categories: Math, (Other) 23 120 Critical evaluation of web sites http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/11605_12008.cfm 24 120 Rubrics Advanced Searching Rubric - Bloom's Digital Taxonomy • http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/advanced+search+rubric.pdf • Lesson Planet: Lesson Plan Rating Criteria Rubric • http://www.lessonplanet.com/us/rating_rubric • Dr. Alice Christie's Web Site Evaluation Resources • http://alicechristie.org/edtech/webeval/ 25 120 RubiStar Home http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ • Free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics • Choose a Topic to create a new rubric based on a template: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ 26 120 iRubric: Home of free rubric tools: RCampus.com • iRubric: The only free rubric builder and assessment tool. Working with rubrics has never been easier. Build, Assess, Share, and Collaborate using our intuitive ... • Over 164,000 rubrics and growing... • http://www.rcampus.com/indexrubric.cfm 27 120 YouTube- EducationWatch, upload and share videos http://www.youtube.com/education 28 120 YouTube- Education• • History • Chemistry • Primary & Secondary Education » • Lifelong Learning » • Science » • Mathematics » • Engineering » • Business » 29 120 How the Ancient Egyptians Made "The PYRAMIDS" (Lego History) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6YmFbgSCUg&feature=edu_spotlight 30 120 How the Ancient Egyptians Made "The PYRAMIDS" (Lego History) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6YmFbgSCUg&feature=edu_spotlight 31 120 I don’t know what I don’t know…. 32 120 10 Good Search Engines for Teachers and Students • 1- Dmoz -ategorized Arts to Sport. • 6- Yahoo Directory - There is also a special category for Kids and Teens. Categories to search and one of these categories is for Education. 2- Ixquick - Searching popular 7- Carrot2 - Organizes your search engines simultaneously and anonymously. • search results into topics. • 8- Fefoo - Application that 3- Exalead • • - Find the information quicker. Web search: Image search • 4. Blekko - Organizes content in semantic schema and pulls from a wide variety sources 5- DuckDuckGo - Provides instant answers. helps you search better. • 9- RedZ - Search results in image thumbnails. • 10- Internet Archive Digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form 33 120 Research and information fluency: • Safe Search Engines for Kids • http://www.gogooligans.com/ 34 120 http://www.gogooligans.com/ 35 120 Research and information fluency: • Safe Search Engines for Kids • Safe Search Engines for Kids • KidRex • Mymunka • KidzSearch • SquirrelNet • Searchy Pants • Dib Dab Doo -Dilly Too • 36 120 Research and information fluency • instaGrok >>> Your Turn • Wolfram Alpha • Factbites • Boolify 37 120 http://www.instagrok.com/ 38 120 instaGrok 39 120 http://www.instagrok.com/ 40 120 general thomas gage 41 120 Research and information fluency • instaGrok •Wolfram Alpha • Factbites • Boolify 42 120 32 Tricks You Can Do With Wolfram Alpha, The Most Useful Site In The History Of The Internet • It's not a search engine, it's not an encyclopedia, and it's not a calculator, but it's a little bit of all of that. It's really the only member of its field. • Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/awesome-things-youcan-do-with-wolfram-alpha-2013-7?op=1#ixzz2uFTU5fLf 43 120 WolframAlpha – Try this: • laptop computer weighing less than 3 lbs • wedding anniversy gifts • Factor a polynomial: factor 2x^5 - 19x^4 + 58x^3 - 67x^2 + 56x - 48 • mortgage $200,000, 4.5%, 30 years • Flights Overhead • QR Code www.drhowie.com • second cousin first removed 44 120 second cousin first removed 45 120 planes overhead 46 120 47 120 Research and information fluency • instaGrok • Wolfram Alpha •Factbites • Boolify 48 120 49 120 50 120 Research and information fluency • instaGrok • Wolfram Alpha • Factbites •Boolify 51 120 52 120 53 120 I don’t know what I don’t know… 54 120 What are the TOP Search Engines February 2014: Top 15 Most Popular Search Engines • 1 | Google • 8 | Wow • 2 | Bing • 9 | Infospace • 3 | Yahoo! Search • 10 | Blekko • 4 | Ask • 11 | Dogpile • 5 | Aol Search • 12 | Alhea • 6 | MyWebSearch • 13 | DuckDuckGo • 7 | WebCrawler • 14 | Info • 15 | Contenko 55 120 My 4 search criteria: • General thomas gage or general tomas gage • Showing results for general thomas gage Search instead for general tomas gage • Mickey mouse • Fab five disney • tree octupus • Showing results for tree octopus Search instead for tree octupus • • ben franklin • Showing results for ben franklin Search instead for ben franklen 56 120 Search for general thomas gage 57 120 What are the TOP Search Engines • 12 | Alhea 2 ??? • 15 | Contenko 3 ??? • Top 15 Most Popular Search Engines | February 2014 • 3| Yahoo! Search 4 ??? • 1 | Google 0 OK • 14 | Info 6 ??? • 2 | Bing 0 OK • 11 | Dogpile 6 ??? • 5 | Aol Search 0 OK • 8 | Wow 6 ??? • 13 | DuckDuckGo 0 OK • 4 | Ask 7 ??? • 10 | Blekko 0 OK • 6 | MyWebSearch 7 ??? 7 | WebCrawler 8 ??? • 9 | Infospace 13 ??? 58 120 BING Search http://www.bing.com/schools • Why Bing Is Gaining On Google - Forbes • Is Bing better than Google? | Debate.org • Bing for Schools • Bing launches Bing for Schools: An adfree search zone for schools 59 120 How to Use Bing’s Advanced Search Operators: 8 Tips 60 120 James Post @jposttx • • @hdiblasi the 'advanced" is pretty weak you have to know how to build the advanced search using + " " AND NOT etc etc • 61 120 Bing Advanced Search 62 120 Using Google Advanced Search in Class Boston Massacre • evaluate the events of the Boston Massacre by identifying bias About 151,000 results 63 120 Stop words • are words which are filtered out prior to, or after, processing of natural language data (text $stopwords = array(“a”, “about”, “above”, “above”, “across”, “after”, “afterwards”, “again”, “against”, “all”, “almost”, “alone”, “along”, “already”, “also”,”although”,”always”,”am”,”among”, “amongst”, “amoungst”, “amount”, “an”, “and”, “another”, “any”,”anyhow”,”anyone”,”anything”,”anyway”, “anywhere”, “are”, “around”, “as”, “at”, “back”,”be”,”became”, “because”,”become”,”becomes”, “becoming”, “been”, “before”, “beforehand”, “behind”, “being”, “below”, “beside”, “besides”, “between”, “beyond”, “bill”, “both”, “bottom”,”but”, “by”, “call”, “can”, “cannot”, “cant”, “co”, “con”, “could”, “couldnt”, “cry”, “de”, “describe”, “detail”, “do”, “done”, “down”, “due”, “during”, “each”, “eg”, “eight”, “either”, “eleven”,”else”, “elsewhere”, “empty”, “enough”, “etc”, “even”, “ever”, “every”, “everyone”, “everything”, “everywhere”, “except”, “few”, “fifteen”, “fify”, “fill”, “find”, “fire”, “first”, “five”, “for”, “former”, “formerly”, “forty”, “found”, “four”, “from”, “front”, “full”, “further”, “get”, “give”, “go”, “had”, “has”, “hasnt”, “have”, “he”, “hence”, “her”, “here”, “hereafter”, “hereby”, “herein”, “hereupon”, “hers”, “herself”, “him”, “himself”, “his”, “how”, “however”, “hundred”, “ie”, “if”, “in”, “inc”, “indeed”, “interest”, “into”, “is”, “it”, “its”, “itself”, “keep”, “last”, “latter”, “latterly”, “least”, “less”, “ltd”, “made”, “many”, “may”, “me”, “meanwhile”, “might”, “mill”, “mine”, “more”, “moreover”, “most”, “mostly”, “move”, “much”, “must”, “my”, “myself”, “name”, “namely”, “neither”, “never”, “nevertheless”, “next”, “nine”, “no”, “nobody”, “none”, “noone”, “nor”, “not”, “nothing”, “now”, “nowhere”, “of”, “off”, “often”, “on”, “once”, “one”, “only”, “onto”, “or”, “other”, “others”, “otherwise”, “our”, “ours”, “ourselves”, “out”, “over”, “own”,”part”, “per”, “perhaps”, “please”, “put”, “rather”, “re”, “same”, “see”, “seem”, “seemed”, “seeming”, “seems”, “serious”, “several”, “she”, “should”, “show”, “side”, “since”, “sincere”, “six”, “sixty”, “so”, “some”, “somehow”, “someone”, “something”, “sometime”, “sometimes”, “somewhere”, “still”, “such”, “system”, “take”, “ten”, “than”, “that”, “the”, “their”, “them”, “themselves”, “then”, “thence”, “there”, “thereafter”, “thereby”, “therefore”, “therein”, “thereupon”, “these”, “they”, “thickv”, “thin”, “third”, “this”, “those”, “though”, “three”, “through”, “throughout”, “thru”, “thus”, “to”, “together”, “too”, “top”, “toward”, “towards”, “twelve”, “twenty”, “two”, “un”, “under”, “until”, “up”, “upon”, “us”, “very”, “via”, “was”, “we”, “well”, “were”, “what”, “whatever”, “when”, “whence”, “whenever”, “where”, “whereafter”, “whereas”, “whereby”, “wherein”, “whereupon”, “wherever”, “whether”, “which”, “while”, “whither”, “who”, “whoever”, “whole”, “whom”, “whose”, “why”, “will”, “with”, “within”, “without”, “would”, “yet”, “you”, “your”, “yours”, “yourself”, “yourselves”, “the”); 64 120 Boston Massacre • evaluate the events of the Boston Massacre by identifying bias • • Google About 151,000 results Yahoo About 1,570,000 results • identifying bias evaluate the events of the Boston Massacre by • • Google About 151,000 results Yahoo About 68,300 results • Identify bias by evaluating the events of the Boston Massacre • • Google About 165,000 results Yahoo About 88,900 results 65 120 DEMO: ADVANCED SEARCH Type in your search … when the results display.. NOTICE 66 120 • About 118 results 67 120 • About 104 results 68 120 • About 68 results 69 120 Add UK to DOMAIN 70 120 2 results Google 71 120 The 10 Most Useful Search Engines for Beginners, 2014 • • • 1. Duck Duck Go 2. Ask (aka 'Ask Jeeves') 3. Bing • 4. Yippy (formerly 'Clusty') • 5. Webopedia • • 6. Yahoo! 7. Dogpile • 8. The Internet Archive • 9. Mahalo • 10. Google 72 120 Looking at more and even more Searching: • Google Image Search 73 120 Four ways to search by image http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/images/searchbyimage.html • Drag and drop • Drag and drop an image from the web or your computer into the search box on images.google.com. • Upload an image • On images.google.com, click the camera icon, then select “Upload an image.” Select the image you want to use to start your search. • Copy and paste the URL for an image • Found an image on the web you’re curious about? Right-click the image to copy the URL. On images.google.com, click the camera icon, and “Paste image URL”. • Right-click an image on the web • To search by image even faster, download the Chrome extension or the Firefox extension. With the extension installed, simply right-click an image on the web to search Google with that image. 74 120 Applying critical thinking skills through web research: • http://www.microsoft.com/education/en-us/teachers/guides/Pages/critical_thinking.aspx • Improve search skills. • Evaluate the information they find. • Incorporate them in their work. 75 120 RESOURCES • Students will take the hoax photo test and attempt to determine which picture is fake or real. Discussion will follow. • Click on the link: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/tests/hoaxphototest.html • Read the following short definitions of a spoof website. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website_spoofing • http://www.lookstoogoodtobetrue.com/fraudtypes/phishing.aspx • snopes.com: Urban Legends Reference Pages • http://www.snopes.com/ ... myths, rumors, and misinformation • Look at some examples of spoofed websites. http://www.deadlysins.com/guineaworm/index.htm www.license.shorturl.com http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ 76 120 HOAX PHOTO TEST • A car loaded down with lumber. Note the person asleep in the front. • http://www.museumofhoa xes.com/tests/hoaxphotot est.html Real 77 120 A jet plane caught in the instant that it breaks through the sound barrier and causes a sonic boom. Real 78 120 A man shows off his 87-pound cat. Hoax 79 120 The moment when a plane collides with a truck, caught on film. Real 80 120 Even More: Using Google Advanced Search in Class 81 120 Search for your name 82 120 Advanced Search-Why? • • • • • • • • Thomas Gage General Thomas Gage British General Thomas Gage Lieutenant General Thomas Gage Bunker Hill Breed Hill Lexington Concord • • • • • Image Video Youtube PBS Britannica Online Encyclopedia • 2 letter country code 83 120 Advanced Search 84 120 • • • • • • • • • • • general thomas gage british american revolution lexington governor Concord Battle Bunker hill general thomas gage british american revolution governor lexington Boston Massacre About 93,000 result About 55,200 results About 1,440,000 results 85 120 Results • • • • • • • • • general thomas gage british american revolution lexington governor Concord • Battle • Bunker hill • Do not include: • Tires – wire – travel – cars – insurance • uk 86 120 About 20,800 results (0.74 seconds) 87 120 88 120 89 120 About 152 results (0.62 seconds) 90 120 Google Art Project • http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/project/artproject • Explore 17 museums from around the world, • Discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels • Create and share their own collection of masterpieces. 91 120 Google Art Project • http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/project/art-project • Resource for Art related activities – 92 120 Welcome to Google Lit Trips! http://www.googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/Home.html 93 120 Welcome to Google Lit Trips! the flagship project of GLT Global ED ... • What’s New in Google Lit Trips... • New! The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. A rich resource to supplement the reading of Anne Frank’s diary. Available in both the 6-8 and 9-12 areas of the Google Lit Trips website. • Updated! Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey • New! Flesh & Blood So Cheap by Albert Marrin • New! Bud, Not Buddy V1 by Christopher Paul Curtis 94 120 95 120 Looking at more and even more Searching: • Hummingbird • Snapshots • Google Scholar • Knowledge Graph • • • • • • • Google Finance Web History Google Trader Google Video Google Shopping Google Patent Search Google News 96 120 Google Knowledge Graph • http://www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&EntryId=4299 • Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings • http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not.html 97 120 Knowledge Graph: things, not strings • 1. Find the right thing • 2. Get the best summary • 3. Go deeper and broader 98 120 Taj Mahal • Do you mean Taj Mahal the monument, or Taj Mahal the musician? • Now Google understands the difference• just click on one of the links to see that particular slice of results: 99 120 100 120 101 120 Google Book Search • Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide using Google Book Search. Discover a new favorite or unearth an old classic. • http://books.google.com/ 102 120 103 120 Searching in Books • Animal Kingdom's first secret • Animal Kingdom's first secret becomes obvious before you even enter the park 104 120 Looking at more and even more Searching: • • • • • • • • • • • Google News archive Language Tools Google Image Search Google Groups Experimental Search Google Custom Search Google Books Blog search Google Alerts Accessible Search Encrypted Search • Google Ngram Viewer • Enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer • Displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books • (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years. • Let's look at a sample graph: 105 120 Google Ngram Viewer http://books.google.com/ngrams/ 106 120 107 120 Advanced Usage • Features of the Ngram Viewer may appeal to users who want to dig a little deeper into phrase usage: wildcard search, inflection search, case insensitive search, part-of-speech tags and ngram compositions. • Wildcard search • When you put a * in place of a word, the Ngram Viewer will display the top ten substitutions. For instance, to find the most popular words following "University of", search for "University of *". 108 120 Wildcard search • When you put a * in place of a word, the Ngram Viewer will display the top ten substitutions. For instance, to find the most popular words following • University of • search for University of * 109 120 Try this - What did you see?? • walt disney world • walt disney world * • Walt Disney World • Walt Disney World* (no space) • Walt Disney World * (space) 110 120 Walt Disney World, Animal Kingdom, Magic Kingdom 111 120 Looking at more and even more Searching: • Hummingbird • Snapshots • Google Scholar • • • • • • • • Knowledge Graph Google Finance Web History Google Trader Google Video Google Shopping Google Patent Search Google News 112 120 Google scholar search. Locate materials from educational institutes or universities. http://scholar.google.com/ #97_zxw/150 113 120 114 120 115 120 Looking at more and even more Searching: • • • • • • • • • Hummingbird Snapshots Google Scholar Knowledge Graph Google Finance Web History Google Trader Google Video Google Shopping • Google Patent Search • Google News 116 120 http://www.google.com/patents 117 120 disney flying entertainment vehicle https://www.google.com/patents/US20100282896?dq=disney+flying+entertainment+vehicle&hl=en&sa =X&ei=640KU9GgKKm2yAHCz4H4Ag&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA • FLYING ENTERTAINMENT VEHICLE • • Anthony Paul Dohi - DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. • An apparatus for use as a flying entertainment vehicle. Overvie w - Related Discuss 118 120 119 120 Interesting Disney Patents “Disney Patents a “Flying Entertainment Vehicle” • Amusement ride for traveling down a water chute with reduced splash • Apparatus and method for creating optical illusion effects • Drinking fountain with sound effects • Method and apparatus for stabilizing and powering walking animated figures • Spaceship amusement ride 120 120 • Interesting Disney Patents- http://www.delphion.com/ • http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/Patent/Patent.html http://www.oitc.com/Disney/Patent/Patent.html • • Six Degrees of Walt Disney -- Patent Search Illuminates a Legend • http://blog.globalpatentsolutions.com/bid/28838/SixDegrees-of-Walt-Disney-Patent-Search-Illuminates-aLegend • • Disney Patent/Tech Question • So I'm sitting here indulging my Disney Geekdom a little and reading Disney patents and I came across the following one titled Speech Transformation System filed back in 1993. http://www.google.com/patents?id=nCc...+voice#PPP1, M1 121 120 122 120 EDITED: BEST DISNEY Patents http://www.oitc.com/Disney/Patent/Patent.html • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 5613443 Amusement ride for traveling down a water chute with reduced splash 5453053 Amusement ride having spinning passenger cars 5528425 Apparatus and method for creating optical illusion effects D351130 Amusement airship 5629595 Method and apparatus for an amusement ride having an interactive guided vehicle 5588914 Method and system for guiding a user in a virtual reality presentation 5585967 Three dimensional virtual image system 5493281 Method & apparatus for remote synchronization of audio, lighting, animation & special effects 5456184 Lateral energy absorbing device for slot guided vehicle 5394766 Robotic human torso 5368228 Method and apparatus for forming a fluid projection screen 5349276 Control system for regulating motor speed 5348370 Apparatus for vibrating seats 5327521 Speech transformation system 5325473 Apparatus and method for projection upon a three-dimensional object 5305693 System and method for externally controlled spacing of self propelled vehicles along a rail 5280305 Method and apparatus for forming a stylized, three-dimensional object 5161104 Amusement ride having pivotable ingress-egress bridges 5137214 Method and apparatus for creating artificial rain 4911866 Fog producing apparatus 4878878 Method and apparatus for stabilizing and powering walking animated figures 4825111 Linear motor propulsion system 4557570 Camera assembly for three-dimensional photography 4516943 Amusement ride raft 4312276 Turntable joining tracks with linear induction motor control 4050385 High capacity passenger transport apparatus 4029019 Track for vehicles 3974778 Speed control system 3973746 Collision avoidance system 3947741 Boat guidance system D352541 Amusement character boat D352327 Spaceship amusement ride D350995 Amusement castle D349313 Robotic figure D347674 Amusement ride space vehicle 123 120 Looking at more and even more Searching: • • • • • Google News archive Language Tools Google Image Search Google Groups Experimental Search • Google Custom Search • • • • • Google Books Blog search Google Alerts Accessible Search Encrypted Search 124 120 Google Custom Search Engine • Harness the power of Google to create a customized search experience for your own website. • http://www.google.com/cse/manage/create #X97-108 125 120 126 120 Looking at more and even more Searching: • • • • • Google News archive Language Tools Google Image Search Google Groups Experimental Search • Google Trends • • • • • • • Google Custom Search Google Books Blog search Google Alerts Accessible Search Encrypted Search Google Ngram Viewer 127 120 128 120 http://www.google.com/trends/ 129 120 Looking at more and even more Searching: • • • • • • Google Scholar Knowledge Graph Google Finance Web History Google Trader Google Video •Google Shopping • http://www.google.com/shopping • Helping shoppers find products quickly and easily on the web. • Google News 130 120 Lenovo Yoga 11s 131 120 Acer Chromebook C710-2487 132 120 What did you learn today? 133 120 11 Ways To Teach Advanced Search Techniques: New Ways To Think and Search in Your Classroom Dr. Howie DiBlasi C.I.O (Retired) “Emerging Technologies Evangelist “ howie@frontier.net 970-749-0760 www.drhowie.com twitter: @hdiblasi 134 120