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Interesting Search Engines. Google Art Project. Google Images & Copyright. Google Images & Copyright* Google makes it so easy to find and use such a wide assortment of images that we often forget about copyright when using the images we find there. Here's the thing... most of the images you find there are probably covered by some sort of copyright. This means you might require owner permission before you can use the image. I've read articles that suggest you assume ALL images there are copyrighted. Fair Use There are some limitations of copyright law and fortunately many of the things we do as teachers and students may be considered exempt from copyright violation. Google Image Search by License Type Google does have a useful search utility that will allow you to filter your image searches by the type of license on the respective images.

To access this filter you need to get to Google's Advanced Search page. There is a lot to see on the advanced search page and it is worth taking the time to be aware of those components (but we are going to skip those for now). How To Google Search By Reading Level. Digital media have changed almost everything about reading—from multimodal complexity and the fluid nature of text, to the role of social media and–perhaps most importantly–how we find the information we’re looking for.

As we shift from a culture that passively receives newspapers and magazines and piece-meal selects books form bookshelves, to one that actively sets-up personalized reading lists through RSS feeds and Google Reader, and sifts not through hundreds of books on shelf, but from millions of books, journals, blog posts, and video transcriptions, the mechanisms for search must adapt as well.

The most overarching need is likely personalization—to empower people with the ability find what they’re looking for in lieu of what might be the most popular results. And with minor changes that aren’t always immediately obvious, Google is responding. Digital Literacy & Google Search Or, put simply, read and understand. Which is where “Google search by reading level” comes in. 1. 2. 3. 4.

Inside Search – Google. For Students – Google in Education. Become a Google PowerSearcher. Google is the most popular search engine on the web. Most of us rely on Google search for finding information. Sometimes it can be difficult to find just the right information we are actually looking for out of the hundreds or thousands of results returned in Google’s search.

Despite using Google every day, we still use it in its simplest form. But Google has a plenty of tricks up its sleeves that can help us perform more quick, efficient and effective searches on Google. Towards this end, in July 2012 Google created an online course called Power Searching with Google. The Google Power Searching course is available online on edX as an Xseries program.

Go to Power Searching with Google Course The course is structured as a series of 6 modules, each of which comprises of 5-6 short video lessons. The instructor of the course is Daniel M. Power Searching with GoogleAdvanced Power Searching with Google XSeries Program in Power Searching with Google.