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Ten Search Tools and Tactics Teachers and Students Need to Know I often find myself in conversations with teachers and students about Internet search strategies. Often times the conversation reminds me that what's obvious to me is amazing to someone else. Last week I had that very experience as I taught a couple of teachers some search techniques that they are going to pass along to their students. As a follow-up to that experience, I've crafted the following list of search tools and tactics that every teacher and student should know. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Sweet Search is a search engine that searches only the sites that have been reviewed and approved by a team of librarians, teachers, and research experts. Wolfram Alpha is billed as a computational search engine and this is exactly what it does. Twurdy is search tool that automatically displays the readability of your search results for you. Twurdy with Pop - searches using Twurdy's most complex algorithm which includes looking up the popularity of words within the text. 10.
Flipped Class Companies in Social Media Analysis A global reference to the hundreds of companies that offer products and services for listening to what people are saying in social media Navigating the directory The search box (above and at the top right of every entry) is your friend; the directory contains 508 listings. If you prefer to browse the company listings, visit the complete list. Tip: Search operates on the full text of company listings. About the listings Each company in the directory has its own page with the following information: A link to the company's main website The location of the company's main office A link to the company's Twitter account Links to the company's pages on LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, and SlideShare A description of the company and its social media analysis products and services, provided by the company itself Links to recent news items on Social Media Analysis that mention the company A Twitter widget showing the company's most recent tweets Additions and updates Latest updates:
Google Scholar Online Assessment RSS: Your Social Media Monitoring Secret Weapon Ever ended a workday and thought: “Whoa, what just happened?” Social media goes by pretty fast. But if part of your job is social media monitoring, you need to make sure you don’t miss anything. Luckily, there’s a simple, free and foolproof way to store everything in one place and make sure nothing slips through the cracks: RSS feeds. LinkedIn Paying attention to the questions posed on LinkedIn Answers is a great way to get involved in conversations relevant to your industry, find content ideas and establish yourself as a thought leader in a niche. Quora Similar to LinkedIn, Quora is another spot to keep up with conversations and participate in discussions. Once subscribed, you can quickly scroll through them to sift for content ideas and find conversations to join and questions to answer. Facebook If you want to make sure you get all of a page’s updates, subscribing to a brand’s Facebook feed via RSS is handy. Twitter Pinterest Anything Else
How to Use Google Search More Effectively [INFOGRAPHIC] Among certain circles (my family, some of my coworkers, etc.) I'm known for my Googling skills. I can find anything, anywhere, in no time flat. My Google-fu is a helpful skill, but not one that's shrouded in too much mystery — I've just mastered some very helpful search tricks and shortcuts and learned to quickly identify the best info in a list of results. Sadly, though web searches have become and integral part of the academic research landscape, the art of the Google search is an increasingly lost one. A recent study at Illinois Wesleyan University found that fewer than 25% of students could perform a "reasonably well-executed search." That search process also included determining when to rely on Google and when to utilize scholarly databases, but on a fundamental level, it appears that many people just don't understand how to best find the information they seek using Google. Thanks to the folks at HackCollege, a number of my "secrets" are out. Infographic via HackCollege