Be Positive by Sandra Flower on Prezi Podcast 028 – How to Advocate Offline Over A Beer – Agriculture Proud In the world of agriculture advocacy, we often get caught up in the latest social media tools. But, truth is, we can be advocates offline as well. Let’s not forget I started with a dumbphone just a few years ago. And apparently Carrie like to tell people to just EAT IT in song. (At least I think this is what she was trying to sing.) On Episode 028 of the Agriculture Proud Podcast, Ryan Goodman and Carrie Mess continue the Over A Beer series talking about hot topics in agriculture. So often Carrie and I will be visiting with attendees of a local meeting, conference or workshop, and receive great supports for our efforts in agriculture advocacy. How to advocate offline If the internet ceased to exist tomorrow, could you still find a way to advocate for your cause? Also see this interview with RealAgriculture where I speak to the same topic. Sometimes we just have to DO IT. Keep in mind, not everyone should be doing the same thing.
The Hardest Type of Web Search for Students There are three basic types of searches that students conduct on the Internet. Those types of searches are navigational, transactional, and informational. Navigational searches are conducted to find something specific like a website or physical location. Five strategies that help students conduct better informational searches. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Lesson Plans – Search Education – Google Picking the right search terms Beginner Pick the best words to use in academic searching, whether students are beginning with a full question or a topic of just a few words. Advanced Explore "firm" and "soft" search terms, and practice using context terms to locate subject-specific collections of information on the web. Understanding search results Learn about the different parts of the results page, and about how to evaluate individual results based on cues like web addresses and snippets. Engage additional search strategies, such as generalization and specialization. Narrowing a search to get the best results Apply filtering tools and basic "operators" to narrow search results. Compare results for basic searches with ones that use operators to discover the impact the right operator has at the right time. Searching for evidence for research tasks Draw stronger terms from preliminary search results, identify evidence, and explore using various media to locate specific types of evidence.
How to Use Google Advanced Image Search Google is the most widely used search engine on the Web. They offer a variety of different vertical or highly targeted, searches, including News, Maps, and Images. In this article, we're going to look at how you can find images with Google using a variety of advanced search tactics to find the exact image you're really looking for. Basic Image Search For most Web searchers, using Google Image Search is easy: just enter your query into the search box and click the Search Images button. Simple! However, more advanced searchers will find that they can also use any of Google's specific search operators within their search query. Advanced Searching If you really want to fine-tune your image searching, the best way to do it is to use the Google advanced search drop-down menus found on your Google Image search results page, or, click on the Advanced Search menu found under the Settings icon on the far right-hand corner. Viewing Your Images Filtering Your Image Results
Google advanced search: A comprehensive list of Google search operators - Beyond Common Google Search Operators by Roger Warner “Search Term” This operator searches for the exact phrase within speech marks only. This is ideal when the phrase you are using to search is ambiguous and could be easily confused with something else, or when you’re not quite getting relevant enough results back. For example: “Tinned Sandwiches” This will search for only the finer tinned variety of the bread based snack, at the exclusion of all others. OR This self explanatory operator searches for a given search term OR an equivalent term. “Martin Sheen” OR “Charlie Sheen” Then immediately seek psychiatric help. – (and +) The – operator removes pages that mention a given term from search results. Manchester -united This would return results for “Manchester”, while removing any that feature the word “united”. Peanut Butter +and Jam ~ Adding a tilde to a search word tells Google that you want it to bring back synonyms for the term as well. link: Use this operator to find links to a domain. ..
Lesson 1.2: Filtering by color (Text) Lesson 1.2: Filtering by color Access Lesson 1.2 slides here Contents: Understanding square brackets Filtering by color Using color to define content Accessing similar images NOTE: In this course, square brackets [ ] denote a search box. [golfcross rules] Figure: The Google Search box with the two-word search, golfcross rules, typed in. Searching on Google often starts with entering a query. A query is the set of words you type into the search box to tell Google what you want to find. Once you enter a query and get results, you can consider whether you want to focus the results in some way. One really fun way to focus is to search in Google Images and filter results by color. For example, suppose you do a search in Google Images for [fossils]. Figure: General image results for [fossils], pointing out the color filters in the left panel. Using these boxes, you can filter to find images of a specific color. Figure: Image results for [fossil] with a gray filter Figure: Image search for [tesla]
Refine web searches - Google Search Help There are different ways to filter your Google searches to be more precise or to expand in new directions. Advanced search Google offers pages designed to help you perform specialized web and image searches: Filters & topics After you perform a search, filter and topic buttons appear near the search bar. They may also appear in other places on the page. Filters Filters allow you to narrow results to a particular type, such as: Video News Images Web The "Web" filter contains text-based links to websites. The exact filters and the order in which they appear is dynamic. Topics Topics allow you to add terms to your query that can help you get more specific information or explore related information. Operators To narrow your results in specific ways, you can use special operators in your search. Search for an exact match: Enter a word or phrase inside quotes. Go to our blogpost for more information about how to search using quotes. Search for a specific site: Enter site: in front of a site or domain.
Be Better@Google Searching (3-minute Video) [Image of google.com search box] Audio: How can you make Google work better for you when you’re searching? Here are a few tips and tricks to get you started. Let’s say we’re doing research on the impact of multiracial people & culture in America. We’re just getting started, so we’ll type “multiracial” into the Google search box. [Image of search results] Audio: Notice that we are getting all kinds of results using this search – from Wikipedia, to a site called “blackflix.com,” to even some government websites thrown in there. Audio: When you type multiple words into the search box, Google will look ONLY for those results that have ALL of your keywords. Even just adding one keyword has given us way fewer results (even though there are probably still more than we want). You can also broaden your search by asking Google to look for synonyms or related ideas using the word “OR.” [Image of UW Libraries homepage]