Helpful Websites On Searching & Summarizing

I encourage you to visit the following web sites which can answer any additional questions you may have.

Search Engines

• Ask For Kids (formerly Ask Jeeves For Kids) - http://www.askforkids.com/
• Google - http://www.google.ca OR http://www.google.com/
• KidsClick - http://www.kidsclick.org/
• Yahooligans- http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/
• Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.ca OR http://www.yahoo.com
• Internet Search Engines - http://library.albany.edu/internet/engines.html
• Media Awareness Network: Young Canadians In A Wired World - http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/research/YCWW/index.cfm

Search Strategies

• Windweaver's Search Guide - http://www.windweaver.com/searchguide.htm
• Why Use Technology - http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/phanover/using_the_internet.
• Internet Explorer Tutorials: Computer Tips & Help - http://www.internet-explorer-tutorials.com/index.html
• Uuniversity of Albany: Boolean Searching on the Internet - http://library.albany.edu/internet/boolean.html
• Complete Guide To Search Engines - http://www.searchengines.com/
• Effective Search Techniques - http://www.iepsac.org/papers/p06b04a.htm
• Internet Navigator: Module 3 - http://medlib.med.utah.edu/navigator/module3/searchengines.htm
• Boolean Bookmarks - http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:-6Rf-aa1_AwJ:www.oslis.k12.or.us/docs/booleanbkmark.pdf+Boolean+logic%2Bwildcards&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&ie=UTF-8
• Google Cheat Sheets - http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html

Summarizing Content

• Internet navigator: Module 3 Note Taking - http://medlib.med.utah.edu/navigator/module3/notetaking.htm
• GIST: A Summarizing Strategy - http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view_printer_friendly.asp?id=290
• Indiana University: Writing Tutorial Services - http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets.shtml
• Read-Write-Think: Reasearch Building Blocks - http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=148
• Instructional Reading Strategy: KWL - http://www.indiana.edu/~l517/KWL.htm
• Hillsborough Community College Writing Center - http://www.hccfl.edu/writing_center/5paragraphsa.htm

All web sites listed above were accessible, and relevant as of March 17, 2006 .

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By: Caroline Tompson