Web Search Strategies

There are many search engines available to find the information you are looking for. If you can’t find it with one you can try another. Google, and Yahoo are the two search engines that I am the most familiar with.
You keep changing the word or phrases you are looking for, and then hit enter. When the list comes up, you scroll through to see if any in the list suit your particular interests.
The most popular web pages appear first in the list. You have the option of scrolling through MANY pages to try to find what you are looking for. You also have the option of changing your word search phrases to find more pages listing subjects you are interested in. A person can spend hours searching, and finding other articles on the subject. This is useful for finding information both for the public and for educators.
Teachers can look for specific areas of study they want students to research. They can then give possibilities to students. In Carol Golliher’s English class, she instructed students to form groups. Group had to research museums, mega-churches, or schools, and describe how they conform to descriptions by James B. Twitchell in “Branded Nation”. It was interesting to hear and see the feedback that was provided by each group in a verbal and visual report.
Some groups chose to work on the same subject as others, but the presentations were so different it was amazing. The chapters in the book carried a lot of the same information that was gleaned through the Internet by the students working in the groups. She is the only teacher I’ve had in my two years at VVC that prompted students to use the Internet for research until I took this class with you.