Web+Searches

= "The noblest search is the search for excellence." = ~Lyndon B. Johnson

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Spend too much time searching for information you need? Helpful strategies exist to help use time more effectively. Teaching these strategies to your students will provide more effective use of time, especially when computers are limited in the classroom.

​Lee & Sachi LeFever (commoncraft.com) have created some great tutorials to help users understand things on the WWW.

Web Search Strategies in Plain English
(If you are unable to view the video from YouTube, click here to link to the commoncraft website.)

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**Four NETS for Better Searching**
Site uses Google to guide user on techniques to search more efficiently with better outcomes. You must scroll down entire web page to see four techniques. Provides worksheet that can be downloaded and used to record search results. You'll recognize the webquest master...Bernie Dodge attached to this site.

**Web Search Strategies**
Tutorials on strategies for searching the web with practice exercises which link to directories, search engines and more. Easy to follow links on left side of site will take you back to the tutorial page to venture out again.