Christy Fennewald�
Experienced Educator
Technology Integration Coordinator
Google Certified Innovator
Google Certified Trainer
Common Sense Ambassador
Flipped Certified Teacher
GEG CENTX Leader
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Let’s Get Kicking!
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Resources
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How Google Search Works - In Plain English
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The history of search
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Taking the Deep Dive
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Google searches the largest chunk
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Table of Contents
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The Basics
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You will use Chrome!
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General Tips & Tricks
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Ninja Tip #1
Use your voice
Click on the microphone & say your search
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Ninja Tip #2
Keep it simple
Avoid sentences & use these 2 formulas
“Term + prep. + Term”
Jeans at Gap
“Term + location”
Pizza 65101
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Find facts fast
Weather:
“Weather zipcode/city”
Weather 65101
Dictionary:
“Define word”
Define palace
Calculation:
“equation + [enter}”
3*785 [enter]
Conversion:
“Unit in Unit”
3 dollars in euros
Traffic:
“Traffic zipcode/city”
Traffic 65101
Translate:
“Word in Language”
Help in Japanese
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Find information faster
News:
“News: [city]”
News: Austin,TX
Movies:
“Movies with [name]”
Movies with Ryan Gosling
Comparison:
“name vs [name]”
cat vs dog
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Research Tool - Research ANYWHERE
Research from within your document, cite sources, insert images & more.
Now, called the discover tool :(
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Drag & Drop Google Search
Highlight a term and drag & drop it into another tab
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Set the timer
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Roll dice
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Flip a coin
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Tie a bow with quotes
Put quotes around it
Problem: You want to find an exact phrase or the origin of a quote?
Solution: Put your words in quotes.
“till death do us part”
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Phrase in another language
“Phrase” in “language”
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Large number in text
“[large number]” in “language”
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Word Etymology
Etymology “word”
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Conversions
“unit” to “measurement”
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Graphs made easy
Check out graphs of functions.
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Operators & Commands
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Take a moment to...
Call the Operator
Boolean Searching
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Apps Searching
Search the Google Apps
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Apps Searching from your Omnibox
Search the Google Apps Part 2
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Site & Filetype Operators
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Kick out the extra words
Exclude words
Problem: You keep getting results with the wrong word or the wrong reference.
Solution: Put “-word” behind your search term(s)
catholic -pope
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Web Searching
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Search by Time
Search by time/date of Website
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Search by Results
Search by reading level & visited/non visited pages
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Search your Flights
Search “My Flights” & find your itinerary
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Search your Purchases
Search “My Purchases” & find your recent & upcoming purchases
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Finding Content within a Page
Press Ctrl (or Command) and F to find content while on a page
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Highlight to Search Extension
Highlight words & search without leaving page (install extension)
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Search Similar Pages Extension
Search similar pages/results without leaving page (install extension)
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Personal Blocklist Extension
Block domains and websites from your search (install extension)
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Searching like it’s 3099
Want more than just Google? Check out these!
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Image Searching
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Find the location of an image
Search by image
Problem: You have an image, but you don’t know where it came from.
Solution: Drag an image to the search bar or upload the image to image search.
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Be legal
Filter by licence
Problem: You need images you can reuse and modify.
Solution:
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Search by File Type
Animated images!
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Search by File Type
Find transparent images
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Search by File Size
Find images tailored to size
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Search Creative Commons Photos
Find images available for reuse
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Advanced Tactics
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Ninja Tip #3
Become a Power Searcher
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Create your own, customized search engine
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Enable Scholarly library, search educational sites & track citations to your resources
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Google Scholar Extension
A shortcut to Google Scholar and accessible easier than any Google Search
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Advanced Google Search
Customize your search by reading level & more
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The next generation of search that searches like humans do
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Search your Web History to get an inside look into your searching habits
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Search what you love in groups, communities & more
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Help your students become digital citizens
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Web Evaluation
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Web of Trust Extension
Evaluate Websites with this extension & one click
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Easy Bib Extension
Cite your sources and share your work
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Web Evaluation Resource Center
Check out Kathy Schrock’s Resource Center
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“Fake” Websites
Use these Sites to teach Web evaluation while evaluating for accuracy.
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Play time
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Fortune Telling
Go to betagoogle.com/ and start typing. You’ll be directed to your future.
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Do a barrell roll
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Fun Facts
Search “fun facts” and learn random trivia
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Challenge your Google Search skills
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Learn Google Search skills
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Challenge your Google Autocomplete skills
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Do the search & get URL to send to others
For the reluctant searchers in your life
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Feeling Lucky? Generous?
Do the search & get lucky or feel generous
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Search for the most affordable flights & patterns
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Flight Status
Flight name
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Compare food choices
item vs item
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“....” Near me
item near me
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Find your phone
Turn on location & ring your phone
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Send directions to your phone
Have directions ready for you by sending to phone
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Find Sports Scores
Sports score
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Go Klingon
Klingon - add “/xx-klingon”
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Play PAC-MAN
Search for “pacman” and press play
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Books by your favorite author
Books by “favorite author”
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Movie Release Dates
“Movie Name” release date
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Holiday Dates
“Holiday name”
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Tip Calculator
“Tip Calculator”
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Share out
Tweet @christyfenne to give suggestions for more cool search features!
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More coming soon
More Web Evaluation Tools
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When is news fake?
Fake News Article
Fake News
What is it?
Fake News: What is it?
Have you ever heard of?
The filter bubble?
Have you heard of: The filter bubble?
Spotting Fake News
How do you do it?
Spotting fake news: How do you do it?
Spotting Fake News
How do you do it?
Fake news resources
Algorithms
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Rights
Mastering the Art of Searching by Christy Fennewald is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.