Google search slides

How 10 Google Tips

Improved Our

Students Research

Habits @drjmargerison

1. Modify the search

intitle: find sites with one search term in the titleallintitle: find sites with all search terms in titleinurl: find sites with one search term in URLallinurl: find sites with all search terms in URL

2. Be precise with double quotes

Using double quotes with most important words first makes Google match the search precisely

“Lady Macbeth downfall”

3. Exclude words to ‘hone in’ search

Use the minus sign

-blogs faberge eggs

this will find results about faberge eggs excluding information from blogs

4. What has been created?

Do a file type searchfiletype:PPTfiletype:docfiletype:xls

ipad user guide filetype:PDF

5. Are you using Google Scholar?

http://scholar.google.combooks, journal articles, conference papers, public domain research databases

In Google scholar the full text to the article is often displayed as a link on the right hand side

6.Broaden search with asterisk

Why Syrian borders are *

7.Restrict your search to a site

The site: operator is great for searching through a specific site for content

site:bbc.com “world war one”

8. define:

Quick ways to grab definitions or phrases or acronyms

9. Search with country operators

Sources are important. Do you know how to access sources from different countries?site:irsite:sysite:uksite:ausite:jp

How are your students thinking about sources?

When sourcing articles in Google do they use country codes eg site:sy arab spring

site:ir site:fr site:eg site:tn arab spring

explicit teaching about primary source work on Google

Designing online learning involves discussion about the online research process

What Google operators are the students using?

Are we teaching our students about Google Operators?

10.Search with author names

Be specific with author names to narrow research

Are your students

comparing search results?

@DrJMargerison

Be discerning in your searching