Finding Info: Teaching Search Skills

"Pssssst, Felix. Over here."

1. Here is the lesson plan Julie and I made for middle schoolers doing an author search. The purpose of the lesson is to teach the useful skill of narrowing searches and analysing/verifying site credibility.

2. Even though the Jeff Utecht tutorials are only seven months old, changes to Google have made some of the info obsolete. For example, in the image search there was no color box to filter colors. Now, there is a button for Search Tools with filtering options. Here's a tutorial I put together with Jing:

Where's that filter?

I liked Jing a lot for creating a screen capture video; it's super easy to use with a great interface BUT not so easy to share always.

Here a tutorial with sound using QuickTime. This was not as easy to create as Jing, but really easy to share.

The great thing about creating these tutorials, as Julie so wisely pointed out to me, is that kids who are absent or who didn't get it the first time now have instant replay!