2. By the end of today’s session, you will
have:
Strategies to help your students evaluate
websites
Strategies to help your students improve
their Google searches
An awareness of student-friendly
resources beyond Google
Outcomes
3. ď‚— Evaluating Websites
ď‚— Improving Google Searches
ď‚— Alternatives to Google
ď‚— OnlineResources Available Through
Knowledge Ontario / School Board
Library Sites
Agenda
4. What are some of the
issues / challenges your
students will face when
searching the internet?
Discussion
8. How could a student be tricked into
thinking that these sites are real?
Tree Octopus
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
Martin Luther King
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
Evaluation of Websites
21. Internet Licensed Resources
ď‚— No editor or ď‚— Professionally created
gatekeeper (not / edited
filtered) ď‚— Materials carefully
ď‚— Sponsored hits / selected (censorship;
quality control)
advertising
ď‚— Current /
ď‚— No censorship (no continuously updated
criteria – anyone can  Indexed with Subject
post anything) Headings
Free Internet vs. Licensed
Resources
26. The importance of…
ď‚— Formulating a clear research question /
topic (pages 12 – 16 of Research Success
@ Your Library)
 Selecting the “right” keywords and
synonyms (see pages 10 & 11 of Research
Success @ Your Library)
Other things to Consider…
27. ď‚— Creating effective search strategies
(pages 21 & 22 of Research Success @
Your Library)
Other things to Consider…