WWW+Search+Strategies

= **Internet Search Strategies **=

**Activity #1: **
[] I like the fact that Cyber Patrol provides a list of categorized web sites so parents can determine which sites are suitable for children. I found this site to be a great help in allowing parents/teachers to control whether individual web sites should be allowed. The program can filter web pages, chat rooms, and can be used to limit online time as well.
 * Cyber Patrol **

[] This site is designed for children in the K-8 group. This site provides a directory to links of government-related kids sites. They are grouped by subject and it also links to other kids' sites from other organization. Although I found it kid friendly it was not my favorite site to gather information about our government. It seemed to lack the design appeal I think it needs to draw and keep the attention of the children in this age group.
 * FirstGov for Kids **

[] Gotta love it...backed by librarians! KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories. Very easy to navigate and kid friendly. Attractive design and I loved all the search options: Keyword, Category, Dewey Decimal, Digital Media and Alphabetical search options.
 * KidsClick! **


 * Activity #2: **Fruits and Vegetables without the quotation marks gave me 3,204.000 hits. "Fruits and Vegetables" gave me 1,290.000 hits. That is an amazing difference of 1,914.000. Wow! Very impressive!


 * Activity #3: **This was my first time using the search engine Boolify. It was a lot of fun and when my daughter saw me playing around with the puzzle pieces she commented, "Daddy you are suppose to be doing school work, not playing on the computer."


 * a. ** I searched google with the terms religion NOT christian population and received an interesting comment that the United States Census asked no questions about religion preference so it was unable to give viable numbers. It was however able to give me answers for several other countries.


 * b. **I went to http://boolify.org and discovered the wonderful puzzle pieces. In the pieces I typed the same search basically as I did with google and received basically the same findings. I liked this feature.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">c. **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> When I have patrons come into the library and I am trying to assist them with searches I believe using the boolify.org site will be of great assistance to me in explaining boolean operators.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Registrant: <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Domain Administrator <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> American Girl, LLC <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 333 Continental Blvd. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> El Segundo CA 90245 <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> US <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">proxyadm@mattel.com +1.3102524220 Fax: +1.3102523861 <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Domain Name: americangirl.com <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Administrative Contact and Technical Contact, Zone Contact: : <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Domain Administrator <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Mattel, Inc. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 333 Continental Blvd. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> El Segundo CA 90245 <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> US <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Created on..............: 1997-03-24. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Expires on..............: 2012-03-25. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Record last updated on..: 2010-05-27.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Activity #4: **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I decided to search and see who is the owner of http://www.americangirl.com since it is a site that my daughter visits often. This is the information that I found:

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Domain servers in listed order: <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> ns2.binc.net <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> ns1.binc.net

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Activity #5:** Use your developing search skills to find the intended use of the following:
<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .aero- air transport sites <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .asia- all things Asia and Asian domains <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .biz- business sites <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .com- unrestricted commercial organizations <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .coop- local coops and national coops <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .edu- colleges and universities <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .gov- United States Government agencies <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .info- unrestricted informational sites <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .jobs- sites seeking employees for jobs <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .k12- sites for all educational institutions K through 12 <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .mil- designates all branches of U.S. Military, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, and National Guard <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .mobi- mobile devices such as mobile phones, Ipads, blackberries, etc <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .museum- museum sites <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .name- families, individuals, <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .net- links to information original Microsoft framework <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">.org- recommended for not for profit organizations <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .sch- for a subdomain to represent primary and secondary schools <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .tel- a top level domain for information, new application is phone book for the net <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> .travel- top level domain, intended for travel agents and agencies


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Activity #6: **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I searched for hospitals in Australia, (hospitals.au) and received over six million returns.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Activity #7: **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I created a specific search (relief efforts.ht) and received many returns concerning the relief efforts going on now in the country of Haiti.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">New Orleans Sun Rises <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Google calculator gave me the answer to this problem:
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Activity #8: **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. Earthquakes **
 * Time ||  || Magnitude ||   || Location ||
 * 10 hours ago ||  || 5.7 ||   || Vanuatu ||   || [|Map] ||
 * 10 hours ago ||  || 6.4 ||   || Myanmar-India border region ||   || [|Map] ||
 * 13 hours ago ||  || 5.6 ||   || Ryukyu Islands, Japan ||   || [|Map] ||
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 2. Sunrise & Sunset **
 * Fri, 04 Feb 2011 || 06:47 || 17:41 ||
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 3. Calculator **

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 98%;">414 X 24 = 9936
<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I wanted to know the weather in Racine WI and received this google answer: <span style="color: #800080; float: left; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; padding: 5px 5px 5px 0pt;">24°F | <span style="display: block; float: left; font-size: 140%; padding: 5px 5px 5px 0pt; text-decoration: none;">[|°C]
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. Weather **

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Current: Clear: Wind: SW at 18 mph: Humidity: 52%

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**5. Public Data** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I asked for the population of Payne County, OK and received:

[|//Payne County// QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau]
<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Nov 4, 2010 ... People QuickFacts, Payne County, Oklahoma. Population definition and source info <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">, Population, 2009 estimate, 79727


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Activities #9 and #10: **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I shared the Google calculation tool with my daughter and now she is going to use it for her math. I, of course, said no. Her Mother said she would use it for checking Scotland's work. I shared the weather feature by phone with a friend of mine who travels over the country doing sales work. He said that would be a great tool for his travel plans.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bonus Activity: **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This is the link to my Libraries Search Engine. I created this search engine to search the three public libraries that are in my driving range. This was quite a learning experience. I really had fun doing this and it was so simple. What a great activity to teach in a library class to Juniors and Seniors.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">My Libraries Search Engine **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=007777661148168242631%3Abejjokftbt4 **