Information Literacy #2 - November 2010

We're really diving into good searching!  We discussed important tools to create excellent searches.  Here are some things we learned:

*Brainstorm before researching! Use the most important, technologically advanced tool ever.....your brain!

*Besides your brain and own imagination, use these online tools to generate word webs.  You might find some related words you hadn't thought of and, besides, they're just fun to use:

Quintura                      Visuwords                        Wordnik 

We also saw a short, funny video on how using the right words can really effect what you find online.  Here it is:


Web Search Strategies in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.