Focus on Elementary Students: Critical Thinking Skills on the Net Monday, December 7, 2009 3:00 –...

Focus on Elementary Students: Critical

Thinking Skills on the Net

Monday, December 7, 20093:00 – 4:00 pm (Central)/4:00 – 5:00

pm (Eastern)ISACS Learning Bridge Audio Seminar

Alan November, November Learning

Custom Search

•Provides sites at students’ reading levels

•Saves instructional time

•Scaffolds students in learning how to use a search site.

•Points parents to good sites to use with their students.

Custom Search

•http://www.google.com/cse/

Or Google “Custom Search”

Creating Your Search Engine

Next Step

Viewing The Search Site

The Finished Product

How Do My Students Access the site?

•Put a link on your website, iGoogle Site, or a wiki.

•Use http://tinyurl.com to make the link smaller.

Tiny URL

To Edit or Add Sites

Log into Google and click the manage link.

To Remove Google Ads

Youtube

•Number the Stars

november

November Learning is the3rd main site listed.

notice thequotation marks

“Martin Luther King”

link:http://www.martinlutherking.org

link:http://www.martinlutherking.org host:edu

link:http://www.martinlutherking.org link:http://www.stormfront.org host:.edu

Web Country Codes

http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/text/web_country_codes.html

host:jp “world war II” “atomic bomb” hiroshima

“american revolution” “general gage” host:ac.uk

turkey islam pope visit

host:tr islam pope visit

http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/di/intro.html

Student Jobs

•Curriculum Review Team

•Tutorial Design Team

•Podcasting Team

•Global Communications Team

Contact Information

•Contact: alan@novemberlearning.com

•Website: www.novemberlearning.com

Alan November