Tech Tips: Advanced Search Techniques Help Students to Get the Most from Googling

Advanced search techniques are yet another #AwesomePossum way that Google helps teachers and students find and curate content.

A few years back, we used Google Image look-up to track down the artist behind the Possum with Ukulele. The artist gave us permission to use the design for our high school's anti-bullying assembly, and the little guy has been either ever since. I'm a big fan of AwesomePossums.

A few ways that advanced search techniques can be used include placing restrictions on an active search. These restrictions can be a variety of factors used to distill the best results for whatever the circumstance dictates.

-Date

-File type

-Region

-Creative Commons and other copyright licenses

Here are some helpful links to get started 

Advanced search for websites & images:

http://www.google.com/advanced_search

Tips on filtering search results:

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/142143?hl=en&ref_topic=3081620

Finding "free-to-use" images:

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/29508?hl=en&ref_topic=3081620

Next week, I will update this post with a YouTube tutorial using some of the advanced search techniques listed above.

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I'm looking forward to teaching our students how to use the filters to curate images for their 1950s American Life YouTube video project. Cultural Literacy students will begin making annotated YouTube videos about the different themes that we have explored:

-The Cold War & The Red Scare

-American Consumerism & Women in the 1950s

-The American Dream Deferred: Segregation & The Start of the Civil Rights Movement

-j