Showing posts with label browsing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label browsing. Show all posts
Saturday, March 28, 2015

Information: To filter or not to filter?

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Making it easier for children to use digital information does not always prepare them for real life tasks. Filtering information to make...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

White House Browsing Challenge

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Since most of the Search Challenges on 21cif require using a search engine, it was time to create a browsing challenge. Email Challenge ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Reflections from ISTE

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The Blogger's Cafe is nearly empty. Most conference-goers have left the building for the River Walk and dinner plans. I had a late ...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Students Use What They Know

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When your search skills consist of Googling and Browsing, you must make the most of them. There are other search skills, of course, but yo...
Friday, January 6, 2012

Browsing Practice

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Browsing takes practice. Browsing, or surfing, is easy to do: just click a link. Using browsing to find information efficiently is not e...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Medical Approval Challenge

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News articles tend to introduce (incomplete) information that make good search challenges. Here's an example from the Wichita Eagle po...
Friday, January 1, 2010

Blue Moons

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If you live in the Western Hemisphere, New Years Eve was a blue moon. (Readers in the Eastern Hemisphere still have a month before their blu...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Tools for Evaluation

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While browsing through library sites today, I came across a link to Human Cloning, The How To Page . The message on the library site ( http...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Santa Challenge

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If you are looking for a quick challenge to involve middle schoolers or high schoolers in a keyword search with browsing and evaluation, hav...
Monday, November 9, 2009

Sesame Street Challenge

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As you probably know, Sesame Street is 40 years old. Here's a challenge to test your ability to find reference information about the sh...
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Friday, November 6, 2009

Find the Sculpture

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I'm taking a few days off from work after cataract surgery. While trying out some glasses for reading--my distance vision was 20/20 the ...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Yes, There's a Need - Part 3

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When people aren't sure what else to do, they resort to browsing. While using a query or truncating a url might be a faster solution t...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Finding the Black Box

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Homing in on information online is similar to locating a downed aircraft's black box in one respect: both send out signals. In the case...
Thursday, February 19, 2009

Butterfly House Search Challenge

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It's time for a new Search Challenge. Before I list this as "Just Added" on the Information Fluency Website , I invite you to...
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