Showing posts with label keywords. Show all posts
Showing posts with label keywords. Show all posts
Monday, January 30, 2023

Guided Search Challenges

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Taking a lesson from my last post, I refreshed the Needle and Haystack Challenge series I created a couple years ago on the Information Flu...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Haunted Search Challenge

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At this time of year, scary attractions abound: yard displays, haunted houses, horror film festivals. It's also possible to find creepy ...
Saturday, August 25, 2018

Keyword Targets

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As a follow-up to yesterday's post, here's a glimpse inside the Fall 2018 Full Circle Resource Kit. As an instructional and assess...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Refining and Finding Keywords

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The keywords you start with are often not the keywords you need. A good example of this occurred recently in a summer program I was lead...
Thursday, March 1, 2012

Search Challenge 002

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A very popular search challenge is the Kermit Challenge. I'd rate this a novice challenge and a good one to introduce elementary lev...
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Friday, November 4, 2011

Seeing the Not So Obvious

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I love this sign. I first came across it yesterday as I was trying to find a Prezi on 'achieving information fluency' I thought ...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Question of the Day

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Another curiosity for which I'm sure there's a good answer--but how would you search for it? We've seen pictures of the worker...
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Monday, March 14, 2011

Earthquake Challenge

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The tragedies in Japan triggered by the earthquake last Friday may have been much worse if national preparedness for such events was not a w...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

Looking in the Wrong Place and the Power of Words

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When Google introduced background images for its search page, I was an early adopter. I selected an image of a landscape that I found partic...
Monday, March 8, 2010

How high? The San Jacinto Challenge

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On my trip to the Palm Springs area--love the desert--I learned that, due to seismic activity in the area, many of the peaks surrounding the...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Earthquake Challenge

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I'm in the Palm Springs area for a few days. From the condo I can see the San Andreas Fault--tortured hillocks going up the valley from ...
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Friday, January 22, 2010

Brainwave Challenge

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A former colleague sent me an article on the neurological benefits of Internet searching that he thought I would find interesting. I did,...
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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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...
Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Bias Literacy: Pick the Low-Lying Fruit

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We all grow up in a world of bias. It's so much a part of our everyday experience that it's easy to overlook. The troublesome thing...
Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Relevance: An Easy Search, Unpacked

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I don't speak Spanish, but can usually figure out the meaning of traveler's information printed in a couple of languages. My insuff...
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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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Basic vs Advanced Searching

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You probably don't use advanced search options very often. You're not alone. Advanced searchers--such as the members of the searc...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Ready, Set, Search

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When are children ready to search? I didn't think much about information fluency when my children were younger. They're all married ...