Special+Reference+Topics

 Special Reference Topics

**Keyword and Boolean Web Search Strategies **

 [|Web search strategies] Website on how to search the Internet using basic and advanced search techniques such as implied and full Boolean logic and phrase searching.

[|Teacher TAP] Site includes search strategies for students including keyword search, Boolean searching and how to search in cycles. Teacher TAP addresses What's a search strategy? How do I use Boolean logic in my search? and What tutorials are available for students to learn search strategies?

**Search Engines **

 [|Ask Jeeves For Kids] Ask Jeeves is a unique service where you enter a question, and Ask Jeeves tries to point you to the right web page that provides an answer.

[|KidsClick!] Backed by librarians, KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories.

[|Yahooligans] Yahoo for kids, designed for ages 7 to 12. Sites are hand-picked to be appropriate for children. Also, unlike normal Yahoo, searches will not bring back matched found by crawling the web, if there is no match from within the Yahooligan listings. 

** Evaluating Web Sites: Content and Web Design ** [|Evaluating Content] Lessons and Resources for Evaluating Website Content including Evaluation Skills and Resource Development.

[|Webpage Design] Here you can find out the importance in why it's a good idea to evaluate web sources.

<span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">**<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Citing Electronic Resources ** <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> [|Electronography] Internet Style guides for Citing Electronic Resources. This site include APA, MLA and Turabian style citations. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|Education World] Increasingly, students are using electronic resources for researching papers and reports. This weeks Education World explores a variety of bibliographic styles for citing references.

<span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">** Information Literacy Research Model  ** <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|FINDS] <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">This website discusses the Information Literacy Research Model of FINDS. This site also gives worksheets for the student to use to assist them with their research project. <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">