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Searching

Select a search engine based on what you're looking for.
Answer to a question Narrowing down a subject (category or directory search)

Ask Jeeves
http://ask.com

Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com Yahooligans (for kids)
http://www.yahooligans.com
Google.com (Directory link)
http://www.google.com
Information on a specific topic Clustered results
Google.com
http://google.com
Use Advanced Search to narrow your search and get more useful hits; Language Tool to translate web sites, phrases, phrases.
Clusty.com or Vivisimo.com
http://clusty.com or http://vivisimo.com
When you're first researching a topic, it may be helpful to get your results in clusters or subtopic groupings.

Researching

The Research Cycle - written by Jamie McKenzie
http://www.questioning.org/rcycle.html

Evaluating Web Sites

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html

Citing Resources

Style Sheets for Citing Internet & Electronic Resources
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Style.html
Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia
http://www.washington.edu/classroom/emc/fairuse.html
Fighting Digital Plagiarism - by Doug Prouty
http://www.cccoe.net/research/digit_plag.htm

 

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