Search Sessions:

 

Where do I start?

1. Organize and submit the links and information you gathered before this session.
   1. E-mail Pam a list of subject areas for each grade level so she can set up the drop down menus and web pages for our new web links site, based on Morton's Web Links.
   2. Submit the web links you gathered before this session to Pam using the Web Links Submittal Form.  You may have to add a descriptive phrase.  (see: Web Site Submittal Form area below)
2. Search for new web links
   1. Target Reading and Math for “your” grade levels and specific curriculum based subject areas.  (Some of you have “special” instructions that differ.)
   2. If you happen upon a good site for a different subject area, certainly use it.  If a great site doesn’t “fit” for you, share it with other Cybrarians that might wish to use it.
   3. If you feel you have “exhausted” the areas of Reading and Math:

                 i.   Search for Social Studies, Science, etc.

                ii.   Armstrong & CJHS: Search United Streaming. 

                                a.   Use the same submittal form.

                                b.    Link directly to the video page.

                                c.    Begin the description with - United Streaming Video:

   4. When you feel you’ve found the best sites for a specific area, move on to another.  Remember, we want quality web sites not simply quantity.

 

When searching:

1. Check Morton’s web links site.  
2. Use Google as well as other search engines, meta-search engines and directories.
3. Search using different search methods and a variety of “key words”.
4. Remember, we are looking for good quality sites. 
5. Use Control/F to search within a page.

 

Web Site Submittal Form:

1. Check to make sure the site isn’t already listed on our web links pages.
2. Use a different submittal form for each grade level.
3. Create hyperlinks that open in a new window so they can be copied to the web links pages as is.
   1. Either know the URL address you want to link to – or – go to that site on the Internet and copy the link address.
   2. In Word, type the word(s) that will become the hyperlink.
   3. Highlight that/those word(s), right click the highlighted area and choose (regular left click) “Hyperlink”.
   4. Type or paste (Control/V) the URL in the “Address:” area.
   5. Click the “Target Frame” button, choose “New Window” on the dropdown menu, then click the OK button, then OK again.
4. In the description area
   1. Use phrases (begin with a capitol, no period at the end)
   2. Indicate if the site is interactive, contains printables, videos, etc.
5. Submit your sites at the end of each session by emailing them electronically to  Pam (unless there are too few to send) or when you’ve “exhausted” a subject area.