Teaching Tools on Your Time

Search Tools

Think beyond Google! There are a myriad of ways to search for information, with literally hundreds of alternate search tools, and new web tools that allow you to rethink the entire search process. Consider making information come to you for a change.

Tools to Consider

• Social Bookmarking Sites
  • Delicious -- This social networking site contains a collection of bookmarks from a variety of users. Search "tags" to find results of websites that users have bookmarked.
• Other Search Engines
  • Dogpile -- This search engine combines the results of four different search engines in one search bar.
  • Technorati -- Search only blogs for quick access to recent events.
  • Twitter Search -- Search Twitter to get a pulse on what's going on in the virtual world. Search trending topics to follow news events as they are happening.
  • Google News Archive Search -- Can be used to search historical archives of newspapers. Excellent for primary source documents.
• Customize Your Search
  • Google Custom Search Enginge -- Allows you to create a customized search experience by including one or more websites, hosting a search box and results on your own website and customizing the results of your search match.
  • Mashpedia -- Search this online "real-time encyclopedia" which incorporates searches from multiple locations on one page.
  • Popurl -- This searchable news aggregator collects articles and resources in one attractive, customizable space.
• Blogs
  • edublogs -- This community contains blogs written by educators. Create your own edublog for use in the classroom, or just search for interesting blogs to follow.
  • List of the Top 100 Best Education Blogs -- This is a great list of the top education blogs to help your search for what blogs to follow. It is put out by the Online Education Database.