Search Tips

Try these ideas:

Type in a letter of the alphabet and see what the top search guess is

Get real information from the Universities and schools around the world

eg

"William Shakespeare" site:edu

Use the wild card *

eg

Jonah Lomu is * tall

Google as a Dictionary

Define:

eg

Define:learning

Google as a calculator

12*7 , 153-29 , etc etc

Google as a spell checker

Google as a world clock

time: [name of city/place]

eg

time: Apia

weather: [name of city]

eg

weather: Christchurch

Google Search for educators

http://www.google.com/educators/p_websearch.html

Custom Search

Check out this iTunes U podcast and look for Custom Search

http://itunes.apple.com/us/course/google-in-the-classroom/id517678928