Carol LaRow
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Use this tool to create a customized search engine that only searches the sites you pre-determine for your students. Choose the websites, insert the urls, and know that your students are searching the WEB safely. This is also useful because it cuts down on the number of irrelevant hits the students get, which saves time.
Users Can:
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• Specify display results
• Style the search engine to have the look and feel of their personal websites
• Collaborate with others and have them contribute to the search engine
• Add search refinements within result pages, allowing users to find information they are looking for
• Add more sites to a search engine's index
• Create a Custom Search Engine on the "fly" by cutting and pasting code into a website's html
• Have Google host the search engine
• Integrate the search engine with their own websites
• Use on websites or blogs
Elementary:
• Students access "child safe" sites.
• Younger students receive a limited number of results they must read through.
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Middle & High School:
• Students access "child safe" sites.
• Direct students to age appropriate sites
• Direct students to relevant sites, appropriate for the topics they are studying
• Help students use online time more efficiently, allowing more time for summarizing the results they find
• Create a search engine that reflects knowledge and information gathered over years of working with topics
General:
• Create search engines to share with your department colleagues to use with their students
• Create unique labels for students to use that "match" the terms and topics they are studying
• Have students submit topics for Custom Search Engines after they have completed a unit on information literacy
• Have older students create Custom Search Engines for their peers; they must focus on what is pertinent
• School librarians create customized search engines to supplement classroom curriculum for teachers and students
• School librarians create customized search engines to augment media center webpages
• Classroom teachers create customized search engines for teacher websites
• Have students stay on a website; no need to leave to find information
Try Searching For These Terms In The Custom Search Box Below.
Click in the white box below. It is "active."
Type any of the terms from the two lists on the right.
Note: When you want to do this on your own site, you will need to place the search engine box on your website or webpage
Paul Revere
U.S. History
George Washington
Liberty
General Burgoyne
Saratoga
John Adams
Creating A New Nation
Social Studies For Kids
General Gage
Boston
New nation
Minutemen
Lexington
Search results appear on same page, underneath Custom Search Engine search box.
The picture on the right shows the custom search box just above the picture near the top of the page.
Type one of the search terms from the list above into the box below this text. The box is "live."
I've programmed the results you will see. The results will only go to websites I've programed into the search engine.
The box below would go onto the webpage you want the students to use. The box below is just a sample.
Note: Use the scroll bar in the results below to see all the hits the students will see.
Type a search term in the box above this text. Click inside the box. It's "live."
You will only go to webpages I've programmed in.
Scroll down to see all the results
1. See search results on same page, with a different view. Results are more compact.
2. Sample is "two column," but ads do not appear in right columns (education version).
Note: To replicate this, you will need to place the search engine box on your website or webpage
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Or, type directly in the green box below.
It is an active custom search engine.
Type the word, "Lexington." I've programmed the results the students will get. The picture on the right shows the search engine box above the small picture on the left.
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Type the word, "Lexington" in the green box to the left. Click inside the box. It is "live."
You will only see webpages I've programmed into the Custom Search Engine.
Scroll down to see all the results
Try creating a Custom Search Engine For Yourself
Sign into your Google account
Go to the "custom search engine" tool
click here