Diane Judd Integrating Technology Into The Curriculum

Diane L. Judd, Ph.D.

Early Childhood & Reading

College of Education

Valdosta State University

"Resources For Teaching and Learning"
Integrating Technology into the Curriculum

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Tips For Searching The Internet

Internet Search Tips	Example
Use a comma to separate several names that are linked together.	William Clinton, President
When using a phrase search use quotation marks.	"school technology plan"
When searching for words that must appear within one word of each other use hyphens.	technology-educational
Capitalize the first letter of each word when searching for a proper name of a person or company.	Thomas Edison
Use brackets to find words that appear within 100 word of each other.	[computers education]
Add a plus sign when you want to find a document that must have those two or more words in it or a minus sign to avoid certain word combinations.	school+technology dog-hot
If you want to find an image place a colon between the word image and the image topic.	image:tornado
Use and asterisk to find all combinations of a word or word fragment. The example edu* will locate web sites that contain education, educational, educator, and so on.	edu*

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