It is an art to learn to refine our online search to get the effective results.
What are the techniques or tricks which can help us maximize our chance of finding what we want with online search?
This article helps you learn effective online search tips and techniques.
I am an educator dealing in reception years and thus I suggest early year teachers to start searching for educational stuff by using these keywords:
- Early years
- Foundation stage
- EYFS (Early years foundation stage)
- Type the subject in search field such as 'art, religion, numeracy, literacy etc.
When I was novice to computers and internet, it took weeks and months to learn the basics of internet and computers. Sometimes I found useful links or sites and saved them at my computer and found the files but after many trial and error efforts, I learned to save the files from the internet to hard disk. These simple tutorials can save your time to learn the basics of internet. Interestingly most of these tutorials are offered by renowned sites like 'Microsoft' itself.
Downloading a file from the internet: When you download a file, you transfer it from the Internet to your computer. The most commonly downloaded files are programs, updates, or other kinds of files such as game demos, music and video files, or documents. Downloading can also mean copying information from any source to a computer or other device, such as copying your favorite songs to a portable music player.
Where are downloaded files saved?
When you download files, Windows usually saves them in the Downloads folder which is located under your user name in the users folder on the drive where Windows is installed.
It is stored at the location: C:\users\your name\downloads.
When you are saving the file, you can choose to save it to a different folder. Some different types of files are saved to different folders by default. For example, if you right-click a picture on a webpage and then choose Save Picture As from the menu, the picture will be saved to the Pictures folder by default. If you're not sure where the file was saved, you can search for it from the Start menu. When it take so long to download a file, there may be many reasons for delay:
Your connection might be slow. If you have a dial-up connection, it takes a lot longer to download files than if you have a broadband connection, such as DSL or cable.
Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) might be offline or experiencing heavy Internet traffic. Wait a while, and then try again.
If you are on a corporate network, the network settings might be the problem. Check with your system administrator.
If you use a file or music sharing program, someone might be downloading a file from your computer. Try disabling file sharing services while you're downloading and see if the process gets faster.
You might have too many programs open at the same time. Try closing unnecessary programs.
Your computer might have spyware running. Try scanning your computer for spyware. For more information about removing spyware, see Remove spyware from your computer.
Missing updates can affect your computer's performance. Go to the Windows Update website and check for updates.
Learning to find information quickly and effectively is essential to successfully using the Internet. Specialized search Web sites allow users to search for content that meets the selection criteria they specify. Keyword searching is an effective way to locate information on the World Wide Web. Keywords are used to find relevant Web sites and pages. "key" has more than one meaning; here it means "important.
We are now learning 'how to select keywords to produce the best search results?'
Following procedure can help you get the best search results.
Procedure for selecting suitable keywords and use them to get the best search results: Fine-tune your keywords:
If you're searching on a noun (the name of a person, place or thing), remember that most nouns are subsets of other nouns. Enter the smallest possible subset that describes what you want. Be specific. Try to meet the search engine halfway by refining your search before you begin.
Example: If you want to buy a car, don't enter the keyword "car" if you can enter the keyword "Toyota." Better still, enter the phrase "Toyota Dealerships" AND the name of the city where you live.
Be Refined:
Read the help files and take advantage of the available search refining options. Use phrases, if possible. Use the Boolean AND (or the character +) to include other keywords that you would expect to find in relevant documents.
Also learn to EXCLUDE with the Boolean NOT. Excluding is particularly important as the Web grows and more documents are posted. Run your initial query over again several times, each time adding further refinements to narrow down your list of relevant hits.
Example: If you want to find out how medical details about your grandmother's diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, try entering "Alzheimer's" AND "symptoms" AND "prognosis." If you want to find out about Alzheimer's care and community resources, query on "Alzheimer's" AND "support groups" AND "resources" AND NOT "symptoms."
Query by example:
Take advantage of the option that many search engine sites are now offering: you can "query by example," or "find similar sites," to the ones that come up on your initial hit list. Essentially what you're doing is telling the search engine, "yes, this looks promising, give me more like this one."
Anticipate the answers:
Before searching, try to imagine what the ideal page you would like to access would look like. Think about the words its title would contain. Think about what words would be in the first couple of sentences of a webpage that you would consider useful. Use those words, or that phrase, when you enter your query.
Internet have become an essential part of educational industry, for being great source of information. Educators are now
able to grab load of information within seconds use it effectively for
educational needs. To make our search effective and time saving we need to look
for specific search engines which are 'Information
Friendly'.Information friendly are the search sites or engines which
provide the specific and reliable information for our educational needs. You are going to learn
'why educators need to use 'information friendly search engines' to narrow
their search and find the specific information saving their time. Are popular search
engines, information friendly?
I will say 'NO' and the
reason is:
With billions of pages, you could spend a lifetime
hunting for specific information.
Popular search engines let you define search criteria
in very specific ways, but not all function identically.
I am a drawing teacher and love to see kids learning and enjoy drawing class. Sometimes teachers want to enhance their own skills in particular area, so there are lots of online sites offering free tutorials to improve at drawing.
These basic drawing tips and tutorials can be adopted in classroom to teach basic drawing process to students.
Tips to help you with practicing drawing:
Prepare the essential drawing tools for drawing which are pencil, eraser and paper. HB pencil is probably the most popular hardness of a pencil, because it
is neither too soft nor too hard. It allows you to draw a large variety
of pencil drawings and sketches and, is excellent for shading.
Sketchbook, notepads, chalkboards, whiteboards, the backs of receipts, you may use anything to practice drawing.
The most common way to hold a pencil is the basic tripod grip. The basic
tripod grip is the same as the one you probably use for writing.
This grip allows the
pencil to be finely controlled by the fingers, so holding a pencil this
way is ideal for drawing fine detail. The upright position of the pencil
allows for accurate shading with the tip, rather than side, of the
pencil.
There are more ways to hold the pencil. You may notice another way of holding pencil for shading in facing picture.
While practicing drawing, don't be so concerned with how the finished
product will look. Instead, be open-minded as to how your drawings may
turn out.
The lines we draw are representative of the thoughts we think. And in realizing this connection, it's important to be able to both think and draw creatively.
Take on a more 'free-flowing' approach with respect to the lines you put down on paper. Instead of fixed, rigid lines — switch over to quick, wispy, sketchy ones, gradually bringing the desired image into view.
You should have less focus on how your drawings will look when they're finished, and more focus on the process at hand — that of being creative.
Learning and improving at drawing is an ever-changing process, one that always has the potential to yield a number of different results and every drawing will be a learning experience for you.
Treat each new drawing as a stone on the pathway to success and with each new creation, you'll be one step closer to your goal.
Draw in the moment!
Free download:
'Learning how to draw' 133 pages of pdf file (2.27 M)
Internet has become a source of information and if we want our children to use the internet for constructive purposes then we have to guide them and let them learn about "internet". This article offers you useful links and resources to learn about 'Internt' and 'World Wide Web.
1- From "Infomat": What is 'Internet'?
The Internet is a huge collection of computers around the world. These computers (there are millions of them) are all linked together, and they communicate with each other, sharing information. If your computer is connected to the Internet, it can connect to millions of other computers, in many different parts of the world.
