Google

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Searching Hints Add terms to make your search term clear If you are searching for bass fishing (not music) you would search bass -music When you click I'm feeling lucky--it takes you straight to the most relevant website that Google finds.

Advanced Searching

You can search for exact wording, or limit your search to not include certain words. Did you know that if you surround your term with ~ (tildes) that it will include words that mean the same. For example ~food~ facts would also give you nutrition facts and cooking information.

If you want a DVD player that costs between $50 and $100 enter this DVD player $50...$100

If you want to know how the money is being exchanged..try this dollar to pound dollar to euro

If you want to know the answer to a math problem--enter it into google for example 5*9+(sqrt 10)^3=

Conversions are available as well, for example--10.5 inches to cm

You can also click More at the regular Google search page and go to Google Scholar where you will find articles that are more scholarly than found at the regular Google search.

For your students that do not have Office, they can use Google Docs just like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. These are available wherever the Internet is available. Surveys can be prepared with Google Docs and made available to people without using any paper. To find instructions on this [|click here]

You can also make your own information page using iGoogle. You can add items to help your students.