Search+and+Evaluation

http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/web20/ Free video tutorials from Atomic Learning that describe all the standard tools people are talking about - wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, and more. Atomic Learning has other free 'how to' movies available at:http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/tutorials - everything from Excel to Photoshop.
 * Web 2.0 - What is it anyway?**

[|Open Sources for Research page __at__] Maggie L. Walker Governor's School http://mwlibrary.wordpress.com/databases/open-sources-for-research/ This page was put together by a presenter at the AASL Reno conference. One of the sites that I examined a bit is called: [|ClustyGov] - this site is a meta search engine, that produces a results list in clusters. Links are subdivided into sections titled Topics, Agencies, and sources. I tried Afghanistan as a search and got lots of links to current newspaper articles - the engine seems to limit itself to the NY Times, Reuters and Yahoo News. Clusty is another way to search the [|USA.gov] portal. You may want to try a search on each site first. Which site will better serve the particular lesson or information need that you have? You decide.

[|Wizard Tools] The tools include a search builder and website evaluator. It also includes a citation builder, a thesaurus and a spelling checker. There are 2 ways to access the tools: you can use the interactive flash image or you can use the links on the left navigation bar. The flash diagram is a nice way to show how all the processes of searching work together.
 * Wizard Tools** from the Illinois Math and Science Academy's 21st Century Information Fluency Project.

The super best parts of this are search builder and the website evaluator. I'm especially excited about the website evaluator. Students could run a Wikipedia page through this evaluation. It would be a great 'compare and contrast' exercise.