Business Student Resources
Search Engines
Tutorials
Learn the Net
Searching the Web, Advanced Web Searching, Interactive Search Engine Tutorial, Evaluating Information, Searching Databases
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/section/digdat.html
Nortel LearniT Videos - Discovering the Internet
Understand the basics of how the Internet works, including its history, its technology and how to better navigate its resources
http://www.nortellearnit.org/
technology/Discovering_the_Internet/
AtomicLearning - Seaching the Web Intro
Searching for information on the Internet can be a fruitful, but sometimes frustrating task. This advanced tutorial series will show you new and exciting ways to zero in on just the data you're looking for.
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/searchweb
Gayles Electronic Classroom
Searching the web, evaluating resources,communicating on the internet, internet projects, fair-use
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/
gayle/gayle.html
Net Tutor Videos
Ohio State University Libraries Videos on Searching - This site includes tutorials, guides, and movies.
http://liblearn.osu.edu/tutor/
Activities
Using Operators
interactive online quiz
http://www.quia.com/pop/10975.html
Webquests and Scavenger Hunts
Surfing the Solar System - A web scavenger hunt
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/images/astro1.swf
National Urban Technology Center Scavenger Hunt
http://www.urbantech.org/scavenge.cfm
Black History Month Scavenger Hunt
Students can learn about famous black Americans while polishing their Internet surfing skills.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson
/lesson/lesson052.shtml
Net Hunts
Net Hunt 1.0
The Geography Net Hunt
Celebrate the Century: Search the Web for U.S. History of the 1930s
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson079.shtml
SearchQuest: A WebQuest About Search Tools
http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/%7Espjvweb/sqstu.html
Invisible Web
The Invisible Web
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/
Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html
Invisible Web
A large percentage of the Web is hidden from search engines in databases
that are not acccessible to spiders and is known as the Invisible Web.
http://websearch.about.com/od/invisibleweb/
Cyward Internet Education Search Engines & Specialized Directories
http://www.cyward.com/speciali.htm#majorsearch
NetTutor - Specialized Databases
http://liblearn.osu.edu/tutor/databases/