Okay, this has been a learning curve. I am such a 'googler' that I really hadn't ever considered using another search engine! I liked the information on '7 Habits of Highly Effective Web Searchers'. I am still a bit lost with a lot of this - boolean, specific phrases etc. I know that this is just the basics of web searching and all educators should be proficient in this area. The whole concept of 'inurl' was almost too much to cope with - I was thinking about ending my time in this course there and then. However I am confident that I will eventually get my head around it all. It doesn't help that I haven't taken my class to the IT lab for YEARS - thhis is don't by the other teacher who is in 1 day a week. Next year I am going to change that wround and will take over that area myself.
My goal for the time being is to familiarise myself with different search engines. I have made a very small step towards this by bookmarking some of them.
