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My pathfinder: CORE vocabulary Audience: My co-workers at school

__Awareness__: I was not aware pathfinders even existed. I know that not all the info on the web is reliable, but had no idea how to look for good sources myself, let alone guide others to them. __Exploration/Filtration__: I was amazed at the realm of possibilities when you just type in a request on Google, which has always been by favorite. I really liked the NoodleTools site which helps you decide what engines to search with. I bookmarked it on the computer I am using and emailed it to me to put on the rest. __Learning__: Activities: 1. Google is my go-to engine. I could only think of two more off the top of my head: Bing and Yahoo. Well, Yahooligans for kids, too. When I was on the specialized search engine page, I clicked on a few, just to investigate. I was kind of disappointed on the kids' summer camps option--there has to be more than one summer camp available in Oklahoma. The reverse cell phone number look up was kind of neat. I looked up me, and found me, but my name or personal info wasn't listed. From there it had links to file complaints about my number, or of course, pay $39.95 for a full report.

2. I definitely got sites more specific to what I was looking for by using quotation marks on Google. On teoma, I got 102,000 hits without, but only 7 hits with.

3. This was really neat. I can take this back and use it with my second graders in the solar system unit we are working on!

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5. As I read, most of these are top-level domain names, and are reserved for specific contents. Most are governed by organizations within the specific fields. .aero- reserved for aviation-related fields .asia-reserved for companies based in Asia, Austrailia, and the Pacific .biz-alternate for companies/businesses whose .com name is already taken .com--originally for commercial organizations, kind of open now .coop--for cooperatives .edu--strictly enforced--educational only--colleges and universities .gov--restricted for government use .info--informative resources, though not policed .jobs---employment related sites .k12--public schools .mil--military .mobi--mobile sites (cell accessible) .museum--museums and associations .name--personal names, nicknames, screen names .net--originally for network operators, has become alternate for .com, generic .org--for non-profit organisations, but no policing .pro--qualified professionals--doctors and lawyers and such--but who decides? .sch--other countries use it for schools .tel--internet communications services, especially VoIP .travel--travel industry--airlines, bed/breakfasts, hotels, travel agencies, etc.

6. Wow! That is cool! I looked up museums in Egypt. 54 million results, a lot of which were published works BY museums in Egypt. When I went to look at colleges in Egypt, I got 93.9 million hits.

7. museum + mummy = 2.15 million hits

8. 1.Love the spellchecker! Fingers flying mean many mistakes! 2. Am definitely gonna use the movies + zip code. I am so tired of going through site after site trying to get to where I need. This was fast and easy. 3. The currency conversion caught my eye because we are about to start a multicultural unit with my gifted. Will bring this to everyone's attention. 4. Local search for eateries and attractions will be fun to use on vacation! Don't forget to find out what zip code you'll be in! 5. Every teacher in my school needs to use the weather--duty days, you know?

9. I talked to my husband about ways to search for the specific tools and software he uses in his business, and to find businesses like his to communicate with.

10. I talked to my mom, who is a co-worker, about teaching a simplified unit like this to our gifted students, seeing how it works, and taking it school-wide. Our teachers need to be taught these methods first, because we don't have a teacher in the lab. I know that we all want to begin using the internet as more than a gaming site, but have been stymied as to how to begin teaching research. Now I can show them!

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