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(Brooklyn - United States)Kim worked for the Professional Development Department in Education at the New York Hall of Science in Corona, Queens for the past three years and has recently accepted a fellowship at Brooklyn College. Kim's undergraduate work was in environmental ...
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- From: Digital Tools for Homework Help
- Contributed By: Anna Batchelder
Here is a list of modifiers to help you find exactly what you want when doing searches and research on Google.
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http://www.google.com/librariancenter/downloads/Tips_Tricks_85x11.pdf
Created by PCWizKid, this short video is perfect for both students and adults that wish to learn how to conduct more effective searches using Google.
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Watch this short YouTube video to learn how to conduct more effective searched on Google. "Google's Search options let you slice and dice your search results, explore your search and generate different views of your results page to more easily and quickly find what you need."
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Use Twine to: • Discover information that matters to you • Collect and share bookmarks and other content • Receive recommendations based on your interests
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Twitter is a useful tool for connecting with experts, asking questions and finding useful links and resources. Use Twitter search to see what people are saying about a specific topic. Make sure to do an advanced search (http://search.twitter.com/advanced) to refine your results.
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If you can't find the education resource you're looking for online via standard search and browse methods, create an account on Twitter (www.Twitter.com) and then ask education experts, parents and enthusiasts for help! To find education experts on Twitter, visit TweepML. Next to "Find a List," type in "education" and click "Search". TweepML will recommend a number of great Education-focused Twitter users that will be able to help you find the educational resources you need quickly! If you are unfamiliar with Twitter, watch this Common Craft video titled, "Twitter in Plain English" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o) before visiting Twitter and TweepML.
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"Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries." The perfect data reference (and calculator) for students, teachers and parents!
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