This mission, should you choose to accept it will require you to learn and apply a variety of Internet search skills using the popular search engine: Google.

Your class has been hired to create a promotional campaign to promote the search engine Google. In order to be successful, your campaing has to be effective in teaching your audience a number of Googling skills.

Besides becoming an effective independent learner you will be able to efficiently navigate the information superhighway.!

Your class' promotional campaign will likely have many different facets. You'll be sharing your tools with a specific audience that will be identified by your class in consultation with your teacher. The formats selected will vary depending on the selected audience.

1. Introduction

a. What is Google?

b. How do search engines work?

2. Click here to check out Internet Safety from www.media-awareness.org CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three Cyber Pigs

3. Click here to quiz yourself on the validity and authority of websites from www.media-awareness.org - Jo Cool or Jo Fool?

4. Search skills

a. Standard search terms

b. Other search tools to use - Google Cheat Sheet from www.google.com

c. Finding images via Google Image Search

d. News need to pdf Google News. wpd

5. Challenge Tasks! Scavenger Hunt! Your teacher will provide you with a list of questions based on curriculum content suitable to your grade/subject. Use Google to find the answers as quickly and efficently as you can. For extra practice you can try this hunt: http://www.bkfk.com/Modules/Teachers/downloads/student/Discovery1.pdf

6. Based on your results Hone your skills by revisiting skill areas as needed.

7. In negotiation with your teacher, develop teams, and decide on the format and audience for the promotional campaigns.

8. Submit your campaign proposal. Here is a blank proposal template.

9. Create your promotional tool.

10. Share your tool with your intended audience. You and/or your teacher may decide that a formal presentation be developed for this purpose.

11. Complete the reflection as specified in the conclusion below.

 

1. Google Trainee Activity Sheets
2. Googling Made Easy Assessment
3. Variety of art, or multimedia tools as needed.
4. Google
   Googling for Gold
   Student Links

1. scavenger hunt (individual assessment activity);
2. assessment of individual contribution to final product;
3. learning skill: class participation (including self and teacher evaluation);
4. presentation to selected audience (oral & visual communication)

What have you learned?

When might you apply teh skills you learned in this task?

What were the greatest challenges in this task?

What might you do differently given the opportunity to do a similar task again?

If you are interested in learning more about this subject matter, you can find related hyperlinks at Student Links 2 on the LDCSB "Intranet" Website.

* Note: This link is not licensed for home use by students

Googling Skills are not learned naturally. Many of the skills in this activity are drawn from the Googling for Gold workshop developed by Rodd Lucier and Greg Haber. Many other skills were learned from the Google Website, and others from Internet search consultant, Mary Ellen Bates.