BLOG-2

I read chapter two of The Digital Diet titled "Searching." I foresee this chapter going along with chapter five of our ISTE book and relating to the productivity. I have not yet read chapter five so I cannot say directly, but to me it seems as if it would fit.

This chapter tells how to refine searching. It starts by saying that in November of 2006 the Internet reached the 100 million website milestone, and that was in 2006. There are so many websites out there that when you to to google.com and "google" (verb) something your options can be far too many to go through. Therefore, this chapter explains how to further refine your search to include just what you need and not get all the fluff involved with the simple search. The advanced search on Google allows different words to be entered and used in different ways. You can do general words and exact phrases that you want to find. You can even put a date on a search so you only get the most recent sites. Also, you can pick a language and even narrow the search down to just one particular website if a website has many links within one site. The author's aim is to save time, money, and energy to get on with life and not waste your personal resources when you could be saving them.

This would make it so much easier to help students search in the classroom setting. They will not need to spend so much time after using the advanced search instead of the general, simple search.
I mini lesson outlining the direct way to search will show students how not to waste time and energy looking at unnecessary websites when looking for something in particular.