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Databases

Databases

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Contents

How to Use this Kit | Features | Curriculum | Action Zone | Assessment | Kit Directory

Features

Do you (only) Google?
The second installment of the series "Five Things Today's Digital Generation Cannot Do" explores students' database choices and describes how to encourage them to search other databases.

Searching the Internet Past and Present
There are only two basic ways to search online. This article lays out the choices and the best methods to retrieve information efficiently.

Deep Web
In this Podcast, SUNY Library Web Administrator Laura Cohen talks with Dan Balzer about strategies to find information in the Deep Web.

Dennis Finds his Dreamhouse
Dennis O'Connor researched and found his new house online by using a variety of Deep Web searches.

Curriculum

Operators Tutorial
This interactive tutorial introduces and explains how AND, OR, NOT and Quotes work.

Best and Worst Query
This lesson utilizes good and bad examples to engage students in thinking queries that are potentially the best (and worst) for retrieving the desired information.

Pirates and Piranhas Users Guide
This Guide explains how to use the Pirates and Piranhas tutorial games with students.

QuickPick: Operator Smarts
A quick guide to AND, OR, NOT and Quotes: what they do, when to use them and common mistakes. Several exercises check for understanding.

Action Zone

TV Search Challenge
Find the name of a TV episode that opens on a green planet with a red sky. (timed)

Slinky Challenge
Find the mission number of the Space Shuttle that first took a Slinky into space. (timed)

Pirates and Piranhas
Two interactive tutorial games that involve decisions about effective operators.

MicroModule Companion: Operators
Three different tutorials that include basic activities and beyond using Boolean and special operators.

Assessment

Operator Assessment

Check your ability to use operators effectively in these performance-based challenges. (timed)

Assessment User Guide

A Guide to interpret the results of the Operator Assessment.

Assessment User Guide (pdf version)

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