Digital Investigator Training

Locate Digital Sources

In these nine search modules you will:

think of searching as a strategy
turn questions into queries
search the deep web

Mastering these skills builds a foundation for ethical and effective online research. Expect to spend about 9 hours to complete all the search assignments (about an hour each).

Objectives:

By the end of these modules you will be able to:

Use a search strategy when you search
Understand use of keywords
Pass a quiz on search strategy
Search a site using a query
Create a query from a research question
Pass a quiz on forming queries
Locate information on databases Google can't search
Explore Deep Web sites
Pass a quiz on the Deep Web

Complete both the worksheets and module quiz