A Student Guide To Search Engines And To Summarizing Content

Our access to the Internet through the World Wide Web offers us countless opportunities to view information on any topic. This in turn empowers us to take control of our learning and seek out the answers to our own questions. However, we need the skills to use the World Wide Web effectively.

The challenge lies in knowing how to find information while sifting through millions of potential web sites. In addition, the sheer volume of information is overwhelming, and hard to summarize.

This web site provides guidance to these two challenges, and is divided into two parts. Below you will find in pink Part One, which focuses on understanding and harnessing the power of search engines through best practices for searching the World Wide Web. Part Two in blue, focuses on strategies for organizing and summarizing information retrieved from these searches.

SECTION ONE: Finding information through the use of search engines SOLUTION: Start at Lesson 1, then work your way through to Lesson 6. Learn by watching step-by-step PowerPoint presentations that will help you master using search engines. Practice by completing the activity sheets at the end of each lesson to master the skills presented in each lesson.	SECTION TWO: Organizing and summarizing the information SOLUTION: Start at Step 1, then work your way through to Step 6. Learn by watching short step-by-step PowerPoint presentations that will teach you strategies to help you to organize and summarize what you have found. Practice what you have learnt in the presentations by completing the activity sheet after each step.