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SweetSearch: an update and three tools for your kids’ utility belts

April 26, 2018 by Joyce Valenza Leave a Comment

I’ve been a longtime fan of findingDulcinea, a carefully curated portal for educators that I reviewed years ago. SweetSearch, its searchier sister site, is an excellent example of the power of a Google custom search engine to create a noise-free, focused search for children. Launched in 2009, SweetSearch leverages a Google CSE to search the websites included in findingDulcinea’s pathfinders […]

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Google’s new Talk to Books: Semantic search for book and idea discovery

April 15, 2018 by Joyce Valenza 2 Comments

I am truly excited about sharing this new approach to search! Imagine if you had the power to ask authors across time and disciplines your most burning questions or for their best advice. Now you can. This week TED curator Chris Anderson and futurist Ray Kurzweil introduced Talk to Books. The feature was developed by a Google Research team […]

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Google: On knowing where to start

February 25, 2018 by Joyce Valenza Leave a Comment

We all search Google. But I am not sure if we’re always sure of the most effective place to begin our Google searches. The basic and familiar search box may not be the only one and it may not be the smartest place to begin. Among the Google options are Books, Images, News, Newspapers and […]

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On search agility: There’s more than one place to start

January 11, 2018 by Joyce Valenza Leave a Comment

I don’t think I know anyone who isn’t in a search rut. We usually begin our search in one of two search giants. But while they may not have achieved verb status, we have other choices well worth discovering. And it’s kinda in our ballpark to ensure that appropriate choices are easily available on both […]

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

December 20, 2017 by Joyce Valenza 1 Comment

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary, the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. That was certainly the case in our experience. However, at each level—middle […]

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Listennotes.com: a search engine for podcasts

December 1, 2017 by Joyce Valenza Leave a Comment

Listen up, there’s a new search tool in town. Among my friends, at least, it seems that podcasts are a rediscovered treasure. (Check out Jayson DeMers’ Forbes piece, Why Podcasts are Popular, and the 2017 Edison Research Infinite Dial Study on podcast statistics.) The demand is growing, but how do you find podcasts without the effort of subscribing […]

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Some secret strategies for serious searchers

October 29, 2017 by Joyce Valenza 2 Comments

I designed and currently teach a course called Search and the Information Landscape. What I love about the course is getting my graduate students to think about their search habits and recognize what works. I also introduce a few classic strategies that have been around in the literature about online searching since the pre-web days. What […]

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News, thoughts, and discoveries at the vortex of libraries, literacy, learning, discovery and play. Joyce is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, an edtech Sherpa, and a connector. Her interests include: social media curation, digital/media fluency, transliteracy and youth, online communities of practice, digital storytelling and creativity, youth information-seeking behavior, social networking, online learning, and the evolving role and powers of the teacher-librarian.

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