The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook

I am reading this book on search and am finding it interesting. I think I will learn a lot form this book.

The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2010 by Randolph E. Hock

Hock, Randolph (2010-02-08). The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher (Kindle Locations 31-32). Information Today, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

"Randolph Hock, Ph.D. Ran Hock divides his work time between writing and teaching. On the teaching side, he specializes in customized courses teaching people how to use the internet effectively (through his one-person company, Online Strategies). His courses have been offered—in the U.S. and 11 other countries—to companies, government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, schools, universities, and associations.

Hock, Randolph (2010-02-08). The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher (Kindle Locations 6209-6212). Information Today, Inc.. Kindle Edition. "

Google Trends

With Google trends you can compare the relative frequency of up to five search terms. I have used this to decide which terms to use in the name of this blog. I used the more popular search terms.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Google-Trends/112098788806792?fref=ts#

I put every proposed term , in my blog name, into google trends to see how popular there were, and keept the popular terms. For example Tutorings and Studying were unpopular but Science was popular, so I kept science and dropped the others.

Google search TIPS

http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/instruction/Google_Tips_Tricks.pdf

10 Ways to Find Blogs You'll Love

This is a great introduction to how find good blogs. I would say mind boggling, really.
Who are these bloggers and what do they eat for breakfast?

10 Ways to Find Blogs You'll Love:

One of the top is http://alltop.com/


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Independent Study

I just added Independent Study to the Blog Title to make it more in agrement with my interests.
I hope Tutors, students and independ learners will drop ny and comment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodidacticism

What is Google custom search?

Read the wiki on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Custom_Search

This feature allows developers to design their own search engines. The decide where to look for the requested information. I hope some one can comment to tell me how they use this.

Using a Google Hangout for a Book Club Meeting

For a simple how to on this topic read my write up:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x9wdh0xlx2xz85j/G%20plus%20and%20kindle.docx

Google X Lab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From the UMass writeup, I tried to follow labs.google.com link and found it has been discontinued. However, now there is a Google X lab site.
Google X Lab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

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Searching blogs

Searching blogs

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mt647jkiq14a12t/blogging.docx

a nice summary of Google search techniques by UMass

This will provide hours of fun search activities.
https://www.oit.umass.edu/sites/oit.umass.edu/files/2011/05/31/google_techniques.pdf

Is Google Scholar a useful source? - PSYC 261 - Research Methods in Psychology - Research & Subject Guides at CSU, Chico

Is Google Scholar a useful source? - PSYC 261 - Research Methods in Psychology - Research & Subject Guides at CSU, Chico: "While google Scholar may have its uses, overall it has enough problems to outweigh any benefits.  As a result, most professors ask that you avoid it.

When it was released in November of 2004, google Scholar had huge gaps in the amount of scholarly literature it coverered.  Over the years those gaps have been addressed.  As shown by scholarly articles that investigate Google Scholar (which do indeed exist), Google Scholar's across the board coverage of scholarly literature is now considerably better than it was in 2004 and 2005, but it still has gaps.  Suzanne Mikki (2010) further notes an issue that has persisted in Google Scholar ever since its launch: that Google Scholar covers literature in the scientific disciplines better than it does other disciplines.  That's not to say it is totally lacking in the social sciences or humanities, but it has a history of being less comprehensive in these areas than in the natural sciences.

Another issue is access to the full text of articles through google Scholar.  This issue takes two forms: the multiple copies problem and the access link problem."

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Home – Google in Education

I just found out that Google has a site "http://www.google.com/edu/" with /edu.
I just took a look at the home page, see below, and it looks good. There have resources for teachers, organizations and students.

Home – Google in Education:

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screen sharing: Google Hangouts vs. Join.me

For online tutoring, Which has the best screen sharing Google Plus Hangouts or Join me?

I decided to take another look at join.me screen sharing because Google Plus Hangouts screen sharing is limited. The G+ screen sharing does not allow full screen mode and the resolution is low. The shared screen is stuck in a display box that cannot be resized. I expect that G+ will be upgrading soon to fix this problem but as it stands, Join.me is much better. Join.me sharing  --- does have full screen mode. The resolution, and readability, is excellent.

Join.me now has some interesting new features:

1.  When participants join a meeting, they can enter “alvinrogers”, a name I selected, to see my screen. This is much easier that having to remember or copy/paste a numeric code.

2.  Now the iPad can work in presenter mode not just viewer mode.

3.  There is a pro version for $99.00 a year.