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Education online: the basics
Get familiar with search engines
The great advantage of the Internet also tends to be its major drawback. The choice of educational resources is vast. But no matter what educational resource you and your children refer to, at some stage you will have to use a search engine.
Make sure your kids don’t miss out on the Web’s potential. Learn how to use search engines properly.
Each of the search engines and directories, like Yahoo, Alta Vista, Looksmart and Ask Jeeves, provide a guide on how to conduct a search. Sometimes this is listed as ‘help’ and it’s worth exploring because you will dramatically improve your search results.
As an example, consider a search for a 15-year-old GCSE student writing a report for her business studies course. A search for ‘business studies’ would find almost 35,000 pages. But by using the plus sign and adding extra phrases, you can limit your search.
In this example ‘business studies + GCSE + report writing’ produces a list of only 60 pages. Tips like this can make searching much more manageable.
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